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Quick video friday, Bjarke Ingels at TED talks. You can download an iPhone/iPod friendly version here.

Atelier Bow-Wow / Atelier House from 0300TV on Vimeo.

Some time ago, we asked you through our Facebook Fan Page for pictures of your architecture offices. In case you missed it, you can see the complete list here. Today, we can show you a video made by 0300 of Atelier Bow-Wow office. You can see how an architecture office works and catch a glimpse of the environment around it. Seen at 0300tv.com.

Another building-related fail. We should make this a series.

For MAYA design, authors of this video, that is architecture.

And for you?

Second part of the interview with japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, by 0300. Part 1 was featured yesterday.

Sou Fujimoto is a Japan architect that has been pushing what we traditionally call a house, but way beyond that just formal aspects. New typologies are explored, introducing new ideas on “living”.

For example: the layered living on House N, the empty/void relations in the Final Wooden House (result of Kumamoto Artopolis 2005), the blending of exterior/interior on his ORDOS 100 vila, or the circulations on the House Before House for the Tokyo Gas Project. This is also seen on his book Primitive Architecture.

Our friends from 0300 had the chance to sit down and talk with Sou Fujimoto, resulting on a 2 part video interview reproduced here.

I recommend checking this one out, as Sou has very interesting points of view on architecture.

Our green friends from Inhabitat had the chance to visit the recently opened High Line project in New York, and interviewed the lead design architect James Corner from Field Operations and Ricardo Scofidio from DS+R at the new elevated park.

This project is a remarkable example of infrastructure renovation, and in my opinion will be a case study for future urbanists and architects, not only in terms of design but also on how the community got involved in the process.

Also, props to Jill for making this video.

Architecture film makers 0300 just released their latest video: Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects, Context & Work System. They interview Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen at their office in Concepcion, Chile, and visit four of their houses: Poli House, Parr House, Wolf House and Fosc House.

Vice Magazine went to Brazil to interview the legendary architecture master Oscar Niemeyer. A pioneer in reinforced concrete, played a crucial role in the modern movement, not only because of formal or material explorations, but also for designing the new capital for Brazil: Brasilia. The whole city was built in only 4 years, and was a sandbox to put in practice the ideals of the modern movement.

Oscar Niemeyer is now 101 years old, and he keeps working every day at his office in Rio de Janeiro, with on going projects in Brazil and Spain. I think that his secret is how passionate he is about architecture and women, and he has devoted his life to both.

mountains/waves/women = curves

It is not the right angle that attracts me. nor the straight line, tough, inflexible, created by man. what attracts me is the free, sensual curve. the curve I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the waves of the sea, in the clouds of the sky, in the body of the favourite woman. Of curves is made all the universe.

You can read a short version of the intervier at Vice Magazine.

An educational view on Architecture, 80s style (thanks Emilio!).

A narrative slideshow that depicts a day in the life of a Berkeley architecture student (played by Chris Torres). Photography and editing by Peter Hess. Music by Nine Inch Nails.

Thanks Brian for sharing this with us!!!

As one of the runners for the design and curatorial aspects of a pavilion during the past Venice Biennale, I was very intrigued on how each country will address the theme proposed by Betsky, as “Architecture Beyond Building” is such a powerful call, specially in times when architecture is being able to address problems beyond its traditional scope, after being apart for quite some time.

But sadly, most of the exhibitions were the total opposite. After seeing the pavilions, but most important, what was being exhibited at the pavilions, I think that the answers went on the opposite direction. On the -pessimistic- words of Amanda Baillieu “The Venice Biennale has become reflection of the state architecture is in”… a biennale by architects and for architects, with 0 relation to our society.

But among this panorama, there were a few exhibitions that were up to “architecture beyond building”. One of them was Into the Open: Positioning Practice, the US exhibition curated by William Menking, Aaron Levy, and Andrew Sturm. They selected 16 practices which are working very close to communities, creating new work in response to contemporary social conditions, expanding the conception of architectural practice. People who are answering the question we always ask on our interviews (“What is -or should be- the role of the architect in contemporary society?”) from a unique perspective.

And after this, the curators successfully raise the question: need the end product be a building? More importantly, they ask: need the end be a product?

This questions try to be answered on a video produced by SMAC, highlighting the work of Teddy Cruz, Laura Kurgen, and Rural Studio:

Cruz’s project, Radicalizing the Local: 60 Linear Miles of Transborder Urban Conflict maps the collision between wealth and poverty, the formal and informal city and many other disparities apparent along the 60 miles north and south of the Mexican border at Tijuana and San Diego. Kurgan organizes city data on poverty, infrastructure, criminal activity and prison displacement to ask: what if more resources were spent on investment in housing and infrastructure rather than sending people to prison? Rural Studio’s Animal Shelter is a project carried out by students earning their degrees by assisting the structural development of Hale County, Alabama.

