Studio Banan TV presenta una entrevista con el arquitecto holandés Winy Maas, co-fundador de MVRDV en Rotterdam, Países Bajos.

Watch the video here > http://studiobanana.tv/2011/09/12/studio-banana-tv-interviews-winy-maas/

Studio Banana TV interviews ducth architect Winy Maas, who founded in 1993 the office MVRDV and in 2008 The Why Factory (T?F), the thinktank on future cities at Delft University of Technology.MVRDV was set up in Rotterdam (Netherlands) in 1993 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries. In close collaboration the 3 principal architect directors produce designs and studies in the fields of architecture, urbanism and landscape design.

Early projects such as the headquarters for the Public Broadcasting Company VPRO and the WoZoCo housing for elderly in Amsterdam brought MVRDV to the attention of a wide field of clients and reached international acclaim. The more than sixty architects, designers and staff members of MVRDV are organized into teams headed by project leaders. In each team, different fields and scales of MVRDVs projects are reflected, both in the (international) background of team members and in the variation of work. To allow a wide range of commissions to be handled, special design teams are set up for individual commissions.

The work of MVRDV is published and exhibited worldwide and received many international awards. The monographic publications FARMAX (1998) and KM3 (2005) illustrate the work of the Rotterdam based office. MVRDV together with Delft University of Technology run a new think tank: The Why Factory (T?F). It is organized as a foundation. T?F wants to give argumentation back to the architectural and urbanistic World. T?F concentrates on the production of models and visualizations for future cities. ANYWHERE. T?F makes new cities! It researches possible directions of our urban futures: The Future City Program.

Interview by Studio Banana TV. Translation by Noelia Correa.

More information > http://studiobanana.tv/latest-videos/

Fuente: Studio Banana TV presents an interview with Winy Maas

Studio Banana TV presenta un video que recopila repercusiones de la XI Bienal de Arquitectura Española y Urbanismo.

Studio Banana TV presents a compilation video of the XI Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennale.

The members of the jury, chaired by the directors of this edition, the architects Félix Arranz and Joaquín Sabaté and composed of representatives of the organising institutions as well as a group of architects, urban planners and experts in this field (Lluis Clotet, José María Ezquiaga, Antonio Font, Manuel Gallego, Nuria Mas, Belinda Tato, José Miguel Iribas and Llàtzer Moix) have chosen the winners from among the 40 works shortlisted for this edition, to which 734 proposals were submitted and which broke the record of all the editions held previously.

• Architecture Award
Building of 131 housing in Mieres.
Bernardo Bernardo Angelini and Casino (zigzag architecture)

References
Residential complex in Caramoñina (Santiago de Compostela), Victor Lopez Cotelo
House in Paderne (Lugo), Quintáns Carlos Eiras

Explicit recognition of the jury
Archaeological Museum Álava (Vitoria-Gasteiz), Mangado Francisco
Can Framis Museum (Barcelona), Jordi Badia
Water Museum. (Lanjaron, Granada), Juan Domingo Santos.

• Urbanism Award
Urban Management Plan Municipal de Catalunya (Barcelona)
Jornet, Llop and Pastor.

References
Remodeling of the port of Malpica (A Coruña), Carrasco Juan Creus and Covadonga
The Management Plan Area Munch (Oslo, Norway), Juan Herreros Architects.

Express recognition
Promenade on the west beach of Benidorm (Alicante), OAB (Carlos Ferrater and Xavier Martí Galí).

• Research Award
Prize ex-aequo
Media-TIC building (Barcelona), Enric Ruiz Geli (Cloud9)
Housing Territorial Plan of Catalonia, directed by the architects Josep Maria Vilanova and Ricard Pie.

References
Program “This is not a lot” (Zaragoza)
Patrizia di Monte and Ignacio Grávalos,
Mine Library Font (Sant Adria de Besos, Barcelona)
Alfonso Soldevila

• Young Project Award
Alange Rowing Center (Badajoz), José María Sánchez García

References
Civic center “Mercat de Ferreríes” (Tortosa, Tarragona), Camps and Olga Josep Felip
Municipal Service headquarters for the Environment (Zaragoza), Jaime and Francisco Javier Magen Magen.

