Tag: Architecture
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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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To Whom It May Concern
Who do architects design buildings for? Following the “Prémio Valmor” awarded for the modernization of the Rainha Dona Leonor Highschool, located in Lisbon and designed by Atelier dos Remédios, a short film was shot. It is an exercise in understanding how important is human presence inside built spaces and how it affects the perceptivity of those spaces. Rainha…
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Interview with Tatiana Bilbao
Orozco House-Observatory (Oaxaca, Mexico, 2008) © Tatiana Bilbao S.C. You’ve said that your work is the result of the context that surrounds you. My work is the result of the situation that surrounds me and the project, but not specifically the urban situation, or the urban situation in Mexico City. I work with the conditions we…
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Interview with Carlos Huber
Carlos Huber is for sure the most interesting new player in the industry of perfumery. As an architect his creations are based in historical and local events. He’s earned a Master’s degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University and worked for Ralph Lauren in some commercial projects. He founded his own company in New York:…
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London Calling
Jornal dos Arquitectos Portuguese version here The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the world.1 Samuel Johnson In…
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