Surfaced The Formation of Twisted Structures The Work of SYSTEMarchitects
Essays by Chee Pearlman / Carolina Miranda and Paul Chatterton Contributions by editor and curator Chee Pearlman / arts journalist Carolina Miranda / architectural critic Vladimir Belogolovsky/ and architectural historian Elisabetta Terragni
Architectural structures create the environment in which they are situated, while at the same time describing that environment. Complex forms, such as the twist, offer the architect a tool to shape an environment with a visible smoothness that disguises the space’s complexity and precision. But twisted structures present a double-challenge for architects and builders. To create such structures, it is necessary not only to design them, but to design the method of constructing them. For some geometries, it is enough to take a conventional building method, or an already extant tool and modify it slightly. But more often than not, completely new tools and methods need to be figured out.
This process of re-engineering, rethinking, and re-imagining leads to an increasing and progressively more intimate awareness of material, texture, and detail. This book charts the journey of SYSTEMarchitects from the folded geometries of the seminal BURST house exhibited at MOMA’s renowned 2008 show to the curves, tucks and twisted spaces that followed. It records ve years of experimentation with pre fabricated and iterative techniques, low cost materials, and algorithmic design all in service of projects made for everyday use. It examines the role of parametric design in the domestic sphere, and It explores twisted volumes, from large scale structures to the very surface of the twist itself, offering a whole new animated direction for architecture.
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Displaced Llonch+Vidalle Architecture
Foreword by George Ranalli Introduction by Michael Sorkin Essays by Mario Corea and Paul Guzzardo Edited by Oscar Riera Ojeda
The work of Fabian Llonch and Gisela Vidalle presented here in an eye -opening survey- is marvelous for its imaginative seamlessness, and the way in which the artist’s truth always shines through the circumstances of its articulation. Here is architecture of inseparable form and thought. The thirteen projects in this book are felled with the fervor and energy of an architect who also teaches young architects. Fabian Llonch and Gisela Vidalle are part of a small group of architects who understand the importance of the relationship between teaching and practice, its place at that intricate and inde finable nexus of architecture and its theory in which architecture schools are hothouses for the incubation of ideas in architecture and design.
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