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- Chalmers Department for Architecture and Civil Engineering / White Arkitekter
- Hwa Won / Listen Communication
- Brick House in Unjung-dong / Architects601
- EMTEK / ZONES DESIGN
- AD Classics: AT&T Building / Philip Johnson and John Burgee
- Dry Creek Poolhouse / Ro I Rockett Design
- Berlin in Miniature: Tilt-Shift Video Transforms Perspective on the German Capital
- DAS Transform Qianmen's Urban Composition into a Lively Axonometric Mural
- Els Terrats / LoCa Studio
- 121 Definitions of Architecture
- Regional Health and Social Training Institute / Face À...
| Kitchen Coffee Roasters / ZROBYM architects Posted: 12 Jan 2019 09:00 PM PST  © Tatiana Sibas
 © Tatiana Sibas Text description provided by the architects. Interior project of the production facility. The company Kitchen Coffee Roasters is engaged in the roasting coffee process in Minsk, Belarus. We increased the space of almost 200 square meters by building the second floor. Kitchen Coffee Roasters team holds training workshops there. It was necessary to repair almost two hundred square meters with a ceiling height of seven meters in a limited budget.  © Tatiana Sibas Based on this, we proposed to divide the room into two levels. The renovation of the main space was made to the level of three meters from the floor, so we saved the budget for the decoration of the walls and the ceiling. In this way, we created a contrast between the old walls of the production hall and the smooth white walls of the new production.  Axo 03 We used a self-leveling floor. The paintings are a detail that emphasizes the idea of "interrupting" the design on the level of three meters. Dobermans are painted on three paintings - one canvas is placed on the floor, and the dog is painted to its full height. In the other two paintings, the heads of dogs are higher than the level of three meters from the floor. Respectively, the heads don't appear in the composition.  © Tatiana Sibas  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Chalmers Department for Architecture and Civil Engineering / White Arkitekter Posted: 12 Jan 2019 06:00 PM PST  © Kalle Sanner
 © Kalle Sanner Text description provided by the architects. Merging the previously separate departments into a new Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering called for a redesign to create modern ways of working. The central idea has been to create more open spaces for people to meet and make the activity within the facility visible. The architects have focused on the interior; changing the building's static and closed form has created greater mobility and more modern ways of working.  © Kalle Sanner People meet on the street level in the central atrium which is flooded by daylight through a pyramid-shaped glass roof. A central café, a new learning center, drawing-rooms – in the literal sense – are all gathered on the same floor. An improved indoor climate and acoustics make this space the heart of the building. Spaces are intended for a variety of uses and integrated lunch and study places are examples of how to stimulate creativity and enable meetings.  © Kalle Sanner Formerly a closed space, the library has been relocated into a prime position along the façade, serving as a shop window for education and knowledge to passers-by. Together with the prominent adjacent staircase, named Kunskapstrappan (The Knowledge Staircase), the space has become a multifunctional study hall for presentations, meetings and gatherings, people milling about almost 24/7.  © Kalle Sanner The materials concept, where all surfaces have multifunctional uses, flowing and working well together, has been flawlessly executed. This pragmatic philosophy is also visible through the choice of one primary material: untreated pine. It withstands rough treatment and the puncture of sharp nails without losing its appeal. The basement, formerly dark and unused, has turned into a light and inviting space through the partial removal of floor joists. With its concrete surfaces, the workshops it houses are dominated by a no-frills character conducive to creativity.  Plan 1 1:500  Section 1:500  Plan 2 1:500 "It is an honour to redesign the school where I both studied and worked as a professor. There is a nostalgic attachment to the place, for me and for everyone on the team. The personal experience has helped us all to understand how to accommodate a future way of collaborative studies," says White's Ulla Antonsson, lead architect for the project.  © Kalle Sanner Preserving heritage buildings and making them sustainable brings the best value to our cities. This project has been certified to Miljöbyggnad Silver, which has been a major technical challenge. Great design stands the test of time, and while the interior is completely new, the exterior remains an excellent example of Swedish mid-century modern design.  © Kalle Sanner  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Hwa Won / Listen Communication Posted: 12 Jan 2019 03:00 PM PST  © JaeYoon KIM
 © JaeYoon KIM  © JaeYoon KIM Text description provided by the architects. Asia Culture Center is an international complex cultural public institution. It features Asian cultural exchange, collection and research of cultural resource, contents production, exhibition, performance, archive, distribution and so on.  © JaeYoon KIM The designers took charge of lobby design of international conference room where home and abroad honored guests would visit frequently.  © JaeYoon KIM The client wanted this lobby to have Korean traditional identity because the guests come from all over the world.  © JaeYoon KIM The designers embodied the design in which tradition and modernity are in harmony through creative reinterpretation, rather than applying Korean traditional elements unconditionally.  Floor Plan They put the important intangible cultural property crafts in the right place as well as modern crafts made in collaboration with artisans.  © JaeYoon KIM Lobby is an open space. Nevertheless, it is notable that this lobby feels snug owing to the layout like Hanok(Korean traditional house) with a courtyard. Entering lobby hall through metal gate motivated by brass, one can meet a bell of the temple Beopjusa of Joseon Dynasty made by a holder of Jucheoljang(intangible cultural property about casting).  © JaeYoon KIM Anyone can ring the bell. Acoustic element enables spatial experience to be plentiful.  © JaeYoon KIM A corridor at the right of the lobby is unbeatable for having a break with tea between conferences. People can enjoy Korean traditional crafts without burdens because they are placed on the table in the shape of showcase.  © JaeYoon KIM At a little deeper side of the lobby, there is a lounge evoking restrained atmosphere. Sofa and table have luxurious materiality and heaviness.  © JaeYoon KIM The table made by the designer reminds of a painting in India ink which invites seers to contemplate. Oriental floor lamp motivated by a fan also shows Korean traditionality with more modern sensibility.  © JaeYoon KIM A fan artwork covering one wall harmonizes fluidly with the snug light filtering through Hanji(Korean traditional paper made from mulberry tree). There are many elements to lead to Korean and Oriental world shadow seen through the pattern of traditional window and ceiling recalling the memory to look at the figure reflected on the tranquil pond silently. This space is certainly traditional. Anyone who lives in this age can travel back in time and experience the antique attraction.  © JaeYoon KIM However on the contrary, it can be said that unexcessive metaphorical design is modern.  © JaeYoon KIM  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Brick House in Unjung-dong / Architects601 Posted: 12 Jan 2019 01:00 PM PST .jpg?1546578932 "© Young-Chae Park") © Young-Chae Park
 © Young-Chae Park Text description provided by the architects. The housing site in Pangyo shows strong characteristics of the planned housing complex and the sharing space unique to the housing, the yard, is not sufficiently playing its role in most of the buildings in it due to these characteristics such as floor area ratio and land area.  © Young-Chae Park Another peculiar scenery of this area is that there is no harmony between the buildings as if the 'housing exhibits' created by architects are boasting of their own respective appearances due to the floor area ratio that exceeds half of the narrow land.We considered the context with neighboring buildings while thinking about which house with which scenery should fit into this environment, and our solution was to build a 'house that forms a balance with the land in the most natural way.'  © Young-Chae Park This meant a house that is not too strong but also not too weak to maintain its presence, and it was also about the form as well as the material.  © Young-Chae Park We imagined the image of 'earth' which means the land and approached the sensitivity of the material, and the bricks baked with earth was close to the solution we were looking for. Also, the old white bricks were the regenerated and preserved bricks from actual buildings in China that were dismantled (removed) and their unique milky earth texture give the calm impression alongside the material's unique naturalness and history, differentiating them from other brick constructions.  First floor plan  Second floor plan + Roof plan The old white brick constructions will manifest greater values with time for they maintained their first appearance without being washed by the uselessness through time by enduring the weight of time.  © Young-Chae Park A Scenery of Alley. .jpg?1546579010 "© Young-Chae Park") © Young-Chae Park The five rooms that require basic function of the rooms including the individual rooms for three children, the main room for the couple, and the guestroom leads the flow of the traffic line within the space with the morning sunshine through the high side window along the narrow and long hallway designed to give the sense of human scale. The joy in each room that appear around the corner like the alleys that we walk through in the hometown from the childhood creates a friendly scenery.  Cross Section  Longitudinal Section The residential space taking a large and broad space may look cool as a work of an architect but may also become a huge useless space that leaves emptiness to actual residents and wastes heating and cooling expenses. Our wish for a useful and valuable living space that contain the psychological and physical understanding of people fully was realized in the sense of the 'scenery of alleys .jpg?1546579363 "© Young-Chae Park") © Young-Chae Park  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 12 Jan 2019 11:00 AM PST  © SHANR Workshop
 © SHANR Workshop Text description provided by the architects. The letter testing exhibition hall is a multi-functional quality testing center for "clothing, food, and accommodation". It is located in the heart of Shenzhen Bay. The public houses were invited to create this minimalist space with black, white, and gray as the main color of science and technology, and tried to use the concept of "home". Create space.  © SHANR Workshop  Axon Roof and Home  © SHANR Workshop  © SHANR Workshop Exhibition Hall  © SHANR Workshop Hologram  © SHANR Workshop  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| AD Classics: AT&T Building / Philip Johnson and John Burgee Posted: 12 Jan 2019 08:30 AM PST  © David Shankbone It may be the single most important architectural detail of the last fifty years. Emerging bravely from the glassy sea of Madison Avenue skyscrapers in midtown Manhattan, the open pediment atop Philip Johnson and John Burgee's 1984 AT&T Building (now the Sony Tower) singlehandedly turned the architectural world on its head. This playful deployment of historical quotation explicitly contradicted modernist imperatives and heralded the mainstream arrival of an approach to design defined instead by a search for architectural meaning. The AT&T Building wasn't the first of its type, but it was certainly the most high-profile, proudly announcing that architecture was experiencing the maturation of a new evolutionary phase: Postmodernism had officially arrived to the world scene.  © Flickr user jackx Johnson and Burgee's deployment of historicity—both on the pediment and throughout the building below it—constituted nothing less than the fulfillment of an intellectual revolution that had been agitating for more than a decade. In the late 1960s, a crisis of meaning had taken over the architectural community, spurred by the failures of modernist urbanism and theory to fulfill its own lofty, idealistic social goals. Concurrent advances in anthropology, semiology, and linguistics redirected academic interest toward the communicative power of architecture as a cultural and artistic production. [1] In contrast with the Deconstructivism of Eisenman, who responded to this crisis by exploring inherent meaning through the systematic deprivation of extrinsic semiological indices, the Postmodernists explored the capacity of the sign to imbue buildings with cultural significance. Historicity and decontextualized references thus became the commodified ingredients of a new architectural recipe designed to counter functionalism's lifeless affect.  Main entrance. Image © Flickr user Roman Kruglov The exciting potential of this new approach was clearly not lost on Johnson, whose own career reflected the transformations overtaking architecture. Having established himself as one of America's leading modernists through works including the Seagram Building (with Mies van der Rohe) and his influential exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, his reversion to historical forms in the late 1970s personified the establishment's discontent with the then-stultifying formal language of corporate modernism. His vision for the AT&T Building (and industrial skyscrapers in general) would instead look to the past, borrowing architectural devices from such disparate sources as Renaissance Italy, seventeenth-century England, and even nineteenth-century New York. [2]  Interior lobby. Image © Flickr user : Rory Hyde While the building's most iconic feature may be its "Chippendale Top," a moniker it acquired for the pediment's resemblance to the furniture maker's classic highboy chests, perhaps the formal elements most illustrative of Postmodern sensibilities occur 647 feet below at ground level. There, a soaring entrance portico suggestive of great Italian arcades immediately removes visitors from the modern Manhattan neighborhood. The entrance engages a circular motif with a set of semicircular arches—the outer of which rises seven stories above the sidewalk—and a massive, round window placed above the door. The simple geometry of these elements is indicative of both a return to the perfect forms pursued by Renaissance mathematician-architects and a desire to break free from modernism's characteristic orthogonality.  © Flickr user mini malist The columns that drop down from the massing into the entrance portico reveal a curious act of deception by the architects: the structure of the building is actually inherently modern, built using a conventional steel framing system inset behind the facade. Perhaps because of this, Robert A.M. Stern initially derided the design as "merely a routine office building" that had received an "unusually high level of publicity." [3] But instead of finishing the profile with a glass curtain wall as modernism would expect, the steel body is clad with slabs of pink granite, an older and less industrial material that projects an aura of solidity and permanence. Although the relative thinness of the columns clearly alludes to these modern structural methods, the material finish visually hearkens to an older method of masonry construction on an enormous scale. As with all architecture in the postmodern tradition of the "decorated shed," the superficiality of this signage not only fails to detract from its effectiveness but reflects a deliberate prioritization of architecture's affective capacity.  © Flickr user Maurizio Mucciola Johnson's famous quote that "monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food or sex" finds no exception here. [4] In addition to the sheer scale of the building's compositional elements—the hundred-foot entrance, the thirty-foot carve-out in the pediment, and the sheer height of the thirty seven-story building—Johnson and Burgee employ deliberate architectural strategies to magnify the visual massiveness of the building. Vertical banding running up and down the sides of the building dramatizes its height, as does the deliberate omission of any setbacks that might interrupt the monolithic stone block.  © Flickr user paulkhor In mainstream American culture, the AT&T Building began exerting tremendous influence well before it was completed. In 1979, a full five years before it opened, Philip Johnson graced the cover of Time Magazine holding a model of the planned skyscraper. In several ways, this image portrayed a turning point in American architecture that transcended stylistic and formal trends. It heralded the dawn of a new era of iconic architecture intended for mass consumption. For this, Postmodernism in particular was well-suited, as it was fundamentally a populist movement rooted in an accessible common history only too eager to cater itself to the whims of capitalist enterprise. The combination of commercial appeal and an anti-modernist appreciation for the artistic role of the architect facilitated a greater change yet in professional culture: from there emerged an increasingly reductive portrayal of architectural production as the work of a single, brilliant mind, laying the regrettable groundwork of for today's all-too-familiar cult of icon-obsessed "Starchitecture."  Time Magazine cover of January 8, 1979. Image © Time Inc. Today, in a world overstimulated by inventive architectural forms to the point of numbness, it is difficult to understand how the simple use of historical ideas could have been such a shocking development, reverberating not just in the academic institution but throughout pop culture as well. But for a world emerging from the rigid doctrine of mid-century modernism, the radically conservative ideals displayed at the AT&T Building were paradoxically both regressive and forward-thinking, attempting to find new answers to age-old questions about architectural significance through knowledge and formal devices that had been there all along.  © Flickr user Bernard Duperrin [1] See generally McLeod, Mary. "Architecture and Politics in the Reagan Era: From Postmodernism to Deconstructivism." Assemblage, No. 8 (February, 1989), pp. 22-59. [2] Galinsky, Karl. Classical and Modern Interactions. University of Texas Press: Texas, 1992. [3] Stern, Robert A.M. "New York, New York: Pluralism and its Possibilities." Arquitectura, no. 218 (May-June 1979): 14-17. [4] Johnson, Donald Leslie and Donald Langmead. Makers of Twentieth Century Modern Architecture: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Routledge, 2013, p. 157.
