a + t magazine returns to the public realm through the STRATEGY series, which began in 2010 with the aim of highlighting and naming the strategies and actions underlying each project. 85 actions are identified within the 13 projects included in the issue. This new volume of the STRATEGY series, a+t 51, called ACTIVATORS, includes works by MVRDV, Jaja, Adept, Nendo, Vaumm, Wowhaus, […]
Book series, in bilingual Spanish-English edition, dedicated to the calculation and design of building systems. From the study of hydraulic, electrical, lighting and ventilation systems to fire safety systems or planning the design from energy saving and sustainability. ENERGY SAIVINGS IN BUILDING DESIGN. Saving energy is nothing more than reducing energy consumption by achieving the same results as by spending […]
With this cartoon, Mad Architects: Mies versus Farnsworth, it begins and probably it finishes a series that enough time ago I began but that did not see the light till now. There did not happen the critical, lucid, humorous and ironic rasero that characterizes me (if I do not say it to myself …) and unless some magazine, web etc, pays me […]
For if you are not sufficiently freaks as to recognize this dialog, it is based like not, in Star wars‘ mythical scene: Probably it must have finished the emblem with a NOOOOO of the scholar and be thrown to the emptiness looking for work (a suicide, nowadays), but far from it and motivated by the incessant petitions of the fans […]
Lengthways and width of the professional life, every architect who boasts and even those who are despised like to me, they have run up with civil servants or visadores that with our zeal to obtain a license, turn into supposed benefactors of the law and in malechores of the profession. But I suppose that under all that, before they were […]
After a lot of time, I return to the load with this most interesting and most enterteining comical strip that will do the delights of all those that as me, for lack of work, we decide that the most important thing is to have a posh web, of phantones gray and confirm in black and white with the illusion that […]
(Look at the text in perspective of a point of escape) After leaving the office of Lex, the scholar continues in his incessant search of work to the price that is. After an insane reflection, the scholar discovers that he has not a curriculum the sufficiently wide thing in order that they look at it, not at least to the […]
Already you have here the awaited Spin-off of the scholar. Equal it gives me for two or three emblems, who knows, it is so difficult to find work in this galaxy as in any different, for what you do not reject that it returns crawling to Lex’s office. Lexcursó perpetrated these comical strips for the whiteness of 2011, how they […]
It was observing that if Scholar changes the B for a simple Pr of the word, it happens to be said Precariously. Thing not beyond of the reality and I suppose that Scholar must be a derivation of the word Precariously, since almost it means the same thing. “YESSS, I ended the career, already I am an architect!” “No scholar […]
Known for her large-scale works that combine geometric drawings, numerical series, images and writings, Hanne Darboven (Munich, 1941 – Hamburg, 2009) is often associated with conceptual art, a correlation that should be nuanced further given the unmistakeably subjective nature of the process of realisation and expression of her works, which are often peppered with autobiographical references and mentions of the […]
The portuguese teacher, prize Pritzker 1992, teaches us today an important part of his varied work. Churches, stations, museums, restaurants swimming pools, any space serves to Siza’s talent. “Praise of the light” is a documentary series that does a portrait of contemporary, understood architecture not only as artistic activity, but also pragmatic and utiliario.
“Trendy timber… undoubtedly one of the most elegant modern building materials” – Vogue, Paris Philip Jodidio and the publishing house Taschen, there edits the volume number 2 of the series Wood Architecture Now!. This number puts of manifest that the wood acquires a major protagonism as predominant material in the contemporary architecture. In this volume they find from small architectures […]
In the last decade, the architecture in Spain happens for a stage of creative brilliance. This documentary series does a portrait of the Spanish contemporary, understood architecture not only as artistic activity, but also pragmatic and utilitarian.
“A casa do Oscar” is the first one of a series of 5 notebooks in that the publishing house Fabulatorio wants to explore, across the photography, the couples of relations space – life and culture – civilization. It is, in addition, a visual honoring to the architect Oscar Niemeyer, reference long-lived and emphasized from the project utopista and transformer of […]
(2 points) is a publication dedicated to the analysis of relevant projects of the contemporary architecture from the point of view of his construction. An attentive study to the materialization of every design, for which different scales of a project are reproduced, penetrating into less evident aspects of the current architecture. Ibere Camargo begins this series of publications with the […]
“Os Oficios da Cultura” that was issued in La2. In they bring over, or try it, to the figure of the architect and to the development of the work that realizes the profession. O novo arquitecto Miguel L é o responsable de levarnos á ETSA de Madrid, ao COAM, aos estudos de IgnacioVicens e de Alberto Campo-Baeza e ao Museo da […]