Founded in 2005, adamo-faiden reformulated their role as architects in the new Argentinian social context upon their return to Argentina after the crisis. Among their first projects were residential and office buildings, others were added to this tried-and-true typology that have consolidated adamo-faiden as one of the reference studios in the Southern Cone. This issue includes their recent work, from single family houses to commercial buildings.
Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter is an architectural office based in Copenhagen, founded by Søren Johansen (b. 1981) and Sebastian Skovsted (b. 1982) in 2014. They have both studied architecture at Royal Danish Academy, where they have also been teaching from 2015-2021. Since its inception, they have addressed different typologies, such as pavilions, the rehabilitation of historic buildings, different interventions in the Tipperne bird sanctuary, the CODAN office and warehouse building, and museum installations, all of them built in Denmark. Their works featured in this 2G issue speak to us of slow construction times, alien to the speed of Instagram, of images elaborated slowly that are capable of permeating both the entire local constructive translation and the landscape, whether natural or urban, to which they belong. And among all the combination of genres and mutual influences, the architecture of Johansen Skovsted is presented as an intelligent response to current challenges, being able to connect with contemporaneity without renouncing what not so long ago was known as genius loci.
This monograph includes the latest works built by the Barcelona studio of Víctor Rahola (also in his time in partnership with Jorge Vidal), from the expansion of the library of the Biology Faculty of the University of Barcelona, passing through the wineries in Mont-Ras to various hotels in the Balearic Islands. In addition to the works, three texts by the architect himself reflect on important issues contemporary architecture, specially in the Mediterranean area. Foreword by the critic Josep Quetglas.
BAST have taken a proactive attitude to research in order to experiment with the diverse potentialities of each project. At each step of the design phase, they propose multiple different solutions. As a result, they do not follow a set formal method; instead, their projects go through an evolutionary process. BAST's architecture practice is located in Toulouse, France. The architects recall ideas of modern assemblage and montage: the structural unit is challenged by the superposition of logics, façade layers, colliding structures, sections. The overall logic derives from resemblances, things that look like something else, but are not exactly what we expect. These elements are mixed together. Controlling the resulting combination requires a very clear idea, because otherwise the building site can soon descend into chaos. The structural principle provides the logic, and the design sequence drives together these elements. Once the design principle has been defined, regardless of whether the window frame is here or there, the catalyst is already in place. The fragments can then be assembled with an eye to a promising future.
The New York architecture office MOS, founded by Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, is one of the few in the United States that manages to build a quality work from their almost artisanal office structure. Their architecture's intention is not to programmatically experiment with social norms, wanting to use architecture to directly intervene or facilitate interactions between neighbors or occupants. MOS's projects are built through combining and aggregating a multiplicity of architectural elements: chimneys, corridors, courtyards, roofs, windows, etc. Their work is partially self-referential, drawing on a consistent set of elements, ideas, and characteristics from their own architectural catalogue.
In the 1910s, immediately after completing his studies, the Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz made a trip to Italy in order to discover classical architecture. Carrying a camera, the photos he took on that trip, collected in the book Trip to Italy (Cologne: Walther König, 2021), are mythical documents to understand the first works of this great architect. Nonetheless, among the documents that he left to the Museum of Architecture in Stockholm, we also find photographs of his trips around his native country, in which he focuses his camera on objects of his interest for his mature stage as an architect, such as popular architecture, traditional construction, church interiors, landscapes and cemeteries, keys to understanding the post-classical stage of his career.
The sleek, minimalist designs of a residential Swiss architectural firm Based in Geneva, Switzerland, Leopold Banchini Architects is exploring the frontiers of space shaping through residential projects across Europe to Bahrain, Australia and beyond. Deeply rooted in architectural history, the firm's practice is concerned with contemporary popular cultures as well as vernacular traditions and crafts.
Chilean architect Smiljan Radic's career is one of the most unique in the contemporary architecture scene. Although he works mainly in Chile, his work has crossed borders after building the Serpentine Gallery pavilion (London, 2014). This '2G' issue features a selection of the houses built by Radić in almost thirty years of his career, from the extension of the Charcoal Burner's House (Cupliprán, 1997-1998) or his Small House (Vilches, 1995-1996) to his last Wooden House (Lake Colico, 2014-2015) and Prism House (Coinguillio, 2017-2018). In addition to the fourteen houses featured, a text by Enrique Walker explains the keys to understanding his domestic work from the Small House, and another by Moisés Puente talks about all the interventions that Radić has built in an estate in Vilches for him and his family. Two texts by the architect himself speak about the tradition of certain Chilean houses of his interest and about the role that repairing has in architecture, beyond the mere restoration or preservation.--OCLC OLUC
Geers' fresh perspective on the history of architecture In this compilation of essays, Dutch Belgian architect Kersten Geers writes on diverse architects in history, from Bramante, Scamozzi and Mies van der Rohe to Aldo Rossi, James Stirling, Álvaro Siza and Robert Venturi, in a theory of contemporary architecture.