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Pamphlet Architecture
Pamphlet Architecture 33: Islands and Atolls
The competition for Pamphlet Architecture 33 asked previous authors in the series to nominate the architects and theorists whose work represents the most exciting design and research in the field today. The first of two winning entries (the other will be published in fall 2013 as PA 34) was submitted by Luis Callejas of LCLA Office in Medellin, Colombia. Pamphlet Architecture 33: Islands and Atolls asks how architecture might critically repurpose its traditionally limited disciplinary tools in order to make a meaningful impact at a territorial scale. Functioning as a landscape architect in a country that has no infrastructure for such a profession, Callejas questions pedagogical, disciplinary, and political norms at macro levels using micro tactics. As a result, PA 33 provocatively expands devices such as repetition and aggregation beyond their limits in scenarios where sociopolitical constraints seemingly prohibit what would normally be understood as an architectural intervention.
80 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2013
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September 11, 2013
The 33rd issue of Pamphlet Architecture is devoted to Colombian young firm of architecture LCLA directed by Luis Callejas. Luis Callejas regularly collaborates with Canada-based Lateral Office.
Islands & Atolls is LCLA's proposal for Pamphlet Architecture. It gathers two conversations with the director Luis Callejas: the first with BLDGBLOG's founder and editor Geoff Manaugh and the second with Mason White co-founder of Lateral Office. This issue includes two essays respectively by Charles Waldheim and Luis Callejas. 9 projects: Airplot, Floodings, Welcome to Fleetwood, Weatherfield (in collaboration with Lateral Office), Clouds, Venice Lagoon, Rio Olympic Park, Lake Park, Tactical Archipelago.
"Embracing isolation as a desirable condition allows me to produce in a way in which I have a high control over the limits of interventions while maintaining the opportunity for unexpected results within those limits. As a method, it liberates my work from some of the contemporary moral weighs assigned to ecology as a design medium. I am interested in designed ecologies, but at the same time, it is frustrating when design vitality is forced to step back just because of the infinitely interconnected implications of dealing with live matter. Recently — and much too late — generative-based approaches to design have become relevant in the field of landscape architecture, partly to deal with that moral weight. I am not interested in that at all but rather need the recognizable boundaries. My work is situated on the boundary between architecture and landscape — it is often territorial, yet I am not interested in open-ended indeterminacy or endless process-based repetition." (Luis Callejas to Geoff Manaugh)
Islands & Atolls is an enjoyable occasion to discover (if not yet) LCLA's research project that, of course, I warmly recommend.
Islands & Atolls is LCLA's proposal for Pamphlet Architecture. It gathers two conversations with the director Luis Callejas: the first with BLDGBLOG's founder and editor Geoff Manaugh and the second with Mason White co-founder of Lateral Office. This issue includes two essays respectively by Charles Waldheim and Luis Callejas. 9 projects: Airplot, Floodings, Welcome to Fleetwood, Weatherfield (in collaboration with Lateral Office), Clouds, Venice Lagoon, Rio Olympic Park, Lake Park, Tactical Archipelago.
"Embracing isolation as a desirable condition allows me to produce in a way in which I have a high control over the limits of interventions while maintaining the opportunity for unexpected results within those limits. As a method, it liberates my work from some of the contemporary moral weighs assigned to ecology as a design medium. I am interested in designed ecologies, but at the same time, it is frustrating when design vitality is forced to step back just because of the infinitely interconnected implications of dealing with live matter. Recently — and much too late — generative-based approaches to design have become relevant in the field of landscape architecture, partly to deal with that moral weight. I am not interested in that at all but rather need the recognizable boundaries. My work is situated on the boundary between architecture and landscape — it is often territorial, yet I am not interested in open-ended indeterminacy or endless process-based repetition." (Luis Callejas to Geoff Manaugh)
Islands & Atolls is an enjoyable occasion to discover (if not yet) LCLA's research project that, of course, I warmly recommend.
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