• Social Housing Award
22 social housing for young people in the neighborhood of El Rastro (Vara de Rey, Madrid), Monica Alberola, Luis Diaz-Maurino and Consuelo Martorelldos

References
Housing units in Salou (Tarragona), Toni Girones,
Student housing in the Bellaterra campus of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Eduard Bru

More information > http://studiobanana.tv/2011/07/20/xi-bienal-de-arquitectura-y-urbanismo-de-espana/

Fuente: Studio Banana TV presents a compilation video of the XI Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennale

Studio Banana TV interviews Italian photographer Luisa Lambri on the occasion of her participation at the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale. Architecture is a favorite subject for the Italian photographer, who approaches the houses subjectively and patiently. ‘I am photographing myself being there,’ she says.

Luisa Lambri’s photographs stand in clear contrast to the established practice of architectural photography which has traditionally focused its attention on the exteriors of buildings. She travels the world photographing architectural interiors, often spending extended periods of time experiencing the buildings before she begins shooting. Her photographs have captured unexpected moments and observations of houses by architects the likes of Alvar Aalto, Richard Neutra, R.M. Schindler, John Lautner, Philip Johnson, Luis Barragán, Marcel Breuer or Álvaro Siza. Her images give a sense of experience of being in the space as her photographs not only capture the physical topology of these structures but elaborate on the profound psychological and emotional responses they elicit from their inhabitants. She primarily photographs private houses, focusing on the view from the inside to the outside thereby establishing a physical and conceptual position for herself and the viewer. These delicately crafted images oscillate between objective representations of space and Lambri’s perceptions and reactions. Lambri utilizes traditional as well as new digital printing techniques to move her photographs beyond pure documentation. The photographs reference minimalism and abstract painting, evoking moments of transcendence. Lambri’s selective framing and editing of the images pay homage to the Modernist aesthetic and establish an atmosphere that transcends the immediate function of the structures. The work realizes its full meaning when it is installed in a new space and in so doing establishes a new relationship between the viewer, the object and the space. Her work has been widely exhibited in places such as the Venice Art and Architecture Biennales, the Hammer Museum Los Angeles, the Carnegie Museum of Art or the Menil Collection.

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Fuente: Studio Banana TV interviews Luisa Lambri

MONU, revista de urbanismo, organiza un debate público sobre el tema de su último número MONU # 13 – Most Valuable Urbanism. La cita es el jueves 10 de febrero de 2011 a las 19hs. en “De Machinist”, Rotterdam.

Monu Magazine, Public Debate

MONU, magazine on urbanism is organizing a public debate on the topic of its last issue: MONU #13 – Most Valuable Urbanism on Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in “De Machinist” in Rotterdam.

The debate will be moderated by Piet Vollaard and the panel will include four people with four different ideological backgrounds in order to discuss the topic in a rich and diverse way and to provoke a lively and productive clash of ideas and opinions. The panel members are: Floris Alkemade, Ashok Bhalotra, Jaap van den Bout, and Adriaan Geuze. The entire event will be in English. The topic “Most Valuable Urbanism” will be used as the starting point for the debate, but with a focus on the Dutch context and Dutch cities.

The aim of the debate is to discuss the topic “Most Valuable Urbanism” among the Dutch public and to critically reflect on traditional Dutch city values. The main questions of the debate will be: What is a good and what is a bad city? How should we evaluate cities in this day and age? Which city might be the most valuable, producing the most valuable urbanism and what kind of criteria should be applied to define valuable urbanism? What role do architects and urban designers play in the production of valuable urbanism?

