Fuente: Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Architectural History Foundation.                       ISBN: 0-262-11130-6 “The program was simple. Space was needed for about 800,000 books, exhibition areas, staff offices, and a reading room. The program could have been satisfied by a one-story building above ground to be used for exhibitions, reading rooms, and offices, with the books stored undergr

Fuente: aixopluc Fotografía: José Hevia El encargo consistía en añadir seis aulas, un comedor y una biblioteca a la escuela existente, pro-yectada a mediados de los setenta por MBM (Martorell Bohigas Mackay). Nuestro objetivo es diseñar hábitats de aprendizaje interiores y al aire libre, que regalen experiencias estimulantes, ricas y compartidas a los niños que la pueblan. Las aulas se transforman en un soporte

Source: Architekturbüro Garrigues Maurer GmbH Photography: Ariel Huber, Rasmus Norlander Located not far from the center of Basel, directly at the border to Germany, close to the Rhine lies Switzerland’s biggest cemetery. The so called Hörnli is a place of mourning and devotion, which at the same time is a sensitive and precisely cultivated garden. It is placed on the border in an ambiguous sense. Likewise, it i

| The Scarcity and Creativity Studio and Students | 2017 | 1st master course | AHO (The Oslo School of Architecture) | Professors: Christian Hermansen, Solveig Sandness Photography: SCS The program asked for two lockable classrooms of 50 m2 each, with their own outdoor teaching space, in the rural part of Kilifi, Kenya. These requirements plus the study of the tropical climate in the area, the vernacular archite

Source: Haworth Tompkins Photography: Philip Vile Aldeburgh Music’s new creative campus at Snape Maltings is part of a phased development of grade 2 listed 19th century maltings buildings at the edge of the Suffolk marshes, brings a range of derelict granaries and kilns into use as rehearsal and occasional public performance spaces grouped around a communal foyer. The centrepiece of the project is a new build or

De lo extravagante a lo esencial.”Diez años de críticas de arquitectura (2007-2016)”. Llatzer Moix. Ed ambit. Texto por Jordi Badia Amazon Es poco frecuente que un periódico incluya entre sus páginas la crítica de arquitectura, de la misma manera que incluye las de cine, teatro, música o exposiciones. La Vanguardia, periódico de referencia de la ciudad de Barcelona, es consciente del valor que la arq

Source: Demuth hagenmüller & lamprecht architekten Photography: Andreas Buschmann The property on the corner of Zentralstrasse and Bremgartnerstrasse is one of the large-scale exceptions from the sixties and seventies within the small parcel-shaped block-border district characterized by the typical buildings of the late 19th century. The building thus has a special status. At the urban planning level, there

Project: Klockarebackens Funeral Chapel, Höör, Sweden 1972 Architect: Bernt Nyberg Collaborators: Staffan Schultze, Per Iwansson, Mariana Manner, Hjördis Gunnarsson Photagraphy: All images, M. Hall except: 01_OR_1972 courtesy of ARKdes : Architecture and Design Center, Stockholm, Sweden Born 1927 in Ockelbo, Nyberg studied architecture at the KTH in Stockholm, later moving to Lund to work for Klas Anshelm. Since

Font: Christ & Gantenbein Photopgraphy: Stefano Graziani, Derek Li Wan Po The Kunstmuseum Basel’s new building redefines a prominent location in the heart of the Basel. As a place for the exhibition and preservation of art as well as events, it embodies both a new departure and continuity. The new and enlarged museum consists of two buildings that together form a unified presence in the urban space. They are

Fuente: hidden architecture Londres, 1957 “Esta gente procedía en su mayoría de pequeñas viviendas adosadas, o algo similar, pero siempre con patios o jardines. Solía almorzar con ellos para intentar entender un poco mejor sus preocupaciones, y eran gente orgullosa. Criaban palomas y conejos en sus patios traseros y tendían la ropa allí. Como consecuencia de este contacto con ellos no concebí apartamentos.

| Oana Gramada + Makoto Hayashi | 2018 | 3r curso | ETSAB | Profesor: Jordi Badia Can Ricart – uno de los tres grandes grupos industriales del siglo XIX – es un recinto de la historia industrial barcelonesa que destaca por sus grandes naves diáfanas y por su escala horizontal que contrasta con el entorno de piezas de gran altura que la envuelve. La complejidad de ese polo industrial no consiste solo

Source: GAFPA Photography: GAFPA An old stone barber shop is opened up by a gatehouse in Leo Tertzweillaan,Gentbrugge. The site is being re-designed as an inner area with a cluster of new housing units and small workshops. The client owns a part of the site where a concrete roof is adjacent to a higher steel structure warehouse. The design leaves these structures intact and adds a third, light wooden structure.

Fuente: Art Gallery NSW Ken Unsworth. Escultor, pintor y artista. Australia (1931) Ken Unsworth saltó a la fama como escultor en la década de 1970, cuando combinó la performance o el arte corporal con formas esculturales altamente conceptuales. Algunas de estas representaciones, en particular “Five secular settings for sculpture as ritual”, involucraron el uso de su propio cuerpo como una especie de

Source: Pezo von Ellrichshausen Photography: Pezo von Ellrichshausen Sitting atop a pleasant and continuous evergreen meadow, overlooking the inner sea of Chiloe Island, this is both a half and a double house. Half, because it is the interrupted encounter between a cone and a cylinder. Double, because the subtraction of a rectangular form at the base of the previous figures generates a pair of equivalent rooms a