LCLA office - 18. MAI 2020

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Luis Callejas and Charlotte Hansson. Landscape and Architecture. LCLA office is positioned at the intersection of architecture and landscape architecture. The studio is based in Oslo led by Colombian architect Luis Callejas and Swedish architect Charlotte Hansson.
LCLA OFFICE bridges the apparent limits between architecture and landscape architecture, while combining practice with academia and applied research. LCLA office director Luis Callejas has been faculty at Harvard University Graduate School of design since 2011 and currently full professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and design. Charlotte Hansson’s experience in Scandinavia includes working at Space group, White Arkitekter and Alab. Currently the studio is working in projects in Norway, Germany, Colombia and Korea. Completed works include the aquatic centre for the XI South American games, an open air complex of competition swimming pools in Medellin, and the renovation of "El Campin", the main futbol stadium in Colombia.
LCLA office was awarded with the Architectural League of New York Prize for Young Architects in 2013 and selected as one of the world’s  ten best young practices by the Iakov Chernikhov International Foundation in 2010. Callejas was nominated again in 2012 and 2014. In 2016 Callejas was one of the three finalists for the Rolex mentor and protege arts initiative. Since 2008 LCLA office has received diverse recognitions in twenty design competitions and their works exhibited recently at the first Chicago Architecture biennial 2015, 2018 Venice biennial, the 2016 Lisbon triennial, the 2016 Oslo Architecture triennial and the 2011 Latinamerican architecture biennial in Pamplona.

EMILIO MARÍN - 25. MAI 2020

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Emilio Marín is an architect who graduated from the University of Chile and a professor at ARQ UC. His studio specializes in various fields of contemporary architecture, developing projects for both private and public clients.  His awards include the Prize of the Biennial of Santiago de Chile XVII for his Licantén Public Library and being a finalist for the MCHAP Emerge Prize 2014-15 with the project Desert Interpretation Center (C.I.D). He also participated as guest architect in the PORTO ACADEMY 2014 workshop in Portugal. He has been widely published in specialized magazines around the world, among the most recent ones is the March 2020 edition of the Japanese magazine a+u, dedicated to Chile under the theme "In Search of a New Identity". Currently developing the Chilean pavilion under the name "TESTIMONIAL SPACES". How will we live together?

OPENFABRIC - 20. JANUAR 2020

OPENFABRIC is a young Landscape Architecture and Urban Design practice based in Rotterdam and Milan, currently engaging in various countries such as Netherlands, Italy, Russia, China, Belgium, UAE, KSA, Georgia, Albania, Colombia and Peru. 

Francesco Garofalo is an Italian Landscape Architect, born in France in 1983 and graduated cum Laude in “Genoa University” in 2009. He then moved to the Netherlands where he founded Openfabric in 2011. 

Since he founded Openfabric, Francesco has led various awarded competitions and some ongoing commissions, amongst others: a proposal for the new Tahrir square in Cairo, a vision for the post-expo in Milan, exhibited at Venice Biennale in 2014, “Central Park” in Kaliningrad; he has been in charge of a number of realized projects such as “Into the Wild” in the Hague, “Gridgrounds” in Amsterdam and “Into the Forest” installations in Mantova. 

Francesco is currently adjunct professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at “Politecnico di Milano” and he has been recently teaching in Amsterdam and Rotterdam Academy of Architecture. He’s lecturing internationally on a continuous base, including lecturing and guest critic at MIT (Cambridge MA), Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), RAoB (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), Genoa University of Architecture (Genoa, Italy), KU Leuven (Belgium).

MASU PLANNING - 25. NOVEMBER 2019

MASU PLANNING takes on all types of landscape architecture, from large-scale planning to concept development, strategic design, detailing and project management. The focus lays mainly on urban spaces, city development, cultural institutions, and residential and educational environments for people of all ages.The design philosophy of MASU Planning promotes a holistic approach with attention to site and identity in the landscapes they create. Furthermore, they value creating opportunities for sports, active leisure and play as well as calm spaces with room to sense and contemplate ones surroundings.
Over the years, MASU Planning has made a name for itself with awards and nominations in national and international competitions, resulting in a number of prominent projects. Furthermore, the office solves assignments for the public sector, housing associations, and private investors and developers.
MASU Planning was founded in 2007 by landscape architects Malin Blomqvist and Sune Oslev. In 2013, a subsidiary office was established in Helsinki and today the two offices form a versatile team with a bond reinforced by a shared passion for landscape architecture.

GROUPWORK - 11. NOVEMBER 2019

GROUPWORK is a RIBA chartered architecture and design practice established in 2003, formerly Amin Taha Architects. The studio is an employee ownership trust formed as a collective of talented architects and designers committed to the delivery of high quality, well-conceived and thoughtfully-detailed buildings. Their work encompasses many sectors including finely crafted homes, residential and office buildings, arts centres, masterplans, infrastructure projects, bridges and metro stations. Additionally, GROUPWORK has considerable experience in restoring and refurbishment of historic buildings and delight on applying an intelligent design approach to challenging and difficult sites. The practice has international recognition for its built work including multiple RIBA National Awards, RIBA Stirling Prize 2017 shortlist, and two EU Mies Award 2019 nominations. The projects have been published globally by the Architectural Review, Architecture Today, I Focus, AIT Magazine, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Blueprint, Wallpaper, the Guardian and the Financial Times.