Information > www.monu-magazine.com/news.htm

Fuente: Monu Magazine, Public Debate

A monothematic approach would have been limiting since everything is inter-connected. This inter-connectivity itself describes the relations, the complexity, the richness, the differentiation and the surprises. This moves from mono-thematic to multi-thematic. A celebration and further acceleration of diversity: from multi-disciplinary to maxi-disciplinary. The collaborators of MVRDV and The Why Factory brainstormed with as a result an explosion of thoughts, ideas, opinions and voices which have been turned into 70 articles by a group of international writers, well-known and less known. The edition proposes denser contents compared to ‘A’A’s regular editions, connected by a Facebook-like technique.

The table of content in order of appearance:
Why Uncertainty? by Winy Maas | Liquid times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty by Zygmunt Bauman | What is utopia today? | Atomized architecture by Theo Deutinger, Federica Vazzana and Catarina Dantas | Whatever happened to architectural criticism? It played it safe! by Alexandra Lange | The un-read. The mismatch between theory and practice by Hilde Heynen | What is the role of architecture-magazines today? by Beatriz Colomina and Cyrille Poy | How we promote architecture by BIG, HOK, JDS, MAD, Mecanoo, MVRDV, Jerde Partnership and Tectonics | Mies Media by Beatriz Colomina | The fashion of architecture by Felix Burrichter | We are lost in translation by Annaik Deceuninck, Ania Molenda and Emily Waugh | The dictionary of Vagueness by Aaron Betsky, Geoff Manaugh, Hans Ibelings, Jonathan Glancey , Mark Shepard, Martien de Vletter, Powerhouse Company, Piet Vollaard, Roemer van Toorn, Saskia Sassen and Toshiko Mori | The value of value by John Thackara and Klaas Hofman | We need Archinomics by Ronald Wall | The value of geography by Michael Najjar | Mon portable me met les nerfs en pelote by Harmut Rosa | Our impact by Ulf Hackauf and Pirio Haikola with Wieland–Gouwens | The Green Dream by T?F | Les points clés de la durabilité en action by Mohamed Benzerzour and Franck Boutté | The End (or the new beginning) by Jan Knikker | Why do we not want to understand the future? by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | The edited crisis by David McCandless | Dare to look back by Jan van de Pavert | Be prepared! Planning for the unexpected with Willem Hoekstra | The space for being safe | How do you survive? by Marie Douce Albert | Who do you want to be? by Powerhouse Company | What if they would have been realized? by Gustavo van Staveren | Architecture as a tactic with Markus Miessen | The Crisis of the future image by Tihamer Salij | Be more! by Winy Maas | (use)less to (use)more by Basurama | Optimism is not enough with Kobas Laksa | The happiness filter by Luxigon | La necessité d’une île (and the case of SimpliCity) by Jeroen Zuidgeest | Design and politics by Henk Ovink | We are the city makers by Vincebt Ocalsa | Stop building! by Bart Peters and Sebastian Ropers | Urban propaganda by Justin McGuirk | City Marketing by Robbert Nesselaar | The art of making slogans with Jenny Holzer | On the realization of collectivity by Ekim Tan and Diana Ibáñez López | Building without Bureaucracy by Finn Williams, David Knight and Ulf Hackauf | The reality of virtuality with Mark Shepard | Pixelpower by Winy Maas | A déjà vu by Nacho Velasco and Isabel Pagel | SanOma/OmaSan by Winy Maas | Open up. Embracing Uncertainty by Paul Hughes | Will you dare to? by MVRDV | Scale-less #1 by Johannes Schele | Scale-less #2 by Peter Root | Visual communication with Paul Mijksenaar and Herbert Seevinck | Drôles de plans | weaponofchoice by Marick Baars and Hugo van den Emster | Architects are becoming more and more deskilled with Rory McGowan | Moi, je construis by Andre Kempe and by Marte Marte Architects. | Nothing is more necessary than the un-necessary by Farshid Moussavi | Due yesterday! The regime of the deadline | Slogans for survival by Wieden + Kennedy | The co-authorship by Dominique Alba, Dimitri Boulte, Gaëlle Maidon and Bertrand Schippan | Who is responsible? with Mariana Idiarte and Antonio Tena | Confessions of an architect by Clélie Protière, Flore Raimbault and Noa Peer | The reality filter by Luxigon | Why do you do it? with Alain de Botton | Careers paths by Diana Ibáñez López and Sabina Favaro | The quitters with Hugo Sanchez and Basurama | The making of architects with Marc Angélil and Wytze Patijn | Coming soon with Mick van Gemert, Tanya Martinez Gonzales, David Koezen and Ahmet Korfali | Stay ahead! with Li Edelkoort | Planetary deadlines by Johannes Schele and Maciek Grelewicz | Calling all visionaries! | News

