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[ archimemeplex ]: "City is not a fork!"
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City is not a fork! Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Sharp, Sci-arc gallery, once again another installation, another hard talk, once again tiered faces in demanding profession, on my left some fashion experts are seating, and they ask me; who is this guy? I reply; he is Eric Own Moss, the director EOM: Is this a big piece of fashion or small piece of architecture? Somehow the question is so direct, as If there is no chance for multidisciplinary work. And what is really an invention in architecture? Manferdini: ...
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[ archimemeplex ]: May 2008
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008. A lot of questions come to my mind when somebody asks: What is Architecture? Often times I think of Architecture as a crossroad; its public, as everyone can come across with it, yet personal, as the path taken awakes powerful emotions by intimate awareness. For me, Architecture has been an unpredictable luscious journey. Its sumptuousness lies in my constant changing perception of the tensions between the forces that drive it. Today I’m interested in the translation of syntax...
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[ archimemeplex ]: FORT DA // SAMPLER
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FORT DA / SAMPLER. Monday, November 15, 2010. Neutra VDL Research House II. FORT DA / SAMPLER. An off-site project by Santiago Borja for the Neutra VDL Research House II with Maddalena Forcella, El Camino de los Altos Cooperative, and g727. November 17 – December 22, 2010. Neutra VDL Research House II. 2300 Silver Lake Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90039. Wednesday, November 17, 2010. El Camino de los Altos Cooperative. Sarah Lorenzen of Neutra VDL Research House II. Downtown Los Angeles Textile Tour will b...
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[ archimemeplex ]: March 2009
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8220;Punch- hole building”, the new vertical courtyard? Saturday, March 21, 2009. In an endeavor to challenge the building typology that is simply analyzed in floor plan within the discourse of architecture, this essay attempts to show how the “courtyard typology” has gradually morphed into a vertical scenario, keeping the underlying principle that different forms can belong to the same type, but be constructed dissimilar, reinforcing conventional architectural features in denser urban scales. Abbe Laugi...
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[ archimemeplex ]: April 2009
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City is not a fork! Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Sharp, Sci-arc gallery, once again another installation, another hard talk, once again tiered faces in demanding profession, on my left some fashion experts are seating, and they ask me; who is this guy? I reply; he is Eric Own Moss, the director EOM: Is this a big piece of fashion or small piece of architecture? Somehow the question is so direct, as If there is no chance for multidisciplinary work. And what is really an invention in architecture? Manferdini: ...
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Sunday, July 22, 2012. 8220;Ducks” of Today’s. Should be decorated. Decoration should never be purposely constructed” Proposition 5. The Grammar of Ornament, Owen Jones. Albeit today’s architecture sturdily advocates. For a necessity of ornament by carefully crafting affect and sensational justifications; new architectural proposals are neither transparent nor sincere, instead, they are fetching fantasies of functional themes. To decorate everybody’s dwelling, pretentious. What could be called the. Advoc...
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[ archimemeplex ]: July 2012
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Sunday, July 22, 2012. 8220;Ducks” of Today’s. Should be decorated. Decoration should never be purposely constructed” Proposition 5. The Grammar of Ornament, Owen Jones. Albeit today’s architecture sturdily advocates. For a necessity of ornament by carefully crafting affect and sensational justifications; new architectural proposals are neither transparent nor sincere, instead, they are fetching fantasies of functional themes. To decorate everybody’s dwelling, pretentious. What could be called the. Advoc...
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[ archimemeplex ]: January 2009
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Architecture "is" vs Architecture "becomes". Friday, January 2, 2009. These are my ideas , a response to a set of cultural , social and economical. Circumstances driving architecture in the construction of my mind. Architecture is part of society , a nexus of human activity driven by personal politics ;. Often times, a social experiment which leads the subjects to a set of deliberate choices,. Choices we as architects make , how far are we willing to make people go? Nouvel, Rotondi, Eisenman, Lyyn).
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[ archimemeplex ]: “Punch- hole building”, the new vertical courtyard?
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8220;Punch- hole building”, the new vertical courtyard? Saturday, March 21, 2009. In an endeavor to challenge the building typology that is simply analyzed in floor plan within the discourse of architecture, this essay attempts to show how the “courtyard typology” has gradually morphed into a vertical scenario, keeping the underlying principle that different forms can belong to the same type, but be constructed dissimilar, reinforcing conventional architectural features in denser urban scales. Abbe Laugi...