Light: wave or substance? Light is not built, but its perception is a cultural interpretation and can be designed. How do you define a dark room? How do you define a patio? What is a narrow street on a summer evening? The spaces we design are light pickers, quiet or intense light, artificial light or natural light. There are examples in contemporary architecture that have … [Read more...]
Our visit to Milan International Furniture Fair and Fuorisalone 2017
By Stefania Rendinelli, Senior Architect at AGi architects. Once again this year we couldn’t miss out the most important interior design event: the Milan International Furniture Fair and, of course, Fuorisalone 2017. We see how this fair, which has more and more success, brings together the main brands of the sector and the young designers with their own firms. All this … [Read more...]
The immateriality of luxury in residential architecture
Since we have immersed ourselves in the world of luxury architecture, we find it was appropriate to write on the blog about this subject, with particular emphasis on how certain homes generate current trends. But before we begin, it is important to define what is and what brings luxury for us, an issue that has proven to be anything but trivial. As we say that the luxury … [Read more...]
Architecture salvage: Entering the Spanish architectural heritage
According to the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), when we talk about architectural heritage we refer to buildings or ruins, whether single or set of constructions, whose original value in terms of emotional, cultural physical, intangible, technical or historical has been increased over the years. Ultimately, it is those buildings without which the place in … [Read more...]
A LEGO selection for the Christmas Season
Now that the Christmas Season is here we want to contribute our bit to your gift list. If you are an architect or designer sure that one of your fetish objects are building games, especially and as it can not be otherwise, the LEGO brand. In this article we elaborate a list of our favourites so that they give you or to give to your sons or daughters and, thus, to instil in them … [Read more...]
10 years of AGi architects in leading magazines and digital media
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...]
“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...]
BIM methodology or the evolution of project management
The BIM methodology involves the coordination of different technologies for project management through a single 3D digital model that shortens the times of both the design and the production, and therefore it reduces costs. It also implies a new way of coordinating the different teams involved, improving the quality of the engineering projects, architecture and … [Read more...]
Enclosures and exterior skins: materialization of a conceptual model
They delimit, prepare and preserve the architectural spaces, they contribute to the privacy, security and comfort for its inhabitants, but as well they represent the materialization of many urban elements. These construction elements are intrinsic parts of the facades and, in many cases, they become identified with them. They represent different conceptual models acting as a … [Read more...]