“The color of time” is the latest spectacular installation by Emmanuelle Moureaux, French designer based in Tokyo, nominees arcVision Prize in 2015.
In this work (inaugurated in November at Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art & Design), Moureaux combines the sensorial (colours) with math (numbers) to make time tangible: from the soft shades of down (6:30) all the way to an astronomic dusk (18:11) and, finally, to black (19:49). Read more on Domus.
Tatiana Bilbao: “Architecture should care about collectivity”.
Tatiana Bilbao, Tatiana Bilbao, nominee arcVision Prize 2015, interviewed by Domus in her office with sequences from Mexico City.
During the new video, from the Time-Space-Existence series produced by PLANE–SITE on show during Venice Architecture Biennale 2018, the Mexican architect analyzes the role of architecture and explains her approach, where a new project is not about “the form or the shape of a building, but is about what it does to people.”
Tatiana Bilbao discusses her design philosophy, the role of the architect in society and how a building can enhance human life. She also points out the necessity for intricate hand-work and locally sourced materials, keeping in mind the needs of construction workers and maintenance workers.
The video has been commissioned by the GAA Foundation and funded by the ECC (European Cultural Center) and will be featured within the “Time-Space-Existence” exhibition at the next Architecture Biennale in Venice.
« We do architecture to raise the human quality of life.
We work with our environment, our surrounding materials, hand labor and techniques, opening channels of communication between the various social sectors, and develop productive activities that enable different aesthetic experiences with strong ideas and direct definitions and intentions. We try to understand, though our multicultural and multidisciplinary office, our world, and to translate its rigid codes into architecture.
Through these strands, the office regenerates spaces “humanized” to be aware and react to global capitalism, opening up niches for cultural and economic development, creating a climate of collaboration where there are various disciplinary resonances in technical areas; theoretical and artistic works which, in one way or another affect the patterns and structures of society.
The office associates work to the theme of resonance, which matches the frequency of a given system with the frequency of an external drive, with certain information generated by another system.
As with the ethics of otherness of Levinas, the office incorporates the other, which has not been recognized or accepted by the intellectual, political, or business oligarchy, but that is on the lookout for a qualitative change in structural life. To this end we are building with the responsibility of understanding all that we do and we mean to do, learning though it and working with it. » www.tatianabilbao.com
1972 – Mexico City, Mexico
Tatiana Bilbao, nominee arcVision Prize 2015, studied Architecture and Urbanism at Universidad Iberoamericana in 1996, where she obtained her degree with honors. She has developed projects of architecture and urbanism in diverse fields, both public and private.
She worked as an advisor for Urban Projects at the Urban Housing and Development Department of Mexico City and in 1999 she joined and co-founded LCM S.C. In 2004 she founded Tatiana Bilbao S.C. with projects in China, Europe and Mexico. Tatiana was awarded with the Design Vanguard as one of the Top 10 emerging firms of the year in 2007 by Architecture Record and named as Emerging Voice by the Architecture League of New York in 2009.
In December 2010, three projects were acquired by the George Pompidou Centre in Paris, France, to be part of their Architectural Permanent Collection. She has been visiting professor at Andres Bello University in Santiago de Chile, at Peter Behrens School of Architecture, Düsseldorf, Germany. Starting in Spring 2015, she is going to be Louis I. Kahn visiting assistant professor at Yale. Her work has been published, among others, in A+U, Plot, GA Houses, Domus and The New York Times.
#arcVisionPrize Stories
Among the participants of this year “Architects. Not Architecture” conferences, some of the leading roles of our social award arcVision Prize Women and Architecture: Odile Decq (member of the jury of the arcVision Prize) for the Hamburg edition and Laura Fogarasi Ludloff (nominee arcVision Prize in 2014) for the Berlin edition.
Save the date
“Architects. Not Architecture”.
The personality behind the big names. Convestations without the myths
November 23, 2017, 7 pm
Conference with Odile Decq, Odile Decq Studio, Massimiliano Fuksas, Studio Fuksas, Patrik Schumacher, Studio Zaha Hadid
November 29, 2017, 7 pm
Conference with Laura Fogarasi-Ludloff, Ludloff + Ludloff Studio, Mario Botta, Mario Botta Architects, Max Dudler, Max Dudler Studio
In the past years, Anna Heringer (nominee arcVision Prize in 2014) participated in the Munich edition in March and Benedetta Tagliabue (member of the jury of the arcVision Prize) participated in the Hamburg edition in November 2016.
“Architects. Not Architecture” Conversations without myth.
Everyone knows the projects of today’s famous architects, but has little knowledge about the personality, the career and the choices of these “myths”.
A cycle of conferences that every year involves – in several German cities from Berlin to Hamburg, from Stuttgart to Düsseldorf – the great names of architecture, investigating what is beyond the myth, while originally facing several aspects of the personality of the protagonists.
The past editions were in Monaco, March 2017, with Anna Heringer and Hamburg, November 2016 with Benedetta Tagliabue.
The architect Petra Gipp, nominee of the arcVision Prize in 2016, is among four architects shortlisted for the “Kasper Salin Prize for Best Building of the year”, the most prestigious architectural prize in Sweden, with the project Bruksgården, expansion wing in Höganäs. This year’s winner will be presented on November 28th.
Petra Gipp is one of the young female designers of greatest relevance in the Swedish school. Rational and sculptural, her architecture places the theme of mass at the center of the research process; they are primordial, well defined volumes that strongly affirm the surrounding landscape.
Petra Gipp vision in 2016, during her nomination for the arcVision Prize: “My ambition is to create architecture with a thoughtful relationship with the client’s requirements and the nature of the location. My work is based on a core idea that continues down to the design of the parts and the choice of materials.
My work blends architectural and sculptural expression and I strive to create works that form an architectural study where artistic expression is explored together with structural technological and sustainable solutions. To be able to develop my own expression and ideas, I started the Petra Gipp Arkitektur practice in 2009. I’m the sole owner of the studio and am deeply involved as the architect of record for all the projects.”
Biography
Stockholm (SWEDEN), 12 January 1967
My projects include the award-winning Kivik Art Center and The Cathedral inventor’s studio. I trained at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and have exhibited widely, notably at the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2012 and 2014. My work has been published in many leading books and magazines.
I am a teacher and external critic at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology – architecture, in Stockholm, and an examiner at The Aarhus School of Architecture, Kolding School of Design, and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation.
www.gipparkitektur.se
2017 June 9th – Yvonne Farrell – in the Jury of the arcVision Prize – and Shelley McNamara titled the 16th International Architecture Exhibition Freespace, and explained their choice with the following words:
This year, in addition to the Jury and Popular Choice winners, Architizer is honoring six firms and designers whose vast portfolio of work is arguably the best in the business and pushing the industry toward new heights, including the Lifetime Achievement Award to Odile Decq, in the jury of the arcVision Prize, and the Impact Award to Tatiana Bilbao, among the nominees of the arcVision Prize 2015.
