Fuente: Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk Fotografía: Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk The annex is connected to an existing summerhouse from 1964, situated on the very south coast of Norway. The small building holds two bedrooms with beds for eight persons in all. A function just as important as the bedrooms was to create an outdoor space for relaxing, playing and other activities. The new building, the existing house and a vertical rock cr

Fuente: Vaumm architecture and urban planning Gerrit Rietveld diseñó en 1954 un pabellón expositivo para la Tercera Exposición Internacional de Escultura en el Sonsbeek Park de Arnhem, en Holanda. Se trataba de un pabellón temporal, por lo que su arquitectura en cierto modo muestra una delicadeza material y una esbeltez estructural, que pueden interpretarse de extremas. El pabellón fue desmantelado tras la finalizaci

Fuente: Johan Celsing Arkitektkontor, Europaconcorsi Fotografía: © Ioana Marinescu A Stone in the Forest is the entry which best understands the wholeness of the Woodland Cemetery and listens to the site with the greatest empathy. The project adds one more character-laden part to the Woodland Cemetery experience. A Stone in the Forest creates a journey in both an internal and an external landscape. The proposal A Sto

Fuente: A+U, Architectiure and Urbanism. Visions of the Real II. Modern Houses in the 20th Century. p110-p123 In designing his own home, losep Lluís Sert sought to replace the suburban single-family dwelling with an urban courtyard house, adapted to a northern climate. Sert asserted that this model,which he believed could be repeated on all adjacent lots, provided “more privacy, greater security, and a more eff

Fuente: Aldo van Eyck – Works, Ed. Vincent Ligtelijn. Páginas 127-133. ISBN 3 7643 6012 7. Although neither Catholic nor anything else, I have over the years been familiar with innumerabie churches and sacred places of all sorts; entering them, staying for a while, then leaving again (as an architect-tourist, for the sake of the architecture) whilst noticing with detachment what takes place there. lt is from th

Fuente: FALAGÁN, DAVID H. (David Hernández) Tous & Fargas: optimismo tecnológico en la arquitectura catalana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Tésis doctoral. Tras varias versiones, la planta se definía como un hexágono irregular, formado de la unión perimetral del doble hexágono propuesto en una versión anterior. El programa lo componen cuatro dormitorios, una sala de estar, cocina y lavabo con usos independizad

Fuente: Pietilä. Alvar Aalto Museum Fotografías: © Iñaki Bergera Tampere 1959-66 I do not know the rules for designing a ‘correct’ modern church. But I do know that in goog modern architecture the exterior and interior spaces form a constructive union. Perhaps in the church, a certain ‘genius loci’ together with the construction becomes ‘metaphorical’. In orther words – an ar