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Morrinho

Morrinho no Point Ephemere, em Paris, Dezembro de 2005.


En la Biennale de Venezia 2007





(...)Se Brasilia á a visão concretizada do que uma próspera capital da América Latina poderia ser, o Morrinho é uma sombra vernacular, uma sombra que se aprofunda e que se molda sobre o continente sobre cada cidade do mundo cuja polaridade economica e anárquica expansão seguem o mesmo padrão de desenvolvimento.

O Morrinho é também um paradigma de autodeterminação, um exemplo - emprestando o termo a Joseph Beyus - de escultura social. Uma escultura na qual as vidas redirecionadas de seus autores são mais da metade do trabalho.
Robert Storr - Curador da 52e Bienal de Veneza

http://www.morrinho.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7571487@N07/

L'architecture d'ajourd'hui

Regalo de la Biblioteca de la FADU (facultad de arquitectura diseño y urbanismo, Universidad de Buenos Aires)

RE-PLACE Berlin

Commuting to work,

Walking the dog around the block,

Going to the open air market on sundays,

Visiting a family on the weekend,

the rituals of everyday life trace regular paths along streets and through buildings, organising the solids and voids of the built environment into narratives and patterns of association. Complicated by memory and social rituals, our experience of the city is of a dynamic place, a stage for public performances and private tragedies, of significant moments and the incredibly mundane. The habits, rituals, and actions of its population, the lived experiences within the city define it as something that is always current, always in constant, random movement.

RE-PLACE BERLIN web-based urban project - reveal and celebrate everyday rituals - map out frequent routes - recording regular patterns and particular moments - relates to the lived experience of those who dwell there - become a tourist of someone else's everyday ritual - document and share observations and discoveries made along the way - points of intersection develop between the routes - the city remapped as a network of lived experiences - understand the city - residents interacting with it – the routes we follow and the moments where these routes cross, overlap, run parallel or tangent to each other.

http://www.re-place.info/index.html

Fantastic Norway

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Two young architects in a red camper take on Norway’s architectural ills.

Håkon Matre Aasarød and Erlend Blakstad Haffner roused community support to preserve a firehouse that was scheduled for demolition. The building and the adjacent town square, they had learned, were going to be turned over to a shopping-center developer. Aasarød and Haffner returned to the site repeatedly during the school year, and ultimately proposed adapting the brick tower into a regional contemporary art headquarters. “We found this more interesting than school,” Haffner says, “and decided that we would go into architecture to make positive social changes.”
A year later the newly minted graduates established Fantastic Norway, making field trips their MO. With a beat-up car pulling a Bjølseth camper, Aasarød and Haffner spent 30 months traveling to a dozen cities, identifying local ailments—an underused public space, a preexisting design that had gone sour—and inviting residents into their mobile office to brainstorm solutions. “People feel threatened by com­pletely new ideas because often they don’t participate in the process,” Haffner says. Listening, Fantastic Norway’s success suggests, is good business.

TXT: http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=3094

http://www.fantasticnorway.no/