The houses of the architects

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House of Fantasy, Almere. Holland. Jan Benthem, 1984

Everyone has a representation of an ideal home in which you would like to live. Those architects who pride themselves on this join this basic desire to express a will there that particular poetry is linked to his conception of [...]

Posted by Federico Garcia Barba | June 1, 2013 | Topics: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: ARCHITECTURE | One comment

Show architecture

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Study Design Bauhaus en'la working staff. Walter Gropius, 1923

Teaching has imagined architecture through exhibitions is a very persuasive to get these ideas can become reality. At present such a strategy that the architects have exercised for centuries is what is [...]

Posted by Federico Garcia Barba | May 9, 2013 | Topics: , , , , , , , , | Category: ARCHITECTURE | Leave a comment

Brands and Architecture

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By Federico García Barba

Inside the IBM Pavilion at the World Fair in New York. Eeero Saarinen and Charles Eames, 1964

The latest evolution of capitalism has made the architecture to be integrated as a substantial part of the marketing efforts of those companies and cities that try [...]

Posted by Federico Garcia Barba | February 12, 2013 | Topics: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: ARCHITECTURE | One comment