Written by Pablo Lopez, Senior Architect at AGi architects, Polytechnic University of Madrid PhD, Architecture. Previous post: "The chair as an anticipatoy architectural element (I): useful object vs. semantic object" In 1928 the art critic Rosalind Krauss said in her essay Sculptures in the Expanded Field, "The transgressions and loans from a mean [scales] to another are a … [Read more...]
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Spaces for living: urban reflections of Kuwaiti society
We need you're help. Help us developing a better understanding of housing needs in Kuwait. With the support of Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, AGi architects and London School of Economics are conducting a study on housing and are looking for Kuwaiti heads of household as interview participants to discuss their homes, their housing needs and their domestic … [Read more...]
The chair as anticipatory architecture element (I): useful object vs semantic object
Written by Pablo Lopez, Senior Architect at AGi architects, Polytechnic University of Madrid PhD, Architecture. The chair has emerged in the twentieth century as the architecture's preferred design object: almost all of the worthy of mention architects of modernity have designed one or several chairs and have poured upon their designs its distinctive mark or the spirit of an … [Read more...]