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Third issue of the Frugality series on sale

Aurora Fernández Per - August 22, 2025. 13:16

In this third issue of the Frugality series -a critical response to the demands of the environmental agenda- component hunting, urban mining, and biosourced materials- challenge the notion of architecture as a finite object, advancing instead a material ethic in which design becomes an act of negotiation, translation, and ecological and economic commitment.

In the contemporary context, concepts such as component hunting, urban mining, and bio-sourced materials do not merely denote technical strategies. Rather, they articulate ways of reconfiguring the relationship between architecture, materiality, and productive processes.

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Second issue of the Frugality series on sale

Aurora Fernández Per - February 19, 2025. 09:51

The combination of the resources available to architecture and the ability to resort to a creative finesse is our proposal for this issue of the Frugality series, a critical response to the demands of the environmental agenda.

These are mechanisms without cost, pure intellectual reflection. The absence of su-perfluous components creates objects stripped of cladding and unnecessary layers. Simple constructions that employ the pseudo-craftsmanship of industrialised assembly as a personalised pattern, imparting identity to the final outcome.

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Archived in: Civic Facilities Collective housing Sustainability Javier Mozas Construction Costs Efficiency Reduce Low-cost Housing Design techniques DierendonckBlancke Peris+Toral Vivas Arquitectos FRUGALITY a+t 61 FRUGALITY. RESOURCES AND FINESSE La Cabina de la Curiosidad Lütjens Padmanabhan Conen Sigl Raamwerk Noto Loeliger Strub Chaki Wasi Unterfeld Energy Centre Zwhatt Westhof. Dübendorf Industrialised Social Housing in Poblenou Eernegem Kindergarten Duinhelm Jongensschoolpleintje Siamese houses Haus Im Garten Social Housing in Masnou

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FRUGALITY, the new series of a+t magazine, on sale now!

Aurora Fernández Per - May 20, 2024. 13:12

Frugality means less material, less energy, less expense, greater respect for the environment, greater constructive sincerity, and greater social honesty.

Frugality is not imposed by social or cultural movements, or even by political transformations. It is the pure awareness of the moment of restriction and deprivation that conditions the way of acting. Frugality is dismantling the iconic and symbolic character of architecture. It imbues it with a basic rationality, a new classicism without style, standardised technology, and programmatic flexibility.

The first issue of this new series is entitled Abstraction and Responsibility, the essential features of this frugal architecture whose sole aim is to become a structure-shelter of life.

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Archived in: Sustainability Javier Mozas Barcelona Construction Prefab Reuse Recycle Efficiency Reduce Retrieve Low-cost Housing Design techniques MAIO Vivas Arquitectos FRUGALITY a+t 60 Abstraction and Responsibility A6A BAST CLAUS KAHL MERZ Johansen Skovsted WALDRAP Felippi Wyssen DATAAE XAVIER VENDRELL NARCH MAIRA ARQUITECTES Claudi Aguiló Joan Ramon Pascuets Sant Just Desvern E53 Phase 1 E54 LA ROCA VOLUMES CAPABLES Lyse-Lotte Rental Social Housing CODAN Enter Museum Housing Building in Oetlingerstrasse Sant Gervasi Residential Centre for Emergency Accommodation SOCIAL HOUSING in TURÓ DEL SASTRE Social Housing in Sant Just SOCIAL HOUSING in TRINITAT NOVA

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The third issue of the GENEROSITY series, now on sale

Aurora Fernández Per - June 6, 2023. 12:32

Currently, electronic devices transport the self to virtual realities, blur public with private, even the innermost, and provide a foretaste of a different domestic spatiality. Facing this challenge, and taking a resistant stance, architecture turns its gaze to the recent past and is capable of constructing a privacy in which materiality still preserves its full evocative power.

The third volume of the GENEROSITY series is dedicated to delving into how this privacy is built in the collective housing environment. Stephen Bates signs an extensive article on new architectural options for living together, Javier Mozas summarizes in five points the benefits of a home in which it is possible to achieve domestic happiness and Aurora Fernández Per compares the strategies to improve privacy followed by 8 selected projects.

