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I arrived in Damascus on a cool spring night in 2009 via Air France, one of the few regular carriers into the city and a reminder of that country’s historical relationship with the Islamic edges of the Mediterranean. Unaware of the topography of the city in darkness I stared in awe at the myriad dots of lights in the northern sky
The recently completed Easter Sculpture Museum by Exit Architects and the Museum of Art & Archaeology of the Coa Valley (MAACV) by Camilo Rebelo + Tiago Pimentel, located in Spain and Portugal respectively, share a quality that one might describe as `a subterranean aesthetic’.
Glenn Murcutt and the Wisdom of the Elders – Grounded Aesthetic article by Lindsay Johnston – Australian architecture: Richard Leplastrier, Peter Stutchbury: , New South Wales buildings
Ambiguity, Vulnerability and Risk in a Home: Vertigo as Subtext – article for e-architect by Douglas Klahr – if Alfred Hitchcock were alive and filming “Vertigo” today, Ryuji Fujimura’s Storage House would play a role in the film
In Jönköping in Sweden the competition winning Spira Concert hall by Wingårdh Arkitektkontor AB was completed at the end of 2011. An elegant sinuous glass wall juts out into the Vattern Lake
When this week’s material appeared in my ‘inbox’, the buildings, ‘a mixed bag of projects’ as Isabelle put it surprised and delighted me. Some I knew very well – indeed had visited previously and indeed in previous iterations others I had less knowledge of.
This would be the appropriate answer in the joke about the insecure bridegroom’s last-minute question at the altar, addressed to one of the attending guests: would you marry her?
However, I have picked upon one evident theme – engineering and the expressive diagonal line. Sontag’s great book ‘On Photography’ was seminal in my caution in interpreting and critiquing architecture from images alone
Article 25 International Development Architecture. The challenge of working in international development often requires us to unpack the real needs of a community and design our interventions to their need.
One of the narrative threads of Modernist architecture since its seminal stages has been a preoccupation with the plane—witness Rietveld’s Schröder House of 1924, preceded by his 1917 chair.
Ethics & Architecture built environment discussion by Trevor Tucker: Let’s say we’re in tough economic times. Let’s pretend that once prosperous countries are going bankrupt. Rumours of war in the Middle East.
Decadent postmodernism has never been fashionable in the homogenised country with the highest wealth per adult in the world. The architecture there has never had to aspire to social change. It did not have to dream about a better future
Skyscraper Building Design, ‘Celebrity and the City’ – article for e-architect by Nigel Henbury, 24 Jan 2012 – Skyscraper Design, Tall Buildings around the World
In a year characterized by extraordinary chaos and sweeping devastation across landscapes, economies and families alike perhaps it seems surprising to suggest that 2011 was the year of architectural exhibitions.
Global Architectural Environment article for e-architect by Manuel A. Marichal: Over time there have been many predictions about how the world would shape and how the environment and civilization crossover and coexist.
City Analysis, Architectural Discussion – article by Karolina Szynalska on 6 Dec 2011 – models of understanding, architectural analysis, city design
Views of an Interiorist, article by Frazer Hay, 1 Nov 2011 ‘Architectural Inheritance’ reviews Drents Museum, Assen: Netherlands architecture discussion.