Archizines celebra el resurgimiento de las publicaciones de arquitectura independientes y alternativas. La exposición, comisariada por Elias Redstone e iniciada en colaboración con la Architectural Association, muestra 60 nuevos fanzines, revistas y publicaciones procedentes de más de 20 países. Editados por arquitectos, artistas y estudiantes, estas publicaciones proporcionan nuevas plataformas para el diálogo, la crítica y la investigación en espacios que habitamos y en la práctica de la arquitectura. Hacen una importante, y en ocasiones radical, suma al discurso arquitectónico y demuestran el amor residual de la palabra impresa y la hoja de papel en la era digital actual.
Archizines celebrates the resurgence of alternative and independent architectural publishing. The exhibition, curated by Elias Redstone and initiated in collaboration with the Architectural Association, features 60 new fanzines, magazines and journals from over 20 countries. Edited by architects, artists and students, these publications provide new platforms for commentary, criticism and research into the spaces we inhabit and the practice of architecture. They make an important, and often radical, addition to architectural discourse and demonstrate the residual love of the printed word and paper page in the digital age.
Créditos / credits:
Comisario / Curator: Elias Redstone
Diseño expositivo / Exhibition design: AA Exhibitions
Diseño gráfico / Graphic design: Folch Studio
Catálogo / Catalogue: Bedford Press
Más info: OtrasCosas de Villar-Rosas
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In attempting to redefine architecture as a living organism, the initial inspiration from natural and scientific processes concentrates on ideas of cyclical phase change and differentiation, all operating under the much larger umbrella of adaptability. The idea that this transformation is necessitated by climatic conditions, and thereby cyclical (or seasonal) is important, since it implies a feature of growth and compression. As such, nature of a fluctuating environment and the constant variations in the severity of the cycles produces a set of constant differentiations.
More info: Polar Ants —Artic Research Facility || via entropicIQ
Subterranea | Excavating spaces from the depths of the mind « dpr-barcelona
Subterranea by Rick Gooding. Courtesy of Woodbury University School of Architecture
In an era of digital representation, Gooding celebrates the precise and beautiful craft of manual drafting. He works without rulers or measuring devices and carefully constructs his drawings using the most basic architectural drafting tools: a straight edge, a 314 pencil, and an eraser and erasing shield. Gooding works exclusively in black and white. The simple palette occasionally produces Escher-esque qualities. Subversive flips of figure/ground and slips in optical logic confuse the readings of these rigorously constructed drawings.
![“The building forms and their meanings are in a way romantic and fantastical—wind tunnels, transonic circuits, gas dynamics laboratories—-a kind of architecture for opening up and exploring new worlds. Even the more conventional industrial forms of steam plants and other support buildings reflect traces of the glow of a great adventure, experienced in this context of immensely consequential invention. All of it stayed with me, though was not to emerge—radically transformed—until many years later.”
Lebbeus Woods on ORIGINS
[PIC]: The Gas Dynamics Facility is most heavily involved with developing jet and rocket propulsion systems.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx7ueqDfAh1qzz5i6o1_1280.jpg)
“The building forms and their meanings are in a way romantic and fantastical—wind tunnels, transonic circuits, gas dynamics laboratories—-a kind of architecture for opening up and exploring new worlds. Even the more conventional industrial forms of steam plants and other support buildings reflect traces of the glow of a great adventure, experienced in this context of immensely consequential invention. All of it stayed with me, though was not to emerge—radically transformed—until many years later.”
Lebbeus Woods on ORIGINS
[PIC]: The Gas Dynamics Facility is most heavily involved with developing jet and rocket propulsion systems.
Hacking into Public Spaces / Hackeando el Espacio Social de los Encuentros. Artículo escrito para el dossier de Arquine #58 “Arquitectura y Activismo”
Kazimir Malevich | Arkhitekton
via: mikasavela
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, The Labyrinth, A Plan of Civil and Historical Architecture, 1721
Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown, The ‘Duck’ as an Architectural Paradigm
“A ‘Duck’ is a duck; it can also be a hot dog, a milk bottle, an elephant… In other words, a ‘Duck’ is a building whose function, structure and material are secondary to its representational quality or sculptural form.”
Always worth a reminder.
via: abitlate + archiveofaffinities
