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Anna Heringer, architettura per la dignità — Architecture for dignity

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Per Anna Heringer si “fa architettura”, facendo differenza nella vita delle persone. Responsabile Unesco per il progetto Earthen Architecture, Anna Heringer afferma che “l’architettura è uno strumento che migliora la vita”. Non si tratta solo di avere un tetto sulla testa, ma anche di creare comunità, rafforzare l’autostima, salvaguardare la bellezza e l’identità culturale: tutte voci strettamente legate alla dignità (sopra, workshop on Modern Earthen Structures and Sustainable Architecture, 2009).
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ANNA HERINGER, Anna Heringer architect #anna heringer #tempodacqua #thetimeofwater

Anna Heringer declares “The vision behind, and motivation for my work is to explore and use architecture as a medium to strengthen cultural and individual confidence, to support local economies and to foster the ecological balance. Joyful living is a creative and active process and I am deeply interested in the sustainable development of our society and our built environment. For me, sustainability is a synonym for beauty: a building that is harmonious in its design, structure, technique and use of materials, as well as with the location, the environment, the user, the socio-cultural context. This, for me, is what defines its sustainable and aesthetic value.” 

For Anna Heringer architecture is a tool to improve lives. As an architect and honorary professor of the UNESCO Chair of Earthen Architecture, Building Cultures, and Sustainable Development she is focusing on the use of natural building materials. She has been actively involved in development cooperation in Bangladesh since 1997. Her diploma work, the METI School in Rudrapur got realized in 2005 in collaboration with Eike Roswag and won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2007. Over the years, Anna has realized further projects in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Together with Martin Rauch she has developed the method of Clay Storming that she teaches at various universities, including ETH Zurich, UP Madrid, TU Munich and GSD/Harvard.

Carla Juaçaba, la qualità di vità — Quality of life

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Carla Juaçaba, architetto brasiliano, noto per il progetto dell’Humanidade Pavilion e per le installazioni alla Biennale di Venezia, nel 2014 e nel 2018, esprime un intenso rapporto con il tempo. Ha fatto sua l’affermazione di Octavio Paz “La figura centrale della nostra nuova visione del tempo è adesso”. Juaçaba lavora sulla funzionalità unità alla bellezza e qualità della vita per coloro che utilizzeranno e abiteranno i suoi edifici. 
CARLA JUAÇABA, Carla Juaçaba, #tempodacqua #thetimeofwater
Juaçaba won the arcVision prize for the Humanidade Pavilion, a temporary building made for the international meeting Rio +20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, in 2012. The jury found that she possessed “creativity in seeking unconventional solutions and enormous sensitivity to the context in which her works will reside”. 

The Piano is a 1993 New Zealand period drama film about a narcissistic, psychologically mute young woman and her pre-adolescent daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater town on the west coast of New Zealand. It also involves the woman’s failing new, arranged marriage to a frontiersman due to obsession with playing her piano. The Piano was written and directed by Jane Campion and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin in her first acting role. The film’s score by Michael Nyman became a best-selling soundtrack album, and Hunter played her own piano pieces for the film. She also served as sign language teacher for Paquin, earning three screen credits. The film is an international co-production by Australian producer Jan Chapman with the French company Ciby 2000.

Valerio Barberis, ecosistema urbano — Urban eco-system

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Adeguare la città al tempo contemporaneo, al netto di mode e illusioni: è quello che sta facendo Valerio Barberis, assessore per l’urbanistica con il suo progetto “Prato guarda al futuro”. Il Piano Operativo del Comune di Prato si riferisce all’Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile e al Patto di Amsterdam del 2016, proponendo una visione della città che parte dall’identificazione del ruolo strategico che Prato riveste nell’ambito nazionale, regionale, promuovendo e contribuendo a una prospettiva di sviluppo sovra locale.

VALERIO BARBERIS, #tempodacqua #thetimeofwater

Valerio Barberis is the urban planning commissioner and he is responsible for the revitalization of an industrial zone where many Chinese workshops are located and a series of minor interventions in public spaces that seek to achieve fruitful platforms for exchange and shared encounters between the Chinese community and the inhabitants of Prato. 

Valerio Barberis studied at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence. In the late 1990s he founded the MDU architects studio in Prato with other three parners. The work of the study emerges for the originality of the research, it is stated in numerous design competitions and is published in the most important international magazines and webzines.In 2014, the mayor of Prato, Matteo Biffoni, called him to take on the role of Councilor for Urban Planning and Public Works. He decides to dedicate himself entirely to the public office. In his role as Councilor he promotes an overall vision of the future of the city of Prato, which takes shape in the formation of an Urban Agenda that is emerging in the national and European panorama, in the debate on sustainable local development. From 2016 he is the coordinator for Italy in the Partnership on Circular Economy within the Urban Agenda for the EU program, undertaken by the European Commission.

Javier Corvalán, osare e costruire — Daring and building

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Corvalán, paraguayano, è autore di architetture sensibili verso i contesti. Il concetto strutturale, la forma, la relazione con l’ambiente, sono elementi strettamente connessi nei progetti di Corvalán, autore di molte abitazioni dalle strutture apparentemente semplici, ma in realtà molto ardite (tra queste casa Hamaca, casa Surubì, Casa Sotoportego). 
Ha portato il suo progetto per il Padiglione del Vaticano alla Biennale di Venezia 2018. Sopra, Puente Aqua Alta, ponte d’emergenza per l’esondazione del Rio Paraguay A sinistra, Sotoportego, casa in Paraguay

