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Alternative Histories: Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven Architecten on Ernest Born
15 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven Architecten on Ernest Born15 July 2019
Treasure Island is an artificial island in the San Francisco Bay and was built in 1937 for the ‘Golden Gate International Exposition’, a World’s Fair on the occasion of the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. Architect Ernest Born designed various buildings for the fair including the ‘Main Portal’, a… Read More
Alternative Histories: Murmuur Architecten on Álvaro Siza
8 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Murmuur Architecten on Álvaro Siza8 July 2019
We appreciate Siza’s gesture to connect the balustrades to a kind of coat rack or washing wire in front of the windows on the first floor. The panache of the pencil stripe on the sketch is brought to life in the fine red line of the balustrade. He strings the… Read More
Alternative Histories: EM2N on Alexander Brodsky
8 July 2019
Alternative Histories: EM2N on Alexander Brodsky8 July 2019
We were fascinated by Alexander Brodsky tentative sketches. Laying line over line, searching for the right position and proportions, he produces drawings that look like an x-ray of a three-dimensional object with multiple layers of lines and surfaces producing a fuzzy depth of space. We interpreted our role similar to… Read More
Alternative Histories: 2A+P/A on Aldo Rossi
8 July 2019
Alternative Histories: 2A+P/A on Aldo Rossi8 July 2019
Starting from the analysis of a drawing by Rossi, made for the competition project on the student house in Trieste in 1974 – with the curious title “La vita Calda (The warm life)” – we begun to investigate a series of recurring elements in Rossi’s architecture, especially in his first… Read More
Alternative Histories: Charles Holland Architects on John Lautner
8 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Charles Holland Architects on John Lautner8 July 2019
Strawberry Gothic Forever draws on a number of architectural fantasies. Primarily, it can be seen as an anglicised version of Lautner’s house for Edgar Ewing, a circular structure intended for the Los Angeles hills but now embedded in the chalk face of the North Downs. But it also contains other… Read More
Alternative Histories: Stephen Taylor Architects on Robbrecht and Daem
1 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Stephen Taylor Architects on Robbrecht and Daem1 July 2019
Our proposal reimagines the Aue Pavilions project by Robbrecht en Daem through an extreme exaggeration and distortion of the original work’s spatial ideas. The ensemble of carriage-like volumes are reimagined as a continuous sinusoidal form which opens up to the park, raised on stumpy pilotis. Instead of a series of… Read More
Alternative Histories: fala atelier on Louis Kahn
14 June 2019
Alternative Histories: fala atelier on Louis Kahn14 June 2019
Supreme efficiency. For the cost of one millimetre of pencil lead, a few careful shapes define the volume, its load-bearing structure, the metrics of the facades and the distinction between services and open areas. We thought five pillars would be enough, and that the rhythm of the elevations would benefit… Read More
Alternative Histories: Havana architectuur on Michael Webb
18 April 2019
Alternative Histories: Havana architectuur on Michael Webb18 April 2019
When asked to design a model based on one of Michael Webb’s illustrious drawings of the Sin Centre project for Leicester Square (London 1961) we immediately thought about our project for a 500 cars garage (in collaboration with L.U.S.T. architecten) at the edge of the town of Ghent, which is… Read More
Alternative Histories: BeL on Walter Pichler
15 April 2019
Alternative Histories: BeL on Walter Pichler15 April 2019
The selected drawing – a light-hearted but somewhat nervous sketch bearing the title Sketch for Underground City – belongs to an early body of work by Walter Pichler. Working on abstract, hypothetical cities and buildings, Pichler questions the relationship of oppositional systems: positive and negative space, the designed and found object, movement… Read More