Photography: Katalin Deér, St. Gallen (2nd-8th), Marta Cassany (1st, 9th – end) Text: Sittewerk.ch Kesselhaus Josephsohn. Galerie Feliz Lehner Ag Exhibition and storage space for the works of Hans Josephsohn.  The Kesselhaus Josephsohn shows a regularly changing selection of plaster models and bronzes by the Zurich sculptor Hans Josephsohn (1920-2012). It serves as museum-like exhibition hall and simultaneously

  Fuente: Hansjörf Göritz Studio Fotografía: Jürg Zürcher; Lukas Roth The project’s setting is composed of precise simplistic typologies: a ‘Supreme House’ for the plenum – a ‘Connecting House’ – a ‘Long House’ for the administration, the’Hortus Conclusus’. Not unlike elements that are inseparable parts of an organism, the project’s ent

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

| Julius Nielsen | 2015 | Settlement, Ecology & Tectonics | The Royal Academy of Fine Arts | Professor: Anne Beim, Nathan Romero Muelas The architectural potential of memory As an architect, there has always been the will to clarify the fundamental theme of my occupation; architecture as a palimpsest. I believe that architecture predominantly is a cultural profession which involves people, a historical conti

Source: Jean Paul Architects Photography: David Grandorge A housing development that gives a Swiss twist to the classic London terrace model. Ellie Duffy reports on a new residential project by Jaccaud Zein Architects that provides a welcome rethink of what defines a house or a flat – and even a possible exemplar for shaking up the tired models of the UK’s volume house building market to better reflect the chang

Collage y gouache sobre papel, 115×115 Fuente: Claudia Valsells Artwork Fotografías: Claudia Valsells Artwork Clàudia Valsells ( 1969 ) nació y vive en Barcelona. Es artista especialista en el color. Creativa multidisciplinar descubrió la pintura a través de la pintura mural. Como artista plástica explora incansablemente con el color y su forma. Para Clàudia hay infinitas maneras de acercarse al color y la suya

Source: Tham & Videgard Photography: Lindman The site is located on the south western coast of Sweden in an old agricultural area gently sloping down towards the sea. In the midst of a vast and open cultivated landscape, this plot constitute an exception as it is planted with many different trees and flowering bushes, lending it the character of a small botanic garden. The big trees stand close together and

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» de lo

| Víctor Vázquez Balló | 2018 | PFC | Universitat de Girona | Profesor: Jordi Hidalgo Tané  Belchite is a village of an altitude of 47 meters with a Surface of 27368076 km2. It passes a river called Aguasvivas. Belchite is a village which lives of agriculture, basically. In the field, there are different types of crops like olive trees, cereals, almond trees… There are also pig, poultry, sheep and cattle crops.

Font: Anne Holtrop Photography: Bas Princen Text Maaike Lauwaert – 10 December 2015 As with many works of Anne Holtrop, the starting point is not a mapping of square meters, number of rooms and technical requirements. But rather drawings, objects found on site or natural shapes. For Museum Fort Vechten, Holtrop looked for shapes in the surroundings where the museum would be built, that he then used as a st

Disponible online en La Capell Publicada ininterrumpidamente desde 1944, QUADERNS ha ofrecido una visión crítica y de referencia de la arquitectura catalana e internacional. Con la voluntad de garantizar la continuidad de la revista y darle un nuevo impulso inicia una nueva etapa en la que cada número de la revista tendrá un equipo editor específico. La periodicidad de la revista será semestral (primavera, otoño

Fuente: Dezeen Fotografía: Hisao Suzuki The Louvre Lens, a new outpost of the Musée du Louvre by Japanese architects SANAA and New York studio Imrey Culbert, opens to the public next week in Lens, northern France. Comprising a chain of rectangular volumes, the 360-metre long-building has walls of glass and brushed aluminium that appear to be straight but actually feature subtle curves. “The project avoids the st

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

| Ivana Beljan + Elizaveta Radi | 2015 | Studio Caruso | ETH Zürich | Profesor: Adam Caruso Upon entering the building the visitor is given the impression of an enfilade. However, as he advances down the suite of rooms he is taken by surprise by the central space which intersects the enfilade. These junctions form niches enhancing the spatial experience and allowing the visitor to choose his own path through the