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Archived in: Collective housing Density London Aurora Fernández Per Javier Mozas Barcelona Sergison Bates New York Housing SO-IL Harquitectes Peris+Toral GENEROSITY SERIES a+t 58 THE CHALLENGE OF PRIVACY IN COLLECTIVE HOUSING STEPHEN BATES Förstberg Ling MALMOE MAJORCA IBIZA Mansion Block. Hampstead, Courtyard Housing. Lavender Hill Twelve Houses. Sorgenfri 450 Warren. Brooklyn 42 Social Housing in Son Servera 43 Social Housing in Ibiza 54 Social Housing in Bon Pastor Social Housing 1737. Gavà

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The second issue of the GENEROSITY series, now on sale

Aurora Fernández Per - January 26, 2023. 15:43

The second issue of the GENEROSITY series is devoted to strategies of domestic exterior space.

The different degrees of domestic exteriority were modulated over time through openings or closures, with one defining moment, when the envelope was released from its load bearing functions.

From a distance, the modernist façade has multiple readings and Le Corbusier’s thick diaphragmed ‘fourth wall’ is not the same as Mies’ fine curtain wall.

Contemporary domesticity plays with the creation of thresholds to extend the liveable domain outside the envelope.

The three-dimensionality facilitates the construction of liveable spaces within a thick façade.

Works by Caruso St John Architects, Atelier Kempe Thill, Vivas Arquitectos, Henley Halebrown, Schneider Studer Primas, Studio Woodroffe Papa, MIA2, ITCHstudio + Vincenzo Di Salvia, MVRDV, Flint and Duncan Lewis - Scape Architecture.

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From European to American Type

Aurora Fernández Per - November 10, 2022. 11:41

From his early years in Germany to the end of his life in the United States, collective housing has been very present in the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The research carried out by Fernando Casqueiro, Associate Professor at ETSAMadrid, compiles, for the first time, the entire collection of collective housing projects signed by the master.
Each work has been analysed, redrawn and compared on the same parameters.
The result is a voyage through the creation and consolidation of a typology, culminating in 860-880 Lake Shore Drive and the Lafayette Pavilion.
The collection is made up of 36 projects, built or only designed, that cover Mies' life, his relationship with his clients and the influence of his collaborators, from his beginnings in Berlin until his death in Chicago.
MIES VAN DER ROHE. THE COLLECTIVE HOUSING COLLECTION is a reference volume to learn about the innovations that Mies brought to the composition of the modern floor plan and its relationship with the façade.

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Collage as a project tool. Boven Bouw Architectuur

Patricia García - October 31, 2019. 10:00

Boven Bouw took on the renovation work for several 19th century buildings in one of the main shopping streets in Antwerp with small or mid-scale projects on the existing structure. In order to represent the interiors they make use of collages, which enable them to remain true to the material of mock-ups yet also to recreate the static vision of drawing...

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Archived in: Sustainability Antwerp a+t 41 RECLAIM Domestic Actions Simulate Low-cost Housing Interior Boven Bouw

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a+t visits Parc Martin Luther King

Aurora Fernández Per - October 10, 2019. 10:00

Work included in a+t 52: PARADISES. Strategy Series

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Archived in: The City Public spaces Sustainability Paris a+t research group Landscaping Remediate the territories a+t 52 Paradises Osty, Jacqueline Parc Martin Luther King

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a+t visits Parc aux Angeliques

Aurora Fernández Per - October 3, 2019. 09:00

Work published in: a+t 52 PARADISES. Strategy Series

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Archived in: The City Public spaces Desvigne, Michel a+t research group Landscaping Bordeaux Remediate the territories a+t 52 Paradises Parc aux Angeliques

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a+t visits Inujima Life Garden

Aurora Fernández Per - July 25, 2019. 09:56