Architect and educator Bernard Tschumi is one of the most influential figures in architectural theory and practice. This fascinating volume presents, in a sequence of ten “conversations,” his autobiography in architecture, from his conceptual proposals of the early 1970s through his major current buildings and projects. Tschumi approaches his work as the gradual construction of an argument. The conversations, drawn from a six-year series of interviews with critic Enrique Walker, represent that argument in an analysis of Tschumi’s writings, buildings, and other works. The conversations offer a clear-eyed analysis of Tschumi’s work, suggesting the interwoven relationship between the strategies of each individual design and the formation of the architect’s overarching theoretical project. Among the major works of architecture investigated are Parc de la Villette in Paris; Le Fresnoy National Studio for Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing, France; and the New Acropolis Museum in Athens. Also included are Tschumi's conceptual works and writings such as The Manhattan Transcripts and Architecture and Disjunction.

Tschumi on Architecture: Conversations with Enrique Walker

Biographies & Memoirs

Tschumi, Bernard

Walker, Enrique

Arts & Literature

The Monacelli Press

2G #91: adamo-faiden

Arts & Photography

Bruther

Architecture

Walther König, Köln

Fourteen exquisite innovations in domestic architecture from the acclaimed Chilean virtuoso The work of Chilean architect Smiljan Radic (born 1965) has found international acclaim following his superb 2014 Serpentine Gallery pavilion in London. This 2G issue features a selection of the houses built by Radic throughout his nearly three-decade career, from his extension to the Charcoal Burner's House (Cupliprán, 1997-98) and his Small House (Vilches, 1995-96) to his last Wooden House (Lake Colico, 2014-15) and Prism House (Coinguillio, 2017-18). In addition to the 14 houses featured, a text by Enrique Walker explains the keys to understanding Radic's domestic oeuvre; another, by Moisés Puente, describes the interventions that Radic created at an estate in Vilches for Puente and his family. Two texts by Radic himself discuss Chilean domestic architecture and the role of "repair" (rather than mere restoration or preservation) in architecture generally.

Smiljan Radic: Houses (2g, 83)

Puente, Moisés

Radic, Smiljan

Walther Konig Verlag

Registros de lo ordinario (Spanish Edition)

Puente Editores

Este ARQDOCS reúne dos entrevistas a Enrique Walker sobre los talleres que ha impartido en Columbia GSAPP durante los últimos 15 años. La primera trata sobre una serie de talleres realizados bajo constricciones autoimpuestas con el fin de expandir el campo de trabajo del arquitecto. Bajo Constricción (2003-2006) fue una serie consecutiva de diez talleres de proyecto que examinó el uso de restricciones autoimpuestas en el diseño arquitectónico. La arquitectura, por definición sometida a un régimen de fuerzas externas, en gran medida ha ignorado estas restricciones como herramienta crítica, a diferencia de la literatura o el cine. Y la segunda ”El Diccionario de Ideas Recibidas” (2006-2015), trata sobre el proyecto de una década, cuyo objetivo era examinar las ideas recibidas en la cultura arquitectónica contemporánea; es decir, aquellas estrategias de diseño que agotaron su intensidad original debido a su recurrencia y aquellas que sobrevivieron a los problemas de diseño que originalmente abordaron bel registro de los clichés en el ámbito de la arquitectura contemporánea, para posteriormente utilizarlos como herramientas de proyecto. This ARQDOCS gathers two interviews with Enrique Walker about the studios he has taught at Columbia GSAPP during the last 15 years. The first, 'Under Constraint' (2003-2006), was a series of ten consecutive design studios that examined the use of self-imposed constraints in architectural design. Subjected by definition to a regime of external forces, architecture has by and large disregarded self-imposed constraints as a critical tool, unlike literature or film. Given the abundance of restrictions in architectural practice, and the assumption that design problems are granted, constraints have with few exceptions been either dismissed as obstacles to the imagination, or accepted as requirements to be met. Architectural practice often embraces voluntary constraints when involuntary constraints are weak, though still masking them as external forces, and, in so doing, hindering their potential as a tool. And the second 'The Dictionary of Received Ideas' (2006-2015) was a decade-long project, whose aim was to examine received ideas in contemporary architecture culture; that is, those design strategies that exhausted their original intensity due to recurrence, and those that outlived the design problems they originally addressed. This series of architecture studios and theory seminars proposed to detect and record received ideas prevalent in the field of architecture over the previous decade, both in the professional and academic realms, as a means to ultimately open up otherwise precluded possibilities for architectural design and architectural theory.

Enrique Walker: El diccionario de ideas recibidas / The Dictionary of Received Ideas

Ediciones ARQ

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