In Mexico City’s Colonia Narvarte, @dripcafe_especial offers specialty coffee out of an exposed industrial shell. Architects Matthew Kennedy (@mathoken ) and Ruy Berumen (@ruyberumen ) designed the space with respect to the neighborhood. Housed in a former well-known and loved lavandería, the new cafe reveals the building’s history as it makes way for a new offering. In response to a tight budget and meaningful site, the designers merge saved and exposed elements with new, modern components to craft a cafe specifically for its neighborhood. Learn more at the #linkinbio.
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Words by Kelly Pau, images by @arturoarrieta_
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🚨 NEW DEADLINE: January 17!
In 1977, Ray and Charles Eames issued an amended version of their experimental film Powers of Ten. Incorporating two additional scales, they effected “a hundredfold increase — to each end of the journey into the universe, and to the return trip to the microstructure of the carbon atom in the human body.” Drawing on up-to-the-moment scientific developments at scales both extra-large and extra-small, deploying then-novel media and representational techniques to engage a range of audiences, and venturing beyond the ostensible borders of the design disciplines, the Eames’ visual and narrative encapsulation of a complex and interconnected universe displays precisely how scale, or more precisely how scaling, can shape imaginaries and practices across the arts, humanities, and sciences, and in popular culture.
For designers, as for historians and scientists, scale has historically been crucial in organizing disciplinary concerns, facilitating intellectual fixation upon, and rigorous examination of, a specific and coherent set of objects or circumstances. In recent decades, however, once reliable thresholds between these scales of consideration have been destabilized, owing, among other factors, to the ethical, epistemological, and ontological exigencies of anthropogenic climate change, and to technical developments that augment the scope of our powers to perceive and intervene. The questions that arise out of generating knowledge — and rendering it commensurable — across scales, are myriad, sprawling, and complex.
The 2025 Cambridge Talks conference, Acts of Scaling, will take place April 4–5. Organizers seek original papers attending to the parameters, mechanics, and consequences of scalar negotiations or shifts throughout history. We invite PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career scholars from the design and environmental humanities, and from the diverse fields operating in dialogue with them, to join us.
For full conference details, see link in bio.
Organized by Matthew Kennedy and Adil Mansure of the PhD Program in Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Planning. Graphic identity designed by Willis Kingery.
Join our upcoming Book Club gathering
Friday, Dec.8 6-8pm The fourth and last gathering
of this year’s New York Architecture + Design Book Club
co-hosted by @untappedjournal & Head Hi
The book is: The Advanced School of Collective Feeling
by Nile Greenberg and Matthew Kennedy.
Published by Park Books.
Join us to celebrate the first year of our Book Club!
The program will feature the book’s authors
Nile Greenberg and Matthew Kennedy, in conversation with special guest John Sorensen-Jolink.
Buy the book, become a book club member
& receive all 4 books + tote bag!
RSVP for this event at headhi.net/bookclub
About the book: In the 1920s and 30s, new ideas about the body and movement, known as “physical culture” at the time, proliferated. This thinking impacted how architects designed public spaces, such as stadiums and gyms, as well as private ones, specifically the home. Swiss architect Hannes Meyer, who served as director of the Bauhaus from 1928 to 1930, described the resulting work in a 1926 essay as “the advanced school of collective feeling.”
Looking forward to seeing you again or for the first time as we explore together this wonderful publication
and celebrate our last Book Club gathering of 2023!
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Untapped journal issue one in-print is now available
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Proyector en colaboración con Karen Kubey @karenkubey reunieron recientemente a arquitectos, activistas de vivienda y académicos para “Convening: Architecture and Housing Justice in Mexico.”
Autores de publicaciones recientes y agentes locales se unieron a una discusión y debate en torno a una comida compartida - sobre cómo sería la justicia de vivienda en México y cómo los arquitectos podrían contribuir. La conversación del grupo, en la que se abordaron cuestiones como el cambio climático, la pertenencia y la desigualdad en la ciudad, se grabó para su futura publicación. La íntima reunión de participantes de México, Canadá y EE.UU. planteó cuestiones urgentes y ejemplos prometedores, y sentó las bases para futuras colaboraciones.
“Convening: Architecture and Housing Justice in Mexico.” contó con el generoso apoyo de la Iniciativa para Pequeños Apoyos de la Escuela de Ciudades @uoftcities de la Universidad de Toronto @uoftdaniels
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Convocantes
Karen Kubey, Profesora Asociada, Facultad de Arquitectura, Paisaje y Diseño John H. Daniels, Universidad de Toronto
Tania Tovar Torres @taniushkatt , Directora y Curadora, Proyector
Participantes
Jorge Ambrosi @jlambrosi / @ambrosietchegaray , Jose Castillo @josecastillo911 / @arq911 , Juan Carlos Espinosa Cuock @juan.cuock , Matthew Kennedy @mathoken / @faktur_journal , Meir Lobatón Corona @meir_lobaton_corona , Sebastián López Cardozo @sebastianlc / @architecturewritingworkshop , Athenea Papacostas Villegas @athepapacostas , Rozana Montiel @rozanamontiel , Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco @ivonne_santoyo_orozco
Con el apoyo de
Dima Ghazal @dimaghazal y Paola Pérez
Fotos
Salvador Elizalde @salvaqwe
❤️❤️❤️ So happy to be included in the beautiful @faktur_journal 's new issue, where I write about recent research undertaken together with photographer José Hevia, and that I applied to some built projects!
