− Smart Street Furniture _ JunSang You
− SUTD Library Pavilion _ City Form Lab
− Black Strawberry Tree Solar Charger _ Miloš Milivojevic´
− Turn around the Nature _ St-André-Lang Architectes
− Fuel Station and McDonalds _ Giorgi Khamaladze
− HafenCity University Subway Station _ Raupach Architekten
− Architectural Ride _ Atelier Zündel Cristea
Dwelling Shift
Our House: Urban Dwelling and the Contemporary Paradigm-shift _ Jorge Alberto Mejia Hernández
− Lormont Housing _ Habiter Autrement + Ateliers Jean Nouvel
− 12 Houses in Icod _ DAO
− 32 Housing in San Vicente del Raspeig _ Alfredo Payá Benedito
− Tetris, Social Housing and Artist Studios _ Jaques Moussafir Architectes
− 30 Social Housing in Paris _ KOZ Architectes
− Santa Maria Housing _ Hierve
− Small Village, Plantoun _ Agence Bernard Bühler
− 44 Social Housing Units _ LEM+ Architectes
− Center Village _ 5468796 Architecture + Cohlmeyer Architecture Limited
− Red Apple Apartments _ Aedes Studio
Serving the City
Serving the City _ Aldo Vanini
− Salamanca City Hall _ Carreño Sartori Arquitectos
− Wexford County Council Headquarters _ Robin Lee Architecture
− Bilbao City Hall _ IMB Arquitectos
− Zamora County Council _ G+F Arquitectos
− Landsberg am Lech Town Hall _ Bembé Dellinger Architekten
− Baeza Town Hall Rehabilitation _ Viar Estudio Arquitectura
− Cultural Center and the New City Hall of Archidona _ Ramón Fernández-Alonso Borrajo
C3 no.348 (2013 #8/12)
Dwelling Shift
Our House: Urban Dwelling and the Contemporary Paradigm-shift _ Jorge Alberto
In his 1971 book The Rational Dwelling the architect Carlo Aymonino analyzed the urban housing programs discussed at two CIAM meetings, and came up with an extremely interesting hypothesis.
Until the early 1970s at least, the residential models of the 1920s and 30s remained in full use and basically unchallenged by newer or more innovative propositions.
Today, new approaches tend to acknowledge architecture’s status as one full of intensity and permanent change. More than the monologues that characterized mainstream modernism, we can now speak of architecture as an informal discourse. On the other hand, beyond the causal relation between an individual creator and his design, we can speak of the built environment as an artifact that materializes collective aims, challenging the idea of creative control.
Times have certainly changed since the second and third CIAM meetings. But, how has the dwelling program that constitutes the vast majority of the built environment reflected this change?
Dissected into practical solutions within architecture’s simplest tools, a selection of ten urban housing projects can be read as the epitome of the principles that generate architecture in our time, and thus provide us with useful insight into the future. A critical shift in the reassessment of architectural paradigms should allow the professional debate to delve into uncharted and very promising discussions, while testing the validity of Aymonino’s claims of the seventies in our time.
C3 no.348 (2013 #8/12)
Dwelling Shift
Our House: Urban Dwelling and the Contemporary Paradigm-shift _ Jorge Alberto
In his 1971 book The Rational Dwelling the architect Carlo Aymonino analyzed the urban housing programs discussed at two CIAM meetings, and came up with an extremely interesting hypothesis.
Until the early 1970s at least, the residential models of the 1920s and 30s remained in full use and basically unchallenged by newer or more innovative propositions.
Today, new approaches tend to acknowledge architecture’s status as one full of intensity and permanent change. More than the monologues that characterized mainstream modernism, we can now speak of architecture as an informal discourse. On the other hand, beyond the causal relation between an individual creator and his design, we can speak of the built environment as an artifact that materializes collective aims, challenging the idea of creative control.
Times have certainly changed since the second and third CIAM meetings. But, how has the dwelling program that constitutes the vast majority of the built environment reflected this change?
Dissected into practical solutions within architecture’s simplest tools, a selection of ten urban housing projects can be read as the epitome of the principles that generate architecture in our time, and thus provide us with useful insight into the future. A critical shift in the reassessment of architectural paradigms should allow the professional debate to delve into uncharted and very promising discussions, while testing the validity of Aymonino’s claims of the seventies in our time.
