2G

2G
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2006
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

2G : revista internacional de arquitectura

2G : revista internacional de arquitectura
Author:
Publisher: Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.A.
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9788425220418

BKK-3 are the third formation of a collective that began in the 1980s under the name of BKK (literally Baukunst Kollektiv, the Art of Building Collective, which went on to call itself BKK-2), residing in Vienna and led by Johny Winter and Franz Sumnitsch. From a position of political activism, almost, the collective posits an architecture of participation with the user and with institutions. Heirs of the long Viennese tradition of housing co-operatives that goes back to the well-known Höffe of the 1920s, their work makes a special point of new forms of collective living by endowing housing groups with a set of services that reinforce the inhabitants’ sense of community. Along with the Viennese housing and services co-operative Sargfabrik and Miss Sargfabrik, which brought fame to BKK-2 and BKK-3 on the Austrian and later the international scene, the present issue of 2G also includes other works in the field of commercial space like the office buildings IP.ONE, IP.TWO and ICUB, and new projects touching upon the same issues of social housing and commercial space.

Marcel Breuer

Marcel Breuer
Author: Monica Gili
Publisher:
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2001
Genre: Architecture, American
ISBN:

Max Bill, arquitecto

Max Bill, arquitecto
Author: Max Bill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2004
Genre: Architecture, Modern
ISBN: 9788425219566

DOUBLE ISSUE Despite being known the world over as an artist Max Bill always considered himself to be an architect. His visual work and his educational labours in charge of the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm have been widely studied and publicised, yet his facet as an architect has scarcely received attention. This publication brings together his complete architectural work for the first time, work ranging from his early projects as a Bauhaus student, taking in his first house in Zurich-Höngg and his many designs for exhibitions, to such mature works as the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Expo 64 in Lausanne or his own house in Zumikon, many of these unpublished for decades. The information is rounded off with the pavilion-sculptures Max Bill dedicated himself to for twenty years and which stand midway between sculpture and architecture. The number is introduced by critical texts from such important connoisseurs of his oeuvre as Stanislaus von Moos, Hans Frei, Karin Gimmi, Arthur Rüegg and Jakob Bill, Max Bill's son, along with unpublished archive material, extensive photo-reports commissioned for the occasion from the Swiss photographer Georg Aerni, and a selection of the author's most important theoretical writings.