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| Dry Creek Poolhouse / Ro I Rockett Design Posted: 12 Jan 2019 05:00 AM PST  © Adam Rouse Photography
 © Adam Rouse Photography Text description provided by the architects. Anchored by an inventive reuse of local materials on a constrained lot in a beautiful Sonoma County landscape, this project started as a country retreat and evolved into a full-time residence. The desired program added a pool, poolhouse, outdoor living area, gardens, bocce court and guest arrival with overflow parking. The property was long and narrow, hugging a busy roadway but situated to look beyond the constraints to spectacular vistas of rolling vineyards and classic coastal California ridgelines beyond.  © Adam Rouse Photography The budget was tight and the aspirations were large. The design raises the pool high on the prop-erty and cuts the pool house into the hillside – allowing the horizon of the pool edge to edit the view to the road below. Nestled into the hill with its back to the trees, the new, earthen ground plane acts as a primitive plinth that supports a rustic enclosure. The prime program of the pool house is wrapped in grape stakes gathered from the property and re-sawn to operate as a shroud to the private innards of the building.  Cross Section Sketch This cladding provides solid walls where necessary and opens to the view where desirable. The modest interior footprint seamlessly expands to the terrace beyond with the help of a rough-sawn trellis that floats overhead, providing needed shade in the hottest times of day.  © Adam Rouse Photography Conceived as a rustic retreat for a couple of city dwellers, the property quickly became a full-time respite that lives and breathes the Sonoma County lifestyle.  © Adam Rouse Photography  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Berlin in Miniature: Tilt-Shift Video Transforms Perspective on the German Capital Posted: 12 Jan 2019 05:00 AM PST
MiniLook Berlin from Okapi on Vimeo. When we get wrapped up in everyday life, it can be easy to take the place we live for granted. In the MiniLook Berlin video, Okapi Creative Studio takes a step back to show the beauty of daily life in the city of Berlin via a stop-motion, tilt-shift technique that makes the city appear as if in miniature. The video highlights everyday street scenes and picturesque shots of nature, while some famous buildings make appearances as well.  Screenshot from MiniBerlin. Image © Okapi Creative Studio One of the locations shown is the Gendarmenmarkt, a public square surrounded by historic architectural gems. In the video we see the steps to the Konzerthaus, a concert hall designed by Karl Friedrich Shinkel between 1818 and 1821. It and the other buildings surrounding the Gendarmenmarkt were severely damaged in the Battle of Berlin in the Second World War and rebuilt beginning in 1977. While the interior was adapted to a Neoclassical style, the exterior restoration is faithful to Shinkel's design. Also highlighted are Checkpoint Charlie, the most well-known crossing point at the Berlin Wall that became a symbol of the Cold War, and the BlackBox Cold War Museum, which features authentic exhibits from that era.  Konzerthaus in Gendarmenmarkt Seen in a few of the shots is the iconic Fernsehturm, the tallest structure in Germany. Berlin's television tower was constructed in the 1960s as a symbol of Communist power and today includes a viewing tower and observation deck. Though not featured specifically in the video, another Berlin landmark, the Reichstag, can also be seen in the distance. The historic building was first opened in 1894 and then fully restored a century later, beginning in 1990. Part of that restoration, led by Norman Foster, is the large glass dome recognizable in the video, which offers a 360-degree view of surrounding Berlin. But if you can't make a trip to Berlin anytime soon to journey to the top of the Reichstag's dome, you can always watch from above by returning to this video.  Reichstag  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| DAS Transform Qianmen's Urban Composition into a Lively Axonometric Mural Posted: 12 Jan 2019 02:00 AM PST  Courtesy of Drawing Architecture Studio (DAS) Artistic expression is often undisciplined. Sometimes, the riot of colors and explosion of lines and forms help unleash a 2D illustration out of its medium, which is precisely what Drawing Architecture Studio (DAS) managed to create in Ucommune's new branch in Dajiang Hutong, Beijing. In late 2018, Li Han, co-founder of Drawing Architecture Studio, won the 2018 Drawing Prize for her digital drawing of The Samsara of Building No.42 on Dirty Street, which also illustrates a visual narrative of the city of Beijing and its residential chronology throughout the 21st century. This year, DAS took Qianmen area, co-working brand Ucommune's location as a subject, transforming its road network, architecture, and urban composition into a dynamic, meticulously detailed panorama titled Under the Zhengyangmen.  Courtesy of Drawing Architecture Studio (DAS)
