INTERVIEWER: Andreea Mihaela Chircă INTERVIEWEE: Matteo Ghidoni IMAGES: San Rocco magazine San Rocco magazine does not need a description overloaded with superlatives, but rather drawn with strong, bold lines and words, just like the project of this publication—radical, honest, clear. San Rocco speaks for itself, in drawing and in writing. This interview is an attempt […]
INTERVIEW BY: Andreea Mihaela Chircă GUESTS: Sofia von Ellrichshausen and Mauricio Pezo IMAGES: Pezo von Ellrichshausen The visual language constructed by Sofia von Ellrichshausen and Mauricio Pezo dilutes the limit between art and architecture, and between the real and mental dimensions. Their radical vision on the presence and representation of objects is not just an […]
The larger, yet unpublished, series is called Walking the Yamanote Line. The Yamanote aboveground subway line surrounds the central area of the city of Tokyo. In 2015, I walked the streets near the subway line. This can be done in 12 hours. In total, I walked approximately 42 kilometers on side streets around the line, […]
The first issue of the Bulletin of the National Commission of Historical Monuments, founded in 1908, is dedicated to the Comana Monastery, thus proving how much this monument was valued. The texts signed by Al. Lapedatu and Nicolae Ghika-Budești were generously illustrated with photographs and sketches signed by Gavril Popescu. The first from a long […]
Recognized and awarded several prizes for the use of wood as the main material in numerous innovative projects, Carlos Castanheira is one of the close friends and collaborators of Álvaro Siza, as well as the curator of many exhibitions dedicated to the renowned Portuguese architect. Their professional relationship became more intense when Siza began to […]
The immense collection of the China Academy of Art – CAA – and the acquisition of many original works from the Bauhaus school dictated the creation of the China Design Museum of Bauhaus Collection. Architects Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira began to work on the project of this museum in 2012, and the building was […]
Because sometimes architecture is the image itself, we start the year with a generous issue of IGLOO, more than ever under visual sight and hedonism. The whole graphic and editorial construction revolves around the theme of photography. The city is transfigured through photography: deconstruction, hypervisions, utopias. 3 international photographers explore new formulas of photographic […]
