Seeing this BBC Video this morning about Cent Quatre in Paris I found myself thinking once again the huge subject of how preexisting pieces of art and architecture in a city can influence and be integrated in contemporary proposals of uses or interventions. Coming from a country where preexistence in Architecture often ends up being [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 10, 2008
Villa FAB-ulosa
One of the things children love to do is to create their personal world. That is exactly what Villa FAB-ulosa did, using high end technology. In other words… how can we make digital fabrication easy to perceive and pleasently useful in everyday life? Make children use it! And be sure that they will learn fast. [...]
October 6, 2008
Light and Geometry:case studies_Coop Himmelab(l)au+Tadao ando
Academic essay
NTUA 2006
Tutor: Andreas Kourkoulas
The comparative study of two buildings from important contemporary architects, The Church Of The Light by Tadao Ando and the UFA Cinema Center by Coop Himmelb(l)au, in relation to the use of light, gives us the opportunity to understand how they conceive the interaction of geometry with light and in what [...]
