dpr-barcelona | Ethel Baraona

Palace Proletarian Cultural District. Moscu 1930

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The light, the dark | Lebbeus Woods

“With light, we know, comes darkness. Darkness is not the absence of light. Rather, it is a product of light, an active, opposing presence created by it. Without light we would not think of darkness as we do—it would be all we know, and we would live in a visually monological world. But we do not. We live in a world of contrasts between light and darkness, indeed a dialogical world of infinite gradations of the two. Urban darkness is still suffused with light. The darkest shadows on the brightest day are alive with soft echoes of light, moving from surface to surface. The struggles between light and darkness set the ground-tone of our human condition.”

New book recently published: New Green Homes

“New Green Homes explores various aspects of environmentally-friendly design, from the ecological and economical benefits to the factors that need to be considered when choosing materials, including the amount of energy that went into manufacturing the product; its sustainability; the life-expectancy of its materials; and recycling vs disposing of the materials if they break down over time.”

Authors: Sergi Costa Duran, Ethel Baraona Pohl and Liliana Bollini

Brodsky and Utkin’s Columbarium Habitabile proposed a vast concrete mausoleum to which houses set for demolition could be removed and stacked on shelves like so many objects in a cabinet of curiosity.

via Metropolis Magazine | More info at dpr-barcelona BLOG