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Simple in form but complex in substance, “What is Architecture?” remains an existential question for a lot of architecture students and young professionals. In an attempt to define this ever-changing interrogation and expose the different visions out there, the interview series
: WIA – What is architecture? asks four, straightforward, questions to world-leading architectural designers and thinkers. Seeking to uncover their opinion on what architecture is and what it can do, these short videos reveal responses to “
What is architecture? What can architecture do? What is your architectural position? and
What is your design method?”.
ArchDaily has collaborated with WIA to release every week, 4 of these conversations, and to invite you to take on the challenge and answer these questions. The fourth and last article of the series presents the ideas and visions of Lina Ghotmeh, Wolf D. Prix from Coop Himmelb(l)au, Liam Young, and Martin Rein-Cano from Topotek 1.
Crimean Opera House Pulls Back Curtains On Russian Sanctions Loophole
March 03, 2021 16:56 GMT
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Sanctions have prohibited companies from doing business with the Russian authorities controlling Crimea for more than six years, but Western participation in the development of a bold, seagull-inspired opera house flies in the face of that ban.
The Sevastopol State Opera and Ballet Theater, designed by the avant-garde Austrian architectural firm Coop Himmelb(l)au and expected to open in 2023, is part of a massive Kremlin-ordered cultural complex being constructed on the southern tip of the peninsula.
Overlooking Sevastopol Bay alongside one of the Soviet Union s largest war monuments, the complex promises to rise as the grandest symbol yet of Russia s defiance of punitive measures imposed following its 2014 seizure of the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula and ongoing involvement in the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Walter Hochauer
In the early 1990s, an intact mummy was discovered in the Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border, that proved to be more than 5,000 years old. What is known today as Austria has been populated for a very long time; the buildings here are just a blip on the region’s history, but they’re all worth seeing when you’re next there.
Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die
, edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in parentheses.
Schloss Belvedere
The two parts of the 18th-century Schloss Belvedere, southeast of Vienna, were built for Prince Eugen of Savoy. The Lower Belvedere, built first, is a single-story pavilion with a mansard roof and a raised centerpiece containing the Marble Hall, with frescoes by Martino Altomonte. The Upper Belvedere, built about ten years later, stands on higher ground to the south and is a more complex structure with three stories and an a