The Idea of Voice
Hans Ulrich Obrist’s recent interviews with Dario Fo, Alberto Garutti, Luca Cavalli Sforza and Franco Vaccari offer a departure point for a reflection on the importance of oral tradition. An art report from Milan by Ludovico Centis. (Domus)
1 day ago
A City Rises, Along With Its Hopes
(The entrance pavilion to the Botanical Garden in Medellín, Colombia, designed by Lorenzo Castro. Paul Smith for The New York Times)
“What sets Medellín apart is the particular strength of its culture of urbanism, which acts now almost like a civic calling card. The city’s new mayor, Aníbal Gaviria, spent an hour describing to me his dreams for burying a congested highway that runs through the middle of town, building an electric tram along the hillsides to stem the sprawl of the slums, adding a green belt of public buildings along the tram, rehabilitating the Medellín River and densifying the city center — smart, public-spirited, improvements. It’s as if, in this country whose relatively robust economy has underwritten many forward-thinking projects, every mayor here has to have enormous architectural and infrastructural plans, or risk coming across as small-minded or an outsider.” (New York Times)
3 days ago
Subway Systems Obey Emergent, Natural Laws As They Grow
The design of subway systems in big cities conforms to certain patterns regardless of where, when, and how they’re built. So where does that leave designers? (Fast Company)
1 week ago
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
The NASA Design Program
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Design Program is a modernist vision for an optimistic future. The logo (often referred to as the “worm”) evokes qualities of unity, technical precision, scientific capabilities and uniqueness. Reduced to its simplest form; the one width, continuous-stroke letters are as contemporary today as when the logo was first introduced by Richard Danne (Design Director) and Bruce Blackburn (Designer) at Danne & Blackburn, New York, NY) more than 37 years ago. (Display)
3 weeks ago
The Many Paths of David Chipperfield
The 13th International Architecture Exhibition Common Ground sees the collective force of architecture as a value to rediscover through engagement. An architecture report from Venice by Laura Bossi (Domus)
Side note: We are thrilled to be part of the US Pavilion with our project Cut. Join. Play.!!!!
3 weeks ago
The Amazing Infrastructure That Powers IBM, Microsoft, And GE
Christian Stoll captures some of the world’s largest corporations in wide-angle splendor. (Fast Company)
1 month ago
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)
1 month ago
A Weathervane Wall Turns Wind Patterns Into Data Art
Windswept is an art installation at San Francisco’s Randall Museum that celebrates the intricacies of wind interacting with architecture. To create the effect, designer Charles Sowers deployed 612 freely-rotating anodized aluminum arrows on a 20’x35’ grid, each serving as a “discrete data point” of extremely local airflow to form “a kind of large sensor array.” (Fast Company)
2 months ago
Deconstructing Reality | Gordon Matta-Clark
(Conical Intersect 2. From “Conical Intersect” París, France [1975])
“A simple cut or series of cuts acts as a powerful drawing device able to redefine spatial situations and structural components”.
-Gordon Matta-Clark
Check the article by dpr-barcelona.
3 months ago