The piece includes an interview with contractor Teófilo Ortega, responsible for the original design of the Real Estate Boom House refurbishment project I completed a few years ago, recognized, amongst others, with a Simon Prize and a Bauwelt Prize.
Many thanks to @mathoken & @pep.aviles for their careful editing!
Aside fantastic articles from beloved colleagues!
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The Advanced School of Collective Feeling, Nile Greenberg & Matthew Kennedy, Park Books 2023
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Dans cet indispensable ouvrage, Nile Greenberg & Matthew Kennedy explorent l'avènement de nouvelles conceptions radicales du corps - un phénomène connu dans les années 1920 et 1930 sous le nom de "culture physique" - et leur impact sur la pensée de certaines des figures les plus influentes de l'architecture moderne. À l'aide de photographies d'archives, de diagrammes et de plans, l'ouvrage reconstitue une constellation de projets domestiques provocateurs réalisés par Marcel Breuer, Charlotte Perriand, Richard Neutra et d'autres.
Obscur, ce chapitre du mouvement moderne s'oriente vers une remarquable synthèse de l'individuel et du collectif, une perspective qui recèle un énorme potentiel pour l'articulation d'une architecture d'aujourd'hui.
EN: This book explores the advent of radical new conceptions of the body—a phenomenon known in the 1920s and ’30s as “physical culture”—and their impact on the thinking of some of modern architecture’s most influential figures. Using archival photographs, diagrams, and plans, the book reconstructs a constellation of provocative domestic projects by Marcel Breuer, Charlotte Perriand, Richard Neutra, and others. This obscure chapter in the modern movement gestures towards a remarkable synthesis of the individual and the collective, a perspective that holds enormous potential for articulating an architecture of today.
@nilegreenberg@mathoken@lauracoombs #matthewkennedy @park_books
#body #architecture #physicalculture #modern #1920s #peinturefraichebookshop#architecturebooks #architecturebookshop #modernistarchitecture #weloveartbooks
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The Advanced School of Collective Feeling
Nile Greenberg, Matthew Kennedy
Published by Park Books
Designed by Laura Coombs
#nilegreenberg #matthewkennedy #parkbooks
Ce mois-ci, notre sélection de livres reflète les conversations actuelles sur la conception et les enjeux climatique en architecture, ainsi que sur la façon dont nous apprenons à habiter et à lire les espaces qui nous entourent. Tous les livres sont disponibles dans notre librairie ou sur cca-librairie.com.
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This month, our selection of books reflects ongoing conversations about design and climate thinking in architecture, as well as how we learn to read and inhabit the spaces around us. Stop by our bookstore to get your copy or order it online at cca-bookstore.com
• Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism. Carson Chan, Matthew Wagstaffe. MoMA, 2023
• Aptitudes territoriales. André Corboz. Dixit.net, 2023
• Mieux avec moins : Architecture et frugalité pour la paix. Philippe Madec. Éditions Terre urbaine, 2021
• Cave Bureau: The Architect’s Studio. Lars Müller Publishers, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2023
• Studio Muoto: Holy Highway. C. Catsaros, L. Lella, C. Mion. Caryatide, Arc en rêve, 2023
• The Emotional Power of Space. Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine. Bêka and Partners, 2023
• Advanced School of Collective Feeling: Inhabiting Modern Physical Culture, 1926-38. N. Greenberg and M. Kennedy. Park Books, 2023
Hi, it’s been awhile.
We’re extremely excited to report that FAKTUR 04 is complete and will soon be available for purchase.
This issue features articles by Eric Höweler of Höweler + Yoon; Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco; Emma Leigh Macdonald and Ben Goldner; Alessandro Orsini and Nick Roseboro of Architensions; and Magdalena Haggärde and Gisele Løkken of 70°N arkitektur. Book reviews by Daphne Bakker, Florencia Alvarez Pacheco, André Tavares, and our own assistant editor Matthew Kennedy.
Cover image by Ingun Alette Mæhlum @ingunalette (accompanying Magdalena and Gisle’s text).
Thanks to our fabulous editorial board: Pedro Ignacio Alonso, James Graham, and Ines Weizman. Special thanks also to Catarina de Almeida Brito, Hayley Eber, Mehrdad Hadighi, and Marina Otero.
We are grateful for the ongoing collaboration with our designers, Oficina de Disseny, our copy editor John Wreidt, and our image editor Josep X. Tulleuda Nieto.
The publication of this issue was made possible by the ongoing support of numerous institutions — the Stuckeman School, Penn State University; GSAPP, Columbia University; the School of Architecture, UT Sydney; and the Centre for Documentary Architecture, Bauhaus-University, Weimar — as well as by Mr. Robert P. O’Hara and Ms. Maureen A. O’Hara. And, of course, this issue would not have been possible had we not been fortunate enough to receive a generous organizational grant from The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Stay tuned for more news.
– The Editors (Pep Avilés and Matthew Kennedy)
#faktur #fakturjournal #grahamgrantee #grahamfunded #grahamfoundation #stuckemanschool #gsapp #utsydney #centrefordocumentaryarchitecture
