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Issue 104 Summer 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
The projects undertaken by the architecture and design firm KieranTimberlake Associates have redefined green design and off-site fabrication. Timberlake discusses their project for MoMA’s Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling.
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Urban planning and the Edenic garden, from Cicero to Borges; and universal knowledge and the public library, from Boulee to Kalach’s own soaring Vasconcelos Library.
>>>Michael Bell represents a new breed of architectural practitioner and professor: one who maintains the centrality of the political while deploying the latest forms of design practice.
>>>Jesús Tenreiro-Degwitz is a renowned Venezuelan architect and esteemed teacher whose buildings reflect his concern for truth and for the improvement of living conditions for the urban citizen.
>>>UN Studio has designed train stations, bridges, private residences and museums with a fluid and inconclusive process that strives for universal consciousness. Ben van Berkel started the practice, along with his wife, Caroline Bos.
>>>Considering architect Steven Holl’s many renowned works, his national and international reputation have clearly been confirmed. Art critic Joseph Masheck and Holl discuss analog, metaphor and Malevich.
>>>Raimund Abraham’s just-completed Austrian Cultural Center rises into the Manhattan skyline like a natural force. He and fellow architect Carlos Brillembourg discuss the philosophy that forms his buildings.
>>>Architect Samuel Mockbee and his Rural Studio have been designing radically inventive homes, community centers and churches for the poor out of the most unlikely materials: card-board boxes, hay, old car windows and bundles of used clothes.
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Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza blends the taut gestures of modernism with the complex, ever-shifting organic designs of nature and the city in his achievement at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, which opened in Oporto in the summer of 1999.
>>>Architect Carlos Brillembourg is among a few initiates allowed entrance to Luis Barragan’s nunnery.
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