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Arquitectura Viva 210 China Material

Arquitectura Viva 210 China Material

In Short. It has been a year since the start of the #MeToo movement; Carrilho da Graça wins the Leon Battista Alberto Prize; Heatherwick completes the Coal Drops Yard in London; Perrault wraps up the Longchamp Racecourse in Paris; Zaha Hadid Architects opens a terminal in Naples; Garcés-De Seta-Bonet built three subway stations in Barcelona while one in Granada designed by Jiménez Torrecillas is finished three years after his death; the Botín Centre presents Cristina Iglesias, Jaume Plensa exhibits at the Crystal Palace, and Espacio SOLO by Estudio Herreros is inaugurated; and Peter Zumthor constructs a house in the UK.
Ancestral Avant-Garde. Beyond aggressive urbanization and the cul- ture of global capitalism, a generation of young architects is trying to rethink the typological constants and symbolic imagery of Chinese architecture on a contemporary note. This results in buildings which stand out for their hybrid language and for their quality, and seven cases are featured here: the Contemporary Art Museum in Taizhou by Atelier Deshaus, which revitalizes its industrial surroundings; the astronomical park in Suzhou by Specific and Unit Architects, executed with local brick; the cultural center in Chetian by West-line Studio, built to preserve the legacy of the Maio minority group; the memorial in Zheijang by DnA, which protects a traditional enclave against the pressure of industry; the public pergola in Shangcun by SUP Atelier, raised on a house in ruins; the bamboo craft village in Chengdu by Archi-Union Architects, a technological reinterpretation of vernacular construction systems; and a farm in Tangshan by ArchStudio, inspired in Chinese courtyard-houses.
Design and Construction. Luis Fernández-Galiano writes on two exhibitions: one at the Vitra Museum in Weil am Rhein, on Victor Papanek, professor-advocate of ecological design; the other at the Royal Academy in London, on the work of Renzo Piano, presenting the entire career of the Genoan master in terms of its technological and constructional focus.
Back to Elements. The fifteen volumes on ‘elements of architecture’ that Koolhaas published in line with the Venice Biennale of 2014 now come in a single book of colossal dimensions. Also: a monograph on the unrepentant modern Marcel Breuer, a biographical sketch of Sáenz de Oíza by Javier Vellés, and a study of Friedrich Schinkel by Kurt Forster.
Dossier: Renovations. Architecture students are not taught to carry out renovations, yet renovations are practically the only commissions they will land as architects. This should be taken not as a condemnation, but as an opportunity, as Miguel Fernández-Galiano explains in an article followed by five examples: the transformation of a painting school in Madrid’s Salamanca neighborhood into a residence, by Langarita Navarro; the conversion of an industrial space along Madrid Río into a home-studio, by Ruiz Esquiroz and Muñoz; a minimal apartment in Madrid by Elii; a dwelling for a bachelor in Barcelona by Arquitectura G; and an apartment in the Gràcia district by Ted’Arquitectes.
To close, the engineer Flavio Tejada, in charge of European Cities at Arup, takes stock of the processes of transformation of contemporary cities.

MATERIAL CHINA
Seven Local Experiences
Dossier: Renovations

News
A Year of #MeToo
Carrilho da Graça, Alberti Prize
Heatherwick at King’s Cross
Perrault’s Longchamp
Zaha Hadid Architects in Naples
Barcelona and Granada Metros
Two Exhibitions and a Gallery
Peter Zumthor, House in Devon

China, Local Experiences:

Atelier Deshaus
Art Museum, Taizhou

Specific Arch. / Unit Arch.
Astronomical Park, Suzhou

West-line Studio
Cultural Center, Chetian

DnA
Memorial, Zhejiang

SUP Atelier
Public Pergola, Shangcun

Archi-Union Architects
Craft Village, Chengdu

ArchStudio
Organic Farm, Tangshan

Art / Culture
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Politics of Design
Papanek at the Vitra Museum

The Art of Building
Piano at the Royal Academy

Books
Koolhaas’s Boom
Breuer: Modern Obstinacy
Oíza at Close Range
Schinkel, Classical Romantic
Publications Received

Technique / Construction
Miguel Fernández-Galiano
The Forma of Reform
Interior Architecture

Five Examples
Penthouse H, Madrid
Dwelling-Studio, Madrid
Minimal Apartment, Madrid
House for Bachelor, Barcelona
House for Laia & Biel, Barcelona

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