urbanism « CIUDAD EVOLUTIVA adjkm identidad para la sucursal del cielo, caracas adjkm.tumblr.com - adjkm.com adjkm is a collective of architects founded in 2010 by Alejandro Méndez (Caracas, 1982), Daniel Otero (Caracas, 1981), Jean-Marc Rio (Paris, 1976), Khristian Ceballos (Caracas, 1977) and Mawarí Núñez (Caracas, 1982). The group operates between Caracas and Paris. The creation of the collective resulted from the participation in the CIASMSB competition, in which their proposal was awarded the first place. The outcome of this competition encouraged them to participate in another national competition: Centro Cultural Simón Díaz, in which they were awarded an honorable mention. adjkm currently works in several projects and competitions both at a national and international level.
Architecture architecture Renzo Piano piece by piece The “Barbara Cappochin” International Architecture Biennale mounts an exhibition on the Genoese architect in Padua The Pritzker Prize to Shigeru Ban "I see this prize as encouragement for me to grow" Copenhagen Architecture Festival x FILM fr LINA, LE CORBU, FLAVIO, BERNARDES, MATTA, VALPARAISO, AT 'DESVIOS DE LA DERIVA' CURATED BY LISETTE LAGNADO AND MARIA BERRIOS AT REINA SOFIA, MADRID Le Corbusier, Plan for the Development of Rio de Janeiro, 1929 Le Corbusier, Sketches done during Conference in Rio, 1936 Roberto Matta, 'Snail's Trace', 1937 Architecture Wallpaper* newsletter Register for our bi-weekly bulletin of the stuff that refines you By submitting your details, you'll also receive emails from Time Inc. UK, publisher of Wallpaper* and other iconic brands about its goods and services, and those of its carefully selected third parties.
This Big City — Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement This post is also available in: Chinese (Traditional) Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement – currently running at the Museum of Modern Art in New York – presents eleven architectural projects that explore how the social responsibility of architecture can be realized. All projects are aimed at communities underserved by architecture and design, and they all are small physical solutions that seek broader social, political and economical effects in those communities. The selection of projects includes primarily housing, but it also explores the impact of cultural projects and public transport. Here we present a brief look into the projects in the exhibition.
Brazilian National Shooting Center / BCMF Arquitetos Architects: BCMF Arquitetos / Bruno Campos (Architect in Charge), Marcelo Fontes and Silvio Todeschi Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Project Team: Cláudio Parreiras Reis, Luciana Maciel, Lisiane Melo, Leonardo Fávero, Cristiano Monte-Mór, Ana Kawakami, Fabiana Fortes e Antônio Valadares Program: Shooting, Equestrian, Hockey, Archery and Modern Pentathlon venues Project management and General Coordination: Engesolo Engenharia Ltda Structure: Helio Chumbinho (Misa Engenharia)/ Lino Nunes de Castro (Globsteel) Sports Consultant: Aqualar (Swimming Pool), Forbex (Grass Hockey) and Eduardo Castro Mello Lighting: Godoy Associados Contractor: Construções e Comércio Camargo Corrêa (CCCC) Budget: 40.000.000 EURO (US $53.5 millions) Project year: 2005-2007 Constructed Area: 92,900 sqmPhotographs: Bruno Carvalho, Kaká Ramalho, Bruno Campos, Marcelo Fontes, Silvio Todeschi The Shooting Center
WALLS OF CHANGE (above) The Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989. Walls are meant to separate, that is true. After all, it is an essential mission of the architect to ‘define space’, which means to construct limits, edges, boundaries that carve out particular pieces of undifferentiated space for human purposes. Walls of many different shapes and materials are prime means at the architect’s disposal, and we are used to thinking of them as dividers between one side and another. Most often these two sides are different, even opposing—cold/warm, dark/light, noisy/quiet, public/private—and the separating walls secure people or things on one side from people or things on the other.
Branner Fellowship Summary: Favela Chic - Archinect on the Metro Cable (cable car system), Santo Domingo Savio, Medellín (Colombia) The John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship, awarded each year to three masters of architecture students in their final year at the University of California, Berkeley, gives recipients the opportunity to travel the world for twelve months in pursuit of architectural inquiries that will later inform their theses. This fellowship represents one of the most extensive pre-thesis travel research grants awarded to master level students in the United States. The 2010 Branner Fellows, Adriana Navarro-Sertich, Eleanor Pries, and Melissa Smith have just returned from their travel and are in the midst of thesis production.
EL MUSEO NÓMADA, de Shigeru Ban "Al explorar el lenguaje y la sensibilidad poética compartida por todos estos animales, trabajo hacia el redescubrimiento del ámbito común que una vez existió cuando la gente vivía en armonía con los animales. Espero que el efecto final sea una experiencia de asombro y contemplación, de serenidad y esperanza." Gregory Colbert, fotógrafo. Fue a finales del 2003 cuando Shigeru Ban, el arquitecto japonés popular por sus construcciones con tubos de cartón, recibió un encargo increíble: el de imaginar un museo móvil. El museo debía viajar alrededor del mundo para mostrar las imágenes que el fotógrafo canadiense Gregory Colbert ha tomado a lo largo de treinta y tres expediciones por lugares insólitos del mundo. Las fotografías responden al criterio de buscar aquellas relaciones originales entre los animales y las personas que el hombre contemporáneo ya ha perdido.Precisamente esa misma noción de viajar con la cámara era la que Colbert quería para su museo.
spatializing the emptiness - the resistance of intelligent territories architects should re-define their social role, accepting the relative truths of the vulnerable sectors, to understand unknown realities that are immersed in the oblivion of the emptiness. space is our raw material, but it is always conjugated with the human beings; and if they fall into the void of oblivion, we must appeal to our raw material to save them, even if it means the construction of the no-space, spatializing the emptiness. as a socio-political tool, architecture allows the insertion of our ideas and concepts for a ignored group of people.
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