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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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- Altés Arlandis, Alberto, 1978-, et al.
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Common Life : LiAi research Report 2014-2015
- 2015
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Common Life is the theme of the third term of the MA programme at the "Laboratory of Immediate Architectural Intervention", taught at Umeå School of Architecture. The main course in the term is called "Architectural Intervention, Realization and Consequences" and it aims at enabling the students to adopt a more reflective approach after their first year, in order to start developing a position as architects and as researchers. The semester is also a transition towards the final term in which students are to develop their Master's Theses. This publication gathers the results of a collective effort to carry out a research assignment that is conceived to prepare the students for some of the challenges they will have to face in order to complete those theses. The course focuses on architecture's ability to provide, through its transformative power, conditions of 'possibility' for the sharing of various spaces, times, processes and other things. Producing uncertainties, contingent relationships and unexpected effects can help define more positive value systems than that of the building-as-consumable-object. We understand the building as a relational object within a complex meshwork of other things, people and technologies, and we explore the notion of architecture-as-an-emergent-'gift': a relational practice that enables encounter(s), and affords the sharing of moments, conversations and, why not, lives. Inhabiting the spaces, discourses and events of this common life, we try to develop a faithful and true care for the situations we are enmeshed in, and perhaps discover ways to displace what is, in order to 'architect' what could be and what ought to be. Homes are very close to us, we inhabit them with our bodies, emotions and thoughts, we make them and they make us. How much are we ready to share of our lives? What can we obtain from sharing? What can we share? Are there degrees of sharing? What is our role as architects and the role of architecture in affording such 'sharings'?
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- Altés Arlandis, Alberto, 1978-
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Dissensus : otras miradas, otros paisajes
- 2009
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Ingår i: Arquitectura y construcción. - Sevilla : Universidad Internacional de Andalucía. ; , s. 49-56
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Altés Arlandis, Alberto, 1978-
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Espacio, afecto y hábitat
- 2009
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Ingår i: Propuestas para Sevilla. - Sevilla : Universidad Internacional de Andalucía. - 9788479930677 ; , s. 94-95
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Altés Arlandis, Alberto, 1978-, et al.
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Habitability, the scale of sustainability
- 2009
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Ingår i: CISBAT 2009 Renewables in changing climate. - Lausanne : École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. ; , s. 409-414
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper will explore an alternative to so-called „sustainable‟ models and strategies currently applied in the field of building, architecture and urbanism. In front of irrational resource consumption and an ever-growing waste generation or other problems, seemingly inherent to the current industrial productive model and now transferred to the production of space, the most critical and concerned sectors within these disciplines keep on applying scale-segregated sustainable solutions, i.e. working and intervening at the scale of the single built unit, or at that of the urban model.Instead, the paper will explain ongoing research related to the possibilities of generating another model based in the concept of “global habitability”, that would allow the application of those and other new solutions and mechanisms at all scales in a much more holistic approach to the implementation of sustainability: working transversally and simultaneously, from the room to the city.If current strategies aim at an increase in efficiency exclusively based in the reduction of resource consumption and waste generation, the new model would propose a redefinition of the other term intervening, namely utility. The very subject of sustainability is changed here through this redefinition; no more space but activity, no more the object but the process.Utility and use within architecture can be identified with habitability, here understood as the achievement of adequate social and environmental conditions in order to satisfy the socially acknowledged basic needs of people. Two different factors would determine such idea of utility: on the one hand the conditions of matter‟, as an expression of requirements related to space, resource flows and equipment needed to develop an activity; and on the other hand, the conditions of „orgware‟ or „privacy‟, another term that would include synergy – as the relation between the level of individuality and the level of collectivity - and management, as a combination of time, control and legislation.The main aim of the paper will be thus to present this reformulation of the idea of „habitability‟ as the only effective strategy towards an implementation of sustainability in the field of building. A systemic intervention, re-thinking the utility of architecture from the smallest spatial unit (the room) and extending its scale to that of the urban services (i.e. providers of any need that can‟t be fulfilled within the dwelling), allows achieving the maximum efficiency in terms of resource consumption; whereas social focus, incorporating individual, collective and organizational demands, allows the strategy to take roots in society expanding, thus, the likelihood of its success.
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- Altés Arlandis, Alberto, 1978-
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Habitar juntos : sobre el papel de la arquitectura en la producción de espacios colectivos habitables
- 2011
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Ingår i: Proyecto, Progreso, Arquitectura. - Sevilla : Secretariado de Publicaciones. Universidad de Sevilla.. - 2171-6897 .- 2173-1616. ; 2011:5, s. 92-107
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper reflects on the need for another approach to the concept of habitability; for collective solutions and proposals at all scales, transversally and simultaneously, from the room to the city, restoring the value of the collective as an alternative to prevailing fragmentation and individualism. Faced with those practices that are either entertained in the incessant production of new forms, or are aligned with the neoliberal system in the task of producing and absorbing surplus, at the expense of creative destruction of the urban space and the territory, there is an urgent need for other ways to firmly and uncompromisingly approach the task of planning coexistence. It is imperative to move beyond the formal and typological, incorporating not only the well-known rhetoric of adaptation, dissociation and other contemporary rituals of the private, but also the critical planning of those common, collective, public and intermediate spaces that promote sociability and co-existence, and make it possible to share spaces, resources and experiences.
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- Altés Arlandis, Alberto, 1978-, et al.
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Hybrid collaborative art practices in contemporary public space
- 2010
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Ingår i: Sala d'Art Jove 2009. - Barcelona : Generalitat de Catalunya Departament d’acció Social i Ciutadania. - 9788461428700 ; , s. 230-237
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Do you see a capacity for transforming the city, its spaces or the use we make of them in artistic practice? Which public spaces do you use most day to day? Is there hope for the Santa Esperança public laundry? Do you think that Somanyprojects’ action has served to reactivate this space and awaken it in the town’s collective imaginary? Do you know of any other public space particular to women? What does the perspective of an artist offer us that an architect’s doesn’t consider when intervening in a space? What does a collaborative art practice consist of? Can an intervention of this type lead to some type of agencement on the part of the community? Would it be viable to consider more alternative uses of water such as public baths? How do you assess artistic practice as a work methodology for participatory urbanism projects? Would you be in favour of other activities being undertaken in public laundries besides washing clothing and the promotion of tourism? Are we very far off on the part of politicians from designing the cities where we want to live based on the needs of the citizens themselves? Do you have any questions for us? Do you have any questions for yourself?
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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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