with Green
Architecture and Green – Setting the Extents _ Silvio Carta
Emergent Techne and Four Causes of Architecture _ Sang Lee
Inserted in Green
− Surazo Hotel _ WMR Arquitectos
− Tepoztlán Lounge _ Cadaval & Solà-Morales
− Spruce Art Center _ LYCS Architecture
− Ranco House _ Elton + Léniz Arquitectos
Putting on Green
− S.A Residence _ Shatotto Architecture
− Stacking Green _ Vo Trong Nghia + Daisuke Sanuki + Shunri Nishizawa
− School of the Arts _ WOHA
− School and Student Residence in Ivry-sur-Seine _ Chartier Dalix Architects
Staying in the Everlasting
New Forms of Life _ Marco Atzori
− Endémico Resguardo Silvestre _ Gracia Studio
− Elqui Domos Astronomical Hotel _ Rodrigo Duque Motta Arquitectos
− Fasano Las Piedras _ Isay Weinfeld
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Questioning Architectural Certainties _ Silvio Carta
− House Rot-Ellen-Berg
− Former Theater Storehouse Renovation
− House Belgrade
− House Bernheimbeuk
− House BM
The Venice Biennale 13th International Architecture Exhibition
On Showing Architecture _ Diego Terna
The Venice Biennale 13th International
C3 no.339 (2012 #11/12)
with Green
Architecture and Green – Setting the Extents _ Silvio Carta
Not so many issues around architecture and urban studies have been exploited as the green question during the recent decades. The raise of green concern is directly connected to the awareness of the increasing scarcity of natural resources, in opposition to a vision of the world characterized by an endless storage of materials to be used by our civilization.
The green question has influenced several aspects of design: from aesthetics (the presence of “green” features into buildings) to technique (intelligent facades or responsive part of buildings). Moreover, a more speculative side of the discourse can be highlighted. As explained by Sang Lee in his “Emergent Techne and Four Causes of Architecture”, green implies a reconsideration of nature and its relationship with people. However, the several attempts to frame this relationship fall into the same structural organization characterized by a constant opposition where green (as a symbol of nature) is considered as an alter in regards of mankind. By this extent, the idea of green implies an invisible watershed dividing people from nature, and the related architectural question is thus formulated in terms of how a possible interaction between the two should be, how it has been in the past and how it should be in the future.
With the dichotomy nature-mankind as a background of all “green” questions in architecture, we can concentrate on how buildings are positioned within the distance between the two terms, and the value or the interest of a particular project lie on the way the design deals with it.
C3 no.339 (2012 #11/12)
with Green
Architecture and Green – Setting the Extents _ Silvio Carta
Not so many issues around architecture and urban studies have been exploited as the green question during the recent decades. The raise of green concern is directly connected to the awareness of the increasing scarcity of natural resources, in opposition to a vision of the world characterized by an endless storage of materials to be used by our civilization.
The green question has influenced several aspects of design: from aesthetics (the presence of “green” features into buildings) to technique (intelligent facades or responsive part of buildings). Moreover, a more speculative side of the discourse can be highlighted. As explained by Sang Lee in his “Emergent Techne and Four Causes of Architecture”, green implies a reconsideration of nature and its relationship with people. However, the several attempts to frame this relationship fall into the same structural organization characterized by a constant opposition where green (as a symbol of nature) is considered as an alter in regards of mankind. By this extent, the idea of green implies an invisible watershed dividing people from nature, and the related architectural question is thus formulated in terms of how a possible interaction between the two should be, how it has been in the past and how it should be in the future.
With the dichotomy nature-mankind as a background of all “green” questions in architecture, we can concentrate on how buildings are positioned within the distance between the two terms, and the value or the interest of a particular project lie on the way the design deals with it.
