Contents
No.592,Jan.2020
Feature: SuperNormal
Architecture in the Netherlands 2010-2020
Introduction: Super Normal by Kirsten Hannema 6
Essay: Reshaping the Polder by Bob Witman 20
Co-living Oosterwold by bureau SLA, ZakenMaker 26
De Ceuvel 34
Space & Matter
The Sixteen-Oak Barn 42
Hilberinkbosch Architects
Tij Observatory 50
RAU Architects, RO&AD Architects
Deltawerk / I 56
RAAAF, Atelier de Lyon
Essay: Tabula Scripta 62
Jarrik Ouburg
Beurspassage - Oersoep 68
Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA), Rijnboutt
BlueCity Rotterdam 74
Superuse Studios
Deventer City Hall 80
Neutelings Riedijk Architects
LocHal Library 88
CIVIC Architects
Naturalis Biodiversity Center 98
Neutelings Riedijk Architects
Education Center Erasmus MC 106
KAAN Architects
Musis Sacrum 114
Frits van Dongen Architects and Planners, Koschuch Architects Museum De Lakenhal 122
Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven
Kleiburg De Flat 130
NL Architects, XVW Architecture
Essay: After the NAi: Grand Projects in the Netherlands 136
Sergio M. Figueiredo
Forum Groningen 142
NL Architects
Utrecht Bicycle Parking 148
Ector Hoogstad Architects
Delft City Hall and Train Station 154
Mecanoo
Public Transport Terminal Breda 162
Koen van Velzen Architects
The Rijksmuseum 170
Cruz y Ortiz Architects
An Interview with Floris Alkemade : The Future of the Netherlands 180
Kirsten Hannema
Announcement of the Results : Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition 2019 -Living in the Future 190
No.593,Feb.2020
Feature: Toshiko Mori
Essay: The Inevitable Architecture of Toshiko Mori by Fred A. Bernstein 6
House in Taghkanic 16
House in Connecticut II 28
Cloudline and Treeline 40
Interview : A Conversation with Sean Kelly 58
House in Ghent 64
House in Martha's Vineyard 76
House in Bedford 84
House on Maine Coast 94
House in Suffolk County 102
Maier Preston House 108
Essay : Lessons from the House in Taghkanic, and Other Views on the Hudson River Valley by Edward Eigen 116
Bob Greenberg Selects: Connected by Design 124
Joseph and Anni Albers: Designs for Living 128
Sean Kelly Gallery 130
Center for Maine Contemporary Art 134
Peter Freeman Gallery 140
Thread and Fass 144
Thread Artists' Residency and Cultural Center, Fass School and Teacher's Residence 277 Mott Street 156
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Stephen Robert'62 Hall, Brown University 162
Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems 170
Essay : Teaching and Practice
Adapted from the 2019 AlA/ACSA Topaz Medalli on Acceptance Speech 178
Toshiko Mori
Winning Entries of the Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition 2019 183
No.594, March 2020
Feature: Architecture in Chile -In Search of a New Identity
Essay : CHILE #2 -Architecture since 1990 by Diego Grass 4
Sebastian Irarrazaval 14
Casa 2Y
Smiljan Radic 24
House for the Poem of the Right Angle Smiljan Radic 34
Prism House + Terrace Room
Pezo von Ellrichshausen 44
Loba House
Max Nunez 52
Ghat House
Guillermo Acuna 60
Isla Lebe
Ortuzar Gebauer Architects 72
Palafito del Mar Hotel
Cazu Zegers Architects 78
Hotel of the Wind - Tierra Patagonia Hotel
Coz, Polidura, Volante, Soto 88
Museum of the Atacama Desert
Undurraga Deves Architects 96
Retiro Chapel
Emilio Marfn, Juan Carlos Lopez 104
Desert Interpretation Center
Max Nunez 110
Glass House
Undurraga Deves Architects 120
Ruca Dwellings
OWAR Architects 124
Housing Complex in Quinta Normal
Izquierdo Lehmann Architects 130
Cruz del Sur Building
