Editorial: The responsibilities of the architect
Outskirts and outskirts
The author invites us to grasp the complex but well-known problems of cities today without ideological conceit, offering as examples from the recent past Lina Bo Bardi and John Hejduk, who worked in the urban realm using only the tools of their trade.From Interiors to Interiors, Buildings, Cities, and back again
After many years of teaching and a long stint as a professor at the prestigious TU Delft, the British architect airs his views of this Dutch university, placing the accent on the dangerous tangle of red tape that stifles this and many other architecture schools due to a chronic lack of funds.University of Waterloo School of Architecture at Cambridge, Ontario
After many years of teaching and a long stint as a professor at the prestigious TU Delft, the British architect airs his views of this Dutch university, placing the accent on the dangerous tangle of red tape that stifles this and many other architecture schools due to a chronic lack of funds.The benefits and downsides of theory for architects
The impassioned reading of a small, masterly drawingby Friedrich Gilly gives the German historian the impetus to reflect upon the relationship between theory and practice in the architect’s trade.
Home-for-All, Kesennuma, Japan
Under the Rolex “Mentors & Protégés” initiative, the young Chinese architect Yang Zhao became a pupil of Kazuyo Sejima’s last year, during which he designed and built a community space for a fishing village to replace the one that was swept off the island of Miyatojima by the 2011 tsunami.Gianni Mazzocchi Award 2014
Asked to conceive the 2014 trophy that accompanies the Award every year, the young Milanese designer gave it the possibility of being a useful object by expertly wielding shape, material, machine manufacturing and manual skill.Soft Danish excellence
The profound experience in creating textile surfaces for interior design becomes an opportunity for contamination between the arts. Kvadrat’s CEO describes the direction undertaken in recent years, steered by the design research and experimentation of leading architects and designers.Naked structure
A new terminal for ferries servicing the fjords aroundForvik, Norway was an opportunity to build
a small pavilion with an exposed structure made
of crude materials, expressing the design sensitivity
of the Norwegian office Manthey Kula.
Measurements
In good interior design, the measurements thatdetermine the space are never based on a codified
scheme. Instead, they are configured solely according
to the relationship between the single elements, and
fine-tuned by the architect’s sensibility.
Floating in the air
Architecture does not mean inventing, buttransforming, organising the mutations of what is
already there. These words, written by the French
maestro in his famous Louisiana Manifesto
several years ago, anticipated a trend that has
once again become very topical.
Aleksandr Sokurov’s atmospheric distortions
The Russian film director’s virtuosity constitutes animportant reference for architecture. The landscapes,
volumes, bodies and faces featured in his movies create new types of spatiality and unexpected ambiences, both indoors and out.
The new Beirut souks
In the Central District of the Lebanese capital, whose built fabric was heavily damaged by the civil war between 1975 and 1990, the Spanish master architect has redesigned the souks on the remains of the old market. The yawning fracture in the urban make-up has been stitched back togetherto reconstitute part of the city.
A hotel on ruins
In the upper city of Bergamo, the extension of ahotel located on an archaeological site called for
outstanding architectural sensitivity to establish
a contemporary relationship between the city’s
ancient and recent history.
Fire Island House, New York
Overlooking the ocean and the surrounding landscape, on a small island south of Long Island, the home built by the American master establishes a direct link between the interior and the naturalenvironment. The design exploits ample glazed surfaces, double-height spaces and the play of light and shadow through terraces and skylights.
A residence and an atelier
In Landecy, in the Geneva countryside, two fine interiors convey the possible dialogue between periods, materials and construction techniques, retaining the place’s atmosphere and character.The work of an unknown hero
Understanding the nature of a product and developing it in relation to its context was the constant “obsessive” challenge taken on by the British designer in all his work. One year after his death, we review his way of working with a selectionof better and lesser-known products, plus others that are being continued by his design office.