SO – IL » Abstainability. 28. Abstainability In a brief moment of anxiety, not uncommon in our current role of “Promising Architects,” a condition that allows for the quick recalibration of one’s own position before the “show is on,” I felt we should consider “broadening our appeal.” How can our firm, SO – IL, become more attractive to more clients now that we need to “capitalize on our potential”?
I was thinking about our “marketability,” and impressed by the ease with which my peers incorporate Greeniness into their practice. But then I mused on. Suddenly I imagined a temporary flood-wall of hand filled sandbags carefully stacked by architectural volunteers in an undulating, grasshopper-generated pattern. I wrote the above harangue during the first week of March. Ben Kinmont, an artist with whom we are working on a pavilion in the Netherlands, introduced us to a concept that he has been developing over a period of time.
What if we apply the same concept to the topic of sustainability within architecture? - Ferran Noguera - ferrannoguera. Ezioblasetti.net. Canasecheveste.com. Stuchi&Leite Projetos. About Fake Industries Architectural Agonism. Urtzi Grau Urtzi Grau is principal of Fake Industries Architectural Agonism. He graduated from the School of Architecture of Barcelona in 2000, was awarded Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design by the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, Columbia University in 2004, and is currently completing his Ph.D. at Princeton University School of Architecture on the 1970's urban renewal of Barcelona. He teaches at the Princeton School of Architecture and Cooper Union and his work and writings have been published in different international journals such as 306090, Architect's Newspaper, Domus, Pasajes de Arquitectura y Critica, Pidgin, Volume, Via Arquitectura and Visions.
Cristina Goberna Pesudo Cristina Goberna is a practitioner architect and critic, although she prefers to be known as a master fencer. Dellekamp arquitectos.