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Container Architectures

Architecture using containers – when they aren’t flattened to their original shell – succeed in being exciting: unhinging the certainty of the “builders” and challenging the status quo. Irreverent, they instil in the observer a sense of the ephemeral and the temporary; offering a contrast to the “civilized” urban environment. They speak of prefabrication, mass production and, most of all, about nomadism.

Prefabrication, recovery of abandoned structures and dry modular construction can transform a distressed contemporary landscape thanks to the creativity, the inventiveness and the unprejudiced ideas of designers who are open to experimentation and research, while providing an effective response to the current crisis, creating jobs, without putting the economy at stake.

«I think that one of the most interesting aspects of the reuse of containers in architecture is precisely the freedom of approach with which each deals with the design. Nothing is codified, everything has to be rewritten from scratch every time, inventing new ways of interpreting the space».

Contemporary Architecture in Africa

Our first eBook comes out !

Boundaries is proud to announce the publication of its first eBook on the Apple iBookstore™:

Contemporary Architecture in Africa

Boundaries' enhanced eBooks contain multimedia, video and interactivity.
This book is available for download on your iPad with iBooks or on your computer with iTunes.

Edited by: Luca Sampò. Language: English. ISBN: 978-88-908264-0-5.

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Architecture and Recycling on BOOMandLEISURE.com

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TYIN Tegnestue, Old Market Library, Min Buri, Bangkok, Thailand © Pasi Aalto

Una recensione di Giuseppe Pullara su Il Corriere della Sera
martedì 20 marzo 2012

«Domus, Abitare, Casabella, l'Arca: le riviste d'architettura sono milanesi, come il design e la moda. La collocazione meneghina delle loro redazioni ha ben conosciute cause storiche, economiche, culturali che ne spiegano l'origine. E per questo è tanto più sorprendente la nascita a Roma di un trimestrale di sguardo internazionale [...] Boundaries lancia due segnali: Roma può partecipare ad un confronto senza frontiere puntando su un'architettura quasi ignorata dalle riviste patinate; giovani appassionati possono superare certe inerzie ambientali e vivacizzare la realtà culturale che a Roma, nel campo dell'architettura, si limita a qualche presentazione di libri ed a conferenze negli "interiors" universitari». Giuseppe Pullara

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Architecture and Recycling

Architecture and Recycling

The topic of recycling, presented in this issue, is the “re-use” of materials, objects and structures, for different purposes, and in different ways from their original uses, in order to build or re-build, to provide possible solutions to problems related to the environment, and to manage waste more intelligently.

Tyres, containers, bottles, cans, CD-ROMs and even keyboards, can find new and unexpected uses in experimental architecture, exhibition pavilions, or low-cost housing. With recycled objects, one can build anti-seismic and energy efficient houses. Recycled materials can contribute towards building shelters to meet the needs of people affected by disasters. There are many topics connected to recycling, and they vary depending on the objects that one wishes to recycle and how they will be put to use.

IMPREVISTI E PROBABILITA’ di Alessandra Muntoni

Boundaries: un’altra architettura sta crescendo ai bordi del mondo.

Testo pubblicato su presS/Tletter n.29-2012

C’è una nuova rivista che sta esplorando cosa e come si costruisce fuoriuscendo dal consueto. Il suo direttore, Luca Sampò, ha individuato una nuova formula di indagine critica mettendosi in contatto con realtà che agiscono in tutto il mondo, ma che solo sporadicamente attraggono l’attenzione delle testate più note. Il primo numero, del settembre 2011, era dedicato a Contemporary Architecture in Africa; l’ultimo, uscito nel settembre 2012, ad Architecture and Recycling. In mezzo sono stati trattati argomenti riguardanti l’architettura della pace, della emergenza o la città alternativa.

Biennale di Venezia

Boundaries is proud to participate with Archizines to The 13th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, directed by David Chipperfield and titled "Common Ground", that will be open from 29th August to 25th November 2012

Special Live Event : November 21, 2012

see:
http://www.archizines.com/
http://www.labiennale.org/it/architettura/

We are pleased to announce that Boundaries will continue participating in the ARCHIZINES WORLD TOUR (see below).
The exhibition and accompanying events will be presented in seven countries.
There will also be a special ARCHIZINES LIVE taking place during the VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE.

Osaka, 1–17 September 2012
Paris, 6 – 27 September 2012
Tokyo, 21–23 September 2012
Helsinki September 2012
Brussels, 5 October ¬¬– 3 November 2012
Santiago de Chile, October 2012
Bratislava, 5 – 23 November 2012
Dublin, 15th November 2012 – 12th January 2013
Venice, ARCHIZINES LIVE: Wednesday 21 November 2012

STAY TUNED !

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