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My City?
In the beginning of September, we received a visit from a friend who is from London, he brought with him a program for the upcoming “Open House London”, I went through the program and became really surprised by its contents. The organization Open House is an independent organization which once a year manages to open [...]
times (not the magazine), economy, architects
Architects are very well know for putting bits and pieces of other’s people work together in order to form some kind of quasi-comprehensive and elaborated theory. At least most of them. Some others however do preoccupy themselves with constructing really valuable pieces of truly scientific research which aims to point of a direction to the [...]
The SHAPE of an image
This is the situation that we are facing every day, images selling products that try to make your life better, the idea of comfort and luxury surrounding every environment that you step in. This is the concept of a new life, a so called modern life style where luxury is all around you, but who [...]
A THOUSAND UNEMPLOYED ARCHITECTS
The figure is imaginative since there are no statistical facts to support it. But there’s a crucial conjecture based on the metaphor of this phrase – its ability to transcend architecture. Worldwide construction industry is suffering due to reduced capital flow. In spite of the Olympics, the largest show (on earth!) scheduled within the next [...]
“Dictatorships – the golden times for architecture”
It’s a title of an interview with Jacques Herzog by Ulrike Knofel and Susanne Beyer. The interview was originally published by Der Spiegel, but I have read it in Forum - a digest of the foreign press articles in polish. Questions asked to Jacques Herzog insist on something that most of architects who practised [...]
reflections about contemporary architecture
During the XXIII UIA World Congress of Architecture held in Torino in July 2008, the debate on the future of world Architecture in the 21st century revolved around issues related to depleted natural resources, population growth, digital advancements and environmental crisis within an increasingly complex and global contemporary culture.
The relationship object-subject-environment it is and has [...]
a vision of architectural research
We have reached the stage in contemporary architectural practice where the most common form of research and innovation lies in creating ‘shock’ architecture. Much time and effort is allocated for the research of new computational methods in creating the new ‘look’ of fluid forms, but how much of this actually constitutes proper practice based architectural [...]
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