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AV Proyectos 069 DOSSIER GIANCARLO MAZZANTI

DOSSIER GIANCARLO MAZZANTI · HOUSE OF HUNGARIAN MUSIC COMPETITION: FUJIMOTO, ARCVS, AVA, KUMA · OMA’S TAIPEI ARTS CENTER · MONOLITHS · VISUAL COMPLEXITY · CHEMA MADOZ

Dossier Giancarlo Mazzanti, Ten Projects. Leading a studio that carries his name, Giancarlo Mazzanti (Barranquilla, 1963) is the author of some of the best known buildings completed in Colombia over the past years, such as the Biblioteca España and the Colosseums for the South American Games, both in Medellín, or the Pies Descalzos School in Cartagena de Indias. The ten projects included here represent the current work of the Bogotá office, based on models whose organization favors growth and adaptation to time, place and social challenges, involving the user in the creative process. Some of the models and drawings by the Colombian architect are included in the collections of Paris’s Centre Pompidou and New York’s MoMA.

House of Hungarian Music Competition. The House of Hungarian Music is part of the Liget Budapest project, one of the largest cul- tural centers right now in Europe, which fore- sees building four structures in Budapest’s City Park: the Ethnographic Museum, the Museum of Photography, the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and the New National Gallery- Ludwig Museum. The young Japanese Sou Fujimoto has won the competition to design this building for music, in which the projects by another three teams have been distinguished too: the Serbians of Studio ARCVS, the Graz- based team directed by the Italian Andrea Vattovani, and the Japanese Kengo Kuma, with offices in Tokyo and Paris.

Refugios masivos, Monoliths. The four projects included in the following pages are all monolithic in character. In the Netherlands, two interventions in old bunkers highlight these qualities: the Dutch artist Erick de Lyon – with the landscape architects of Rietveld (RAAAF) – by way of a deep crack that unveils a tiny interior space; and the Brussels studio B-ILD through a platform that brings out the thickness of the walls. And in Switzerland, two new shelters display that same massive appearance: the Geneva-based Bureau A wrap a small wood cabin in sprayed concrete; and Selina Walder and Georg Nickisch, from their studio in Flims, use an old hut from the Alps as shuttering.

Taipei Performing Arts Center in Detail – OMA. OMA’s project was the winner in the interna- tional competition held in 2009, where teams like Morphosis, Ábalos + Sentkiewicz – whose design received the third prize –, MVRDV and Zaha Hadid participated. The office of Rem Koolhaas launched the construction of the Taipei Performing Arts Center in 2012, with a design that proposes a typological revision of conven- tional auditoriums. Now nearing completion, the TPAC consists of three theaters that function autonomously but plug into a central cube. This arrangement allows the stages to be modified or merged into a variety of configurations, generat- ing a space that offers greater flexibility than the conventional performance center type.

Manuel Lima, Visual Complexity. Establishing understandable patterns and connections within complex information net- works has become one of the big challenges of this new century: our capacity to generate data seems to have well surpassed our abil- ity to grasp data. Aware of this, Manuel Lima (Açores, 1978) launched the project Visual Complexity in 2005: a platform that currently gathers 900 interfaces of authors dealing with a wide range of issues across disciplines such as art, biology or politics. Considered to be one of the ambassadors par excellence of the ‘datification’ phenomenon, the Portuguese has given lectures around the world on infor- mation visualization.

Chema Madoz, The Rules of the Game. As if playing a game, photographer Chema Madoz (Madrid, 1958) takes objects around him and alters their meaning, conveying a new idea to spectators. Since 1990, the poetics of objects and the exploration of their soul and essence is a constant theme in the work of this renowned Spanish artist, who merited the National Photography Award in the year 2000 and picked up the Photography Prize of the Community of Madrid in 2012. His work is included in the collections of promi- nent museums and institutions like the Reina Sofía Museum, the IVAM (Valencian Institute of Modern Art), the Juan March Foundation or the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Dossier Giancarlo Mazzanti, Ten Projects
National Middle Ages Museum-Cluny Baths, Paris (France)
Centro Cultural España, Bogotá (Colombia)
Edificio Invemar, Santa Marta (Colombia)
Centro Internazionale Loris Malaguzzi, Reggio Emilia (Italy)
Nuevo Centro de Investigación Kimberly, Medellín (Colombia)
Nuevo Velódromo, Medellín (Colombia)
Instituto Técnico Industrial de Barranca, Barrancabermeja (Colombia)
Parque Educativo Marinilla, Marinilla (Colombia)
Museo Guggenheim, Helsinki (Finlandia)
IB College Colegio Anglo Colombiano, Bogotá (Colombia)
Universidad Panamericana, Bogotá (Colombia)

House of Hungarian Music Competition
Sou Fujimoto Architects
Studio ARCVS
AVA (Andrea Vattovani Architecture)
Kengo Kuma and Associates

Refugios masivos, Monoliths
Atelier de Lyon / Rietveld Landscape
Bunker 599 (Netherlands)
B-ILD
Bunker, Vuren (Netherlands)
BUREAU A
Antoine, Les Ruinettes, Verbier (Switzerland)
Georg Nickisch / Selina Walder
Refugi Lieptgas, Flims (Switzerland)

Taipei Performing Arts Center in Detail
OMA
Taipei (Taiwan)

Manuel Lima, Visual Complexity
Mapping Patterns of Information

Chema Madoz, The Rules of the Game
La poética de los objetos