Art & Architecture Building (Rudolph Hall), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1963
(Paul Rudolph)
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:: The Piranesi Variations_2012 Venice Biennale
_A Field of Diagrams_Eisenman Architects
_A Field of Walls_Dogma_2012 Venice Biennale
Still on the Central Pavilion’s main axis is The Piranesi Variations, curated by Peter Eisenman. The theory-minded architect invited Belgian architects Dogma, students from Yale School of Architecture, and Jeffrey Kipnis, who in turn worked with students from Ohio State University Knowltoon School of Architecture, to “revisit, examine, and reimagine Piranesi’s 1762 folio collection of etchings, Campo Marzio dell'antica Roma.” Like the Grafton/Mendes da Rocha installation, models are the focus here, occupying the middle of the space near related drawings on the walls. Not surprisingly, Eisenman’s contribution, “A Field of Diagrams,” is immediately recognizable as Eisenman, a layering of various grids at different sizes and angles on top of each other. Even topping off the gridscape are buildings that look like unrealized designs by the architect.
Dogma’s “A Field of Walls” is Eisenman’s antithesis; it “reconsiders the power relations” of Piranesi’s etchings through a parallel series of wall-like buildings. It is brutal and imposing in its repetition and its dominance over the landscape. Neverthless, there is something appealing in Dogma’s reading of Piranesi and the diagram they created, as if the parallel walls – something that could never be willed into existence – have a clarity that invites pondering what they might mean.
http://www.world-architects.com/en/pages/page_item/biennale-architettura-2012-3/
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“Hiroshima Memorial to the Dead…I thought sculpture need not be sculpture as things: it could be a sort of concentration of energies.”
295. Peter Zumthor /// Tower House Chisti Lumbrein /// Lumnezia, Switzerland /// 1970
OfHouses presents “Pritzkers’ First Houses”:
After returning from New York, where he studied architecture and design at the Pratt Institute, Peter Zumthor (Pritzker 2009) worked for over a decade as a building and planning consultant with the Department for the Preservation of Monuments of the canton of Graubünden.
During this time he took several private design commissions that were never published until 2013, when the Swiss magazine Hochparterre uncovered these early works in Palle Petersen’s research ‘Zumthor vor Zumthor’. Almost all of them are reconversions and enlargements of existing structures, like the Ustria Caffe de Mont in Vella (1971) or the Dierauer House in Haldestein (1976).
Such is also the case with his first completed work: the restauration and interior decoration of a medieval Tower House in the small village of Lumbrein (1970). The project is not even mentioned in the official chronology of his works; yet, there’s a side to it: the Tower is available to rent for a weekend at half the price of the latest Zumthor 850 pages long monograph.
(Photos: © Adrian Michael, Hurni Christoph, Ruedi Walti. Source: Wikimedia Commons; booking.com.)
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