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- Altés Arlandis, Alberto, 1978-
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Iconos, engaños y mentiras: representación, vacío y falsedad en la era de la arquitectura global
- 2012
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Ingår i: Concursos de Arquitectura. Actas del 14 Congreso Internacional de Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica. - Valladolid : Secretariado de Publicaciones e Intercambio Editorial. Universidad de Valladolid. - 9789896401061 ; , s. 749-752
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Algunos han anunciado, optimistamente temprano, el colapso de la denominada “starchitecture”, la arquitectura global contemporánea que domina los mercados de la mano de una élite de arquitectos de la ciudad global, ahora distribuidores y suministradores de iconografías urbanas que van definiendo a su vez una imagen global: la cara visible del planeta. Decimos optimista, porque no estaría mal presenciar el fin de un entramado que beneficia sólo a los miembros de un selecto club de arquitectos globales, políticos y poderosos. Y temprano, porque parece que a pesar del simbólico incendio del edificio TVCC en Pekín el pasado febrero de 2009 y los estragos causados por la crisis mundial, la arquitectura global y sus huecos productos continúan triunfando.
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- Altés Arlandis, Alberto, 1978-, et al.
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Interventions, durations, effects : architecting the city and the world
- 2013
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Ingår i: Knowing (by) Designing. - Ghent/Brussels : LUCA, Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, Ghent/Brussels and KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture. - 9789081323864 ; , s. 614-621
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We define architecture not as an ‘it’ but as a process, or an apparatus; in our sense, architecture is a verb: to architect. Rather than refer to the (paradoxical) limiting of intervention’s in-between, we posit a new concept: intravention. Intra’s focus on the ‘within’ establishes intraventions as already a part of the spaces and times in which they are ‘intravening’.We find this a very productive notion, one which is useful in defining the (makeshift) edges of specific situations with which we engage; it helps us negotiate the expanse of the relational meshwork of material, sensory and discursive flows, and allows us to start ‘doing/making’ immediately. When we ‘intravene’, we cut within the site we inhabit to conceive and construct it. It also speaks about intentionality: one decides what the intravention includes or excludes. It is therefore an intensely political act, as well as an aesthetic one. We will discuss the notion of intravention in relationship to its ability to interfere with the complex making of the city and the world, articulating, detonating, and re-articulating relations, actions and intra-actions between various things, apparatuses, people, ANTs, spiders and, very possibly, sugar dispensers.
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- Altés Arlandis, Alberto, 1978-, et al.
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Immediate architectural interventions, durations and effects : apparatuses, things and people in the making of the city and the world
- 2013. - 1
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Ingår i: Intervention, durations, effects. - Baunach, Germany : Spurbuchverlag. - 9783887783938 ; , s. 28-45
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We begin setting out our thoughts on immediate architectural interventions with a couple of considerations. One of them addresses the architectural profession’s progressive disconnection from the social, from the political, from history, from the local, from ethics, from the body, from the ‘discipline’ itself. A whole generation of architects has abandoned the design of coexistence - undoubtedly one of the main tasks of architecture – in order to embrace, on the one hand, the serial fabrication of what we see as anti-architectures that repeat types, materials and structural systems on the basis of a pragmatic and productive juxtaposition of normative restrictions and the interests of bankers, investors, and developers; and on the other hand, the production of ‘stunning’ unique prototypes of image-architecture that satisfy the ill, self-worshipping yearnings of architects mired in the ceaseless luxury of formal exploration for the sake of form. We are critical of what is being embraced and of the practices that perpetuate disconnection from lived lives.
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- Altés Arlandis, Alberto, 1978-, et al.
