C3 378 Questioning The Genius

Description

The main theme of this instalment examines the relation between the artificial and the natural in contemporary architectural design. Today, the tendency to design buildings integrated in the landscape seems two-fold: buildings that merge with the existing landscape, or buildings that create their own landscape. The featured examples include Ktima House by Camilo Rebelo Arquiteto, Katowice International Conference Centre by JEMS, Studio Marco Vermeulen’s renewed Biesbosch Museum, and Harbin Opera House by MAD Architects. Tangentially, several other projects are presented that reflect the relationship between rigid, inflexible monolithic shapes and the landscape.

CONTENTS

Questioning the ‘Genius’

• Questioning the ‘Genius’ The Relation between Artificial and Natural in Nowadays Design / Andrea Giannotti
• Structures in the Slope / Bergmeister Wolf Architekten
• La Antigua Interpretation and Welcome Center / Ventura + Llimona
• Almadenes Canyon Interpretation Center / Ad-hoc msl
• Ktima House, Antiparos, Greece / Camilo Rebelo Arquiteto
• The House on the Cliff / GilBartolomé Architects
• Biesbosch Museum / Studio Marco Vermeulen
• Chongqing Taoyuanju Community Center / Vector Architects
• Katowice International Conference Center / JEMS
• Harbin Opera House / MAD Architects
• Zeimuls Creative Services Center / SAALS Architecture

Dwell How Volumes, Voids, and Terrain

• Volumes, Voids, and Terrain / Silvio Carta
• Montebar Villa / JMA
• Observation House / I/O Architects
• Guna House / Pezo von Ellrichshausen
• Golf House / Luciano Kruk Arquitectos

200 pages, ills colour & bw / 23 x 30 cm / English, Korean