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MVRDV was set up in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) in 1993 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries. MVRDV produces designs and studies in the fields of architecture, urbanism and landscape design. MVRDV develops its work in a conceptual way, the changing condition is visualised and discussed through designs, sometimes literally through the design and construction of a diagram.
The office pursues its fascination and methodical research on density using a method of shaping space through complex amounts of data that accompany contemporary building and design processes. MVRDV first published a cross section of these study results in FARMAX (1998), followed by a.o. MetaCity/Datatown (1999), Costa Iberica (2000), Regionmaker (2002), 5 Minutes City (2003), KM3 (2005), which contains Pig City and more recently Spacefighter (2007) and Skycar City (2007), the latter two were exhibited at the 2008 Biennale of Venice. MVRDV deals with global ecological issues in large scale studies like Pig City as well as in small scale solutions for flooded areas of New Orleans.
Current projects in progress or on site include various housing projects in the Netherlands, Spain, China, France, Austria, the United Kingdom, USA, Korea, India and other countries, a television centre for Zürich, a bank headquarter building in Oslo, a public library in Spijkenisse (Netherlands), a central market hall in Rotterdam, a culture plaza in Nanjing, China, large scale urban masterplans in Oslo, Norway, Tirana, Albania and a masterplan for an eco-city in Logroño, Spain. Large scale visions for the future of greater Paris and the doubling in size of Dutch new town Almere are developed.
The work of MVRDV is exhibited and published worldwide and receives international awards. The 60 architects, designers and staff members conceive projects in a multi-disciplinary collaborative design process and apply highest technological and sustainable standards.
Together with the Delft University of Technology MVRDV leads the independent research institute The Why Factory, exploring future cities. Its latest publication is “The Green Dream – How Future Cities can Outsmart Nature”.
www.mvrdv.nl

A’A’ / L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui
Driven by Jean Nouvel, with the backing of François Fontès and Alexandre Allard, ’A’A’ / L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, marks the rebirth of the review established in 1930 by architect, sculptor and painter André Bloc, in collusion with Le Corbusier. The new L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui review wants to be a forum for the debates where opinions meet and confrontation between points of view is encouraged. In contrast to the cliques and seeking of consensus, it will give proper place to the spirit of criticism and discussion in order to stimulate thought and smash preconceptions.Completely bilingual (French and English), L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui of the 21st century aims to capture the sources, spot today the trends and talents of tomorrow, yet without prejudice and, if necessary, to fly in the face of current thinking.

Fuente: A’A’ / L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui welcomes guest editors MVRDV and The Why Factory on the theme of ‘Uncertainty’

Special thanks to Eriko Kinoshita from Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects and Maite Shigeko Suzuki.

Interview by Cornelia Tapparelli.
Translation by Yayoi Kawamura.

Toyo Ito official site

Fuente: Studio Banana TV Interviews: Toyo Ito

The budget is $50,000 with an option to increase if FLN are able to raise the funds. They are looking for someone to do an initial design proposal and ideally oversee the project to the contract admin stage. There is a 12 month timeline for the project but they would like to start construction in September to line up with the school holidays when building work will not interrupt the classes.

Please email your expressions of interest as well as a CV detailing any similar or relevant project experience to Kalli at kalli@architectsforpeace.org. The selected architect will need to be able to visit the site so a Victorian architect is preferred for this project.