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Intravention, durations, effects : notes of expansive sites and relational architectures
- 2013. - 1
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book is a carefully edited collection of work and research produced at the Laboratory of Immediate Architectural Intervention, Umeå School of Architecture, Umeå (Sweden), from July 2011 to July 2013. It includes short texts, architectural manifestos, research papers, interviews, conversations, and a reflective journey through the work produced at the laboratory. It is also a compilation of fragile and hesitant voices and experiments, tests and discussions, in and around what one could provisionally call, in lack of a better name, relational architecture. And as you will see later, I believe that fragility and hesitation are necessary qualities of our work and our relentless moving and wayfaring. It is organized in three parts: in the first one, after the foreword, the laboratory and some of its actions, reflections and proposals are presented and discussed from our point of view, from the inside. In addition to our own texts, this section includes reflections by Peter Kjaer and Roemer van Toorn, as well as an interview with Francesco Apuzzo and Axel Timm from ‘raumlabor berlin’ with whom we have developed a very interesting and fruitful relationship. The second part, ‘sites, agencies, matters of concern’, offers an overview of the work produced at the laboratory through graphic material (pictures and drawings) accompanied by a reflective discussion of the work and its relationships with what we have called, after Latour, our matters of concern. The third part shifts outwards and gathers contributions by some of the external guests whose committed participation we have had the pleasure of enjoying at some point during these years. Although related to our interests and positions, these contributions are those of ‘outsiders’ and therefore capable of enriching and expanding our range of questions and discussions in diverse and unexpected ways. This part includes texts by Susan Kelly, Javier Rodrigo, Antonio Collados, Aida Sánchez de Serdio and Per Nilsson. The book ends with a text on the notions of ‘sharing, displacing and caring’, that initiates an exploration of what I think is a much needed - and anarchic - ethics of encounter and contribution, while sketching some of the questions, fields and lines along which I hope to continue moving forward in discussion, research and action.
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- Altés Arlandis, Alberto, 1978-, et al.
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Questioning stong discourses : the LiAi
- 2013. - 1
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Ingår i: Intravention, durations, effects. - Baunach : Spurbuchverlag. - 9783887783938 ; , s. 22-27
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- At the Laboratory of Immediate Architectural Intervention, we believe that our only option is to understand, critique, intervene in, and devise the various apparatuses which are enmeshed in our enactments of the world in order to qualitatively transform it. Agamben understands the apparatus as anything which can “capture, orient, determine, intercept, model, control, or secure the gestures, behaviors, opinions, or discourses of living beings”.He not only includes Foucault’s “prisons, madhouses, the panopticon, schools, … factories, disciplines, judicial measures” but also “… the pen, writing, literature, philosophy, agriculture, cigarettes, navigation, computers, cellular telephones and--why not--language itself ...”.Apparatuses co-determine our enactments of the world. Our work questions one of architecture’s apparatuses – the oft-persistent mirroring and representation of spaces of neoliberal agendas – and develops transversal, diffractive methodologies that produce effects in exchange with, and which transform, sites.
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- Altés Arlandis, Alberto, 1978-, et al.
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Sites, agencies and matters of concern
- 2013. - 1
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Ingår i: Intravention, durations, effects. - Baunach, Germany : Spurbuchverlag. - 9783887783938 ; , s. 72-225
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- These matters of concern are not only tools for ‘mapping’, or for exploring and delineating agendas and positions but are also very concrete instances of thought. Though as framing devices they indicate realms of perception, thought and action, they are as well open enough to allow the production of the unexpected, the exploration of the uncertain, and the joy of speculative play. And: they are damn serious. They are ways of approaching crucial questions, things that genuinely matter. And their openness makes them excellent learning apparatuses as we have to work our way(s) through them and with them, exploring, discussing, speculating, testing and learning in the process of proposing what they could be or what they are. Learning is here not a transferring of a series of frozen definitions, but a process and a practice through which a situated concept ‘becomes’. And it becomes in concert with things, spaces and discourses, in concert with worries, intuitions and fascinations, along the lines of our movements in the city, and around the sites of our interventions. These, our matters of concern, are tools for ‘architecting’ the world responsibly.
