trans 20 relevanz

• Main Authors: Mit Beiträgen von / With contributions by Stephan Becker, Roger Boltshauser, Benedikt Boucsein, Hans Danuser, Sebastian Ernst, Christoph Franz, Greis, Stephen Griek, Kathrin Haltiner, Nikolaus Hamburger, Eli Hatleskog, Anna Hilti, Stefan Hoenerloh, Axel Humpert, Florian Idenburg, Markus Jung, Antigoni Katsakou, Christian Kerez, Simon Knaus, Stefan Kurath, Philip Loskant, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Michael Meier, Marguerite Meyer, Nancy Ottaviano, Dario Pfammatter, Sandra Parvu, Palle Petersen, Tim Rieniets, Wiebke Rösler, Tom Rüfli, Marcel Scherrer, Christian Schmid, Andrea Schregenberger, Tim Seidel, Regula Stämpfli, Laurent Stalder, Tobias Tommila, Nina Villiger, Gerlinde Zuber, REGGIANI, Elvira
• Other Authors: Mit Beiträgen von, / With contributions by Stephan Becker, Roger, Boltshauser, Benedikt, Boucsein, Hans, Danuser, Sebastian, Ernst, Christoph, Franz, Greis, Stephen, Griek, Kathrin, Haltiner, Nikolaus, Hamburger, Eli, Hatleskog, Anna, Hilti, Stefan, Hoenerloh, Axel, Humpert, Florian, Idenburg, Markus, Jung, Antigoni, Katsakou, Christian, Kerez, Simon, Knau, Stefan, Kurath, Philip, Loskant, Vittorio Magnago, Lampugnani, Michael, Meier, Marguerite, Meyer, Nancy, Ottaviano, Dario, Pfammatter, Sandra, Parvu, Palle, Petersen, Reggiani, Elvira, Tim, Rieniet, Wiebke, Rösler, Tom, Rüfli, Marcel, Scherrer, Christian, Schmid, Andrea, Schregenberger, Tim, Seidel, Regula, Stämpfli, Laurent, Stalder, Tobias, Tommila, Nina, Villiger, Gerlinde, Zuber
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; German
• Published: ETH DARCH 2012
• Subjects: Greenland; Medina; Mansilla
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11573/510461; http://www.gta.arch.ethz.ch/publications/trans-20-relevanz

THE UP-AND-COMING NEO-ROMANTIC ARCHITECTURE It is evident that in architecture things are changing. With the complicity of the crisis and a growing dissatisfaction with the products now due from some archistars, we are seeing a gradual change in the taste so plush but inexorably driving us towards a new architecture. The difficulty consists in the perception of this new climate. In fact for a Modernist legacy we are led to believe that changes must be directed by some personalities emerge, at best and increasingly rare by some teachers. The situation is different: the changes now, not only in architecture but also in economics and politics are no longer directed, but occurs from below, as the relentless, landslides, powerful but subtle, of which we can understand the sense only in retrospect. For example, we compare to each other some projects in recent years: the Museum of Cantabria of Mansilla and Tunon (the oldest: 2006), the Museum of Perm of Valerio Olgiati (2008), the Museum of the Medina in Saudi Arabia of Vasquez Consuegra (2008) and finally the projects of two of the most interesting contemporaries authors: the competition for the Alhambra of Aires Mateus and the one of Big, winner of the new national gallery in Greenland, both of 2010. There are some obvious characters that tie together these works. First, a dream sense, if not magical, of shape, works as if they belonged to a world in which the purpose of architecture is to strike the imagination, make us dream with open eyes. They flaunt a dreamy air of epic, as if they were scenes ready for a representation of a not well explained drama or simply aspire to become a comic strip for a fine science fiction. Among other things they seem to aspire to an archaic time, made of fabulous ruins. To achieve this effect these works rely on an extremely synthetic shape, with a minimized composition, where the intermediate steps are skipped and where any complexity is banned, as demonstrated by effective project patterns of Big which practically coincide with the ...