We are celebrating our tenth anniversary in 2016. Ten years have passed since Joaquín Pérez-Goicoechea and Nasser Abulhasan embarked on their own professional project with the launch of AGi architects. Since then, we have grown considerably, both in the human team of our two offices in Madrid and Kuwait, where we currently work more than 50 people, as well as in the diversity … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2016
“The chair of the future” and Smithsons’ designs for the dream home
By Pablo López, Senior Architect at AGi architects, PhD Architecture at Polytechnic University of Madrid. This post is a follow up on “The Eames chair, warfare technology at the service of everyday life” In 1956 the Daily Mail asked the young Smithsons to, doing projection work in the most literal sense, try to imagine what the house of the future would be like, more … [Read more...]
The Eames chair, warfare technology at the service of everyday life
By Pablo López, Senior Architect at AGi architects, PhD Architecture at Polytechnic University of Madrid. This post is a follow up on “The chair as an anticipatory architectural element (II): a condensed image of Modernity” In the immediate post-Second-World-War the architects had little work to do in an America that did not need to be rebuilt as Europe, but which … [Read more...]