 Courtesy of Drawing Architecture Studio (DAS) DAS explored multiple sources of inspiration for their illustration. The technique itself - which is the drawing of a 45-degree angle on a flat surface to create spatial depth - was previously used in traditional Chinese paintings. The same oblique projection technique was experimented by El Lissitzky post WWI, followed by Zaha Hadid, whose works reshaped existing architectural drawings, and transformed them into dynamic abstract illustrations. In Under the Zhengyangmen, DAS destroyed the city of Qianmen, only to reconstruct it in a more vigorously assembled composition.  Courtesy of Drawing Architecture Studio (DAS)  Courtesy of Drawing Architecture Studio (DAS) Project Team: Li Han / Hu Yan / Zhang Xintong / Hei Yeung Kwok / Guo Hequn / Kand Lianyu / Wang Junkai / Yuan Ruizhe Photography: Wang Hongyue / Lu Wenhui
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| Posted: 12 Jan 2019 01:00 AM PST  © Pol Viladoms
 © Pol Viladoms Text description provided by the architects. Buildings constructed until mid of XX century in Spain, and still in certain well standing areas incorporated an apartment for the doorman. Since it was considered that the penthouse was the worse and smallest place of the building, this was the place where to accommodate people in charge of the door control and cleaning.  Sections Today, those spaces go to the community ownership and are rediscovered to people who acquired as an opportunity to enjoy the open space in crowd city environments.  © Pol Viladoms The doorman of the building had this apartment until he was retired from service. The small, tiny, dark and isolated space was acquired by a neighbor living below as an opportunity to expand their family space outside. The family wanted an extra space, independent from their house, where to celebrate, study, read, or just join natural light.  © Pol Viladoms The challenge was to open the apartment to the terraces and connect the spaces making the transition as easiest as possible. Windows were opened in both façades to connect the interior with north and south terraces. The floor was lifted in the extremes of the apartment to be at the same level of the outside and blur the limits between exterior and interior. Likewise to enhance the link, the pavement inside and outside is the same and carpentries can be folded to maximize the opening.  © Pol Viladoms  Plan The apartment of no more than 60m2 connects north and south façades of the building without any vertical division, providing a wonderful feeling and filter, between the mountain views of La Musara and the inside of a cozy courtyard. Terraces which have a similar dimension than the interior space outlined to respond to orientations and uses, and accommodate summer dinners and parties at the same time that welcome and gather long readings and siestas.  © Pol Viladoms To bring natural light inside, and to create the atmosphere of being closely connected to the outside, original openings were kept in the dividing walls on the patios at the same time that openings were enlarged to connect to the terraces and a skylight was opened on top of the entrance and the toilet, to make the owners dream possible of taking shower looking to the sky.  © Pol Viladoms The organization of the space is linked to the original structure of the building and materials wanted to foster the comfort of the users. Wood and plaster are the main elements configuring the rooms, while steal works, tiles contribute, and fabrics provide little changes in the general atmosphere.  © Pol Viladoms  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 121 Definitions of Architecture Posted: 12 Jan 2019 12:00 AM PST  There are at least as many definitions of architecture as there are architects or people who comment on the practice of it. While some embrace it as art, others defend architecture's seminal social responsibility as its most definitive attribute. To begin a sentence with "Architecture is" is a bold step into treacherous territory. And yet, many of us have uttered — or at least thought— "Architecture is…" while we've toiled away on an important project, or reflected on why we've chosen this professional path. Most days, architecture is a tough practice; on others, it is wonderfully satisfying. Perhaps, though, most importantly, architecture is accommodating and inherently open to possibility. This collection of statements illustrates the changing breadth of architecture's significance; we may define it differently when talking among peers, or adjust our statements for outsiders. A note: In an age that is particularly enamored with capturing ideas in 140 characters or less, it is tempting to take these remarks out of context. Yet many are part of a larger, nuanced conversation. Sources and/or context are included for each definition.
