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 Stiva da Mors - Vrin Communitry Mourning Place. Work published in El Croquis 210/211 Gion A. Caminada 1995 2021. Ph.: Jesús Granada. ConceptsInterview with Gion A. Caminada by Robert M. Veneri (in colaboration with Gabriella Taylor and Annika Hofschen) Text published in El Croquis 210/211 Gion A. Caminada 1995 2021The difficulty of transcribing the 'meaning' of something into another language is described and illustrated poetically in Sofia Coppola’s film Lost in Translation. At the same time, however, this difficulty is an opportunity, a curious, fantastic challenge even, for the generation of a narrative. The prospect of delving into the true meaning of such a...

Hybrid SystemsA Conversation with Roger Boltshauser by Jonathan Sergison   JS: I don’t really want to structure this interview chronologically. I would rather discuss themes that I feel are pertinent to your work. Nevertheless, it would be interesting to hear about your background. How did you arrive at the door of architecture school?RB: In fact, it was not always clear to me that I wanted to be an architect. I started painting at the age of fourteen, and for a long time I wanted to become an artist. When I was 21 years old, I decided to study architecture, which...

  Marienbad, Proposal for the Hellenikon Metropolitan Park. Athens, Greece. 2003 (Dogma with Elia Zenghelis) Paint a Vulgar Picture On the Relationship between Images and Projects in Our Work by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara Text published in El Croquis 208 Dogma 2002 2021 Since ancient times, the production of architecture in the form of buildings has required a project. A project is a set of instructions that includes texts, drawings, and scale models. This body of work can be defined as the representation of architecture. Drawing architecture before building became especially necessary with the rise of monumental architecture, which required the...

The second edition of the RCR Summer e-Workshop is now open for inscriptions. These workshops are focused on understanding architecture and landscape from a transdisciplinary and investigative perspective and where other creative disciplines such as photography or audiovisual communication are also included.This year's RCR Summer e-Workshop will take place from July 5 to 23 and has been conceived to be a space dedicated to investigating vital issues in architecture, essential for creating experiential spaces, alongside disseminating the project methodology of RCR Arquitectes. RCR Summer Workshop is born of a way of understanding architecture and landscape from a humanistic spirit. The...

A Conversation with Gustavo Utrabo Amin Taha COMPLETE PDF TEXT HERE Amin Taha: Gustavo, we first met in 2018 when I visited your Children’s Village in Canuanã as a member of the RIBA jury, which awarded you the international prize that year. That was my first visit to Brazil, and perhaps inevitably, I wanted to understand your country’s architectural and broader culture, in particular, your work in that context. I was helped by my conversations with you and your friends. I remember that during one of them, I was fascinated to learn that the wife of one of your friends...