a+u 637 fala

Description

This issue introduces fala, a practice based in Porto and led by four partners: Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares, Ahmed Belkhodja, and Lera Samovich. Founded in 2013, much of their built work, mostly residential, is located in and around Porto. The city has served as their testing ground, where they respond sensitively to its specific culture and situation, translating the solutions they developed into their own architectural language. All of fala’s 54 built works are included here. These buildings, together with 150 or so unrealised projects, form an archipelago – a collective system. This issue arranges their projects into seven themes, each with text from fala and their generation of architects

CONTENTS

An archipelago
Essay: A Floating Feather in the City / CENTRAL

[067] house and atelier / [023] house for 3 generations / [088] house along
a wall / [075] 6 houses and a garden / [069] housing within lines and dots /
[033] house for a bird / [004] anticlimax / [119] masks / [000] exhibitions

within regularity
Essay: The World as Form / Point Supreme

[102] housing with pink chimneys / [077] house around a chimney /
[056] something modern / [030] completed houses / [072] house under a big
roof / [172] public housing in setubal (48 apartments) / [184] public housing
in lisbon (50 apartments) / [173] public housing in almada (150 apartments)

from and for joy,
Essay: On Joy in Architecture / Lütjens Padmanabhan

[114] house within a few lines / [082] house of many faces / [059] house
with 4 columns / [050] very tiny palazzo / [009] temporary bar /
[136] office with asperities / [031] flagship store / [042] real estate agency /
[113] museum adjustments

of fragile systems,
Essay: In the Manner of fala / Kwong Von Glinow

[094] house of countless windows / [118] house within 3 gestures /
[057] house in fontaínhas / [043] apartment with 5 blue doors / [040] garage
house / [070] broken house / [189] pêndulo / [085] variations in a box /
[156] cookie-cutter retreat

ornaments of life,
Essay: Art of Love / aoa architects

[087] house without idea / [101] houses of cards / [086] apartment on a
mint floor / [081] small house with a monumental shower / [098] fireworks
in white / [048] house in paraíso / [143] house around a column

another honesty,
Essay: Can Incomprehensibility be Structured? / Shingo Masuda

[079] suspended house / [125] house with an inverted roof /
[052] reasonable housing / [090] uneven house / [107] folly for sun and
sound / [144] house of 3 structures

and choreographed fictions.
Essay: An Architecture That Was Not Asked For / KOSMOS

[097] waves of glass and clouds of metal / [058] house with a curved wall /
[025] apartment in chiado / [051] house with glass walls / [068] folly for an
art piece / [150] oasis under a building

Essay: Wild Juxtapositions by Way of a Confusing Vocabulary / Giovanna Borasi

Essay: The Disorienting Column / Roberto Gargiani and Anna Rosellini