The Berlage Keynotes: Christ & Gantenbein - online lecture
Zdroj Thursday 11th February 2021 at 6:30 PM
This lecture will present the work-in-progress from the Basel-based practice Christ & Gantenbein. Founded in 1998 by Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein, the firm s completed projects include the expansion and transformation of the Swiss National Museum in Zurich, the extension of the Kunstmuseum Basel, and Lindt Home of Chocolate for Lindt & Sprüngli in Zurich. Currently, the firm is working on a range of projects across Europe, including a social housing development in Paris, an office building for Roche in Germany, the extension of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, the Zurich University Hospital, and a housing and office building in the historic center of Hamburg.
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Anna Puigjaner on the Social Meaning of Cooking Buckets
The Barcelona-based architect and researcher discusses how her travels in the Casamance, Senegal, illuminated a broader role of cooking buckets.
Courtesy Anna Puigjaner
In recent years I have been researching contemporary, collective cooking practices, which hold the potential to redefine preset gender-biased structures. One of my trips took me to Casamance in Senegal, a region where cooking is traditionally done in a collective manner and partially outdoors. An essential tool is the bucket, a simple object that enables not only the washing of dishes but also the preparation of ingredients. Usually placed outdoors to dry after being used, the buckets have colorful finishes that help form part of the Senegalese landscape. Alongside the fire, these cooking devices are the essence of the kitchen. They are replaced and rearranged in response to changing needs, allowing the kitchen to “happen” wherever outdoors or
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VI PER Gallery announces an international open call for exhibition projects. The winning proposal will be realized at VI PER in late 2021.
VI PER Gallery based in Prague, Czech Republic, is a non-profit institution focused on architecture in the broadest sense, together with its relations and points of intersection with contemporary art, urbanism, design, and media, as well as the political, legal, social, economic, ecological, and spatial contexts, which help to shape architecture and the built environment.
The call is opened for architects, artists, designers, researchers, curators, critics (induviduals or teams) of any nationality and country of residence. Submitted projects may fall into a wide range of genres – associated with architecture, art, design, and other disciplines – and should reflect on the relevance of architecture to respond to contemporary issues and discourse. We welcome original projects that demonstrate new and innovative ideas, critical and experim
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A home is one of the most significant architectural typologies that we experience throughout our lives. Largely serving as a significant private space, a home represents safety, ownership, and a sense of respite away from the rest of the world. It’s also historically been a place of routine, where we both begin and end our day, following the same patterns through different rooms of a home that we utilize. We can expect to sleep in our bedrooms, relax in a living room, cook in a kitchen, and eat in a dining room.
Despite the rigidity of purpose for each room, there’s something about a home that we cherish because of these standardized routines. But with new trends in technology, a shift towards an increasingly digitized world, and the abruptness of change brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, how might we reconsider what a home means, and how might we adopt their designs to newly learned behaviors? What if the root of housing comes from how we view and utilize a home at its