Inches Geleta - 24. Juni 2019

Inches Geleta is a swiss architectural firm from Locarno led by Matteo Inches and Nastasja Geleta, both 35 years old. The context in which they operate influences their approach to the project in a decisive way. To produce appropriate design proposals, they believe it essential to take into account theurban fabric and the morphological properties of the landscape. By drawing on architectural models of the past, understood as typological references for formal and composition purposes, they identify a theme connecting the context to their design proposal. The concept behind each of their works always stems from the interpretation of a way of living and experiencing space in a given context, both physically and trough social interaction.

Comte/Meuwly - 17. Juni 2019

Comte/Meuwly Architects was established in 2017 by Adrien Comte and Adrien Meuwly in Switzerland. They aim to refresh the perception and the understanding of what surrounds us: the everyday, the ordinary, developing an ability to be astonished, to be fascinated by unplanned encounters, by unexpected discoveries, by banal gatherings. They do not observe the grandiose, nor the sublime, neither the really beautiful – but characters, scenes, objects, roles; some coincidences in which beauty emerges once assembled, once brought in relation by the architecture. Their projects are led as experiments and provoke new situations, emerging from a constant observation and from a fascination for the world surrounding us. They are working on the same obsessions at multiple scales and with various mediums: from photography, to buildings, to furniture. In parallel to their practice, they are involved in architecture education, teaching architecture design studio at the ETH Zürich, EPFL Lausanne and the Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio.

Förstberg Ling - 25. Mai 2019

Förstberg Ling is an office for architecture and design established in 2015 and based in Malmö, Sweden. From interiors and furniture to larger buildings, the studio focuses on detailing and materiality.

Björn Förstberg and Mikael Ling first met at the architecture school in Lund, Sweden, from which they graduated in 2009/2010 after spending a year at the College of Art in Edinburgh.

Their project House for Mother was shortlisted for the Private House Award in 2016 by Architects Sweden and won the Plåtpriset Award in 2017. Förstberg Ling was one of twenty practices chosen by Wallpaper magazine for the Architect's Directory 2017.

The studio's process often begins with an intriguing detail or an unexpected combination of materials, spaces or functions. From that starting point, a framework is created, a set of rules, out of which the project grows. While this framework defines the whole it’s also refined to a couple of well-crafted details.

Beeli Furlan Architects - 6. Mai 2019

Beeli Furlan Architects was founded in 2016 by Mario Beeli (*1983) and Giulia Furlan (*1985).  Since it was founded, Beeli Furlan Architects has been committed to explore both the physical and ideational potential of architecture. As an integral part of their work, Giulia and Mario have engaged actively in teaching and research activities. Their practice aims to make architecture with dimensions that reach beyond the limitations of the measurable. An architecture that belongs to the domain of imagination but which anyone is able to decode into a personal image that is exciting and meaningful. They seek to make architecture that can trigger an emotional sizing which goes beyond facts to carve deeper into the lives of those experiencing it fostering their ability to shape the world through personal feelings and thoughts. Their understanding of space, as a site of physical confrontation imbued with experiences and fantasies, has its roots in the fascination for enigmatic phenomena.

Jun Igarashi - 11. Februar 2019

I have been doing design activities at a place called Hokkaido far north from Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Hokkaido is a cold place where much snow falls. It is natural to respond to these conditions when designing a building. We are proposing architecture based on inevitable circumstances and develop architectural design methods, that evolve from this situation and respond to the particularities of each project. The architecture we develop is inevitably obtained from the context of Hokkaido. It coins our way of working.

Eagles of Architecture - 21. Januar 2019

Eagles of Architecture makes drawings and works on projects out of a desire to play rather than out of a sense of entrepreneurship. For each design it develops a set of playing rules which are sometimes passed on to a following project, sometimes not. The ambition to work in a group is clear from the plural in the name, but the following preposition and the explicit singular reveal that this collaboration is not open-ended. Shared convictions hold the group together. They are reflected in the game like genetic characteristics that are passed on from one generation to the next without reaching the surface. In 1765, Piranesi wrote: architecture that is understandable by all will be despised by all, and architects will leave the stage under jeers if they do not hold onto their liberty to choose ornaments arbitrarily. Today, Eagles of Architecture finds that freedom precisely in the formulation of rules. Eagles of Architecture does not strive after continuity between the interior and the exterior. The façade can be a screen, with its own story to tell. Rooms are pushed against the outer walls without having an effect on them. Yet the building is transparent. The project follows the modern conception that successive interventions in a building must stand out from one another so that the structure of the initial construction remains legible. That in itself is not new. What is more surprising is the clarity with which it is possible to read the playing rules adhered to by the designers.

