Author Archives: daniel
the birth of vertical shorelines
Where land and sea meet cannot be understood as Carl Schmitt’s concept of the shoreline anymore. Instead, we need an abstraction that matches contemporary notions of space. The shoreline rather appears where ‘land, water but also air meet’, as R.W.G.
the birth of vertical shorelines
Where land and sea meet cannot be understood as Carl Schmitt’s concept of the shoreline anymore. Instead, we need an abstraction that matches contemporary notions of space. The shoreline rather appears where ‘land, water but also air meet’, as R.W.G.
An imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other
^ Historical Geographer Martin Lewis starts his vision on Geopolitical Anomalies of the World (2008) with a brilliant quote about the definition of ‘boundary’: Boundary: In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of
An imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other
^ Historical Geographer Martin Lewis starts his vision on Geopolitical Anomalies of the World (2008) with a brilliant quote about the definition of ‘boundary’: Boundary: In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of
The Floating Construction Site
^ Floating structure in Portland. photo by John Ewing / Portland Press Herald via news.cnet After two months of low activity in deconcrete, and hyper activity in million other things, yesterday news provided a new architectural speculative hybrid worth
The Floating Construction Site
^ Floating structure in Portland. photo by John Ewing / Portland Press Herald via news.cnet After two months of low activity in deconcrete, and hyper activity in million other things, yesterday news provided a new architectural speculative hybrid worth
Franco & the Olympics
^ Architecture Memory: 184 streets “honoring” Franco times in today’s Madrid, by CeAQUA via público It’s interesting how the city of Buenos Aires has fought back. The day that Ana Botella, Aznar’s wife and democratically un-elected Mayor of Madrid, showed her skills
Franco & the Olympics
^ Architecture Memory: 184 streets “honoring” Franco times in today’s Madrid, by CeAQUA via público It’s interesting how the city of Buenos Aires has fought back. The day that Ana Botella, Aznar’s wife and democratically un-elected Mayor of Madrid, showed her skills
Gibraltar: dropping sea levels
^ Damming of the Strait of Gibraltar, according to the Atlantropa project via dieselpunks ‘Gibraltar as an excuse to excite patriotism’, is how Manuel Chaves brilliantly reads a never-ending conflict on the British exclave and the way it
Gibraltar: dropping sea levels
^ Damming of the Strait of Gibraltar, according to the Atlantropa project via dieselpunks ‘Gibraltar as an excuse to excite patriotism’, is how Manuel Chaves brilliantly reads a never-ending conflict on the British exclave and the way it
rooftop squatting III
^ Another case of extralegal space built on rooftop landscapes that visualizes the circumventions on planning policies. Images form Beijing via ecns Also Check Extralegal Space in Belgrade and Rooftop Squatting in Hong Kong. ^ Beijing man builds
rooftop squatting III
^ Another case of extralegal space built on rooftop landscapes that visualizes the circumventions on planning policies. Images form Beijing via ecns Also Check Extralegal Space in Belgrade and Rooftop Squatting in Hong Kong. ^ Beijing man builds
Totem & Taboo: gay cruising architecture
It is always fascinating to see how architectural icons, in their total innocence, are appropriated by unthinkable purposes that the starchitect behind their conception would have never thought of and maybe – who knows – always wished. When the
Totem & Taboo: gay cruising architecture
It is always fascinating to see how architectural icons, in their total innocence, are appropriated by unthinkable purposes that the starchitect behind their conception would have never thought of and maybe – who knows – always wished. When the
Zone: The Spatial Softwares of Extrastatecraft
Fantastic essay by Keller Easterling featured in Places: “Today urban space has become a mobile, monetized technology, and some of the most radical changes to the globalizing world are being written, not in the language of law
Zone: The Spatial Softwares of Extrastatecraft