Currently, the New School for Design is hosting the exhibition Into the Open: Positioning Practice until May 1st. You can see more info about that on our previous feature.

Clearly, women represent a smaller percentage in architecture firms when compared to men. I think that there are lots of factors for that. But the answer given on this video by Robert Stern, Yale architecture dean, is very particular.

What do you think?

Seen at Javierest.

Sometimes photos aren´t enough to describe a project. Wallpaper* featured a cool video showing how the Sliding House works. By british architects dRMM:

World Expositions have been an architectural playground since they started to appear: London World Exposition of 1851 (Crystal Palace), Paris World Exposition of 1889 (Eiffel Tower), and more recently, Hannover 2000 and Zaragoza 2008.

But also at the Brussels World Exposition in 1958, where Le Corbusier created the very first multimedia project, in collaboration with Edgar Varèse and Iannis Xenakis: The Phillips Pavillion. This unique experience only lasted through the Exposition, being demolished after it, but The Virtual Electronic Poem (VEP) project, co-funded by the European Union through the Culture 2000 programme, realized a virtual reality (VR) environment capable of reproducing the global experience of the Poème électronique through a philologically accurate reconstruction of the original installation and a technologically innovative VR implementation, that you can see on the above video.

The Mandarin Hotel, adjacent to the CCTV building and part of the project, just got on fire today. The project, designed by OMA with facade studies by FRONT, looks to be completly affected as you can see on the above video. This supossedly started after fireworks during the last day of Chinese new year.

Mandarin Hotel on the left, CCTV at the right. Photo by Iwan Baan.

The hotel was used during the Olympics, but wasn´t officially opened yet, but was supossed to during 2009. This will definetely push dates back, as it seems like a complete loss to me.

Photos of the fire by Reuters here (very impressive, but can´t put them here because of copyright). More videos after the break.

UPDATE 5: Added 4 more videos

UPDATE 4: Statement from the Mandarin Hotel Group after the break

UPDATE 3: I replaced the first video with actual footage of the hotel starting to burn after the fireworks

UPDATE 2: Wonitata and other chinese blogs  have impressive photos of the fire. See some more after the break.

UPDATE 1: Beijing police says the building could collapse

UPDATE: We just got the following statement from OMA:

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Studio Banana TV is an internet-based creativity-focused tv platform. It contains an edited selection of high profile videos from different disciplines (from advertising and fashion to visual arts) as well as SBTV’s own productions: interviews, documentaries and reportages of art, design, fashion, music, culture and general creativity.

They also cover architecture, interviewing with some of the most innovating young architects from Spain, with a great edition (wish I could edit our interviews like that), subbed in english and available in HD.

Here you can see an interview with Victoria Acebo, partner at Acebo X Alonso, discussing his academic approach with students and the story behind their building for the Arts Center in La Coruña, which changed its destiny to National Science & Technology Museum, a change possible thanks to the flexibility of the original building.

(Thanks Ramiro @ SB.TV!)

Did you know that Barack Obama wanted to be an architect? Thank god he didn´t, otherwise he wouldn´t be assuming as the US President tomorrow.

(seen on AMNP)

Alejandro Aravena is a chilean architect, recently awarded with the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale (Promising Young Architect) and selected as a one of the 20 most promising young architects by Icon Magazine, magazine which also features him on the cover of the january issue.

Alejandro has a very strong line of buildings, on which finding solutions is the key: the Siamese Towers (Chile),  Pirihueico House (Chile), the Mathematics School at UC (Chile) and ongoing projects such as ORDOS 100 (Inner Mongolia, China), the new facilities of St. Edward’s University in (Austin, TX, USA) and a new building for the Vitra Campus (Germany).

But what has made him achieve all this awards is something else. He is the Executive Director of Elemental Chile, a do-tank that “contributes to improve the quality of life in Chilean cities, providing state of the art architecture and engineering, understanding the city as an unlimited resource to build social equity”. This do-tank has made a huge impact in public policies, improving the quality of social housing not only in several cities in Chile, but also in Mexico.

We had the chance to interview him at his office in Elemental, on a very interesting conversation sharing his thoughts on architecture, the city, public policy and more.

Interesting interview with David Chipperfield by Martha Thorne (Associate Dean for External Relations of IE School of Architecture and Executive Director of the Pritzker Prize). He shares his thoughts on new concepts in architecture.

Seen at IE Media Campus.