Articles by Fabian Dejtiar

In the 1920s, work was completed on the Cité Frugès housing complex in Pessac, France. The project, meant to house Pessac’s industrial workers, would be one of seventeen Le Corbusier works on UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites.

Many times I have not been able to decipher whether the video or the image I was looking at was real. In the same way, I had to convince friends or relatives —namely, people unfamiliar to the idea of the architectural render— several times that a building featured in a storefront advertisement or in a printed magazine was not real. There is no longer a gap —or limits— between hyper-realistic, computer generated visualization and reality itself. Are we reaching the limits of visualization of our spaces? Do our architectural visualizations meet our architectural expectations?

How does architecture contribute to the current climate crisis? 

Floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, war, economic and social conflicts, pandemics. The number of refugees in the world is setting records year after year. Immediate and temporary solutions, produced in batches in response to crises, mark the difference between doing what is possible and doing what should be done, always doing a lot with what’s at hand. But how temporary is emergency architecture? Is it more permanent than we think?

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Postcards from Quarantine is a series of illustrations by Alvaro Palma y Alvaro Bernis inspired by touristic postcards that analyze the purpose of travelling and the desire to share the experience–a topic that has been brought to the forefront in times of quarantine during the COVID-19 outbreak.

For nations worldwide, the course of action to fight the spread and effects of coronavirus COVID-19 has been to implement quarantines; restricting the movement of the general population while isolating people infected by the disease, albeit indefinitely. The result: both public and private spaces have closed in a bid to curb the number of new cases. At the same time, the rising number of deaths has added to both social and economic uncertainty, with people across the globe asking “how are we going to work?” or, better yet, “how are we supposed to eat?”

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