Cristian Fernandez Architects, Lateral Architecture & Design 138 Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center
Joaquin Velasco Rubio 146
Dinamarca 399
Cecilia Puga, Paula Velasco, Alberto Moletto 154
Palacio Pereira
No.595,April 2020
Feature: Computational Discourses
Introduction: Generative Architecture: Making a Critical Practice by Jenny E. Sabin 8
Zaha Hadid Architects
Commentary 10
Morpheus Hotel at City of Dreams 12
One Thousand Museum 32
Essay: Parametricism: The Next Decade by Patrik Schumacher 40
Morphosis
Commentary 48
Kolon One & Only Tower 50
The Living
Embodied Computation Lab 58
Hy-Fi 66
Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD)
Commentary 76
BUGA Fiber Pavilion 2019 78
BUGA Wood Pavilion 2019 90
ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2016 - 1 7 102
Essay: Towards a Computational Material Culture in Architecture by Achim Menges 112
Marc Fornes / Theverymany
Minima I Maxima 120
Jenny Sabin Studio
Commentary 126
Ada 128
Neri Oxman and The Mediated Matter Group
Commentary 138
Silk Pavilion 140
Aguahoja 146
Wanderers 15 4
Sabin Lab
PolyBrick Series 162
No.596,May 2020
Feature: Architecture of Hope
30 years of European Architecture - EU Mies Award
Essay: 1 ,500 tons of continuous learning 6
Ivan Blasi
EU Mies Award Prize Winners and Shortlisted Works
198 8 : 24 Works 12
Borges & Irmao Bank
1990: 20 Works 1 8 Stansted Airport
1992: 29 Works 24
Municipal Sports Stadium of Badalona
1994: 26 Works 32
Waterloo International Station
1996: 3 5 Works 38
French National Library
1998: 31 Works 46
Art Museum of Bregenz
2001 : 38 Works 56
Kursaal Centre
200 3 : 41 Works 64
Car Park and Terminus Hoenheim North
2005: 33 Works 74
Netherlands Embassy Berlin
2007: 40 Works 82
MUSAC - Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y Leon
2009: 49 Works 90
Norwegian National Opera & Ballet
2011 : 45 Works 102
Neues Museum
201 3 : 40 Works 112
Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre
201 5 : 40 Works 122
Philharmonic Hall
201 7 : 40 Works 132
DeFlat Kleiburg
201 9 : 40 Works 140
Transformation of 530 dwellings - Grand Pare Bordeaux
Essay: Does Architecture Care?
The EU Mies Award in the Era of Capitalocene 1 50
Angelika Fitz
Essay: The Art of Interpretation 156
Dietrich Neumann
Selected Art Interventions 163
Japanese Architecture ( 1986-2018) 170
No.597,June 2020
Feature: MVRDV FILE S 4
Projects 435-908
Round table:
Designing with ldea(l)s for Growing Complexity in the Built
Enviro nment 5
Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, Nathalie de Vries
801 Tencent Campus 10
837 Airbus UAM 20
868 The Stack 30
840 KoolKiel 38
891 Tirana Pyramid 48
Roundtahle: Fascinating Times
A Roundtable Discussion among the New Partners of MVRDV 54
Jan Knikker, Inger Kammeraat, Frans de Witte, We nchian Shi,
Fokke Moerel, Stefan De Koning, Bertrand Schippan
669 The Imprint 60
508 Roskilde Festival Hojskole 72
461 Future Towers 80
614 WERKl2 90
525 Chongwenmen M-CUBE 100
575 Tianjin Binhai Library 108
736 Bulgari Kuala Lumpur 116
578 Depot Boijmans van Beuningen 124
764 Tainan Spring 130
435 SALT Amsterdam 138
908 Green Villa 146
751 The Sax 150
778 Schiphol Airport Terminal Area A 154
864 Rennes Palais du Commerce 158
856 Villa Overschie 162
590 Ilot Queyries 166
781 Magasin 113 170
585 Radio Tower & Hotel 174
No.598,July 2020
Feature : Architecture in the 70 ' s
"It was the best of times, it was the worst o f times . . . "
but not the 1 970s
Introduction Essay: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . .
