Author: hugospeepbox
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Das Bazucas e dos Elefantes
É crucial que a bazuca europeia não passe de uma pistolinha de pintura para disfarce de elefantes. Mais que tudo, terá de se tornar numa alavanca.
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Interview with Carola Merello
Where and when was this photograph shot? This photograph was shot at Siemens Pilot Paradigm Shift, in Bicocca area, Milan, Italy, in 2012. What were the conditions on site? The pictures were shot in Autumn, taking advantage of a soft and diffused light which muffled the contrast that is typical of this kind of spaces…
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Interview with Asier Gogortza
Where and when was this photograph taken? This was shot from the “Free Square” also known as the “pediment” at the Gehasto neighborhood, in a town called Itsasu (Lapurdi, Basque Country), in a January afternoon, in 2013. What were the conditions on site? It was a very cloudy day, but there was a lot of…
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Interview with Anna Positano
Where did you take this photograph? I took this photograph in London, within the Olympic site. This is the Copper Box by MAKE Architects and Populous. In front of it is Monica Bonvicini’s sculpture RUN. When was it shot? It was in early May 2012, before the Olympic games. What were the conditions on site?…
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Interview with Leonardo Finotti
Where was this photograph shot? In Icaraí-Grajaú, in the outskirts of the southern area of São Paulo, in Brazil. When? On November 3, 2011, at 10.28am. Is there any technical aspect of the photograph that you want to mention? The fact that the shooting was done in a helicopter brought some technical issues to light.…
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Eva
“So I think it is a reptile, though it may be architecture.” Mark Twain – “The Diaries of Adam and Eve” I’ve been meaning to write about that day for the past two years. The car stopped and I recognized her from afar. “I’ll be back at 3pm, ja?”, said the driver with such a…
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Gestation: “Royal Collections Museum” by Mansilla+Tuñón
Do you recall the first building that made you realize – in a very particular way – that it wasn’t just about the “project in the abstract, in drawings, but something more physical and tangible”? Emilio Tuñón: I recall that in the Zamora Museum, our first building. When we built the roofs of the museum…
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Gestation: “View House” by Johnston Marklee
Do you recall the first building that made you realized – in a very particular way – that architecture wasn’t just about ‘the project in abstract, in drawings, but something physical and tangible’ as Jonathan Sergison once said? The Hill House was perhaps our first project during which we were confronted with the concept of…
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Interview with Alastair Philip Wiper
Where and when did you take this photograph? This photograph was shot in a storage warehouse a CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, on May 15. 2013, at 10:36. How was the atmosphere there? Quiet, a bit dusty, mostly overcast as there was a big warehouse door open to the left of the picture and it was a…
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How many Barcelona Pavilions fit into Camp Nou?
I “You always want a perfect game” Lisbon, November 26th, 2008. The first few minutes of the Champions League game between Sporting CP and FC Barcelona. From the dugout, Pep Guardiola did not like what he saw. Thierry Henry – one of the quickest forwards in football history – had decided not to follow the…
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Interview with Simon Kennedy
Where and when was this photograph taken? At the Heygate Estate (Elephant and Castle, London, England), in November 2011. Had you been there before? I visited this site on numerous occasions, also I used to live nearby and have been aware of it for many years. How did this opportunity come up? I went there…
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Interview with Amanda Large & Younes Bounhar
What is this image about and where was this it taken? This photo depicts one of the Absolute Towers by Beijing’s MAD Architects and was taken in Mississauga, ON, just west of the city of Toronto, in Canada. When was it taken? It was taken on June 3, 2013 at 12:54pm. The time is a…
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Whitman, Koolhaas and Siza – The Beauty in Contradiction
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes”* It’s 4:04PM and I just got inside a library designed by architect Álvaro Siza Vieira. It’s my first time in this city, just one hour away from Porto (Portugal). “You should try the berliners at Natário‘s; there’s a hot…
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Um Muro Que Aproxima
Marco 5 estrelas enquanto saio do carro e logo sinto a maresia. Uma fila de roupas e conversas de Verão à espera de bilhete para entrar, preenche uma rampa de acesso que eu sempre vira vazia. É uma espécie de “trincheira inclinada” que separa estrada e mar. Entre patamares de betão e rochedo rasteiro encontro…
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Presentation for “Projecto Relâmpago” at IST
Here is the link for the presentation given last evening at Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon. The title of the presentation was “Contemporary Residential Transience: Specificities in its Domestic and Urban Appropriation. How can 1 quote and 3 films effect design decisions”. Presentation_20160216_IST (with notes) For the full paper and project (Portuguese) behind this presentation…
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Conversa com Carlos Mourão Pereira sobre o espaço e perceção de um arquiteto cego
A primeira vez que o ouvi e vi, eu era aluno de arquitetura e estava na plateia de uma conferência que decorreu no IST. Ficou-me sempre na memória a sua intervenção. Lembro-me que mencionou como eram experiências completamente distintas a visita a diferentes edifícios emblemáticos da arquitetura contemporânea. Seria interessante iniciar esta conversa recuperando aquilo…
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Interview with Hélène Binet
There’s one picture of the ceiling of the Kolumba Museum by Peter Zumthor which is quite abstract – I don’t know if you know that image – where you look up in the excavation parts, the one with the brick walls where there is light on the ceiling. The one where you can see the…
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Space Democratization: from the Oval Office to your garage
Last Friday (June, 19) comedian Marc Maron interviewed President Barack Obama. “I will be talking with the President of the United States, in my garage! It’s crazy! It’s crazy…” said Maron, just a few seconds before the President arrived. This event was something that Maron questioned if it was really going to happen. After understanding that in fact…
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