1. "Architecture is definitely a political act." - Peter Eisenman in Haaretz 2. "Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough." - Zaha Hadid in The Guardian 3. "Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process." - Joshua Prince-Ramus in Fast Company 4. "Architecture is a way of seeing, thinking and questioning our world and our place in it." - Thom Mayne in his Prtizker Prize Acceptance Speech 5. "Architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings actually fit with the way we want to live our lives: the process of manifesting our society into our physical world. - Bjarke Ingels in AD Interviews 6. "Architecture is merciless: it is what it is, it works or doesn't, and you can clearly see the difference." - Jacques Herzog in a lecture at Columbia University  7. "Architecture is always related to power and related to large interests, whether financial or political." - Bernard Tschumi in The New York Times 8. "Architecture is a good example of the complex dynamic of giving." - Jeffrey Inaba in World of Giving 9. "Architecture is too complex for just one person to do it, and I love collaboration." - Richard Rogers in The Guardian 10. "Architecture is the most powerful deed that a man can imagine." - Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos in Volume 11. "Architecture is an act of optimism." - Nicolai Ouroussoff in The LA Times 12. "Architecture is an artificial fact." - Mario Botta in Perspecta  13. "Architecture is full of romantics who think that even relatively small changes to the built environment create the aspiration for a better society." - Mark Wigley in Surface Magazine 14. "Architecture is for us, the public, and it is going to get scuffed." - Alexandra Lange in Design Observer 15. "Architecture is the work of nations..." John Ruskin in Stones of Venice 16. "Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience." - Roland Barthes in "Semiology and Urbanism" 17. "Architecture is an expression of values – the way we build is a reflection of the way we live." - Norman Foster in The European 18. "Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit." - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in "ID Merger Speech"  19. "Architecture is not a question of the purely theoretical if you're interested in building buildings. It's the art of what is possible." - Paul Rudolph in Chicago Architects Oral History Project 20. "Architecture is geometry." - Álvaro Siza in Imaginar a Evidência (Imagining Evidence) 21. "Architecture is about improving conditions: environmental, social and sometimes also political." - Arjen Oosterman in Volume 22. "Architecture is not just one thing. It is not just an art. … It has to deal with the real situation; it has to do something good for the society." - Xiaodu Liu in "What Can Architecture Do? An Interview with Xiaodu Liu" on ArchDaily 23. "Architecture is much more than the building of an object on a site: it is a reinvention of the site itself." - Sean Lally in The Air From Other Planets 24. "Architecture is a language: new designs should abide by grammatical rules to avoid dissonance with existing structures." - Prince Charles in The Architectural Review  25. "Architecture is an untapped source of magnificent stories waiting to be imagined, visualized, and built." - Matthew Hoffman in "Blank Space Launches Architecture Storytelling Competition" 26. "Architecture is about serving others through the design of the built environment." - Kevin J Singh in "21 Rules for A Successful Life in Architecture" 27. "Architecture is a very complex effort everywhere. It's very rare that all the forces that need to coincide to actually make a project proceed are happening at the same time." - Rem Koolhaas in Co.Design 28. "Architecture is intended to transcend the simple need for shelter and security by becoming an expression of artistry." - Jay A. Pritzker in his 1985 Pritzker Ceremony Speech 29. "Architecture is the only art that you can't help but feel. You can avoid paintings, you can avoid music, and you can even avoid history. But good luck getting away from architecture." - Philippe Daverio in Humans of New York 30. "Architecture is the petrification of a cultural moment." - Jean Nouvel in Newsweek  31. "Architecture is characterised by endurance and longevity: a long education, long training, long hours and long lives." - Catherine Slessor in The Architectural Review 32. "Architecture is a muddle of irreconcilable things." - Juhani Pallasmaa in The Architectural Review 33. "Architecture is, in many ways, a very specific type of science fiction; it is its own genre of speculative thought," - Geoff Manaugh in Architect 34. "Architecture is largely irrelevant to the great mass of the world's population because architects have chosen to be." - Bruce Mau in Architect 35. "Architecture is becoming less about a single walled-off phallus on the horizon, and more about parks and public spaces which engage with the city." - Alissa Walker in Gizmodo 36. "Architecture is most often a victory over the process of creating architecture." - Sam Jacob in Log  37. "Architecture is capable of mounting a profound critique of the status quo." - Reinhold Martin in Places 38. "Architecture is such a conspicuous immensely physical object in space its presence is bound to influence everyone." - Gautam Bhatia in India International Centre Quarterly 39. "Architecture is not just about building. It's a means of improving people's quality of life." - Diébédo Francis Kéré in Washington Post 40. "Architecture is a physical experience — it needs to be seen and touched to be wholly understood." - Nicolai Ouroussoff in Los Angeles Times 41. "Architecture is really difficult. I realized that only very recently. It's like music. You can enjoy it but — to know it — it's a different story." - Diana Agrest in nprEd  42. "Architecture is capable of absorbing anything, and hence tends to dissolve into everything." - Ole Bouman in Volume 43. "Architecture is not just a matter of technology and aesthetics but the frame for a way of life – and, with luck, an intelligent way of life." - Bernard Rudofsky 44. "Architecture is a discipline where you can have multivalent interests. You could be a philosopher, a geographer, a scientist, an artist, an engineer; you can be poetic about it." - Toshiko Mori in Metropolis 45. "Architecture is supposed to be about a higher purpose." - Stanley Tigerman in Newsweek 46. "Architecture is the most public of the arts, and the public are severe critics." - Eric Parry in The Guardian 47. "Architecture is a formmaker, problem‐solver and environment‐creator, and the international exposition is its laboratory." - Ada Louise Huxtable in New York Times  48. "Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful—it gives it power."