1000 Ideas by 100 Architects (KTE0011)

1000 Ideas by 100 Architects, Contents:

MITHUN architects+designers+planners

[ecosistema urbano]

German del Sol

Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza

NIPpaysage

Artadi Arquitectos

Fermin Vázquez/b72O arquitectos

GROSS. MAX.

Atelier Tekuto

Kirkland Fraser Moor

Ingenhoven Architects

SLA

Min I Day

Clorindo Testa

Kris Yao/Artech Architecture

Karres en Brands Landschapsarchitecten

Massimiliano Fuksas

Dekleva Gregoric Arhitekti

Felipe Assadi + Francisca Pulido

Josep Lluis Mateo/MAP Architects

Alonso Balaguer I Arquitectes Associats

Baumschlager Eberle Lochau ZT GmbH

Atelier Hitoshi Abe

Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects

Endo Shuhei Architect Institute Inc.

Arkitekt Kristine Jensens Tegnestue

Andrew Maynard Architects

Vãstu Shilpã Consultants

Studio Arthur Casas

Griffin Enright Architects

Jarmund/Vigsnaes AS Arkitekter

Pugh + Scarpa Architects

GH+A, Guillermo Hevia Arquitectos

McGregor Coxall

Durbach Block Architects

Weiss/Manfredi

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects

Pete O’Shea ASLA FAAR/Siteworks studio

Marmol Radziner + Associates

Carl-Viggo Hdlmebakk

Office of Mobile Design a Jennifer Siegal Company

Studio Pei-Zhu

Architecture & Hygiene

fieldoffice

Bektaj Architectural Office

Mario Botta Archltetto

NSMH-Nevzat Sayin Mimarlik Hizmetleri

Imre Makovecz

Acconci Studio

5+1AA Alfonso Femia Gianluca Peluffo

JML Consultants

Estudio Luis de Garrido

Manuelle Gautrand

Peter Barber Architects

Helliwell + Smith/Blue Sky Architecture

Jakob + MacFarlane

Despang Architekten

Gora art&landscape

Ingarden & Ew? Architects

Triptyque Architecture

Estudio Mariani – Perez Maraviglia

Boora Architects

Blaine Brownell/Transstudio

Michelle Kaufmann Designs

nps tchoban VOSS

Bruno Stagno Architects

David Baker + Partners, Architects

Sebastian Irarrazaval Arquitectos

Balmori Associates

Reiko Miyamoto/Curiosity

AMP Arquitectos

Caramel architekten

ECDM Architectes

Saunders Architecture

TOPOTEK1

Atelier Werner Schmidt

Jurgen Mayer H. Architects

Art & Build Architect

atelierworkshop

EAA-Emre Arolat Architects

Saia Barbarese Topouzanov Architectes

Vetsch Architektur

Architectenbureau Paul de Ruiter

R&Sie(n)

RAU

querkraft architekten zt gmbh

Paolo Burgi

Drozdov & Partners

ONL [Oosterhuls_Lénárd]

Ofis Arhitekti

Mokhtar MIMOUN

Nabil Gholam

ARX Portugal Arquitectos

Makoto Sei Watanabe

Latz + Partner/Planer BDLA, OAi Lux

URBANUS Architecture & Design

X-Architects

oslund. and. assoc, landscape architects

UNStudio

Pezo von Ellrichshausen Arquitectos

Of concepts and realities: notes on the making of 1000 Ideas by 100 Architects

The main aim of this book Is to give a star role to the architects involved. Unlikely as it may seem, many other publications on architecture and interior design do not quite achieve this, since it is the editor who decides which projects should appear and what they should look like.

Before embarking upon this project, we envisaged a book that would be highly practical, and we conveyed this vision to the architects. We offered these pages as a platform for speaking, choosing, and writing about certain projects was the element that appealed to most of those who wanted to or were able to participate. Something similar to having given them the microphone and asked for a ten minute speech in front of a large convention of architects or architecture students-this is how we wanted the architect to feel. And we hope this has been the end result.

While drawing up the contents for this publication there were a series of anecdotes that are well worth a mention. First, were the numbers, always present in the world of architecture. For every three participation requests we sent out, we received one confirmation, thus re-shaping the idea that architecture is a demanding profession, and showing the difficulty of involving architects whose studios have greater consequence on the global stage.

Second, we used four main selection criteria when choosing participants: a) studios with more than ten years of practice; b) the widest possible geographical diversity; c) a broad representation of markets (residential, institutional, corporate buildings, etc.); d) that 80 per cent of projects were completed or were underway in order to give the book the desired practicality. Likewise, another important factor, although this was not a determining one, was that a large proportion of studios should have a line of sustainable architecture projects, as we believe this represents the design of today and tomorrow.

Notes on the making of 1000 Ideas by 100 Architects

We wish to express our satisfaction with the line-up of participants, including specialists in green architecture (Kirkland Fraser Moor and Bruno Stagno), young talent in the field of green urbanism (Ecosistema Urbano), revered figures in spiritual architecture (Imre Makovecz), and well-established architects’ studios, such as Ingenhoven Architects, Boora Architects, or Mario Botta Architetto. Not forgetting, of course, the participation of prestigious landscape architects, such as Paolo Burgi and Latz & Partner. And, bearing in mind that the green revolution sweeping through architecture is reliant on knowledge of new materials and experimentation into them, we also thought that the participation of specialists from academic circles, such as Blaine Brownell or Field Office, was essential.

Europe and the United States generally receive a bias in architectural texts, although some efforts have been made-sometimes rather unsuccessfully-to give a slant toward the more traditionally ignored studios of North Africa, the Middle East and the Far East, where Japan is a real architectural hotspot. In this book, we believed the wider the geographical representation the better; this was another pivotal factor defining the contents of these pages.

We have always aimed to make this publication an important tool for its target readership, that is to say, architects and students. When assessing the overall results, we found some very interesting proposals, some of them recurrent, as can be seen in the different tips.

Some participants opted to give a short explanation of the architectural concept (we hope that some are not a little too abstract for the reader), while others seem to have been pushed for time to be able to fully express the details of the raison d’etre of their designs. Nevertheless, for the editor, it has been a great pleasure to learn a little more of the thought processes of all the participants through their tips and the corresponding images. And we wish to thank the architects for bringing the end results closer to the reader.