Sarah Maslin Nir “The Decline and Fall of the Bachelor Pad” at the New York Times

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What matters right now is how to deal with the consequences. Think backwards, recall. Earlier foresights offer a bygone sort of delight: none got closer to this extension of capitalist disaster. Architects’ honeymoon with economic power is over and it is becoming an unfriendly divorce. We are left [...]

In later years highly speculative real estate operations have surrounded the abandon mining complex of Aldea Moret, a nineteen century industrial development in Caceres, Spain, endangering its mayor urban and architectural values. In 2007 the burst of the real estate bubble stopped the private plans to redevelop the site. Caceres City Hall took over the [...]

This time-line offers a concise scan of the entire publications output of OMA since its foundation. This production ranges from one monograph every ten years in its early stages, to averaging one monograph every couple of months. The resulting graph reveals a massive body of publication which grows exponentially both in intensity and complexity and [...]

“Login Project” explores how to plug in the New York architectural scene by investing reduced amounts of cash. It delineates the connections, floodgates, speeds and behaviors that construct the city’s architectural network.
How to refute the idea of architectural success as a straight consequence of talent?. In times of crisis, why not [...]

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The fight for Tafuri’s corpse began in a marshy stage, with all kind of pests (from frogs to mosquitoes) fighting over an already-putrid body. The initial confusion seemed like a National Geographic show on the alimentary habits of the scholarly fauna of the swamps; it quickly became a less [...]

Ctrl Ce documents the journey of sixteen European architects to the Post Professional program (AAD) at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation of Columbia University (GSAPP) in New York.

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In October 22nd, 2005, the Bureau for Antropophagi and Representation (BAR) met in Barcelona. The first and last Bar Sinference counted with the inestimable collaboration of some of the most infamous BAR members, such as the attentive professor Bacterium, the unclassifiable Shrimp, the well-kwon Reus’ Hanger, the undauted Annah von Fulbright, the [...]