Oscar 102 / Brasilia 50

Eight Cases in Brazil’s Architectural Modernity

Farès el-Dahdah

This glossy, impeccably produced book begins as a celebration of the work of Modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer, best known as the guiding genius behind Brasilia’s spectacular architecture, and a leading designer of the United Nations headquarters. Niemeyer turned 102 in December 2009, and the intersection of that event with the 50th anniversary of Brasilia, in 2010, was reason enough to conduct a studio at Rice University’s School of Architecture on the Modernist master. Each of the book’s eight components is absorbing: from reconstructions of some furniture pieces by Niemeyer and his daughter Ana Maria; to a look at the typically “Brazilian” elements of Niemeyer’s architecture; to proposals for as-yet-undeveloped quadrants of Brasilia. Includes photos, schematics, drawings, renderings, reconstuctions and plans.

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PENDULUM PLANE

Oyler Wu Collaborative

Todd Gannon

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Polar Inertia

Migrating Urban Systems

Ted Kane

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PUBLIC DESIGN SUPPORT, 2011–2016

(Öffentliche Gestaltungsberatung)

Jesko Fezer & Studio Experimentelles Design (Eds.)

Public Design Support—a joint venture between Goethe Institute’s Urban Incubator and Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HfbK)—was established to offer free practical support to urban residents to help them reshape their environment through new and progressive ideas in design and construction. This substantial illustrated reader assembles the history of the collaboration initiated by Jezco Fazer in HfbK’s Experi- mental Design Studio department, and documents students work with residents of Savamala, Belgrade, in Serbia where the students renovated a space for local residents to meet with the students to discuss and find solutions to design and construction problems. Included are key project materials, scholarly essays and significant historical texts chronicling the aspirations, methods and projects of the first four years of Public Design Support. With contributions by Julia Albani, Baltic Raw, Martina Fineder and Friedrich von Borries (HfbK, Hamburg), among many others.

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THE PUBLIC INTERIOR AS IDEA AND PROJECT

Mark Pimlott

In his third publication, The Public Interior as Idea and Project, noted author, artist and architectural designer Mark Pimlott demonstrates how public interior environments are inscribed with cultural ideas across time. Assembled from his lecture series The Architecture of the Interior, at the Delft University of Technology, Holland, Pimlott presents over 200 illustrations organized according to six themes: Palace, Garden, Ruin, Shed, Network and Machine. He explores through the examples included in this volume the canon of the ideas consciously or unconsciously embedded in them. Mark Pimlott’s practice encompasses installation, photography, film, art for public spaces and architecture, with a focus on interiors. He has taught architecture and visual arts since 1986 and is now based out of TU Delft.

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THE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE BRUSSELS

The Public School for Architecture Brussels seeks to establish an educational framework for public engagement within the realm of architecture. The school, which has branches worldwide, was initiated in Brussels in 2014 by common room in collaboration, dating back to 2007, with telic arts exchange (LA) and recyclart (NY). With support from the KU Leuven faculty of architecture, the self-organiz- ing educational program in which curriculum and schedule are proposed by the general public via the school’s website offers the general public the opportunity to negotiate public space and access architectural culture. Conceived following the first eight weeks of the program, this publication reflects on what an alterna- tive education in architecture is and why it is necessary. Documents of activities that took place during the initial period and contributions from people outside the program provide a broad perspective on pedagogy and contextualize the public school in a larger discussion about architecture in the city.

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Revelatory Landscapes

Aaron Betsky, Leah Levy and Dean McConnell

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Row

Trajectories through the Shotgun House

David Brown and William Williams

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Ruins in the Netherlands XIX–XXI

Lara Almarcegui

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A Schelde Riverscape

Vlassenbroek _________ Broekkant

Due to rising sea levels, the landscape between Vlassenbroek and Broekkant in Belgium is fast returning to its original ecology as a riverbed. Inspired by this elusive landscape, Tekenen in Vlassenbroek—a new artist’s project from Wapke Feenstra, co-founder of Myvillages—documents its shifting panorama in a collection of drawings by local workers, fishermen, engineers, architects, artists and visitors to the site. These varied and personal sketches, following in the plein air tradition of the area, render the fleeting landscape much as painters and sketch artists did in the last century. As this part of Belgium once again becomes mud flats and marshes, Feenstra gently records the process in this unique publication. Myvillages is an active international artist collective addressing the evolving relationship between rural and urban in a variety of forms of production.

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