Refer to this link for more info:
http://archpeace-probono.blogspot.com/2009/05/fitzroy-learning-network.html

Fuente: New Pro Bono Project

2 October-2 November 2008
Architecture Museum of Ljubljana, Fužine Castle, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The 21st Biennial of Industrial Design (BIO 21) was open on 2 October 2008 at the Architecture Museum of Ljubljana. This is a major comparative international exhibition of industrial design, visual communications, and design concepts. The exhibition will be on display to 2 November 2008, in exhibition halls at Fužine Castle that measure approximately 1,000 m². BIO 21 will include works from 18 countries: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, the UK, and the US. more >>

Creative workshop: Designing Useful Objects with an Emphasis on Recycling Materials
Friday, 24 October 2008, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Saturday, 25 October 2008, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Atelje 2050 – School for Creativity, Breg 12, Ljubljana
At these two workshops, the first of which is intended for preteens and young teens ages 11 to 15, the second for children (ages 7 to 10), participants will learn about the professions of industrial designer, graphic designer and photographer.
Participation in the workshop is free, but it is necessary to register in advance by sending an e-mail to kreativnasola@atelje2050.si. For more information about the School for Creativity, visit the website www.kreativnasola.si. more >>

Guided tours through the BIO 21 exhibition
Every Wednesday at 5 p.m. and every Sunday at 12 a.m.
The Architecture Museum of Ljubljana, Fužine Castle, Pot na Fuzine 2, Ljubljana
Sunday, 26 October 2008, at 12 a.m.: Samo Ačko, BIO 21 award-winner, RTV Slovenia Award for Work by a Student more >>

Exhibition: Ettore Sottsass 1917-2007
1- 25 October 2008
Salon Orion Intertrade d. o. o., Celovška 149 b, Ljubljana
The architect and designer Ettore Sottsass ranked among Italy’s greatest designers. He became famous in the early 1970s with a series of original achievements in design, from professional office equipment to small, attractive typewriters aimed primarily at the general (and especially the younger) population. more >>

Exhibition: Verner Panton
21 October-8 November 2008
Kresija Gallery, Stritarjeva 6, Ljubljana
Architect Verner Panton was one of the most innovative figures in 20th-century design and architecture. He was the master of a fluid, futuristic style that introduced the Pop Art aesthetic to the design of furniture and interiors. This exhibition presents an overview of Panton’s collaboration with the Swiss furniture manufacturer Vitra. more >>

Fuente: Newsletter bio

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For more information about the network, please go to http://www.guiding-architects.net or contact us at info@guiding-architects.net
For more information about tours to one of our member’s city or region, please contact the local partner.

Fuente: Guiding architects network

Fuente: James S. Ackerman, Special Golden Lion to an historian of Architecture

Fuente: Frank Gehry Biographical notes

Fuente: Wodiczko + Bonder

interview | philippe starck
http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/starck.html
‘you once said that it is your dream to make the world
a better place… is it beauty you are looking for?’
and starck answers ‘no, not for beauty.
we have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept,
with goodness, which is a humanist concept.’

snapshots | designboom ICFF mart 05
http://www.designboom.com/mart.html
designboom presented talents at the US biggest design happening :
ICFF, the international furniture fair in new york.
in this initiative, the designers were personally presenting their wares
and selling design-originals, priced from a range of USD 10 to USD 100.
it was an unprecedented opportunity to meet the young avant-garde
and became familiar with their body of work.

contemporary | mark frauenfelder
http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/frauenfelder.html
designboom loves ‘the directory of wonderful things’ – the weblog
boingboing.net and the founder’s graphic work and witty texts.
we asked mark frauenfelder to introduce himself,
for the few remaining who haven’t heard of him yet.

contemporary | urs fischer
http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/fisher.html
the nicola trussardi foundation presented swiss artist urs fischer.
one of the three installations, the house of bread, is suspended between
fairy-tale vision and simple, archaic architecture.
it changed during the show, devoured by a dozen multicoloured parrots.

contemporary | rotor house by luigi colani
http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/colani.html
the central idea behind luigi colani’s house is a turning
rotor which incorporates the different functional areas
sleeping, cooking and taking a bath.

Fuente: designboom, 6/05