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proximamente subiré las fotos de las bufandas , guantes , y demás  fotos que eh tomado y pinturas que ya acabé y unos que otro apuntes y reflexiones  . 

Impresionante Biblioteca Pops al aire libre en el este de Alemania

Lo que comenzó como un conjunto de 1.000 cajas de cerveza vacías juntado por los residentes en el este de Alemania se ha convertido en una  increíble biblioteca pública al aire libre. Diseñado por Karo Architekten en colaboración con los residentes locales, el proyecto  revitaliza un puesto de distrito industrial en Magdeburg, Alemania mediante la creación de un centro cultural y un pop-up biblioteca donde los libros son libres de tomar y dejar las 24 horas del día. Inaugurado en junio pasado, el proyecto introduce un espacio verde y vuelve a utilizar la fachada de un viejo almacén de bello efecto

La biblioteca fue construida desde la base, con el apoyo y la interacción de la comunidad que la rodea - primero como modelo de 1:1 a partir de cartones de cerveza y más tarde como un proyecto acabado, con la ayuda de Karo de Arquitectos, que incorpora partes de la fachada de la almacén de la ciudad de Hamm Horten demolido. Durante la planificación y todo el período de construcción de la biblioteca aceptado donaciones de libros, que ahora están disponibles para préstamos a cualquier hora del día sin una membresía - simplemente caminar hasta un cubículo, y sacar un tomo. 

Además de sus servicios de préstamo de libros de la biblioteca al aire libre también introduce una ráfaga de espacio público verde a un puesto de distrito industrial. La plaza cubierta de hierba características de un café de lectura y un escenario que alberga el teatro de la escuela primaria de obras de teatro, lecturas públicas, conciertos y otros eventos culturales.

Kallosturin Architecture

Los Altos House by Kallosturin

a modern house built within a California vernacular neighborhood. Skylights and large windows allow in plenty of light, yet the design and layout allows for maximum privacy. More at kallosturin.com.

fuente: http://mocoloco.com , Harry 

Kinderhook Retreat by Steven Harris Architects

 a weekend retreat on a 50-acre swath of land in upstate New York with windows are strategically placed to frame the landscape. More at Steven Harris Architects.

fuente: http://mocoloco.com

Opera Camper

 by Axel Enthoven

Via @Springwise, a compact foldout trailer designed by Axel Enthoven inspired by the Sydney Opera House. "It folds out of the trailer in minutes, revealing a sleek interior that includes hot and cold running water, a toilet, a simple stove, a wine cabinet and an espresso bar. As well as two luxury beds that slide together at the push of a button. And an enclosed teak veranda." More at yoursuiteinnature.com.

fuente ; http://mocoloco.com

Interview with Tom Kühne at Architonic

@Architonic, an interview with designer Tom Kühne who explains the difference between architect's design and designer's design. Above, Feuilleton seating by Tom Kühne.

Fuente:Harry - http://mocoloco.com

Glass Microbiology by Luke Jerram

Via @Yatzer, Luke Jerram's transparent glass sculptures, "created to contemplate the global impact of each disease and to consider how the artificial colouring of scientific imagery affects our understanding of phenomena." Jerram explores the tension between the artworks' beauty and what they represent, their impact on humanity.
Fuente:Harry ,http://mocoloco.com

Critic’s Notebook(the NY times) An American Architectural Epoch Locks Its Doors

 
Top, Chicago History Museum, via Associated Press (World's Fair 1893, Chicago); J. Emilio Flores for The New York Times (Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles)

CLASSICAL BEGINNINGS A move to create a national cultural identity began with City Beautiful, top. ECLECTIC ENDINGS An epoch of millennial architecture, coming to a close, rejected homogeneity.

No doubt many saw the recent opening of Dallas’s imposing new performing arts center as a welcome sign of civic confidence during hard times. But it also signaled a closing.
A dynamic moment in American architecture — the explosion of art museums, concert halls and performing arts centers that transformed cities across the country over the last decade — is officially over. The money has dried up, and who knows when there will be a similar boom.

