Diego Hernández
Creative Strategist of ArchDaily and Co-director of the Building of the Year Awards
AD Round Up: Pavilions Part II
Encounters 2 - Architectural Essays / Peter MacKeith
Architecture is fundamentally existential in its very essence, and it arises from existential experience and wisdom rather than intellectualized and formalized theories. We can only prepare ourselves for our work in architecture by developing a distinct sensitivity and awareness for architectural phenomena.” With these declarative words, Finnish architect, educator and critic Juhani Pallasmaa resounds the call of his 2005 volume, Encounters: Architectural Essays, in this second volume of essays, Encounters 2.
Fournitures Select / Blouin Tardif Architectes
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Architects: Blouin Tardif Architectes
- Area: 13400 ft²
- Year: 2010
AD Round Up: Flickr Part LXXXVI
It’s time for another Flickr Round Up! Remember you can submit your own photo here, and don’t forget to follow us through Twitter and our Facebook Fan Page to find many more features.
The photo above was taken by asli aydin in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Check the other four after the break.
AD Round Up: Beach Houses Part VI
Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies: Lafayette Park Detroit
Lafayette Park, an affordable middle-class residential area in downtown Detroit, is home to the largest collection of buildings designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the world. Today, it is one of Detroit’s most racially integrated and economically stable neighborhoods, although it is surrounded by evidence of a city in financial distress. Through interviews with and essays by residents; reproductions of archival material; and new photographs by Karin Jobst, Vasco Roma, and Corine Vermeulen, and previously unpublished photographs by documentary filmmaker Janine Debanné, Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies examines the way that Lafayette Park residents confront and interact with this unique modernist environment.
Habitation TSL / adn Architectures
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Architects: adn Architectures
- Area: 350 m²
- Year: 2011
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Kiarong House / Moh Hack & Partners
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Architects: Moh Hack & Partners
- Area: 348 m²
- Year: 2010
A Guide to 21st Century Singapore Architecture / Patrick Bingham-Hall
A Guide to 21st Century Singapore Architecture documents every significant project built since 2000, and presents a comprehensive survey of public and commercial buildings, transport and infrastructure projects, apartments and condominiums, and private houses.
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part LXXXV
We are near to the 105,000 photos in our Flickr Pool, so keep them coming! Remember you can submit your own photo here, and don’t forget to follow us through Twitter and our Facebook Fan Page to find many more features.
The photo above was taken by Thierry Lechanteur in Liège, Belgium. Check the other four after the break.
The New Wave In Danish Architecture
The pragmatic turn in Danish architecture in the 2000s is one of the most striking new trends in international architecture in the past decade, and it has attracted considerable interest around the world.The architectural firms represented in the book include BIG, jds, Cobe, Transform, Nord, Effekt, Adept, among others. Although these firms do easily fit into one single category or can be said to make up a unified movement, their projects do have certain significant features in common. These commonalities have led international media to view these projects as part of a common trend and a new phenomenon in Danish architecture.
Agudela House / Rui Cerqueira Barros
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Architects: Rui Cerqueira Barros
- Area: 320 m²
- Year: 2012
AD Round Up: Brick Architecture
"Universidad del Pacifico" Branch Office / Metropolis
Architects: Metropolis Location: Lima, Peru Project Year: 2012 Project Area: 17,000 sqm Photographs: Juan Solano
Eduardo Souto de Moura Sketchbook No.76
Sketchbook No. 76 is the reproduction of a sketchbook of the renowned Portuguese architect and last year’s Pritzker Prize laureate, Eduardo Souto de Moura. The sketchbook was in use between September 2011 and January 2012 and records first ideas, fleeting sketches, studies, and spontaneous jottings that offer a starting point for every project but also function as a working resource. One can quite litterally experience the architectural design process and how developing existing ideas are further developed in different variants. Sketchbook No. 76 is a homage to the medium of drawing and manifests that this working method remains an essential element of the creative process.