AWC 2 – CONTEMPORARY MONUMENTS
Increasingly Architecture is produced on the fringes of the built environment, there where that 'little extra' is allowed. Architecture has become marginal. This studio aims to tackle the borders of this self-proclaimed exile. By proposing architectural projects where they are not expected, or even allowed, we seek to broaden the architect's field of operation. In the studio we have developed a set of big non-institutional buildings for the urban fabric of Paris. Each should be big enough to be capable of organising a specific urban landscape through intelligent positioning. A building which is meticulously developed and detailed to perform on different scales of perception: blunt and big from afar, pragmatic and refined from close by.
Title
Architecture Without Content 2 – Contemporary Monuments
Academy of Architecture USI, Mendrisio (Fall Semester 2011)
Faculty
Kersten Geers, Andrea Zanderigo, Carola Daldoss
Students
Bruno Alves de Almeida, Ona Armina Alexandru, Michelle Badrutt, Lucia Casassa, Sara Maria Cavicchioli, Max Collomb, Liliana Do Amaral Nobrega e Silva, Francesca Esposito, Andrea Forapani, Giulia Golemme, Oskar Grundström, Iris Hilton, Sho Kurokawa, Luca Magagni, Alberto Davide Mazza, Pietro Mazzanti, Chiara Luna Montgomerie, Kristin Nilsen, Beatrice Orlandi, Lucas Jaramillo Pacheco, Gianfranco Panza, Gerda Persson, Francesco Piantoni, Roberto Roncoroni, Federico Rossi, Theo Storesund, Leonardo Vinti
Editors
Kersten Geers, Jelena Pancevac
Graphic design
Joris Kritis
Publisher
Bedford Press
ISBN
978-1-907414-41-1 (AWC 1-5 set)
Year
2015