Some are thrilled. For years critics have railed against these cultural complexes as pointlessly grandiose expressions of vanity — a poisonous brew of architectural egotism and excessive wealth that was destroying America’s urban centers. Why all the fancy forms, they argued? Wouldn’t the money be better spent on something more valuable, like schoolbooks?

Yet as the dust settles on the last of these projects, what begins to emerge is a more complex image of America’s cultural values at the birth of a new century. The formal dazzle masks a deeper struggle by cities and architects to create accessible public space in an age of shrinking government revenue and privatization. At their most ambitious, they are an effort to rethink the two great urban planning movements that gave shape to the civic and cultural identity of the American city.

The more influential of these was the City Beautiful Movement in the late 19th century. Modeled after the Beaux-Arts grandiosity of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, the movement was an expression of a newly confident, ascendant America — a country of national monopolies and sprawling rail networks. The homogeneity of the architecture, with its classical facades typically arranged around formal parks, reflected the desire to create a symbolic language of national unity after the Civil War. Emulated in cities like Washington, Cleveland, Denver and Detroit, the movement gave the country its first uniform vision of city planning.

The urge returned during the cold war in New York’s Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center in Washington, the Los Angeles Music Center. These sprawling cultural complexes, cut off from their surrounding neighborhoods, not only reflected tabula rasa planning orthodoxies of their time, but all of them used a mix of modern and imperial styles and themes to portray a progressive vision of America rooted in classical ideals.

I suspect that many of those who criticize the eclecticism of recent years miss the confidence the two earlier eras conveyed. Most likely, they liked aspects of their homogeneity, too. The problem with freedom, after all, is that it allows for horrifying imaginative failures as well as works of stunning genius. When artists fail, you can ignore their work. When architects fail, you walk by their buildings every morning on your way for coffee shaking your fist. (The Milwaukee and Denver art museums come to mind.)

Yet this period produced powerful efforts to create a new model for the post-cold-war American city. The most obvious of these is Chicago’s Millennium Park, a somewhat traditional arrangement of cultural buildings and sprawling lawns built on top of a derelict rail yard. Completed in 2004, the park is mobbed with office workers and tourists on an average weekday. It feels as if it has been part of the city’s life for decades.

Its uncommon power, though, stems from the symbiotic relationship between opposing architectural visions: the rambunctious steel forms of Frank Gehry’s Pritzker Pavilion and Renzo Piano’s glass-and-steel addition to the Art Institute of Chicago. The two — one a vision of riotous emotions, the other of quiet serenity — square off directly across from each other. And they lock the park into a larger urban composition of mismatched late-19th-century and early-20th-century office buildings and 1980s towers.

A cultural district in Miami — the only one still in the planning stages that looks likely to move ahead since it was financed years ago — will take a similarly eclectic approach. The project will stand on a 30-acre landfill framed by Biscayne Bay and what was once the city’s main commercial boulevard. A strip of undulating dunes, which block the view from the boulevard and made the area a hot spot for crime in the 1970s and 1980s, will be removed. New science and art museums are to be tucked alongside the park. As in Chicago, the buildings will present contrasting architectural styles that confront each other across a plaza. The science museum, by Grimshaw Architects, is all curves; Herzog & de Meuron’s cheekier art museum, raised up on a concrete plinth, resembles a cold-war-era performing arts center that has been surgically reconstructed and then swallowed up by the surrounding park.

Both the Chicago and Miami developments reflect the evolution of architectural thought at the beginning of the current millennium. Both favor heterogeneity over conformity; both seek to express the clash of values that define a historic city rather than suppress it. At the same time, they are carefully interwoven with the urban fabric that surrounds them.

But their success has as much to do with context and scale as with the quality of the architecture. Millennium Park and the Miami cultural district abut relatively healthy, historically rich urban districts. And neither is bigger than a few city blocks.

When an arts district flounders, the causes are often found in the social history of its site. Particularly in the aftermath of the highway construction and slum clearance strategies that reached their height in the Eisenhower era, the question has been not only how to create vibrant public spaces but how to repair social, racial and economic scars that are decades old.