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- Altés Arlandis, Alberto, 1978-
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Towards the end of tourism : global architecture, fantasy and void in the age of withdrawal
- 2012
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Ingår i: 6th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU). - Barcelona : International Forum on Urbanism - Escola Técnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona. - 9788481576207 ; , s. 1-9
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The paper presents a reflection on the role of architecture in the age of global tourism and the post-political. It also examines the future of tourism in the face of a looming decline in the availability of cheap fossil fuels as a result of the so-called ‘peak oil’. Beyond the postmodern understanding of a metaphorical end of tourism based on ideas of “de-differentiation” and the coming together of tourism, work and everyday life, the paper moves toward the consideration of the possibilities for new forms of leisure and free time that could incorporate another idea of cultural exchange after the end of tourism as we know it. Instead of spectacle, the paper explores dreams and speculations about new utopian mobilities and encounters with the other beyond mere departures.
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- Berggren, Karin, 1982-, et al.
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From Berlin to the polar circle : a conversation with Francesco Apuzzo and Axel Timm from Raumlabor
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Ingår i: Intravention, durations, effects. - Baunach, Germany : Spurbuchverlag. - 9783887783938 ; , s. 46-63
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Raumlabor, or ‘space laboratory’, is a collective of 8 trained architects based in Berlin (Germany), that work in the intersection of architecture, city planning, art and urban intervention. They have been exploring alternative and playful modes of architectural production since 1999 when they started working together, usually proposing temporary projects that transform the urban landscape through what they call ‘urban prototypes’. Their works include the temporary transformation of the metro station Eichbaum (Essen/Mülheim, Germany) into an opera house, the temporary Officina Roma entirely built out of trash for the RE-cycle exhibition at the MAXXI museum, and the mobile building laboratory ‘The Generator’ that welcomes the public to interact around the construction of modular furniture. During the autumn semester of the 2011-2012 academic year, we invited Axel and Francesco from raumlabor to come to the Laboratory of Immediate Architectural Intervention for a week to develop a collaborative workshop aimed at designing and building “something” that could be placed in public space as an intervention.
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- Altés Arlandis, Alberto, 1978-
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Aproximación, reducción, materialización : Algunas reflexiones acerca de la insuficiencia de la representación a partir del trabajo de Peter Zumthor
- 2010
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Ingår i: 13 Congreso Internacional de Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica - Valencia, 2010. - Valencia : Editorial de la Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). - 9788483635490 ; , s. 25-32
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- While the ‘globalized’ architectural discipline continuous its immersion in a trend that privileges quantitative and mediated experiences, Peter Zumthor’s small office/workshop in Haldenstein - a small village in the swiss Graubünden – works by slowly developing each assignment to the last detail, always privileging the quality of the final result as the maximum value and top priority. Regardless of the rash global competition to attract the media, Zumthor carefully chooses his clients, does not allow the re-printing of his own monograph and proves himself very reluctant at the time of accepting interviews. Often, he affords certain moments to take some distance and reflect critically about his own creative activity and about the essence of architecture, what has led to a number of texts, concepts and categories that are extremely interesting from the point of view of representation. The text that follows explores and revisits some of those ideas and categories through a reading and a translation of some of his texts that tries to relate them to his work. More particularly, the article “Partituren und Bilder. Architektonische Arbeiten aus dem Atelier Peter Zumthor. 1985-1988” that was part of an exhibition held with the same name at the Architekturgalerie in Lucern, only available in German, has been translated as well as another text and interview held around the house Luzi.
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- Altes Arlandis, Alberto, 1978-
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Censor Report Master's Theses Evaluation : Chalmers University of Technology 2014
- 2014
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- My general impression after 3 days of intense and hectic activity and exposure to many different kinds of work is that of an extremely diverse production. The Master’s Theses produced at the Department of Architecture at Chalmers are very different not only in their themes and issues but also in their formats, procedures and in the very definition of the thesis as a “thing”.Far from seeing this as a problem, I consider this one of the most interesting aspects and one of the strengths of the school and its production. Against an ever-growing trend towards profiling and specialization, and especially an illdriven demand for standardization in the name of quality, I find it not only refreshing and brave but also paramount that the school maintains and encourages an environment in which many different understandings of a Master’s thesis coexist and even challenge each other. I have seen interesting text-based, written theses that are pure research and reflection; complex research projects with an associated design proposal; purely formal and material speculations and explorations through the development of very specific building assignments; urban interventions within well defined and researched social contexts; research reports with an emphasis on sustainable development; and a few other…
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