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AV Proyectos 87 E2A Architects

AV Proyectos 87 E2A Architects

Foster + Partners, Vatican Chapel at Venice Biennale · Brick in Detail · Diller Scofidio + Renfro, The Shed · Cult of the Machine · Iñaki Bergera

E2A architects. Logic and Desire
After graduating from ETH and working at the office of Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam in the 1990s, the Eckert brothers Piet and Wim founded E2A in 2001 in Zurich, and since then they have combined work in their studio with teaching. In their projects they look for answers to real problems through abstract ideal models, with the conviction that conflicts are fundamental triggers in a significant design process. Their work encompasses a host of typologies, varying the rules of the game but with a con- stant style characterized by pure geometries and regular rhythms that reflect the discrepancies between desire and possibility in a logical framework of organizational clarity.

Nine Brick Details
An essential construction element and also one of the oldest, brick has taken on new roles aside from that of load-bearing wall, and now also functions as enclosure, cladding, and finish. Highly versatile, it can adapt to complex curved planes and to different permeability requirements, oscillating between the full opacity of the blind wall and the transparency of the lighter latticework – where bricks are suspended in the air by cables –, via the perforated facade where light and ventilation emphasize the value of intermediate spaces. The application of the latest technologies highlights brick’s qualities of lightness and resistance, making a whole new range of uses possible.

Diller Scofidio + Benfro. The Shed
The western end of Manhattan, where the High Line meets Hudson Yards, is the home of The Shed, a new center for artistic creation and research designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The complex, currently under construction, will open in the spring of 2019. With six levels for cultural programs and for all types of performing and visual arts, the building is covered with a mobile shell that can colonize the adjacent plaza, generating a space for large-scale interventions. The proposal is embedded in the base of an adjoining residential tower and offers a wide range of possible configurations, which guarantee the center’s adaptation to future needs.

Cult of the Machine. Young Museum
Precisionism emerged in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s, with a style clearly influenced by the European avant-gardes – especially Purism, Cubism, and Futurism –, as well as a willingness to reflect the economic and social changes resulting from industrial- ization in North America. The optimism and distrust sparked by the virtues and dangers of the technological progress that gave meaning to this artistic production constitute a conflict of topical relevance, on which the Museum of Fine Arts of San Francisco invites us to meditate through its new exhibition, ‘Cult of the Machine,’ which will be open to the public until the next 12 August.

Iñaki Bergera. New American Topographics
Iñaki Bergera (Vitoria, 1972) is a photog- rapher, architect, researcher, and teacher. He obtained his PhD from the School of Architecture of Navarre in 2002, and later studied photography with the British Chris Killip at Harvard University. Since then his work, present in various individual and collective exhibitions, has focused mainly on studying the deep relationship between architecture and photography. In his latest series, ‘New American Topographics,’ this interdisciplinary dynamic concentrates on the American land- scape shaped by industrial development and urban life, from a critical fascination for the state of neglect of these vast lands.