Teorema 004: Preliminary sketch, Vitra Fire Station, by Zaha Hadid, 1991
Teorema 004: Preliminary sketch, Vitra Fire Station, by Zaha Hadid, 1991 Zaha Hadid continually stretches the boundaries of architecture and urban design. Dividing her concentration between practice, teaching, and research, her work experiments with new spatial concepts intensifying existing urban landscapes in the pursuit of a visionary aesthetic that encompasses all fields of design. The … Seguir leyendo
Teorema 003: Sketch page for the Baths of Agippa, and Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli, by Andrea Palladio
Teorema 003: Sketch page for the Baths of Agippa, and Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli, by Andrea Palladio Palladio was born in Padua, near Venice, in 1508, as Andrea di Pietro dalla Gondola. His early exposure to architecture came both as a stonemason and a craftsman of ornamentation, working in the studio of Giovanni di Giacomo … Seguir leyendo
Plural Innovations
Plural Innovations In a well-known article by Rosalind Krauss, written at the end of the ’70s and titled Sculpture in the Expanded Field, the art critic and theorist set out to situate and analyses vanguard practices in contemporary sculpture, looking at works by Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Mary Miss and Donald Judd. All of them … Seguir leyendo
Teorema 002: Exploration Place Sketch, Moshe Safdie, around 1995
Teorema 002: Exploration Place Sketch, Moshe Safdie, around 1995 This sketch represents an early conceptual design for the Exploration Place Science Center and Children’s Museum in Wichita, Kansas. The project is a one hundred square foot building of galleries, theaters, and exhibit space. It is located in downtown Wichita where the Arkansas and Little Arkansas … Seguir leyendo
Contribuciones: Jacobo García-Germán. Unfinished Manifesto
Unfinished Manifesto Unfinished is not a material but a cultural condition. Unfinished measures the success of architecture inasmuch architecture is unfinished because it becomes a collective concern, it turns collective. This process of collectivization, in architecture, is facilitated by certain devices and obstructed by others. It is enhanced when architecture steps back and reveals its … Seguir leyendo
Food for Thought: Why Art Has the Power to Change the World By Olafur Eliasson
Food for Thought: Why Art Has the Power to Change the World By Olafur Eliasson One of the great challenges today is that we often feel untouched by the problems of others and by global issues like climate change, even when we could easily do something to help. We do not feel strongly enough that … Seguir leyendo
Teorema 001: Grandfather Wall House by John Hejduk 1966-76
Teorema 001: Grandfather Wall House by John Hejduk 1966-76 The drawings of John Hejduk are of particular interest in their attempt to revivify the mystical modernist faith in the meaning of abstract spatial signals by matching the convention of pictorial flatness to the ground plan of architecture. The drawing thereby enforces in the imagination spatial perceptions which … Seguir leyendo
Food for Thought: Manifesto by Lebbeus Woods
Food for Thought: Manifesto By Lebbeus Woods Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms. I am one of millions who do not fit in, who have no home, no family, no … Seguir leyendo
Understanding Architecture To Understand Architecture. Thoughts on advanced architecture teaching.
Understanding Architecture To Understand Architecture. Thoughts on advanced architecture teaching. The usual way of living in our society has led us to a way of thinking that entangles us in a constant, never-ending web of changes. The consequences of destroying the past, with the traditional role of anchor and fixer of knowledge and customs it … Seguir leyendo
Food for Thought: Faces of Democratic Deficit by Slavoj Žižek
Food for Thought: Faces of Democratic Deficit By Slavoj Žižek Sometimes faces become symbols – not of the strong individuality of their bearers but of the anonymous forces behind them. Was not the stupidly smiling face of Jeroen Dijsselbloem, president of the Eurogroup, the symbol of the EU’s brutal pressure on Greece? Recently, the international … Seguir leyendo
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