ARCHIPENDIUM 2018
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ARCHIPENDIUM 2018
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Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment, curated by Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy of DESIGN EARTH, is a collection of projects which combine geographic representation and projective design to bring attention to the current conditions of Earth and the environment, and where they may lead. Separated by scope into three sections – terrarium, aquarium, and planetarium – each projection attempts to foster awareness and a sense of immediacy in a population referred to as “anesthetized.”
The collection is a continuation of DESIGN EARTH’s contribution to the US Pavilion in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, titled “Cosmorama.” This exhibition sought to draw attention to the matters overlooked in the technological triumphalism and frontier narratives of the Space Age, by means of three hypothetical “geostories.”
Nader contributed an essay titled “Section Cut: An Allegorical Construct of the World,” in which he discusses the liminal space between allegory and reality, how the former speaks to the latter, and how the work of DESIGN EARTH is especially evocative in this respect.
“The answer to Design Earth’s representational approach might also be lodged in the idea of the allegory itself: that images – much like stories or buildings – call on their audiences to construct meaning within a larger ideological, ethical, or political sphere.”
Read the full essay HERE.
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The Tanderrum Bridge is in the summer issue of The Plan! Read the full piece HERE.
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This month’s Architectural Record pays visits to firms small, medium, large, and XL across the country to forecast the future of practice in each. Nader and Katie weigh in on the setbacks and advantages of medium-sized offices. Read on HERE.
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photo by Fernando Guerra
Fig Projects interviews Nader for Interwoven on his appreciation of Aires Mateus and their practice. “Their projects are the consequence of the confrontation between figures and configurations and, as authors, they endure through the purity of the results. I have always been fascinated by their ability to control all the ingredients that gauge an architectural discussion, without contaminating it with added noise or conceptual clutter. No doubt, abstraction is the vehicle through which these two devices are mediated, making iconographic elements more allusive, while tectonic elements become more immaterial: whatever is not necessary, whatever is in the middle scale between the general figure and the discrete element is eliminated.”
Read the full interview HERE.
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Both the Daniels Building at The University of Toronto and our Justice in Design study for the Van Alen Institute recently won AIANY design awards and they are both featured in Oculus’ Spring issue. Read jury comments HERE.
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Each month Metropolis highlights active projects’ materials palettes from offices that tackle their own interior materials. This month they share materials from NADAAA’s Daniels Building project at the University of Toronto. Read on HERE.
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