Prise results On the third day of the Jury meeting the laureate were selected. It is norway team Fantastic Norway AS.
We believe every town is different; every place is in some way fantastic. Fantastic Norway aims to embrace this fact and through dialogue transform it into architecture. «Building» is not merely a physical notion: Architects can also build identity, pride, cohesion and strategies. We believe that every design process needs to embrace this fact, to truly reveal the potential of the local and for the architect to gain the “silent knowledge”: Knowledge you can’t read out of maps and statistics. The knowledge only the locals possess.
Becides the laureate, the following nominees also reseived a special mention of the Jury at the press conference:
Global method. Local product.
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Today, when our world is understood with uncertainties and defined through unknowns, modernity is viewed with skepticism by both the left and the right of the political spectrum. From environmentalists questioning the role of human and technological innovation as threatening the earth to conservatives raising the flag against social liberalization and moral degeneration, progressive thinking based on pragmatic, forward-looking social visions is often dismissed as outdated, naive, or simply wrong. Our practice seeks ways to insert social critique back into architectural production, to reclaim 'functionalism' as a working tool, long abandoned by contemporary architectural discourse as a predicament of modernism. It was exactly this neglect of functionalism that shifted modernism from a movement focused on causality to an exercise in 'style'. Our approach is to study pragmatic functional needs in relation to the episteme that governs their context, to frame context not only as a physical location but as a social and political milieu. In pursuing strategies for spatial politics at different scales, from the macro geo-political to the micro body-political, we seek a new understanding of the relationship between form and function, one that operates beyond notions of style to arrive at a new formalism and to reassert the relevance of architectural critique.
The spirit of local, rather than the form of local architecture. Respect local culture with equal stand point, which means neither looking up, nor looking down to it. The goal is to make contemporary architecture. Localness generated by local materials, local craftsmen, and local construction methods.
In 2007, after a few years of engaging in spatial research and theory, taking the conflict over Palestine as our main case study, we have decided to shift the mode of our engagement and establish an architectural institute based around a studio/residency program in Beit Sahour, Bethlehem. Decolonizing Architecture Institute (DAi) seeks to use spatial practice as a form of political intervention and narration. The work of the residency is based around a network of local affiliations and the historical archives we have gathered in our previous work. The following projects investigate and probe the political, legal and social force fields through a series of architectural interventions. By combining discourse, spatial intervention, education, collective learning, public meetings and legal challenges, the attempt is to open up the discipline and praxis of 'architecture' – understood as the production of rarefied buildings and urban structures – into shifting network of 'spatial practices' that includes various other forms of intervention.
My approach to design can be explained by the following example:
I saw this…
3 things can be said about the chair wrapping around this Ayoreo Indian: 1. The only chair this man can afford is this modest piece of cloth. To know how to design under scarcity of means is relevant. 2. This man is a nomad; so any other type of chair, even if he had more money, makes no sense. Design has also to be precise. 3. The piece of cloth is the ultimate limit before the noun (chair) becomes a pure verb (to sit). The design has to become irreducible. My approach to design follows this equation:
The piece of cloth is to the chair as X is to architecture.
By casting aside the signs and by favoring phenomenons, three beliefs appeared that nourish my projects.
The work of feld72 explores the intersection between architecture, applied urbanism and art. Expanding the field of architecture, additional to their classical work as architects, the collective has focussed on a series of "Urban Strategies" which examine the issues surrounding the use and perception of public space since they started their office in 2002 in Vienna. The office realized numerous buildings, urban interventions, masterplans and researches in an international context. "There is no break between the theoretical and experimental projects of feld72 and their designs for buildings: all of their work, irrespective of scale or means, investigates how the world is engaged and perceived through the lens of architecture. And there is an architectural lesson we can draw from this work, namely that the essence of architecture is nothing architectural." Kari Jormakka in "Theory and design in the Fourth Machine Age. On the experimental projects by feld72"
Our practice always tries to establish a constant and reciprocal dialogue between art and
A Call for Strategic Interventions Given the contemporary complexity of cities, landscape and society, urgent social tasks call for an integral, multidisciplinary approach. Rietveld Landscape's strategic interventions focus and use the forces of existing developments and processes. This design method creates new opportunities for landscape, architecture, the public domain, ecology, recreation and economic activity. Our projects illustrate this approach
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