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Speciale editie: Focus op hybride ruimtes

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Speciale editie: Focus op industriële architectuur

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Speciale edition: building for the community

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RAAAF interrogates the nature and necessity of architecture. The studio’s
mainspring is a subtractive rather than an additive one. “The poetry of
absence recurs constantly in our work. We see emptiness as a contrast to a
world that is constantly filling up with things.”

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This special edition will be about 'Architecture for worship and contemplation' and contains interviews with 3 architects: Ali Mangera and Ada Yvars from Mangera Yvars Architects, Marek Štěpán from Atelier Štěpán and Jan Olav Jensen from Jensen & Skodvin Architects.

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No architectural genre has changed more radically than that of the office and the workplace. Organizations have become less hierarchical. Creativity and a rapid, effective response to market developments both call for a flexible, horizontal organization. People are more aware than ever that workplace design contributes to the quality of the work done and the functioning of the organization.

Archidea 55 is a special edition about "office spaces" and features interviews with Verda Alexander & Primo Orpilla, Piuarch and Clive Wilkinson.

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This edition offers an interview with architect Andrés Jaque from the Office for Political Innovation. According to Andrés Jaque, architects cannot define society but they can create conditions capable of readjusting people’s attitudes towards one other. That is why his office tries to open up the conventional closed box and to suggest alternative ways of using a space.

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Josémaria de Churtichaga: “I always start with an idea of the atmosphere or experiential conditions that I want to achieve. The exterior is secondary to me. It is basically a consequence of the interior. In the interior, you are almost in total control. Designing the exterior is restricted by the kind of ‘organism’ you defined in the interior.”

LUKASZ ZAGALA INTERVIEW

Lukasz Zagala: “We use rough materials, but we bring their beauty to the surface in the way we use them and put them next to one another. The combination of materials creates a new space, a new feeling - something that is not mainstream.”

ArchIdea 51

As in other parts of the world, modernity has spread across Asia in an unstoppable flood. The pace of change, and the form in which it manifests itself, has differed from one region to another. But no country has escaped all the radical processes of modernization such as mushrooming cities, advances in technology and an increasingly globalized economy. It has been a challenge for architects to decide what stance to take towards the modern paradigm. A specific question has been whether architecture should aim to be international in style, should hark back to regional archetypes in reaction to the loss of identity, or should aspire to a blend of Occidental and Oriental traits.

Archidea 50

Interview with Bjarke Ingels: “Why should a building be judged purely on the grounds of utility? Shouldn’t it also behave like a good citizen? If every building were designed to cater only for a specific purpose, the result would be a terrible city. I think that when you design a building you have to ask yourself how many dreams you can fulfill.”

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INTERVIEW with MECANOO “Different people bring different kinds of expertise into the designing process. We, the architects, are the ones who know about space – or are supposed to – and about designing it. But we are not experts in how teachers want to teach, nor are we are experts in the kind of space in which the users feel at ease. So it can help a lot when you talk to teachers and students or children.”

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Interview Emre Arolat

“In architecture we should learn from the land, from the place.” Unlike the hardcore modernists, architect Emre Arolat believes in context, in differentiation and in not having the same order everywhere. “I feel very uncomfortable when people say they recognize my designs. I force myself to make something different every time, something that depends on the context.”

Archidea 47

INTERVIEW - Marcio Kogan
The architectural approach of one of the leading architects of Brazil, Marcio Kogan, shows some intriguing contradictions. He pushes the design of a house to the limit, but at the same time he advocates simple solutions that are sustainable.

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Interview with Julien De Smedt is not afraid to produce architecture that creates a visual spectacle. Extravagance and spectacle are not however the essence of his architecture. “The shape of some of our projects was motivated by a wish not to obstruct the view of the building behind it....

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Interview with Charles Renfro The architect Charles Renfro, of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, likes to turn everything on its head a bit. According to him, a trick, a pleasure of a discomfort wakes people up. "Those moments of discomfort are the ones that bring...
Focus on interiors Urban nature as public space. The problem of eroding urban space has dominated the architectural discourse since the seventies. The projects CCTV and TTCV buildings, Madrid Rio and High Line all show an example of giving public space...

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Interview with Ofis Architects The young architectural office has been attracting attention from the international architectural press with some original, playful, beautiful and conceptually interesting designs…

FOCUS ON ARCHITECTURE TOURISM No category of architecture is more playful or more exuberant than architecture dedicated to tourism. Anything is possible, it seems, as long as it attracts attention and provides a spectacle that yanks…

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Interview with Retail Edition Studio Concrete in Amsterdam spurns the conventional boundaries between architecture, interior design and graphic design and takes...
FUKSAS There was a long period when architects took little interest in retail design. The Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas was one of the very...

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Interview with Steven Holl Ideas drive the designs of architect Steven Holl. In many cases his ideas spring from musical concepts. You move through a sequence of...
FOCUS ON INTERIORS The experience of space goes further than the tactile sense and involves sound, smell and light. Light is most crucial medium because of...