AVENIDA ALMIRANTE REIS: URBAN DIAGNOSTICS
Cities are spaces of change and social and space innovation. In the past decades, as a result of internal and external social and economic dynamics, the city of Lisbon…
The lost history of the City of the Captive Globe Project
“In 1972, while still a student, Rem Koolhaas moved to New York with artist and wife Madelon Vriesendorp. At the same time, Madelon Vriesendorp was producing what would be her New York Series, a collection of paintings illustrating her impressions of the city”
Entre Líneas y Palabras . Poética Arquitectónica en la obra de Sverre Fehn
“El carácter crítico de Sverre Fehn, lo ha llevado a desarrollar, paralelamente a su obra arquitectónica, una serie de reflexiones teóricas mediante manuscritos, que pretenden posicionar su pensamiento y dar a su arquitectura un grado de inteligibilidad.”
‟Diffidate da tutto quello che leggete qui” Countryside. The Future.
“Attraverso una serie di storie, casi studio e dati, Koolhaas cerca di sensibilizzare il pubblico su temi importanti per il futuro del pianeta come l’eccessiva urbanizzazione e il riscaldamento globale, mostrando la campagna come unica alternativa.”
CRISTIANE MUNIZ E FERNANDO VIÉGAS
“Just as we had the commitment to older generations, we also knew that we had to pass the torch to the younger ones: school as continuity”
Housing. From the highest number for all
“A product of its time and of the post-war housing problem, Pantera Cor-de-Rosa lies between the problem of the “Greatest Number” and “housing for all”
The Eyes of the Skin: architecture and the senses.
“the author emphasizes the importance of the sensory dimension, and believes the human senses are essential elements to perception and to fully understand spaces.”
What is Worth Knowing
“Now, as far as teaching of architecture is concerned, I think that first we must break free from that annoying feeling of guilt.”
Portugal: 20th Century Architecture
“it can be said that the bulk of qualified production has shown a demand for constructive realism, a practical meaning in the resolution of programs or in the concrete viability of singular or genuine projects within the European framework.”
To Choose
“Among what there is, what exists, what has been done, said, experienced; among what is exhibited, shown, seen, among the forms, the families of forms, the derivatives of forms, the architect chooses, selects, elects.”