This was especially true in Dallas, where the freeways that border the arts district site to the north and east were built with money partly from the 1956 National Interstate and Defense Highways Act. In a pattern repeated across America, these projects were bulldozed through thriving African-American and Latino communities, cutting them off from the city center. By the time planners unveiled the first proposals to build a new arts district, in the 1970s, much of the site had deteriorated into a wasteland of empty lots, industrial buildings and corner bars. Planners envisioned a necklace of cultural institutions along a 68-acre site that extends east from the Museum of Art along a tree-lined street.

The results could have been worse. The enormous steel canopy of Norman Foster’s opera house has a pleasant, almost affectionate relationship with the low Cubist forms of Brad Cloepfil’s performing and visual arts high school next door. Rem Koolhaas’s and Joshua Prince-Ramus’s cool and somber aluminum-clad theater tower across the street, by contrast, is an aggressive rejection of the visual noise that many have come to expect when a star architect is hired to design a cultural building. What’s more, the new buildings sit comfortably alongside older structures like I.M. Pei’s concert hall and Edward Larrabee Barnes’s art museum, extending the conversation across generations as well as contrasting architectural philosophies.

What the planners could not easily overcome, however, was the scale of destruction, and the resistance many felt toward breaking down old barriers. Nearly 30 years after the plan was unveiled, most of the commercial lots remain empty. And the divisions that continue to separate this enclave of high culture from the nearby communities remain deep.

No project better illustrates these tensions than Los Angeles’ downtown arts district, which was conceived in the 1950s as an elite cultural citadel fortified against the surrounding Latino neighborhoods. To build it, civic leaders approved the bulldozing of a sprawling, decayed residential neighborhood of two-story Victorian houses. The Music Center, completed in the 1960s, was isolated on a concrete base in the style of Lincoln Center. The Harbor Freeway, partly built around the same time, cut the site off from the city to the west. The area’s isolation was further reinforced in the 1980s with the construction of sterile corporate towers and plazas, which formed a barrier against the Latino communities that occupied the old historic corridor nearby.

Walt Disney Concert Hall, completed six years ago, was the first sincere effort to reverse this trend. Frank Gehry went to great pains to fuse his building with the city around it. The ribbons of shiny stainless steel that envelop the structure lift up seductively along Grand Avenue to draw passersby into the lobby. Just above, the facade swells out to echo the curves of the Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion next door, a gesture that gives the old structure sudden, unexpected grace.

But if Mr. Gehry’s creation has brought instant vitality to the street, it also demonstrates architecture’s limits as an agent for social healing. Even as the building was rising, Mr. Gehry and a choir of other voices were lobbying hard to break down the physical barriers that isolated the avenue from the rest of downtown. Many of the solutions were obvious. Mr. Gehry produced an elegant design to bring the Music Center’s plaza down to the level of the avenue. Civic leaders envisioned a park that would extend east from the base of the Music Center down to City Hall, linking the arts district to downtown’s civic core. So far these proposals have come to naught, and just as in Dallas, vast lots bulldozed decades ago remain undeveloped.

The failures in Dallas and Los Angeles, in the end, have less to do with too much creative freedom, the quality of the buildings and the master plan, or even the basic concept of an arts district, than with scale and context. They reflect the long battle between those who want to tear down old barriers and those who simply want to replace them with new ones. Solving that conflict will be left to a future epoch.

Forms With a Function

The City Beautiful Movement sprang from the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893. It was the first effort to create a uniform national cultural identity through architecture.

Photo: Chicago History Museum, via Associated Press

The National Mall in Washington was part of the City Beautiful Movement. The vision typically featured classical facades arranged around formal parks.

Photo: National Archives/Newsmakers,

The cold war era produced its own homogeneous architecture in American cities. Lincoln Center in New York was among the movement's stars.

Photo: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, part of the Music Center, is another example of a vision favored during the cold war years.

Photo: Associated Press

Millennial architecture, notably Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, next door to the Chandler Pavilion, rejected the homogeneity and classical forms of the earlier eras.

Photo: J. Emilio Flores for The New York Times

A walkway joins Millennium Park to Renzo Piano’s addition to the Art Institute of Chicago.

Photo: Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press

Squaring off against the Art Institute addition is Frank Gehry’s riotous Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park.