but not the 1 970s by Harry Mallgrave 6
I . The Presumed Crisis of Meaning 1 5
White & Gray: Eleven Modern American Architects 1 6
Peter D. Eisenman and Robert A. M. Stern
Bye Residence, John Hedjuk 18
House VI, Peter Eisenman 20
Office for Gunwyn Ventures, Michael Graves 22
House in Connecticut, Robert A. M. Stern 24
Franklin Court, Robert Venturi 26
Vacation House in Maine, Edward Larrabee Barnes 28
Douglas House Richard Meier 30
Austrian Travel Agency, Main Office, Hans Hollein 34
The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Arata Isozaki 36
Commentary: Architecture in 70s Jun Aoki 40
II. The Real Crisis of Urban Theory 41
Essay Reprint: Analogical Architecture Aldo Rossi 42
Gallaratese Housing 45,
Primary school in Fagnano Olona 48,
San Cataldo Cemetery in Modena 50,
Theater of the World 54
Aldo Rossi Church of the Sacra Famiglia, Paolo Portoghesi 58
Essay Reprint: Architecture and Building - The reconstruction of a collective language as demonstrated in the project for the Quartier de la Villette Leon Krier 60
The middle school of Morbio Inferiore, Mario Botta 64
Banco Pinto & Sotto Mayor 68
Bouca Housing Complex 72
Alvaro Siza
Essay Reprint : to catch a precise moment of flittering image in all its shades Alvaro Siza 75
Alexandra Road Estate, Neave Brown 76
Student Housing, University of Louvain, Lucien Kroll 78
Central Beheer, Herman Hertzberger 80
Hillside Terrace Apartment Phase 3, Fumihiko Maki 84
III. The First Stirrings of the Ecology Movement, both Natural and Human 87
Sydney Opera House Jorn Utzon and others 88
Olympiastadion,Munich Frei Otto, Gunter Behnisch 90
Interview Reprint: Questionnaire to Norman Foster 92
IBM Pilot Headquarters 94
Willis Faber & Dumas 98
Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts 102
Norman Foster
Essay Reprint: LL (Long Life) LF (Loose Fit) LE (Low Energy) versus Foster Reyner Banham 106
UOP 110
Georges Pompidou Cultural Center 114
Piano and Rogers
Essay Reprint: Piano + Rogers' Architectural Method Reyner Banham 116
World Trade Center, Minoru Yamasaki 118
Sears Tower, SOM 120
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Gunnar Birkerts 122
Arcosanti,Paolo Soleri 124
Appendix. The Vernacular and the Language of Modernism 127
Gehry House, Frank Gehry 128
House in Uehara, Kazuo Shinohara 130
Casa Gilardi, Luis Barragan 133
Arango Residence, John Lautner 134
Bagsvaerd Church 138
Can Lis 140
Jorn Utzon
Holscher House, Knud Holscher 144
Hedmark Museum, Archbishopric Museum, Sverre Fehn 146
Islev Church Inger & Johannes Exner 149
No.599,August 2020
Feature: Arata Isozaki in the 1970s
Practice and Theory
Foreword : Arata Isozaki in the 1970s - Practice and Theory by
Taira Nishizawa + Jun Aoki 4
lntervew 1: Concerning this Special Edition, Clients, Kitakyu shu, Oita, and the Isozaki family, the Design and Publication of Fukuoka Mutual Bank the 1970s and the Theory of Method, Kaijima House, and Oita
Medical Hall Extention by Arata Isozaki Interviewer: Jun Aoki and Taira Nishizawa 8
lntervew 2 : Concerning Kitakyushu Centaral Library, We st Japan General Exhibition Center, and 1970s "Severance" Arata Isozaki Interviewer: Jun Aoki and Taira Nishizawa 42
Oita Medical Hall Extention 70
Kitakyushu Central Library 96
West Japan General Exhibition Center 124
Kaijima House 150
No.600,Sep.2020
Feature : MAD Architects - Dreamscape
Essay : CONVOLUTIONS by Frederic Migayrou 10
Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center 22
Chaoyang Park Plaza 30
Yabuli Conference Center 40
Huangshan Mountain Village 46
Quzhou Sports Park 52
Courtyard Kindergarten 58
Discussion : Process behind the structural and facade engineering of MAD Architecture by Dang Qun, Gao Ying, Yu Hui 68
Harbin Opera House 76
Absolute Towers 90
Mirage - Montparnasse Tower Renovation 96
Xinhee Design Center 100
Architecture, art and beyond :
Fish Tank 106
Ink Ice 108
Floating Island 110
Superstar: A Mobile Chinatown 112
MAD Martian Collection 114
Shenzhen Bay Culture Park 116
Clover House 122
Hutong Bubbles 130
Ordos Museum 140
Essay : Architecture, art and beyond by Fumio Nanjo 148
Tunnel of Light 152
FENIX Museum of Migration 160
Fifth Ring 166
No.601,Oct.2020
Feature: Valerio Olgiati - Non-Referential Architecture
Essay : Non-Referential Architecture Ideated by Valerio Olgiati, Written by Markus Breitschmid 8
Pearling Site 14
Baloise Park C 34
Torre San Felipe 46
Lutzowufer Residential Building 52
University Campus SUPSI 56
School Building Schauenberg 62
Celine Flagship Store 66
Apartment for an Undisclosed Fashion Designer in Paris 82
House in Laax 94
Villa Alem 110
La Mas 128
House for a Priest 134
Pero Cuco 140
Experience of Space - Venice Biennale 2018 144
Cassons Cableway 150
Essay : Architecture that Stimulates Thought by Go Hasegawa 158
No.602,Nov.2020
Feature : SO-IL - Unfinished Business
Essay : ARCHITECTURE, AT - AND OF – EASE by Mohamed Sharif 6
Kukje Gallery 16
L'air pour l'air 24
Frame 30
Murmuration 34
Beeline 40
Breathe 46
Blueprint 54
K l l Art & Cultural Center 58
Cleveland Public Library 70
Wesleyan Gallery 74
Manetti Shrem Museum 78
Adelaide Contemporary 88
Kukje Jeju 92
Interview : Crossing Borders - A Talk Between SO-IL and Karamuk Kuo 96
SO-IL (Jing Liu, Florian ldenburg) and Karamuk Kuo (Jeannette
Kuo, Unal Karamuk)
Duravcevic - Ben Ari House 106
Chermayeff House 116
Millbrook Home 120
Bergen Street House 126
450 Warren 132
Las Americas 138
2A 146
Jay Street 150
Site Verrier 154
Maujer Art Space 160
Bush Terminal 164
Amant Art Campus 168
No.603,Dec.2020
Feature : Simon Velez - Vegetarian Architecture
Introduction :
Construction 6
Vegetal Materials 8
From his Notebooks 10
Architect's House, Casa La Candelaria 15
Early Works (1973-1997) 27
Casa Gloria Mejia 28
Watchtower La Candelaria 29
Casa Ayerbe Gomez 30
Casa Mejia 32
Casa Salazar 33
Coffee Park Watchtower 34
Interview : Conversation between Simon Velez and Shigeru Ban by Simon Velez, Shigeru Ban 35
Works (1999-) 41
Expo Hannover - Coffee Pavilion 42
Bahia Bungalow 50
Crosswaters Ecolodge 5 4
Carder Environmental Agency 68
Hotel Agua Kiosk 72
Horse Stables 74
Nomadic Museum 7 8
Templo 86
Ocho Rios Stage 98
Casa Quindio 100
Casa Anapoima 106
Casa Nilo 112
21st floor penthouse 114
Oceanfront Bungalow 118
Casa Perez 122
Domo Mundo Aventura 128
Casa Cartagena 134
Casa Canon 138
Casa Aya 144
Tropical House 154
Social Area Pavilions 164
Casa Cali 168
Casa Toby 176
Prudencia Restaurant 182
Rock Climber's House 184
Contemplation Pavilion 192
Textile Architecture 198
Valvanera Sports Complex 12
City Hall and Community Center in San Fernando de Henares 18
Anabel Segura Community Center 26
Sports Complex in Galdakao 36
Arrixaca University Hospital Teaching Center 44
Alicante Museum of Contemporary Art (MACA) 54
Clubhouse in Qingpu 66