Text by Benjamin Eggermont

PONTO ATELIER - 14. Januar 2019

PONTOATELIER is a young architecture studio based in Madeira Island by the architects Ana Pedro, Pedro Maria e José Gustavo. They studied in Milano and Évora where they teached from 2011 to 2015. They moved to Madeira after winning the 1st prize in the competition “Two houses for Ilhas Selvagens” Their work consists in several and different scales of projects, based on research, territorial analysis and experimental practice, trying to get to the limit of an idea. The condition of living and working on an island in the middle of the Atlantic gives them the distance to dream, and at the same time looking for information inside and outside borders. They work between images of the past, to understand the present and draw for the future.

RITMOS Y PATRONES - Josep Ferrando, 17. Dezember 2018

Ritmos y patrones involucran una intrínseca dualidad entre lo unitario y lo colectivo; es decir, entre la condición entitaria y, en ese sentido, autónoma de los elementos que la componen y su integración dentro de un conjunto mayor. Esta tensión, inherente a la relación entre fragmento y conjunto, puede ser evitada mediante la eliminación de una de las polaridades en conflicto, o contrariamente, puede ser aceptada como condición vital del proyecto definiéndose, de esta manera, modelos claramente diferenciados respecto a la relación entre las partes y el todo. El modelo inclusivo y diverso sostiene o, incluso, estimula la ambigüedad del fragmento entendido como totalidad en sí mismo y, al mismo tiempo, como parte de una organización mayor que lo incluye a otro nivel. La unidad, en este caso, se organiza a partir de relaciones horizontalmente complejas; no descansa en la gran forma simple sino en una forma de conjunto múltiple. Estas organizaciones, compuestas de varias partes relacionadas en diversos niveles por similitud y repetición, conforman un conjunto complejo y continuamente diverso. La condición material no se emplea como acción arrasadora de las diferencias sino, por el contrario, como oportunidad para la incorporación de matices o, incluso, de nuevos contrastes que enriquecen las delimitaciones y agrupamientos geométricos. La inclusión de lo contradictorio y lo circunstancial confiere a la expresión de estas composiciones un carácter vigoroso propio del estado tensional entre las polaridades en conflicto. Estas organizaciones requieren de una exploración atenta y extendida para su comprensión, ya que estimulan lecturas múltiples donde se hacen presente ambigüedades y contrastes que resaltan su carácter dinámico y vital. Una arquitectura que incluye en vez de excluir, que prefiere lo dual por sobre lo único, y que elige la unidad de lo diverso en lugar de la uniformidad de lo simple.

Radikal behutsam - Volker Staab, 12. November 2018

Volker Staab hat sich einen Namen mit passgenauen Eingriffen an historisch aufgeladenen Orten gemacht. Seit seinem ersten Projekt, dem Neuen Museum in Nürnberg, das auf eine Hinterhofsituation in der Altstadt mit einer 100 m langen Glasfassade antwortete, entwickelt sein Büro Staab Architekten mit jedem Projekt neue Antworten auf die Frage, wie sich ein Neubau zu seiner gewachsenen Umgebung verhält. Rekonstruktion, Ergänzen im Kontrast, Einheit von Alt und Neu, Offenlagen von baulichen Schichten oder Unsichtbarkeit – das Wortpaar »radikal behutsam« beschreibt den konzeptionellen Spielraum, der je nach vorgefundener Situation und Bauaufgabe neu auslotet wird. Da fast alle Projekte des Büros aus Wettbewerbserfolgen hervorgehen, bildet die Klarheit der architektonischen Konzepte die Grundlage der Arbeit des Büros, auf der dann der gesamte Entwicklungsprozess der Projekte aufbaut.

(Fotografie: Marcus Ebener)

Schneider Türtscher, 02. Juli 2018

Das Büro Schneider Türtscher wurde mit einem Direktauftrag für zwei Wohnhäuser im Jahr 2013 von Michaela Türtscher und Claudio Schneider gegründet. Es folgten weitere kleine Studien und Bauaufträge – vorwiegend im sub-urbanen Kontext des Rheintals. Dieser meist schwierigen, da heterogenen und undefinierten Ausgangslage antworten sie mit einer Herangehensweise, die von einem – im besten Fall vorgefundenen, meist aber zu schaffenden – räumlichen und sozialen Kontext ausgeht. Sie formulieren eine Grundidee, die zu lesbaren und differenzierten Raumabfolgen führen soll. Die präzise Benennung und Bemessung ermöglicht eine Hierarchisierung dieser Räume und gibt Aufschluss über eine kohärente Wirkungsabsicht der raumbestimmenden Elemente.

(Fotografie: Johanna Muther)

Ortalli Verrier, Gaëlle Verrier, 07. Mai 2018

Ortalli Verrier is a practice based in Como, Italy, and founded by Gaëlle Verrier and Giacomo Ortalli after their joint experience studying and working with Peter Zumthor for about 10 years. With a particular commitment to the intellectual pursuits in design research, teaching and architectural publications, the office works within national and international contexts in the fields of architecture, urban research and design.