Urban How
REDUX Complexity and Ornament
This, perhaps, won’t kill that _ Diego Terna
− Inter-Municipal School, Saint-Denis _ AAVP Architecture
− Elsbethen Site _ Trint+Kreuder d.n.a
Dwell How
Sharing in Collective Living
Public Space in Contemporary Housing _ Francesco Cocco+Raimondo Pibiri
− 111 Social Housing in Terrassa _ Flores & Prats Arquitectes
− The Town Musicians of Bremen as Terrace House _ ARTEC Architekten
− Le Lorrain Residential Complex _ MDW Architecture
− 13-Unit Social Housing Restoration _ Garcia Torrente Arquitectos
− Seniors Residence and San Jose Chapel _ Penin Arquitectos
− The Borneohof _ Peter Geusebroek
− Lucien Rose Complex in Rennes _ Atelier du Pont
Aires Mateus
Towards a Second Nature _ Nelson Mota
− Furnas Monitoring and Investigation Center
− House in Aroeira
− House in Leiria
− House in Comporta
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C3 no.329 (2012 #1/12)
Urban How
REDUX Complexity and Ornament
This, perhaps, won’t kill that _ Diego Terna
The birth story of the consolidated historical city has been lost over the millennia, so that the appearance of any urban area brings with it legends and more or less verified events. It is sure, however, that the stratification of the hundreds of years, or even of the thousands, has resulted in the accumulation of complexity, of stimulating richness, that makes life in the city more complete and desirable. The description of this complexity is thus very difficult; even more so is the insertion of new projects into these realities.
Japanese artist Masao Okabe and American artist Kim Jones have presented a series of works that demonstrate possible ways to describe urban stratification and, following certain ideas of Bruno Zevi and Robert Venturi, help us bring out possible means of dialogue between the contemporary and the historical city.
The projects presented here embrace the aspirations of these two artists and of these two critics, seeking to follow the path of accumulation, rather than that of reduction, to which end they resort, among other things, to a marked use of decoration.
They return, perhaps, to an abandoned feeling, as embodied in a resolute sentence Victor Hugo wrote: This will kill that. Maybe it will not.
C3 no.329 (2012 #1/12)
Urban How
REDUX Complexity and Ornament
This, perhaps, won’t kill that _ Diego Terna
The birth story of the consolidated historical city has been lost over the millennia, so that the appearance of any urban area brings with it legends and more or less verified events. It is sure, however, that the stratification of the hundreds of years, or even of the thousands, has resulted in the accumulation of complexity, of stimulating richness, that makes life in the city more complete and desirable. The description of this complexity is thus very difficult; even more so is the insertion of new projects into these realities.
Japanese artist Masao Okabe and American artist Kim Jones have presented a series of works that demonstrate possible ways to describe urban stratification and, following certain ideas of Bruno Zevi and Robert Venturi, help us bring out possible means of dialogue between the contemporary and the historical city.
The projects presented here embrace the aspirations of these two artists and of these two critics, seeking to follow the path of accumulation, rather than that of reduction, to which end they resort, among other things, to a marked use of decoration.
They return, perhaps, to an abandoned feeling, as embodied in a resolute sentence Victor Hugo wrote: This will kill that. Maybe it will not.