Cruising Pavilion aims to show how sex “is always latent or silenced” in architecture

May 30, 2018 India Block 0

The practice of “cruising” is changing the way that buildings are designed, according to the curators of a Venice Architecture Biennale exhibition that brings together sex and architecture. Featuring a flatpack maze containing a glory hole, and artefacts from famously secretive Berlin nightclub Berghain, the Cruising Pavilion explores the subversive architecture of, and architectures subverted by, casual

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Atxu Amann’s Spanish Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale Looks to Give Space to Young Architects Who Haven’t Built Yet

May 30, 2018 José Tomás Franco 0

During the inauguration of the Spanish Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Biennale, we spoke with Spanish architect Atxu Amann, curator of the space, to better understand the ideas and motivations that shape the exhibition called “Becoming.” One of the most interesting concepts –and with the aim of avoiding unnecessary waste– is that 2018 budget was mostly applied to remodel the pavilion building itself; then Amann’s team “tattooed” its walls with more than 140 projects made by students and young architects.

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SP Houses / S-AR + Marisol González

May 30, 2018 Pilar Caballero 0

The project consists on a small group of three houses located in a suburban area of Monterrey, at the municipality of San Pedro Garza Garcia, built on plots of approximately 150m2 of land and with a single front view to the street. The built area of each house is of approximately 280 m2 with slight variations between them.

Schaum/Shieh covers Houston art gallery in sculptural white panels

May 30, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

Sculptural white stucco panels and small triangular windows define the facades of this gallery by US studio Schaum/Shieh, which is meant to appear like it could “blow away in the wind”. Run by an independent curator, the Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology is located in Houston’s museum district, near buildings such as the Renzo Piano-designed

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