On landscape and architecture or how to call things with their proper names in these uncertain times
I had a dream. When I dream, and I often do, I sometimes decide to fly: it is always a matter of a low flight, topographic, almost like an induced levitation that enables me to distinguish forests of different colours, fields, urban areas, plots, inclu …
Landscape. Architecture
ETAR de Alcântara, Lisbon, Portugal (2005-2011). Photo by Diogo Bento A lot has already been written on landscape design, and one often runs the risk of suggesting and accepting simplistic approximations generated by the incredible force of the conting …
Spaceport America
Located in the desert-like landscape of New Mexico, Spaceport is the first building of its kind in the world. Its design aims to articulate the thrill of space travel for the first space tourists while making a minimal impact on the environment. Viewed …
Antinori Winery
It is therefore clear that the project could not be understood as the construction of a new headquarters or the realization of a new Palazzo Antinori or a new brick fortress that still evoked an unnecessary urbanity; rather, it should consist of an arc …
Memorial to Garibaldi in Forte Arbuticci
At some point in the life, not only professional, of an architect he or she will encounter places in relation to which not only the initial reaction, but also the one following a deeper reflection, is a conviction that no architect could improve the be …
Joanneum Museum Extension
The ground surface, the horizontal platform upon which most of our movements in the city occur, is very rarely the generating argument or the spatial support of a project. Perhaps as a result of that yearn for an identity that every new intervention se …
Städel Museum Extension
The new building adjoins the garden wing completed at the start of the 20th century and itself the first extension of the original museum building, which was built on Frankfurt’s Schaumainkai in 1878. In contrast to any of the extension work carried ou …
Boza-Camus House
Boza-Camus House proposes a way of inhabiting the slope around a large patio, turning the house into a lookout platform.
Limache House
Three main volumes, with lofty spaces and upper terraces. They worked out in such way that the internal configuration varies case by case.
House in Huentelauquén
The “L” shap of the house protects a big platform with exceeds the indoor area, thus producing a public space from a private commission.