8/11/2011
who have been inspiring for yet another late night sketch.
“Does any architecture, any great architecture need people, except to lounge about and give it scale? Think here of great Modernist architects, for starters. No. Great architecture (and I am not thinking only of big, monumental buildings) is always the embodiment of a great thought, a great idea, one that is bigger than a single building or architect. Great ideas belong to a time, to a culture. Great architecture has no interest in or obligation to the expectations or demands of people. It is people,ourselves, who must learn how to live in it, if we choose, or dare. That is the reality, and has always been. It is moving forward living by leaps, not steps. ”
Lebbeus Woods, at the vernisage of Pitch Black from Hernan Alonso Diaz, Vienna, Mak, 10/10/2007
15/10/2011
(Studio Pei Zhu in collaoration with vague)
In the process of the establishment of the first Botanical Garden in Luang Prabang, Lao PBR, Rik Gadella invited studio Pei-zhu among other famous architects to re-think the notion of the “pavillion” and “garden-folly” and to develop a design for a non-specific pavillion, which would be exhibited around the world and possibly sold to collectors to raise funds The Phad Tad Ke Folly proposal is an attempt to redefine the meaning of the garden folly in the modern times and thus the relation between human and nature. This relation, as well as, the balance between positive and negative forces in the universe are the main focal points of Taoism, a native Chinese philosophy.
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12/10/2011
Ελλάδα/ Πάρος/ Παροικιά/ Φράγκικο Κάστρο/ Ιούλιος 2011
Greece/ Paros/ Parikia/ Frankish Castle/ July 2011
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7/10/2011
This is a brand new proposal for the Topotheque Headquarters in the city of Thessaloniki by the notorious KUH member, architect and radio producer A. Spyridonos aka Selfaux. A whole block in the neighbourhood of Toumpa gets structurally and programmatically amplified by employing the existing urban fabric in a cutting edge top floor addition. Selfaux, on the side, rides his bike through the city of Athens and creates more and more representations of possible though unlikely futures.
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4/10/2011
Construction at House Monostyle just started.
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30/09/2011
We participate as lecturers and professors at the NoIdentityAct Workshop that takes place in our hometown, Ioannina, these days.
Main objective of the workshop is the formation of strategies to deal with the deteriorating historical centre of the city.
More information here
