Architekt und Architekturhistoriker
Architecture, Ethics, and the Erosion of Collective Responsibility Within the framework of postwar social-contract architecture, contemporary minimalism appears not as a neutral stylistic preference but as a symptom of a broken ethical horizon. Its widespread appeal marks a decisive shift away from architecture’s former role as a material agent of collective obligation and toward a …
Weiterlesen "The Architecture of Low Obligation: Minimalism in a Post-Welfare Society"
Pezo von Ellrichshausen’s Casa Luna and Casa Guna are often described through the familiar vocabulary of contemporary concrete architecture—monolith, prism, fortress, abstraction. Yet what makes these houses persuasive is not primarily their formal bravura and severe minimalism, but the way each project re-stages the ethical question of Brutalism’s heritage: how can architectural frankness, mass, and …
Weiterlesen "Casa Luna and Casa Guna: Ethical Monumentality at the Human Register"
It is one of the great paradoxes of twentieth-century architecture: that the buildings which appeared most austere and raw — the massive concrete structures of the 1950s to 1970s — were in fact realized with an extraordinary degree of care, precision, and craft. In an age of economic boom, growing labor costs, and expanding workers’ …
Weiterlesen "The Hands That Built the Future: On Craftsmanship and the Paradox of Brutalism"
Louis KahnThe Importance of a DrawingMichael Merrill (ed.)ENGLISH | ISBN: 9783037786444 Interview with author (Common Edge, 31.01.2022) Michael Merrill, an award-winning architect and educator, has published his third book on Louis Kahn. As in his previous books he focuses on the importance of Kahns creative intelligence and design process. The book edited by Merrill combines …
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Luigi Monzo 