Pedro Gadanho: curating is the new criticism
“Criticism is a matter of getting the critical function of architecture, of how architects reflect on the world, to a wider public while also bringing critical ideas to bear on the discipline.”
Pedro Gadanho, MoMA’s new curator for Contemporary Architecture discusses his program and practice, and expands on his first show, opening in September. An interview by Kazys Varnelis for Domus.
2 weeks ago
House NA by Sou Fujimoto Architects
Designed for a young couple in a quiet Tokyo neighborhood, the 914 square-foot transparent house contrasts the typical concrete block walls seen in most of Japan’s dense residential areas. Associated with the concept of living within a tree, the spacious interior is comprised of 21 individual floor plates, all situated at various heights, that satisfy the clients desire to live as nomads within their own home. (Archdaily)
1 month ago
The Geometry of God
Photographer David Stephenson captures architectural triumphs at the intersection of art and mathematics. (via Brain Pickings)
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Archipelago Cinema by Buro Ole Scheeren + Film on the Rocks Yao Noi Foundation
Doesn’t look like a bad place to watch a movie.
1 month ago
An Experience of Ruin: Niemeyer's Tripoli Fairgrounds
A survey of the Brazilian architect’s extensive International Fairgrounds of Tripoli, whose construction was interrupted by the Lebanese civil war in 1975 and never completed. A photo-essay from Tripoli by Pelin Tan. (Domus)
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Lecture by Giancarlo Mazzanti
(Photograph by Iwan Baan)
This Monday, April 16, Colombian architect Giancarlo Mazzanti will lecture in Chicago as part of the exhibition Colombia Transformed organized by the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago in collaboration with MAS Studio.
Vladimir Belogolovsky, founder of the New York-based Intercontinental Curatorial Project and curator of the exhibition, will introduce Giancarlo’s lecture.
The lecture is free and open to the public! More info here.
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Modern living in Marina City, c.1965, Chicago.
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Bruce Goff, for a Total Architecture
Visible structures and spatial complexity. Common materials used in uncommon ways. One house never resembles another. This is the eclectic architecture of Bruce Goff. (Domus)
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Colombia: Transformed exhibition
(Orquideorama by Plan:b arquitectos)
If you are in Chicago tomorrow Tuesday, April 3, don’t miss the opening reception for the exhibition “Colombia Transformed” at 6 pm at the Instituto Cervantes. The exhibition is the fourth installment of the Architecture Series organized by the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago in collaboration with MAS Studio and directed by Iker Gil. This exhibition traces ten recently built social projects by five leading voices in contemporary Colombian architecture: Daniel Bonilla and Giancarlo Mazzanti from Bogota, and Felipe Mesa, Juan Manuel Pelaez, and Felipe Uribe from Medellín.
The opening event includes a lecture by David Escobar, the current Planning Department Commissioner of the City of Medellin with an introduction of Fernando Villa, architect and co-curator of the exhibition.
I hope to see you there!
PS: You can get more information about our previous programs here, here and here.
2 months ago
Church in La Laguna by Menis Arquitectos
Completed in 2008 by Spanish architect Fernando Menis of Menis Arquitectos, the church comprises four chunky concrete volumes separated from one another by sliced openings. (Dezeen)
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