14 Vinas Winery 72
Shopping Center in Eibar 82
Fundo Moray Center 86
Essay: Themes and variations in the work of S-MAO by Anton Garcia-Abril and Debora Mesa 90
Essay: Fold-Crossover by Juan Carlos Sancho 96
Chapel and House in Valleacer6n 100
Church in Qingpu 110
Housing Cantalares 114
Shade-Water-Breeze Fold 122
Innovation and Business Development Center (CAT) 130
Technology Dome 140
IESE Business School 144
Chapel and House in Sierra la Villa 154
Outdoor Stage and Culture Hub in Alburouj 162
New Luohu Culture and Art Center 172
No.609,June 2021
Feature: Shigeru Ban
Essay: Shigeru Ban: Constantly Experimenting Michael Webb 6
L'Aquila Temporary Concert Hall 14
Self-Build House in Nepal 22
Paper Log House 28
Quinta Botanica 30
Cardboard Cathedral 34
Papertainer Museum 44
Expo 2000 Hanover Japan Pavilion 46
Essay: Frei Otto with annotation by Georg Vrachliotis 51
Grand Palais Ephemere 54
Skolkovo Golf Clubhouse 56
Tamedia New Office Building 62
Aspen Art Museum 72
Haesley Hamlet 82
Kentucky Owl Park 94
Guilin Pavilion 100
Cathedral Square Complex 104
Sully-Morland Parimien Concert Venue and Food Hall 108
Cast Iron House 114
Swatch and Omega Headquarters 120
Tainan Art Museum 136
M+ 146
Monaco Cable Car Mid Station 148
National Library of Israel 152
Sheikh Zayed National Museum 156
La Seine Musicale 160
Pare Funeraire 172
No.610,July 2021
Feature : House Looking into the World
Go Hasegawa 8
Consciousness of "Roots"
6a architects 32
Habitat
Vector Architects 56
Architecture as Mediator of Life
MOS 78
Architecture as Empathy
adamo-faiden 100
An Intermediate Climate
HARQUITECTES 122
Natural Atmospheres
Essay : Reframing How We Live 146
Giovanna Borasi
Profiles, Project Data 151
No.611,August 2021
Feature: Nenia Project - Smiljan Ra
Nenia Project 4
House for the Poem of the Right Angle / Garden of Leaves 10
Santiago Telecommunications Tower 28
Fragile, A Tower of Wine Glasses
Artefacts 32
The Boy Hidden in a Fish, The Boy Hidden in an Egg
The Giant Selfish Castle, Gryphon, Kewpie My First Tower
Death at Home, Inflatable Bodies
Folly, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 40
Crucifixion Chapel 62
Giant Sofa Room 74
Ma(rra)queta Shelter 78
Celine Pavilion 90
Prism House + Room / Terrace 96
Chilean Pavilion 108
Chanchera 112
Nave 120
Regional Theater Bio Bio 134
House of Alexander McQueen 144
New Museum of Santiago (NUMU) 154
Solo Hotel 162
Hidden House in Peru 170
Drops 176
Essay: Architecture Against Architecture? 184
Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen
Essay: The Architecture of Smiljan Radie 188
Rye Nishizawa
No.612,September 2021
Feature: Urban Science and New Design Tools
Introduction: What Does Science Mean to Architects? 5
Yuji Yoshimura
Louvre Network Analysis 14
Essay: Ildefons Cerda 22
Eric Mumford
Making Sense, Pilot Projects at Placa del Sol 28
Decidim.Barcelona: Participatory Budget 40
Essay: "Nervous System" of the City Council 52
Institut Municipal d'Informatica (IMI)
48h Open House Barcelona 2020 56
Merce 62
Geographies of the Lockdown 72
Nocturnal Landscapes 74
Ciutat Vella Land-Use Plan 80
Air I Aria/ Aire 84
Essay: Commons, Health, and Livability:
The Crisis of the Barcelona Model 94
Mar Santamaria-Varas, Pablo Martinez-Diez
Superblock 96
Essay: The Clock, the Plow, and the Polygraph 112
Jesse Reiser
TreesCount' 2015-2016 116
Biobot 122
CityScope 130
Essay: Tange as Urban Scientjst 138