Fantastic essay by Keller Easterling featured in Places: “Today urban space has become a mobile, monetized technology, and some of the most radical changes to the globalizing world are being written, not in the language of law
The Housing Act
The Housing Act is part of “New Publics”, a project for Lisbon Architecture Triennale Close, Closer, by Daniel Fernández Pascual. Curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy, and originally published in Domus#971 Script: José Esparza Chong Cuy, Daniel Fernández Pascual Photos: Simona
The Housing Act
The Housing Act is part of “New Publics”, a project for Lisbon Architecture Triennale Close, Closer, by Daniel Fernández Pascual. Curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy, and originally published in Domus#971 Script: José Esparza Chong Cuy, Daniel Fernández Pascual Photos: Simona
On Ramps and Penguins
^ London Zoo. Top left: Lubetkin and Tecton’s Penguin Pool, 1934 via shrapnelcontemporary. Bottom left: current state by Iqbal Aalam. Top right: design for the new pool via bbc. Bottom right: new pool via modern british architecture On
On Ramps and Penguins
^ London Zoo. Top left: Lubetkin and Tecton’s Penguin Pool, 1934 via shrapnelcontemporary. Bottom left: current state by Iqbal Aalam. Top right: design for the new pool via bbc. Bottom right: new pool via modern british architecture On
On Life, Death, Afterlife & Bare Life_Venice Biennale 2013
^ Dieter Roth, installation. Any attempt to put together all-embracing knowledge will always fail. Whether it is about launching a capsule to outer space collecting the history/culture/technology of humanity or an encyclopaedia itself. They will always lack the component
On Life, Death, Afterlife & Bare Life_Venice Biennale 2013
^ Dieter Roth, installation. Any attempt to put together all-embracing knowledge will always fail. Whether it is about launching a capsule to outer space collecting the history/culture/technology of humanity or an encyclopaedia itself. They will always lack the component
Nation of Roundabouts
^ Costa Ballena, Cádiz. 2003-2012 via Nación Rotonda Nación Rotonda (Nation of Roundabouts) is an extremely valuable visualization tool to travel back in time to natural landscapes before the housing boom in Spain. Simply by overlaying satellite imagery of
Nation of Roundabouts
^ Costa Ballena, Cádiz. 2003-2012 via Nación Rotonda Nación Rotonda (Nation of Roundabouts) is an extremely valuable visualization tool to travel back in time to natural landscapes before the housing boom in Spain. Simply by overlaying satellite imagery of
Arts & Crafts & Poison
^ William Morris green wallpapers. Google images search Andrew Meharg has thoroughly researched about the terrific ‘killer wallpapers’. Conceived and produced by icon of pre-modern design William Morris within his Arts & Crafts movement (1860s-1910s), these wallpapers were largely used
Arts & Crafts & Poison
^ William Morris green wallpapers. Google images search Andrew Meharg has thoroughly researched about the terrific ‘killer wallpapers’. Conceived and produced by icon of pre-modern design William Morris within his Arts & Crafts movement (1860s-1910s), these wallpapers were largely used
Somewhere To Disappear
^ Cave Home_Broken Manual 2008, by Alec Soth via spaceframed In this hyper-connected world of control technologies, the desire of hiding is still very human. Either as a result of social exclusion, marginal lifestyles, anti-mainstream behaviors, political statements, existential
Somewhere To Disappear
^ Cave Home_Broken Manual 2008, by Alec Soth via spaceframed In this hyper-connected world of control technologies, the desire of hiding is still very human. Either as a result of social exclusion, marginal lifestyles, anti-mainstream behaviors, political statements, existential
Mapping and Assessing the Inundated
^ Reconstructed map of sunken Dunwich, UK, by David Sear et al. The sunken medieval town of Dunwich has been recently surveyed in the report Dunwich, Suffolk:Mapping and assessing the inundated by David Sear (UoS), Andy Murdock (GDI), Tim
Mapping and Assessing the Inundated
^ Reconstructed map of sunken Dunwich, UK, by David Sear et al. The sunken medieval town of Dunwich has been recently surveyed in the report Dunwich, Suffolk:Mapping and assessing the inundated by David Sear (UoS), Andy Murdock (GDI), Tim