Tag: Open Call: Storytellers

Swimming in Pixel Fuzz

Swimming in Pixel Fuzz

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

PostDigital Collage: Naivety as an Ideo-aesthetic Technique

PostDigital Collage: Naivety as an Ideo-aesthetic Technique

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

Josep Maria Jujol: Ribbons with Streamers Everywhere

Josep Maria Jujol: Ribbons with Streamers Everywhere

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