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But there was also an underlying task. It had to do with the debate of how to determine the appropria

The second one in the 60’s, when Louis Kahn designed the Erdman Hall, where he used the cells to encl

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So, in this project we tried to balance abstraction (a solid excavated to make it inhabitable) with c

We also created an articulated footprint, but instead of making it as a reaction to a geographic even

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In these discussions, I see under scrutiny what society expects from architects and I really believe

The first one in the late 40`s, when Alvar Aalto designed the Baker House for MIT in Cambridge, where

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We wanted to participate of this historical sequence and made our statement not in plan though but in

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We thought that a dorm is like a monastery: it’s about how to organize a collections of repetitive sm

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In any case, what I think was the real theme and challenge of this project was not architectural, but

The formal assignment was to provide the new dormitories (300 beds), dining facilities and various st

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There are two great examples of how to answer paradigmatically to this problem:

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Text description provided by the architects. There were 2 debates running in parallel in this project

This discussion took place mainly with and within the Board of Trustees, where none of them was an ar

The role and position contemporary architecture should take in front of a preexisting style, if discu

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