Tag: Observed
Swimming in Pixel Fuzz
28.11.2024
Swimming in Pixel Fuzz28.11.2024
– Will Fu
In 1979, the community of Riehen in Switzerland toured an indoor and outdoor swimming pool proposal by Herzog & de Meuron in the comfort of their private dwellings. Shared as a TV still of a video simulation, the shadowy figures and pliable ceiling surfaces, finished with a grainy wash of… Read More
Careful Crudeness
31.01.2024
Careful Crudeness31.01.2024
At first glance, this image is a mess. An aerial photograph onto which a pen drawing of an undistinctive, modernist building structure has been mounted. Gouache is smeared in a few places in a seemingly half-hearted attempt to hide parts of the photograph and soften the collision of the two… Read More
Josep Maria Jujol: Ribbons with Streamers Everywhere
25.01.2024
Josep Maria Jujol: Ribbons with Streamers Everywhere25.01.2024
– Juan Mercadé Brulles, Jesús Esquinas-Dessy and Isabel Zaragoza
During the process of cataloguing drawings from the special collection of Josep Maria Jujol (1879-1949), housed in the graphic archive of the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB UPC), our attention was drawn to a particular drawing, illustrating a festive urban sequence.[1] At first glance, it is a captivating object, simultaneously… Read More
PostDigital Collage: Naivety as an Ideo-aesthetic Technique
07.11.2024
PostDigital Collage: Naivety as an Ideo-aesthetic Technique07.11.2024
– Alejandro Carrasco Hidalgo
It was 2005, a moment of crescent belief in technical progress and modernity prior to the upcoming financial crisis that took place two years later. The early 2000s saw the progressive implementation of photorealistic modes of architectural representation through which firms were able to intensify the instrumentalisation of spatial design.… Read More
competition presentation Open Call: Storytellers Observed