Disponible a La Capell Texto por Carlos Lanuza Escribir sobre la propia experiencia de la arquitectura y de la producción de la misma obliga a hacer una reflexión profunda, exige ponerse del otro lado y ser autor e interlocutor a la vez, tomar distancia. Smiljan Radic lo hace con mucha frescura en los escritos recopilados entre 1997 y 2017 que se reúnen con el título “Cada tanto aparece un perro que habla”, bajo

Source: Collectief Noord  Photography: Olmo Peeters and Geert van Hentrum Un refugio de animales como una asignación arquitectónica es relativamente nuevo. De hecho, se parece más a una institución de cuidado, pero tiene un pasado persistente en el que los edificios no eran más que restos que nadie más quería. Vemos la profesionalización desde arriba como una oportunidad para colocar un tema socialmente difícil.

Fuente: El Croquis Fotografías: Ana Amado Bloque de viviendas situado en la avenida de América, en la entrada a Madrid desde Barcelona y el aeropuerto de Barajas. En este proyecto se afronta el problema de constituir una unidad de diseño a escala urbanística, a partir de la suma de tipos distintos de viviendas. En este sentido, el espacio de acceso a la torre, con su hundimiento en el terreno, el “acabado&

| Tilde Tolberg | 2016 | Afgangsprogram | KADK | Professor: Christoffer Harlang + Nicolai Bo Andersen + Victor Boye Julebæk When it feels uplifting and healing to go for a walk in the woods, just as the beech has sprung, it is because of the constant interplay between all our senses. I believe this is the same thing that happens when we experience good architecture or feel at home somewhere. It is through the se

Source: Karamuk Kuo Architekten Photography: Mikael Olsson The extension for the Weiden secondary school, housing a gymnasium and 24 classrooms, sits on the eastern part of the site between the existing secondary and primary school buildings. The compact form of the new building preserves the park-like character of the campus and turns the existing plinth into a collective schoolyard that connects the old and th

Asnago Vender and the Construction of Modern Milan. Adam Caruso and Helen Thomas. gta Verlag, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. 2015. Disponible en La Capell Mario Asnago (1896-1981) and Claudio Vender (1904-1986) operated outside the fertile Milanese architecture scene of their time, yet the design of their buildings captures the essence of mid-twentieth century Milan. Combining the qualities of modernity and continuity

Source: Dezeen Photography: Eckhart Matthäus, Felix Friedmann, John Pawson A small path leads to the chapel’s entrance, located at the transitional point between woodland and open ground. The architecture is framed as the simplest of gestures. From certain perspectives its mass appears as a pile of logs stacked up to dry; from others the considered placement of the elements on a concrete plinth creates a more fo

Fuente: El croquis, Herzog & de Meuron by Wilfried Wang. Ediciones: StudioPaperback La casa se sitúa en un promontorio, sobre un ondulado paisaje de olivares abandonados, formando parte de una terraza natural de piedra. El concepto del diseño de la casa se basa en la fusión de planta, sección y alzado. El edificio queda caracterizado por una cruz que se hace visible en las paredes laterales, donde la piedra,

| Pascal Deschenaux and Simon Zemp | 2015 | Spring Semester | ETH  | Professor: Adam Caruso  Starting from Martin Heidegger’s text ‘Building Dwelling Thinking’ the studio investigated how we can design new coherent neighborhoods with coherent spaces and clear identities. Nowadays city planning often limits itself to demarcating areas in different colors and the market takes the lead from there. Especially at the

Source: Dominique Coulon & associés Schiltigheim is the third largest town in the Bas-Rhin département (eastern France) in terms of population, and is the most densely populated town in the Strasbourg metropolis. It developed in the nineteenth century, centred on brewing and related industrial activities. These activities declined in the late twentieth century, leaving much industrial land lying waste. The r

E2A Architecture. Piet Eckert & Wim Eckert Hatje Cantz Available online at La Capell This volume is the first comprehensive monograph on the Swiss architects E2A. Brothers Piet and Wim Eckert see their work as an interpretation of contemporary living conditions. In today@2019s context, expectations, experiences, and ambitions characterize places and clash with reality. The incompatible becomes the platform o

Source : afasia Photography by Helène Binet, Georg Aerni and Kuster Frey This project won first prize in the invited competition for a 30,000sq m mixed use building of commercial space and housing. The project is located on a key site within the masterplan for the redevelopment of former railway land on the south side of Zurich Hauptbahnhof by the SBB (Swiss National Railways). The project is one of several larg

Source : afasia Photo : assemble + aj Assemble were commissioned by Goldsmiths, University of London, to create a new public art gallery within the Grade II listed former Victorian bathhouse at Laurie Grove, New Cross. The 1000m2 building accommodates seven new gallery spaces, a café, curators’ studio and event space. As a critical testing ground for exploration and discussion, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary

Source: archipicture  | The Architecture of Peter Celsing. Wilfried Wang. Pb. Internos Books. After an architectural competition in 1952, the Swedish architect Peter Celsing was commissioned to build the Härlanda church. The competition design was highly praised by the jury members. After some planning adjustments, the ground-breaking ceremony took place on October 31, 1956. The opening of the church was celebra