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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...

Days of Oris is an international architectural Festival organized by Oris House of Architecture from Croatia and in December 2020 we organized our first online Festival.Festival 20×20 Days of Oris 20 gathered 20+1 speakers from all over the world and the program was watched in more than 30 countries.This year’s first Oris Festival – To Spring with Oris – will be held on March 18 and 19, 2021 and will bring together 12 renowned architects and successful business women and 2 moderators.The online Festival To Spring with Oris is organized as 12 lectures, each 20 minutes long, with live stream...