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Arquitectura Viva 222 SAUERBRUCH HUTTON

Arquitectura Viva 222 SAUERBRUCH HUTTON

Sauerbruch Hutton. BERLIN-BASED since 1989, Sauerbruch Hutton is an architectural practice run by its founders, Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton, with Juan Lucas Young, a partner since 1999. Their work combines a chromatic and material sensuality with an interest in industrial structures, the inspiration provided by organic forms, attention to the user’s perception, and the application of sustainability principles. All this comes to the fore in the works the firm has carried out, from the mythical Berlin headquarters of the company GSW to the three buildings featured here: a heritage museum in Venice, a science and technology one in Heilbronn, and an apartment block for students in Hamburg.

Viral Democracy Luis Fernández-Galiano

The virus threat cancels frontiers. The vulnerability of our hyperconnected planet becomes exposed with computer and biological viruses alike. In both cases, the physical or political boundaries of territories and societies seem incapable of containing infection, making us aware of our shared fate, and perhaps also reducing the morbidity of a different virus, in this case social in nature: contagious nationalisms spreading from one country to the next. Coinciding with the final stages of a Brexit that weakens Great Britain as much as the rest of Europe – shaken also by the rise of different identitarian populisms –, and while a toxic cybersphere endangers the foundations of representative democracy, the eclosion of the Wuhan coronavirus places us before the mirror of our fragility as species, linking insecurity with fear, and in the end showing global governance as the only true defense.
The dimension of the Chinese government’s response to the epidemic, with the lockdown of millions and the speedy building of prefabricated hospitals for patients – leaving images like the swarm of diggers working around the clock on site, recalling the random agitation of organisms rather than a mechanical ballet – proves insufficient as soon as the virus escapes frontiers. The WHO has declared a global health emergency for the fifth time in its history, and while epidemiologists look for patient zero and determine the perimeter of quarantines, laboratories across the world rush to develop a vaccine. The massive flows of tourism or business and the crowds gathering at sport events or congresses create the best environment for sharing ideas or experiences, but also for the free circulation of pathogens, and only strict social discipline can supply firewalls.
Viruses are fought with transparency, goes the wishful motto often heard these days, because only accurate information can help control disease and avoid panic; but nothing is said about the advantages of authoritarian organizations, capable of mobilizing resources without social and political debate, because the administrative machinery can react timely to a pyramidal hierarchy. Democracies, in contrast, depend on public opinion, which can be distorted by the sentimental drive of hedonistic societies, where the extreme autonomy of what Houellebecq called ‘elementary particles’ makes it difficult to subordinate them to shared objectives. Sloterdijk called for the need to redomesticate a human species gone wild, but perhaps this defiant proposal was only a way of expressing the conflict between freedom and the bondages required for the survival of those of us who form the ‘society of risk.’

SAUERBRUCH HUTTON
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Actualidad / News
Luis Fernández-Galiano
La democracia vírica  Viral Democracy
Focho: Herzog & de Meuron  Celebrating a Career
Modelos educativos  Grafton Architects, OMA
Huellas del pasado Heritage in Barcelona
Tres expos en Madrid Sáenz de Oíza, Liaño, Urquiola
Casas: Ludwig Godefroy Zicatela House in Mexico
Interiores: Oliveras Boix  Ateneu de Fabricació in Barcelona
Exteriores: Reiulf Ramstad  Chemin des Carrières in Rosheim
Textos: Ana Paricio  Everyday Life Deconstructed

Sauerbruch Hutton

Distrito de museos M9
M9 Museum District

Ampliación del Museo Experimenta
Experimenta Museum Extension

Viviendas para estudiantes
Apartments for Students

Arte y cultura/ Art & Culture

Gabriel Ruiz Cabrero
La tradición racional  Julio Cano Lasso, 1920-1996

Joaquín Medina-Warmburg
Un arquitecto escultor  Gottfried Böhm, 1920

Daniel Fernández-Carracedo
La modernidad nórdica  Peter Celsing, 1920-1974

Libros / Books

Origen y destino  From Geography to History
Las virtudes del ego  Óscar Tusquets on Everything
Utopías posmodernas  Ricardo Bofill, a Legacy
Un activo seguro  Eighth Turn on Robert Stern

Piedra / Stone

Rafael de La-Hoz
Edificio de viviendas Lagasca 99 en Madrid
Lagasca 99 Residential Building in Madrid

Bernardo Bader Architekten
Centro de Deportes Alpinos en Schruns
Alpine Sports Center in Schruns

Bez + Kock Architekten
Museo y Foro Cultural en Arnesbrg
Museum and Cultural Forum in Arnsberg

Esrawe Studio
Centro de diseño Arca en Guadalajara
Arca Design Center in Guadalajara

Luis Fernández-Galiano
Estilos de Estado
Trump’s Classicism