Seng Kuan
General Transit Feed Specification Japan (GTFS-JP) 144
PLATEAU 150
Quantification of Urban Aesthetics 156
A Plan for Tokyo, 2020: Five Purr-feet Points 160
No.613,October 2021
Feature : Marie-Jose Van Hee architecten
Essay : Undrawing 6
Sam De Vocht
House HdF 20
House DW 28
House L-C 36
House Van Hee 44
Essay : Food for Thoughts 54
Sylvia Van Peteghem
House V-V 56
House and Doctor's Practice VA-0 64
House A-B 74
House V-D 84
Housing Lindenlei 94
House and Apartments VG-S 102
Office and Apartment Bailleul 112
Housing Academie 122
Housing Eekhoornhof 128
Housing Beukenhof 134
Housing Donzapark 140
Essay : Spatial Poetry 148
Hera Van Sande
ModeNatie - Fashion Museum and Academy 152
Inner-City Central Squares, Bike Parking, and Market Hall 160
Inner-City Central Squares, Leie Riverbanks and Brielpoortbrug 166
No.614,November 2021
Feature:Johnston Marklee
Essay: Generic Specificity- 5 Points for an Architecture of Approximation 10
Extremes and In-Betweens 14
Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee
UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios 16
Rice University VADA 24
UIC Center for the Arts 34
Green Line Arts Center 40
Super Resin Sakahama Factory 44
Knoll Home Design Shop 50
Dropbox Headquarters 54
Collage: Galleries/Exhibitions/Participatory Environments 60
Essays: A Small Library, through the Workroom, behind a Glass Door,
Lit by a Skylight Anna Neimark 62
Building Character Wonne lckx 64
Speaking to Everyone Emanuel Christ 66
Collage: Exteriors 68
Merril Drawing Institute 70
Philadelphia Contemporary 78
Hilbert Museum of California Art 88
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 94
Natural History Museum and State Archives Basel 102
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles 108
Pavilion of Six Views 110
Collage: Artist Photos 116
Essays: White on White 118
Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen
Sculpting Weightlessness Kersten Geers 120
Some Thoughts on Canal House Go Hasegawa 122
Collage: Details 124
Hut House and Cliff Hut 126
Hill House 130
Ark House 134
Sale House 140
Canal House 144
Casa de Mont 150
Vault House 154
Collages: Physical Models 162
Views 164
Plans 166
Essays: Flying Vaults Pier Paolo Tamburelli 168
Vault House Eric Lapierre 170
Work of Architecture in Age of Digital Dissemination 172
Jeannette Kuo
Collage: Alphabets and Collages 174
Babcock 176
Holly Hunt Los Angeles 180
The Form of Form 182
Room for a Daybed 186
2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial: Make New History 188
Essays: On the Work of Johnston Marklee 192
Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample
The Architecture that True Architects Do
Anton Garcia-Abril and Debora Mesa 194
Drawing the Line Alfredo Thiermann 196
No.615,December 2021
Feature: Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Essay: The MuBE, or Architecture as Construction of an Artificial Landscape
Daniele Pisani 5
Brazilian Museum of Sculpture (MuBE) 14
Brazil Pavilion at Osaka Expo '70 46
Georges Pompidou Cultural Center 72
Contemporary Art Museum of the University of Sao Paulo 84
Serra Dourada Municipal Stadium 100
Patriarca Square, Roof 116
Essay: Eulogy for Mendes da Rocha Nuno Sampaio 134
Mendes da Rocha's Sketches 138
Mendes da Rocha's Office 148
Mendes da Rcoha House 152
Essay: Remembering Mendes da Rocha with 24 Sketches
Eduardo Souto de Moura 158