Source: Edvard Ravnikar. Architect and teacher Photography: Damjan Gale. In times of uncertainty, change of briefs and interests, wavering of opportunities and functional needs, it is difficult to avoid the established working processes that go back to the Renaissance and its tendency towards a static finality. From our practice it still follows that we should look upon a city as a large group of things — objects, bu

Fuente: Ordine degli Architteti di Milano Fotografía actual: Marta Cassany El proyecto trabaja la reconstrucción de todo el convento, excepto una pequeña parte adherida a la iglesia y a la sacristía. La irregularidad geométrica del solar, la necesidad de construir en continuidad a la arquitectura preexistente y el respeto al contexto, determinan la compleja implantación planimétrica y volumétrica. El esquema es el de

Fuente: Alison y Peter Smithson. De la casa del Futuro a la casa de hoy. Dirk Van Den heuvel, Max Risselada. Puesto que los Smithson experimentaron la tensión entre campo y ciudad como una energía positiva potencial en su propia vida y en su propio trabajo, en 1959 decidieron comprar parte del complejo de una granja en la finca Fonthill. La parte que adquirieron los Smithson consistía en un gran patio amurallado con

  «A short time after its opening, RiffRaff 1+2 expanded. Once again, open projection allowed for considerable space savings, with the distorted reflection now forming the restaurant’s ceiling ornamentation. In the large hall, the projection itself becomes a part of the room’s architecture in the form of moving “video wall paper.” The apartments on the top floors combine elements of urban middle class apart

Fuente: James Stirling. Edificios y proyectos 1950-1974. Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.A. Barcelona. Introducción de john Jacobus. El Assembly Hall es un aditamento a una escuela victoriana. Los edificios contiguos presentan gran variedad de tipos y alturas, y en este entorno de caos arquitectónico y barrios bajos superpoblados , consideramos necesario crear una isla de verde césped y espacios abiertos. La planta está di

Library and students’ Center, 1974-1982 Erskine was asked to compete in a parallel sketching competition with four other Stockholm architects for a new library at Frescati University. The competition process involved design development with university staff and students. The outcome was that Erskine’s design won approval. The student’s center building completed in 1981 has a roof structure, reminiscent of Borgafjäll

Source: Architecture and Urbanism a+u 564. Bernt Nyberg. Working with landscape architect Per Friberg, Nyberg made the normal extraordinary. His low-slung composition of three black volumes stretches into the landscape, with exquisite detailing and surprisingly simple plan based entirely on the repetition of a square grid. Of the admittedly banal plan, the architect stated “It is in the execution where richness is bo