- Claudio Silvestrin in Elle Decor 49. "Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstanding and provide a beautiful context for life's drama." - Frank Gehry in his 1989 Pritzker Prize Ceremony Speech 50. "Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience." - John Portman in "The Architect as Developer" 51. "Architecture is a social art. And as a social art, it is our social responsibility to make sure that we are delivering architecture that meets not only functional and creature comforts, but also spiritual comfort." - Samuel Mockbee 52. "Architecture is too important to be left to men alone." - Sarah Wigglesworth in Parlour 53. "Architecture is not a purely private transaction between architects and clients. It affects everyone, so it ought to be understandable to everyone. - Blair Kamin  54. "Architecture is vital and enduring because it contains us; it describes space, space we move through, exit in and use." - Richard Meier in his 1984 Pritzker Prize Ceremony Speech 55. "Architecture is more about ideas than materials." - Qingyun Ma in Los Angeles Times 56. "Architecture is not just for big star projects like museums. It's for the slums around them, too." - Juan Ramon Adsuara in npr 57. "Architecture is bashful about reality." - Wouter Vanstiphout in Archis 58. "Architecture is just background. The beauty of architecture is that it brings people together and can create public constructs." - Ben Van Berkel in AD Interviews 59. "Architecture is about hope, about change—it makes life more exciting." - Lars Lerup in Architect  60. "Architecture is blessed and cursed with more dimensions than its greats know what to do with: the three of sensible space, the celebrated fourth of travel through it; and others, ineffable, beyond—the fifth of utility, say, the seventh of happy accident, the ominous eleventh." - Philip Nobel in Metropolis 61. "Architecture is a mystery that must be preserved." - Jean Nouvel in Huffington Post 62. "Architecture is only as great as the aspirations of its society." - Lisa Rochon in Globe and Mail 63."Architecture is like the picture of Dorian Gray: It can look beautiful in public, while somewhere out of sight its true soul withers and rots." - Lance Hosey in Architect 64. "Architecture is about reason-right?" - Alfred Caldwell in Chicago Tribune 65. "Architecture is a profession of optimism." - Johanna Hurme in spacing  66. "Architecture is about the manipulation of light: both artificial light and day lighting."- Tom Kundig in Architectural Record 67. "Architecture is expected to carry too much weight in many cases." - Patricia Patkau in Globe and Mail 68. "Architecture is not a goal. Architecture is for life and pleasure and work and for people. The picture frame, not the picture." - William Wurster 69. "Architecture is the most obvious flower of a society's culture." - Alan Balfour in Art Papers 70. "Architecture is more than making a statement from the street. It's making an environment for living." - Dion Neutra in Los Angeles Times 71. "Architecture is a translation process." - Fernando Romero in Metropolis  72. "Architecture is quite a narrow, obsessive business." - Nicholas Grimshaw in The Guardian 73. "Architecture is perplexing in how inconsistent is its capacity to generate the happiness on which its claim to our attention is founded." - Alain de Botton in The Architecture of Happiness 74. "Architecture is a kind of urban ballet." - Aaron Betsky in New York Times 75. "Architecture is a history of style written by the victors." - Herbert Muschamp in New York Times 76. "Architecture is driven by belief in the nature of the real and the physical: the specific qualities of one thing - its material, form, arrangement, substance, detail - over another." - Kester Rattenbury in This is Not Architecture: Media Constructions 77. "Architecture is not always synonymous with building." - Francisco "Patxi" Mangado  78. "Architecture is complicated and like other complicated things it is prone to entropy from the outset." - Guy Horton in Metropolis 79. "Architecture is where imagination meets life." - Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa in their 2010 Pritzker Prize Ceremony Speech 80. "Architecture is an incredible ego trip. You get things done, you build them, you look at them. That's why I enjoy life and don't have an ulcer. - Stanley Tigerman in the Chicago Tribune 81. "Architecture is a strange field where we're constantly asked to demonstrate over and over why design matters, to everyone, all the time. It's exhausting." - Amale Andraos in Metropolis 82. "Architecture is about the lack of stability and how to address it. Architecture is about the void and how to cross it. Architecture is about inhospitability and how to live within it." - Geoff Manaugh in The Guardian 83. "Architecture is both an art and a practical pursuit, and the profession has always been divided between those who emphasize the art, that is pure design, and those who give priority to the practical." - Paul Goldberger in New York Times  84. Architecture is one of the reflections of the permanence of a civilization. - Charlie Rose 85. Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. - Martin Filler in The New York Review of Books 86. "Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years." - Renzo Piano in Time 87. "Architecture is the pathology of the contemporary era." - Forensic Architecture 88. "Architecture is a discipline directly engaged with shaping enclosure, of erecting and toppling barriers or—more explicitly—of extending and limiting 'freedoms'." - E. Sean Bailey & Erandi de Silva in "BI's First Print Edition Released - FREE: Architecture on the Loose" 89. "Architecture is interesting, but by itself it means nothing." - Massimiliano Fuksas in New York Times  90. "Architecture is an art, yet we rarely concentrate our attention on buildings as we do on plays, books, and paintings." - Witold Rybczynski in Metropolis 91. "Architecture is aligned with and implicated in the systems of surveillance and control." - Eric Howeler in Volume 92. "Architecture is 90 per cent business and 10 per cent art." - Albert Kahn 93. "Architecture is probably the subject of more theorizing, navel-gazing and introspective agonizing than any of the other arts." - Paul Gapp in the Chicago Tribune 94. "Architecture is invention."- Oscar Niemeyer in Newsweek 95. "Architecture is always political." - Richard Rogers in Financial Times  96. "Architecture is a frame of mind, it's about ideas; the profession is about how to translate those ideas into the real world." - Christopher Janney in Architectural Record 97. "Architecture is an active participant in the interactions of people within it." - Jonathan C. Molloy in ArchDaily 98. "Architecture is not only developing in its own realm, it is constantly assimilating achievements from other fields. - Maya Engeli in Volume 99. "Architecture is first and foremost about serving people and society. This is an architect's responsibility: to design buildings that fulfill their practical purpose, bring people together, and connect us to the natural world while preserving precious resources." - Steven Ehrlich in Metropolis 100. "Architecture is about building a place in the universe, not about mimicking a depleted, decrepit reality." - Stefanos Polyzoides in The LA Times 101. "Architecture is a public commodity, and as such invites public scrutiny." - Reed Kroloff in Architecture*  102. "Architecture is not about the creation of newness but rather about the fulfillment of needs and expectations." - André Tavares in Forbes 103. "Architecture is the same as advertising for communicating the brand." - Patrizio Bertelli in The New York Times 104. "Architecture is not just about accommodating very prescriptive demands—it's doing it in a way that stimulates the unfolding of life. - Bjarke Ingels in Co.Design 105. "Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life." - Peter Zumthor in Thinking Architecture 106. "Architecture is flexible." - Krzysztof Wodiczko in St. Louis Post - Dispatch* 107. "Architecture is a combination of science and fiction." - Winy Maas in Domus  108. "Architecture is the art we all encounter most often, most intimately, yet precisely because it is functional and necessary to life, it's hard to be clear about where the "art" in a building begins." - Jonathan Jones in The Guardian 109. "Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all." Harry Seidler in the Sydney Morning Herald 110. "Architecture is used by political leaders to seduce, to impress, and to intimidate." - Deyan Sudjic in The Washington Post 111. "Architecture is a paradigm for reconsidering research." B.D. Wortham in Journal of Architectural Education* 112. "Architecture is about giving form to the places where people live. It is not more complicated than that but also not simpler than that. - Alejandro Aravena in his 2016 Pritzker Prize acceptance speech 113. "Architecture is generally a poor relative to things like film, fashion and product design. Even though it is economically more important, for some reason it is not getting the recognition." - Tamsie Thomson in The Architects' Journal  114. "Architecture is a complex and articulated process but if you lose the process and only keep the form you lose the core of architectural practice." - André Tavares in Wallpaper* 116. "Architecture is practical poetry." - Bjarke Ingels at the New Yorker Festival 117. "Architecture is the sum of inevitable negotiations." - Felipe Mesa in Domus 118. "Architecture is more than just buildings; these structures can inspire and motivate people to do great things." Fisk Johnson for the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial  119. "Architecture is one of those disciplines that has no shortage of voices." - Guy Horton in Metropolis 120."Architecture is always a temporary modification of the space, of the city, of the landscape. We think that it's permanent. But we never know." - Jean Nouvel in The New York Times 121. "Architecture is like life: a matter of trade-offs." - Paul Goldberger in The New York Times  *These links can only be viewed by those who have access to Proquest and JSTOR. Many universities and public libraries provide access to their students, alumni and patrons.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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 © Mathieu Noël Program  © Mathieu Noël A generous garden, directly linked with the ground floor is available for the users. A parking with only 7 parking spaces and a room for bicycles are available so as to encourage them to use public transports or soft transports.  © Mathieu Noël  Plans  © Mathieu Noël Constraints Related to the Site and the Architectural Bias  © Mathieu Noël This "pleated" facade recalls the barracks staples roof's shape, closely connecting both sides of the pedestrian walk.  Detail 01 The exterior walls's glazed concrete and the woodworks represent sober and sustainable materials in urban areas.The user is the center of the project, his well-being is our main concern. He can take full advantage of the interior areas' quality of use: lighting, acoustic and thermal comfort.  © Mathieu Noël Technologically, the building is thought to be flexible and to adapt to that kind of institution's future evolutions in terms of education.  © Mathieu Noël Building System and Materials  © Mathieu Noël Energy Performances  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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