El Croquis issue #146
I met Eduardo Souto de Moura in 1987 when I was a Projects student of his at the Porto School. Our brief, not always easy teacher/student relationship gave me the chance to discover his imaginarium, brimming with a multitude of authors and works that Eduardo loved to mention and bring into the class debates. Even back then, his imaginarium was more conceptual than ideological, which in my opinion distinguished him from many of his colleagues who had been marked by the political involvement of the Porto School in the revolutionary events of 25 April 1974 (the ‘Carnation Revolution’). (more…)
Domus magazine issue #930
As often happens to container-concepts in this period of communication, the term sustainability is another that embraces a broad and vague semantic arc, dissolved into myriad streams affecting as many aspects of our sociosphere.
The most obvious thing to be noted is that sustainability is evoked as a key issue in all discussions about climate change and transformations – in a pejorative sense – within the eco-environmental system. In these cases, the concept is used to express the norms and technical devices adopted by governments and institutions to attenuate our ecological footprint on the planet. (more…)
CONDITIONS magazine issue #2
The second issue of CONDITIONS is devoted to the topic of “Copy and Interpretation”. We wanted to explore the border between the copy and the interpretation in contemporary architecture, by comparing the attitudes in architecture to other disciplines. On the one hand, a particular deep-rooted aversion and taboo exists towards the concept of copying among today’s architects; at the same time the speed of modern media and design makes the copy or interpretation an ever more tempting alternative to the time consuming original design. Why do architects get offended when someone indicates that they are making a copy? Why is it not accepted to copy?
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Frame magazine issue #71
In this issue we focus on space: with stands by Established & Sons, Studio Toogood and Tobias Rehberger and schools by Klumpp + Klumpp, SHH and Snelder and i29. Furthermore: a portraits on Ryoji Ideda and Commonwealth, Jörg Boners Wogg 42 chair and a talk with Paul Cocksedge.
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