IE Master in Architectural Design presents the Online Master Classes series: Stan Allen
Traditional histories of Urbanism have seen the city as something separate from nature, organized according to its own rules and conventions. Given the current emphasis on environment and sustainability, and recent experiments in the sustainable urbanism, it makes sense to revisit the history of the city from a new perspective. This seminar will look briefly at the history of the city from the 19th century to the present through the lens of landscape and nature. Beginning with Haussmann and Cerda, we will look at Fredrick Law Olmsted and the City Beautiful Movement, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City proposal and post-war suburban development in the US, ending with the emergence of Landscape Urbanism in the late 1990’s.
Date: June 19, 2013. 17:00 Madrid time.
Title: “Architecture, Cities and Nature”
Speaker: Stan Allen, SAA Prinicipal. Academic Advisor at IE Master in Architectural Design.
Tigh Port na Long / Dualchas Architects
Architects: Dualchas Architects
Location: Isle of Skye, Scotland
Main Contractor: Neil MacKay & Co.
Area: 200 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Andre Lee, Courtesy of Dualchas Architects
2013 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion / Sou Fujimoto, Photos by Danica Kus
Featured here are photos of Sou Fujimoto‘s 2013 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion taken by Danica Kus. Capturing the semi-transparent, multi-purpose social space situated in London, this delicate, three-dimensional structure is enjoyed by its visitors, creating an inviting social setting.
Fujimoto, the youngest architect to accept the Serpentine Gallery’s invitation at 41, describes his work as, “…a transparent terrain that encourages people to interact with and explore the site in diverse ways. Within the pastoral context of Kensington Gardens, I envisage the vivid greenery of the surrounding plant life woven together with a constructed geometry. A new form of environment will be created, where the natural and the man-made merge; not solely architectural nor solely natural, but a unique meeting of the two.” More images by Danica Kus after the break.
Single-family Dwelling / José Soto García
Architects: José Soto García
Location: Jerez, Spain
Architect In Charge: José Soto García
Design Team: Marco Antonio Rodríguez Calvo
Constructor: Juan Ignacio Giráldez Molinillo, Edificación Y Proyectos Guerrero Sánchez S.L
Area: 21,673 sqm
Photographs: Imagina2
360 Public Housing Winning Proposal / BAT (Bilbao Architecture Team) + HUT! (Hut Arkitektura)
The 360 Public Housing winning proposal by BAT (Bilbao Architecture Team) + HUT! (Hut Arkitektura) aims to provide a coherent model with its environment; an example of social and architectural sustainability and a world reference in intelligent economic management. Providing physical, energetic and economic self-sufficiency (construction materials, biomass production and imports savings respectively), this project will finally release the island of Saint Helena of the dependency to which it is subjected and will offer a change of mind for the future. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Nembro Library / Archea
Arc En Ciel / Agence Bernard Bühler
Architects: Agence Bernard Bühler
Location: Bordeaux, France
Area: 3,658 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Vincent Monthiers, Courtesy of Agence Bernard Bühler
‘Shanshui City’ Book Launch and Exhibition / Ma Yansong of MAD Architects
[ June 7, 2013 0:00 to June 11, 2013 0:00. ] Displayed earlier this month in a Qing Dynasty courtyard garden at Wu Hao in Beijing, Ma Yansong…‘s ‘Shanshui City exhibition featured more than twenty architectural models and works of art that are scattered around the ancient courtyard. Among rocks,
Gennevilliers Training Center / Atelier d’Architecture Brenac-Gonzalez
Architects: Atelier d’Architecture Brenac-Gonzalez
Location: Gennevilliers, France
Project Manager: Mathieu Garcia
Area: 7,820 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Sergio Grazia
Basic And Secondary School Of Sever Do Vouga / Pedro Domingos Arquitectos
Architects: Pedro Domingos Arquitectos
Location: Vouga, Portugal
Architect In Charge: Pedro Domingos
Design Team: Pedro Gonçalves, Luís Rosário, Luís Pedro Rodrigues, Hugo Amaro, Joana Fonseca, Patrícia Ribeiro
Area: 6400.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: FG+SG
R House / Panorama Arquitectos
Architects: Panorama Arquitectos
Location: Punta Cachagua
Architect In Charge: Constanza Hagemann, Nicolas Valdes
Design Team: Nicolas del Rio, Max Nuñez
Collaborators: Andrea Borraez
Area: 240.0 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Roland Halbe
Video: The Obsolescence of a Building, an Interview with Álvaro Siza
In this interview by Hugo Oliveira, Álvaro Siza presents his ideas on the link between obsolescence and quality in architecture, and the role that a design’s flexibility plays in this relationship. He argues that the convent is perhaps the best example of a typology which is both fit for purpose and very flexible, allowing myriad other uses when its lifespan as a convent has ended. He also laments the current tendency to design a building for a very short period of time – intended to last only as long as it is needed for its original function. He links this tendency back to the Futurists of the early 20th century, where the idea was that “each generation makes its own environment which is later destroyed”, an idea he dismisses since “it also allows you to build badly because it only needs to last twenty years”.