Photo: Peter Thompson for The New York Times

Norman Foster’s opera house in Dallas, right, part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center that opened recently, is among the last projects in a dynamic moment for American architecture.

Photo: Donna McWilliam/Associated Press

A theater by Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus is also part of the Dallas performing arts complex.

Photo: Donna McWilliam/Associated Press

An art museum, by Herzog & de Meuron, still in the planning stages, is scheduled to go up in Miami. Its design nods to the building's cold-war-era cousins.

Photo: Rendering by Herzog & de Meuron

Stirling architecture prize 'ignores public'

The organisers of Stirling prize for architecture have been accused of bias against traditional design, contrary to public preferences

Bookies' favourite ... Fuglsang Kunstmuseum in Denmark, designed by Tony Fretton Architects. Photograph: Helene Binet

The organisers of the Stirling prize for architecture, the winner of which will be announced tonight, have been accused of harbouring a bias against traditional design, contrary to public preferences.

All six shortlisted entries for the £20,000 prize are based on contemporary designs, but a YouGov survey published yesterday showed that more than three-quarters of the public prefer traditional buildings.

Robert Adam, a prominent traditional architect, accused the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba), which administers the award, of ignoring popular opinion and refusing to acknowledge the quality of new traditional buildings that had been recognised in other national awards. "The architectural profession is so biased against traditional buildings that when architects give awards to architects they praise modernism, which is what most of them produce," he said.

The pollsters showed 1,042 respondents pictures of the facades of two contemporary buildings – a visual arts centre in Shoreditch, by Adjaye Associates, and Kings Place, a glass office and arts building in King's Cross that is partly occupied by the Guardian, by Dixon Jones – and two traditionally designed buildings – an office block by Robert Adam on Jermyn Street in London and a building in Berlin. Respondents were asked which they would most like to see built near their homes. Some 77% selected the traditional designs.

The findings reignited the traditional-versus-contemporary design debate that has been simmering all year. Two buildings by Richard Rogers, a leading modernist, are on the shortlist in a move seen by some as a vote of confidence after Rogers became embroiled in bitter row with Prince Charles, a traditionalist, over architectural style.

The bookmakers' favourite is an art museum in Denmark by Tony Fretton Architects, at 6/4. A shopping centre in Liverpool, an office block in the City of London and a health centre in Kentish town complete the shortlist.

Ruth Reed, the Riba president, explained said the alleged bias towards contemporary architecture was explained by the fact that very few traditional buildings were entered, and she said clients rarely commissioned such architecture. She also claimed that traditional buildings were "frequently very expensive and often use unsustainable materials".

But other critics said the Stirling prize failed to reflect the high quality of work of some traditional architects.

"Dimitri Porphyrious is as good an architect as there is in the country and he has never got a look in," said Ellis Woodman, architecture critic at Building Design magazine. "There is a sense the shortlist is selected by people who are fighting a war from the 1980s [when Prince Charles first attacked modernism] which many people in architecture have now grown out of."

Sam Jacobs, a Stirling prize judge, said it was not the job of the prize to pander to popular opinion.

"You would get a similar response to this poll if you put the shortlist for the Turner prize or the Mercury music prize to the British public," he said. "But these are prizes that are intended to help develop their arts. The Stirling prize is not about what is the most popular building."

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MAD architects: taichung convention center

el diseño se concibe como un tejido continuo de la arquitectura y el paisaje que difumina el límite entre la arquitectura, el espacio público y paisaje urbano, proponiendo una futurista visión basada en  filosofía naturalista. Los patios abiertos que se conectan a la persona y las 
"montañas" se integran en una secuencia natural de los espacios al aire libre, como la búsqueda de la convivencia armónica entre las personas y la naturaleza ejemplificada por la antigua ciudad prohibida y jardines chinos,
Este proyecto busca un mayor significado en sus cualidades no materiales, espacios cercados con el máximo espíritu naturalista. un solo árbol, un trozo de bambú, o un estanque convertido en figuras centrales del espacio.
este enfoque del desarrollo sostenible no se basa en la tecnología, sino en la filosofía tradicional
y la estética.