JAVIER CORVALÁN, Laboratorio De Arquitectura  #tempodacqua #thetimeofwater

Javier Corvalán is the founder of the Asunción-based architectural practice Javier Corvalán+Laboratorio de Arquitectura. In 2014, he has presented his work at the Triennale di Milano and Biennale di Venezia. In 2018, he will take part in the 16th Biennale di Architettura di Venezia, with a project for the Vatican Pavilion. He is the author of architectures sensitive to contexts. The structural concept, the form, the relationship with the environment, are closely related elements in Corvalán’s projects, author of many houses with apparently simple structures, but in reality very bold
 

Javier Corvalán Espínola, (1962), graduated in architecture in the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies of The Catholic University Nuestra Señora de la Asunción UCA. He has done postgraduate studies in Rome at the University of La Sapienza and is PHD candidate at Istitutto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia IUAV. He teaches at the Faculty of Architecture Design and Arts of the National University of Asuncion FADA UNA and is Research Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the UCA. He also teaches in several Latin American universities and holds the position of Visiting Professor at the Institutto Universitario di Achitettura di Venezia IUAV, where he’s a PHD candidate. Amongst his recent realizations are the Capilla del Cerrito and Casa Amaca, both in Asunción (2010).

Junya Ishigami, spazi del futuro — Spaces of the future

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Ishigami eredita dalla cultura giapponese la consapevolezza che l’architettura esiste qui e ora, ma non è necessariamente costruita per l’eternità: così, per lui, fragilità, delicatezza, ambiguità, errore sono fattori accettabili e, in ultimo, garanzia della massima libertà progettuale. Ishigami sperimenta una nuova concezione contemporanea di comfort, basata anche sulla capacità di ciascuno di prendersi cura del delicatissimo equilibrio planetario (da artribune). Sopra, Art Biotop Water Garden. A sinistra Kanagawa Institute of Technology.

JUNIA ISHIGAMI, junya.ishigami+associates

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Junia Ishigami is one of the most outstanding young Japanese architects of present time and he has obtained recognition due to his experimental approach of the project development. Sensitive to the specific local features, Ishigami puts, at the heart of the debate, key architectural issues that sometimes might be abandoned in the daily practice. Time, tension and freedom are concepts that are always present in his production somehow, becoming more visible in most of his recent works. Read the interview in ArchDaily

Junya Ishigami (1974) worked as an architect at SANAA before founding the prize-winning Junya Ishigami + Associates in 2004. Winner of the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2010, he was the subject of a major and critically acclaimed solo exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in 2018 that is traveling to the Power Station of art in Shanghai later this year. He is known for designs with dream-like qualities that incorporate the natural world, such as landscapes, forests and clouds, in an architectural practice that places humankind as part of nature.

Vincent Parreira, architettura e amore — architecture and love

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Tempodacqua è forse una nuova parola da inserire nel dizionario. Se vogliamo un futuro, abbiamo bisogno di queste due parole. Il tempo ha un conto alla rovescia per affrontare la mancanza di acqua. Senza le due parole, non siamo nulla. Sopra, nuovo eco-quartiere parigino a Clichy-Batignolles, firmato da Vincent Parreira, Aires Mateus e Associados. A sinistra, complesso scolastico a Saint Denis.

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Time is a notion that we lost: we always run somewhere without being aware of the fact that time is almost a creation of mankind. (…) Water. Both of us are coming from a place where water is inherent to our lives. First, as human beings, we would do nothing without water. Moreover, I also have this imaginary where water is almost a living being. Yet, water lives only through something else: our body. It is quite touching to think that we come from water. Tempodacqua is maybe a new word to insert in the dictionnary. If we want a future, we need these two words. Time has a count down facing the lack of water. Without the two words, we are nothing. 

Vincent Parreira is a Portuguese-French architect, born in Paris in 1969. Graduated from the Architecture School of Paris La Villette, he founded the studio AAVP Architecture which ambition is to offer projects full of feelings. The studio gathers today 20 architects working on a great range of subjects like housing, services or public facilities. Vincent Parreira received the Mention d’Honneur at the Equerre d’Argent Price in 2011.

Vector architetcs, nel luogo — On site

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“Ogni luogo possiede uno spirito identitario, unico prima che l’architettrua si insedi. Questo sia che si tratti di un ambiente naturale o  di una situazione ordinaria in un contesto urbano. Potrebbe essere un paesaggio unico, uno scenario vivace della città o anche le persone che vivono i luoghi dinamicamente. Quello che un architetto dovrebbe fare è osservare e scoprire questo tipo di “spirito giusto” intrinseco, per poi rivelarlo e presentarlo attraverso l’interpretazione architettonica. Sopra, Seashore Chapel, Beidaihe New District, 2015. A sinistra, riqualificazione della Captain’s House, Fujian, 2017.

VECTOR ARCHITECTS, Vector architects studio #tempodacqua #thetimeofwater

Gong Dong declares “No architecture can be off the site. We believe each site has its certain spirit that already exists. It could be a unique landscape, a bustling city scenario, or the lively people and their movements. What we are favored of is to discover such energy through a precise action in architectural space, and transform it into people’s perceptions and lives. (…) For each project, we send a site architect to participate in the entire process of construction – from the initial manufacture and experimentation of materials, the testing and correction of details, later on to the full supervision and cooperation on site. It is this long lasting process of adaptation and collaboration that gives us more opportunities to learn the wisdom of making from local and on-site workers lively, and constantly amend the limitations and deviations during the design drawing stage.”

Dong Gong founded Vector Architects in 2008. He and Vector Architects have been invited to various exhibitions including 2018 Free Space Venice Biennale, and won awards internationally including “100+ Best Architecture Firms” selected by Domus (2019); being nominated by Swiss Architectural Award (2018); the Overall Winner of Italian Archmarathon Awards (2016); “Design Vanguard” selected by Architectural Record (2014). 

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