You can see how Siza creates this flexibility in his own work by looking at his past projects featured on ArchDaily:
New Public School for Primary Education “Ave Maria-Patxi Larrainzar” / Taller Básico de Arquitectura
Architects: Taller Básico de Arquitectura – Javier Pérez-Herreras Javier Quintana de Uña
Location: Pamplona, Spain
Total Built Surface: 4,155.59 sqm
Year: 2007
Photographs: Xabier Ilundain Madurga, Taller Básico de Arquitectura
GPT / Woods Bagot
Architects: Woods Bagot
Location: Sydney, Australia
Project Team: Alissandra Johnston, Tessa Melick
Project Manager: Buildcorp Group
Area: 3,700 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Tyrone Branigan
Izmir Selects Zaha Hadid as World Expo 2020 Architect
The 8,500 year old Turkish city of Izmir has announced Zaha Hadid as the architect for its World Expo 2020 bid. As home of the Asklepion, one of the world’s oldest hospitals whose history has played a major role in the evolution of healthcare, Izmir hopes claim the title as host of the New Routes to a Better World / Health for All themed fair over its competitors – São Paulo (Brazil), Yekaterinburg (Russia), Ayutthaya (Thailand) and Dubai (UAE).
Alfenz Bridge / Marte Marte Architects
Architects: Marte Marte Architects
Location: Montafon, Austria
Year: 2010
Photographs: Marc Lins
Video: Iran, The Embargoed Hotel
Battling against international sanctions, global economic crisis and the challenges behind creating a hotel locally and sustainably in Iran, Ameriha House is a recipe for disaster. Or is it?
Jesolo Lido Condominium / Richard Meier & Partners Architects
Architects: Richard Meier & Partners Architects
Location: Jesolo, Italy
Design Principals: Richard Meier, Bernhard Karpf
Project Architect: Stefan Scheiber-Loeis
Year: 2013
Photographs: Roland Halbe
Royal Botanic Garden Sustainable Masterplan Proposal / Grant Associates
Grant Associates…, the UK landscape architects behind Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay, has just been appointed by the Royal Botanics and Domain Trust in Sydney to help develop a new sustainable masterplan for the historic Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
52 Years Later, A Would-Be Urban Planner Responds to Harvard’s Sexist Letter
In 1961, Phyllis Richman, a student at Brandeis University, was considering applying to the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Department of City and Regional Planning. The response from Professor Doebele, which you can read above, was to question the validity/practicality of her desire to enter into higher education, being, as she would surely be, a future wife and mother.
While today it sounds almost quaint in its blatantly sexist assumptions, Ms. Richman’s letter remains, unfortunately, all too relevant. In her article for The Washington Post, Richman says: “To the extent, Dr. Doebele, that your letter steered me away from city planning and opened my path to writing [a career Richman later describes as "remarkably well-suited to raising children"], one might consider that a stroke of luck. I’d say, though, that the choice of how to balance family and graduate school should have been mine.”
She’s absolutely right, of course; the decision was hers and hers alone to make. However, there’s no avoiding that Richman eventually found success in a job that allowed her to live flexibly as a professional and parent. How many women, and for that matter men, can claim that of architecture? How many architects are convinced, just like Ms. Richman, to pursue success in other, more flexible careers?
More about Richman’s letter, and where Denise Scott Brown comes in, after the break…
Prahran Hotel / Techne Architects
Architects: Techne Architects
Location: Victoria, Australia
Project/Design Director: Justin Northrop
Project Architect: Steve McKeag
Architect In Charge: Alex Lake
Area: 550 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Peter Clarke
