Post-war architecture shouldn’t take the blame for political failures, says Owen Hopkins

August 31, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

With the demolition of Robin Hood Gardens now underway and the tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire still fresh, writer and curator Owen Hopkins has called for politicians to stop using Britain’s post-war architecture as a scapegoat for today’s problems. Hopkins is senior curator at Sir John Soane’s Museum, and is also the author of Lost Futures: The Disappearing Architecture of

The post Post-war architecture shouldn’t take the blame for political failures, says Owen Hopkins appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

How an Artist Constructed a Wooden Replica of Mies’ Farnsworth House

August 31, 2017 Pola Mora 0

In December 2010, Manuel Peralta Lorca completed the work “Welcome Less Is More,” a wooden reconstruction of Mies van der Rohe‘s Farnsworth House that was installed inside the Patricia Ready Gallery in Santiago, Chile. This September, a new version of this work will be mounted in the hall of Santiago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, under the name “Home Less is More.”

In the following story, the artist tells us about the process of reinterpreting this icon of modern architecture in wood and how a team of carpenters—who agreed to immerse themselves in the philosophy of Mies—was fundamental to completing the challenge.

No Image

Wuyishan Bamboo Raft Factory / TAO – Trace Architecture Office

August 31, 2017 Joanna Wong 0

Located atop a plateau in the rural Xingcun village, the building complex is a manufacturing and storage facility of bamboo rafts, used to sail the nearby Nine Bend River in Wuyi Mountain for tourism. Each winter 22,000 bamboo stems are harvested which, following a storage period, are used to manufacture 1,800 bamboo rafts annually.

No Image

House in Chau Doc / NISHIZAWAARCHITECTS

August 31, 2017 Diego Hernández 0

Located in a suburb of ChauDoc town in AnGiang province, Southern Vietnam, this house is a sharing residence of 3 nuclear families who are kin. Although this project budget was tightened with local standards, which only allowed us to build a house with thin corrugated metal panels, we have tried to satisfy not only the regional spirits but also the rich lifestyle in which is fulfilled by sunlight, greenery and natural ventilation, as it were, living in a half-outdoor gardens.