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"Architettore chiamerò io colui che saprà con la opera recare a fine tutte quelle cose, le quali mediante movimenti dei pesi, congiungimenti, e ammassamenti di corpi, si possono con gran dignità accomodare benissimo all'uso de gli homini."Leon Battista Alberti "Architecture does not desire to be functional; it wants to be opportune" Paulo Archias Mendes da Rocha

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Estudio Fabrizio Barozzi Alberto Veiga Philharmonic Hall, Szczecin, Poland

z3w

Planimetric diagrams of the architectural elements inserted into G. B. Piranesi’s Campo Marzio, from Manfredo Tafuri, The Sphere and the Labyrinth, 1987. (via cd02_c9-54-55)

Christian Kerez, private house, Zurich

#kerez #christiankerez #house #zurich #architecture

bridgetobabel

‪BBPR, Velasca Tower 1951 - 1958 , Milano, Lombardy, Italy

In a city that grows unconditionally shapeless, it is felt as a necessity to build places that compensate this lack of urban coherence. They hold the role of admonishment stimulating the contact between people and the local memory and heritage. Hybrid monuments are democratic tools which allow the population to live together, to make history, in a place where public and private life are mixed together.

#‎city‬ ‪#‎urban‬ ‪#‎coherence‬ ‪#‎hybridbuilding‬ ‪#‎private‬ ‪#‎public‬ ‪#‎admonishment‬‪#‎unconditionallyshapelessgrowth‬ ‪#‎urbanfabric‬ ‪#‎velascatower‬ ‪#‎torrevelasca‬‪#‎milan‬ ‪#‎lombardy‬ ‪#‎italy‬ ‪#‎bbpr‬ ‪#‎postwaritalianarchitecture‬ ‪#‎bridgetobabel‬

abramovicinstitute

"Mass production, which today should be taken into consideration as a basic for modern architecture, exists in Nature itself and, intuitively, in popular work." Lina Bo Bardi

.Casa Valéria P. Cirell, 1958 .Igreja do Espírito Santo do Cerrado, 1976-82 .Pavilhão do Brasil - Exposição Universal de Sevilha, 1991

via "2G 23/24 Lina Bo Bardi - Built work", Gustavo Gili, Barcelona (2003)