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"It's a critique that manages to mention Pamela Anderson, Brad Pitt and Rem Koolhaas. Estimated reading time: seven minutes." - SimCity Dubai - Designing Ottawa Blog (Ottawa Citizen) Dubai tries to outdo the biggest and the best in the... more
Architecture monograph engages with production and marketing instruments to exist within the system of our image-driven society. Challenging its conventional understanding, this article aims to uncover the contemporary monograph as a site... more
El presente texto toma como punto de partida una arquitectura entendida como imagen de mundo-esto es, imagen de un modelo económico-social hegemónico-con el propósito de explorar las posibilidades que posee para articular vivencias e... more
This article explores an extended sense of autonomy in contemporary architecture activated through the practice of fashion, by taking architect Rem Koolhaas’ work Prada Epicenter in New York as a case. In doing so, it argues that... more
When the structure as the object of architecture is positioned as an entity in the universe, the concept of time is included in its relationship with the user. Many subjects encountered with the structure via temporality produce an... more
Al MAXXI, I la retrospettiva itinerante che espone 70 progetti dello studio olandese Inside Outside | Petra Blaisse.
Within a vast arsenal of architectural techniques employed by OMA in their first decade, poché occupies a unique position, for two reasons. First, unlike design techniques adopted from Surrealism, such as the paranoid-critical method or... more
This is a review of the first monograph of the Dutch architecture practice MVRDV; it is a reflection on the practice’s built work from the 1990s up to 2012. The book is edited by Ilka and Andreas Ruby, two self-confessed admirers of... more
Rem Koolhaas, Śmieciowa przestrzeń. Teksty, Centrum Architektury, Warszawa 2017 Rem Koolhaas – architekt, myśliciel, prowokator, najwybitniejszy intelektualista wśród architektów i najwybitniejszy architekt wśród intelektualistów.... more
El presente texto pretende servir como revisión crítica de uno de los hitos arquitectónicos más significativos de la década pasada: el auditorio Casa da Música de Oporto. Mucho se ha hablado sobre este edificio de Rem Koolhaas desde su... more
Perhaps billboards warn about the possibility of a change in attitude that I believe architecture needs to be able to re-introduce itself, but this time, naked and without the self-made shields. Despite being halfway and not a... more
“Una vez delimitado el campo particular de un tipo de arquitectura dominada por una morfología de matriz cúbica; y a partir de la generación de un análisis crítico de los aspectos externos, que aunque a veces más relegados, son los... more
Starting with the urban changes in the1990s, Vinex policies aimed at interrelating the city center and peripheric areas through developing and evaluating existing housing stock at the waterfront, and stimulating affordable and attractive... more
o artigo analisa as atuais condições sócio-espaciais por meio de aproximações, mas sobretudo de contrastes com conceitos espaciais que pautaram, em grande medida, a compreensão da espacialidade da década de 1990. Evidencia-se, neste... more
In writings such as Robin Boyd’s The Australian Ugliness (1960) and Peter Blake’s God's Own Junkyard (1964), post-war urbanization or suburbanization is cast as a terrible or horrifying form of ugliness. By contrast, Robert Venturi and... more
While the established histories of architectural theory generally focus upon the discourse produced by eminent architects and/or famous scholars, there is another counter-discourse that has developed gradually in the background. This is a... more
Artigo crítico sobre a trajetória do arquiteto vencedor do prêmio Pritzker, Rem Koolhaas, e seu icônico projeto para a Casa da Música de Porto.
Rem Koolhaas étant quelqu’un d’extrêmement productif mais surtout évolutif, il est difficile voir impossible de résumer sa production graphique à un style ou a une manière de faire. Le texte ci-dessous se focalise sur la dialectique... more
As private enterprise has triumphed over public investment as the preferred means to urbanization, two books that sought to reorient architecture towards the liberal city should be scrutinized. Learning from Las Vegas and Delirious... more
Introduction: It is originally considered that a pavilion is a ‘portable accommodation; tent; hut; isolated construction, in the centre or on the sides of the main body of a building…’ Encyclopaedia Verbo (Siza 2005:5). Unlike other... more
Since 2004, when it first opened its door, the Seattle public library drew both appreciation as well as critics. Such contrasting views were inevitable since the project explicitly challenged preconceived notions of a public library in... more
The following essay sketches varieties of imagination operative in the best architectural work. It was published in Warehouse Journal, a student-edited journal produced annually by the Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba.... more
Moreira, Inês. “OMA/Progress: the exhibition as a question mark, not as a statement”, in Baía, Pedro (ed.). Koolhaas Tangram. Porto: Circo de Ideias, 2014. (English, 108pp.)
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In Project Japan, Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist revisit what is arguably the last Utopian movement in architecture, the Japanese Metabolists. In 2005, in the realisation that the members of this diverse group of architects,... more
With the growing problems of human congestion and hygiene in the biggest European capitals during the early phases of the industrial revolution, new means of control had to be established, that allowed to handle big amounts of people for... more
Kapitalizmin doğumundan günümüze kadar uzanan sürede mimarlık ve sanat yeni bir düşüncenin arayışındadır. Yaşamın sürekli yenilenmesi var olan nesnelliği sürekli yeniden biçimlendirmektedir. Bu değişim kapitalizmi ve içindeki bireyler... more
Research on the work of Rem Koolhas on the resilience that existed in the City of Almere in a way that created a new concept of city, completely changed the panorama, was the participation of important architects.
To be published at Journal of the Regional Association of Architectural Institute of Korea, August 2016 (forthcoming)
Much has been written on the impact of digital technology and its translation into architectural practice and education. This paper reconsiders this process of integration to question current trends in research and pedagogy. Recent... more
¿Existen condiciones de posibilidad estética dentro del marco de lo que entendemos como arquitectura contemporánea? Para el filósofo francés Jacques Rancière, la arquitectura de hoy día no es mas que una herramienta de los regimenes de... more
Traducción libre del inglés por Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero (realizada en 2002), alftecumseh@gmail.com cuyas explicaciones entre paréntesis aparecen seguidas de la abreviatura “N. del T.” (Por “Nota del Traductor”), conforme al original del... more
En la Casa-Patio de Kralingenen, Koolhaas propone que el patio funcione como una “caja vacía”, en torno al cual se ordenan los espacios de la casa, estos a su vez, están contenidos en otra caja de planta cuadrada y en 2 niveles. Según... more
“Studia il latino che ti insegna a ragionare”, “studiate Rem Koolhaas che vi insegnerà a ragionare”. Andate oltre la forma finita per comprenderne l’attualità del ragionamento, studiatene la struttura logica, dal concept al progetto... more