EVERYTHING IS ARCHITECTURE Alles ist Architektur is the title of a manifesto published in magazine Bau by Hans Hollein in 1968. According to Hollein, the traditional definition of architecture is no longer relevant. ‘Our efforts are focused on the en -vironment as a whole and all media that deter mine it. Television as well as the artificial... See more
Italian design studio @super.sedia, founded by Markus Töll, creates furniture where every detail is shaped individually, guided by a constant dialogue between an idea and its immediate realisation. Growing up in his father’s metal workshop in Bressanone, Northern Italy, Töll was exposed to tools and materials from a young age, an experience that... See more
I find an interesting parallel here to the ideas James Scott proposes in Seeing Like a State (which we covered back in RE #4): a top-down, central planning-style of design can't effectively predict the diversity of user needs. It turns out, contra to the "expert architect", that the users know best what they need from their space. And often even... See more