March 31

American Roadside Architecture
a photo show by John Margolies

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(Photos © John Margolies)

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American Roadside Architecture
March 27 – May 3, 2009
Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen
Via Pasquale Stanislao Mancini 20 (00196), Rome

The 1972 essay Learning from Las Vegas, by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour, was a celebration of architecture as a playful, often loud adaptation to specific needs of both functionality and communication. No matter how kitsch, the Strip’s signs and props weren’t just advertising for a separate place, product or service, but they were a functioning, characteristic part of it. Architecture on the Strip wasn’t meant to adhere to universal (modern) standards, but every building aimed to be distinct and unique in its own, visible and attractive. In a place where time doesn’t exist (there are famously no clocks inside of the casinos) an original molding of space remains the only currency. Read more

March 30

Parreno+Roche win 2009 P.A.A.L.M.A. Award

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With Vito Acconci as the most notable example, we can tell art and architecture now belong together. Living environments become more and more an inspiration to contemporary artists, and it’s no surprise so many of them now collaborate tightly with famed architects. This is the reason why you should mind about the P.A.A.L.M.A. Award, promoted by La Marrana Arteambientale di Montemarcello and curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio, professor at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. The event is meant to promote co-operation between artists and architects to improve the quality of contemporary living. This year’s edition awarded Philippe Parreno and François Roche, with The Game (Hybrid Muscle + Boy from Mars), a creative workshop in The Land, near Sanpatong, Northern Thailand.

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March 27

MAXXI museum by Zaha Hadid in Rome
Symposium and project

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The new (and long-awaited) MAXXI museum building, designed by starchitect Zaha Hadid, is almost complete. The new complex will feature several venues, amongst which the first national architecture museum in Italy, an archive of video-documentaries and spaces dedicated to host contemporary art shows. As the works complete, you can already take a divine look from above here and, if you’re in Rome, you can also attend a very interesting symposium about the museum’s future functions on April 3 and 4, at Palazzo delle Esposizioni. Read more

March 26

Estudio Teddy Cruz
A talk at Facoltà di Architettura in Roma Tre

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March 26

Earth Hour
8:30PM, Saturday 28 March 2009

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As the 2009 Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen approaches, WWF is challenging the  world population to turn off their lights for a while. Earth Hour, for the third year now, is an actual attempt to have people take action against global warming, making an effort as little as lighting up a few candles and live electricity-free for an hour. A big success in 2007, the event gets more and more ambitious every year. Read more

March 25

Energy-producing dream home by Mario Cucinella Architects
€100,000 Home Research, Settimo Torinese, Turin, Italy

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Mario Cucinella Architects has been the only italian studio to be given two important acknowledgments at this year’s Architectural Review MIPIM FUTURE PROJECTS award. More precisely ARPA Offices project in Ferrara was awarded the SUSTAINABILITY category along with the €100,000 Home project, which was also commended in the RESIDENTIAL category.

€100,000 Home presents the design of a 100m2 home, both low-cost and high-quality, with zero CO2 emissions and a low environmental impact. Read more

March 24

Simple and True.
Vamos a Brincar! Playground in Angola
by Hopeandspace Architecture

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Luanda is the most informally-run among african cities. More than 90% of its territory consists in slums,  where more than 2 milion people live tightly packed in an endemic state of precariousness. The ones paying the highest price because of this situation are the children, who are forced to spend most of their time in unhealthy and unpractical spaces. Even playing, their most natural activity, exposes them to a wide range of dangers. Every year, because of “urban risks” such as traffic, criminality, mines, and others, more than 200 children are seriously injured – most of the times while playing.

”Vamos a Brincar! (Let’s Play!)”, a project designed by the Milan–based studio Hopeandspace Architecture, comes from this acknowledgment. Read more

March 23

Prada Transformer

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Prada Transformer is a new multi-functional project by Rem Koolhaas’ OMA, providing an extremely versatile environment for art and fashion shows, movie screenings and special events. The structure, inscribed into a tetrahedron, can lean on all its four sides (each marked by a particular geometric form: hexagon, circle, rectangle, cross) and assume specific configurations for any occasion by turning a floor into a ceiling and viceversa. Read more

March 20

Architecture snaps on Flickr

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Let’s face it: reading on the internet can be pretty boring. Even the most interesting text can be impossible to digest when it comes as a solid block of tight black-on-white pixels, and that’s why people try and post as many pictures as they can. Plus, you get to share your own view on things you’ve seen and places you’ve been, which is good. For you architecture-starved blog-readers, here’s an amazing collection of architecture photos from Flickr sets around the world, spotted and categorized by guaduatedegree.org. Categories range from general attitudes towards architecture to specific locations or decades (check out some examples below).

Architectural Paparazzi – photo by Trout Factory

Architecture Porn – photo by Optimieron
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March 19

La Capital by Dellekamp Arquitectos, Mexico City

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(Drawings © Dellekamp Arquitectos, photos © Iwan Baan)

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Among the protagonists of Living in here, the Mexican Pavillion at the 2008 Venice Biennale, which proposed a collective study by 10 contemporary mexican architects on a big social housing project in the Colonia Obrera neighborhood of Mexico City, Dellekamp Arquitectos is now releasing La Capital. Read more

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