Prêt-à-Porter

Our model Alejandro Hernández (@otrootroblog), editor in Arquine, lectures with style some weeks ago at the ISAD in Chihuahua. In the picture, he’s wearing the retro T-shirt ‘Hope’, from the ‘Kunst Haas’ series in our Spring 2009 Collection.

Dancing about Architecture: A conversation with architect and cartoonist Klaus

Click to enlarge I’ve been neglecting posting this since April, when it was published, after teasing about it for several months on twitter. But, since it took me ages to actually deliver it to the editors, I think it’s kinda fitting. To make a long story short: Over a year ago (almost two, really), Eli

‘Table of Contents’ – Illustration for Praxis #14: True Stories

Click to enlarge Praxis 14, “True Stories”, guest edited by Ana Miljacki, with Amanda Reeser Lawrence and Ashley Schafer, considers the ways in which architects tell stories. Films, fictions, sitcoms, comics, and fairytales are among the types of architectural narratives featured in the issue. These acts of architectural storytelling are considered for their capacity as

It’s not easy Being Kool – Illustration and text for Clog: REM

Click to enlarge “[…] For those who were already, let’s say, ‘architecturally active’ in the 90s, the second half of the decade featured an increasing presence of Koolhaas-isms in the architecture published  by architectural media. Be it young offices paging Bakema through the Educatorium (those ubliquitous ‘single surfaces’ Jeff Kipnis still chitchatted on in his lectures

Jean-Louis Violeau: REM. Le Bon, la Brute… and some Klaus in there

Click to enlarge Les Éditions B2 is an indie publisher based in Paris, specialized in the publication of short -and not that short- texts that engage architecture from a variety of peripheral viewpoints. In their own words: “Les collections B2 se proposent d’édifier un « cabinet de curiosités » architectural arpentant, dans le temps et

2013 recap: Numerus Klausus

So, before January is over, I’d like to post the first one in a series of posts that look back at some of the stuff that happened in 2013 but which, due to the hectic-ness of these last months, had to wait till now. So, as a starting point, I thought it would be nice

Numerus Klausus #08: One of My Turns [An Homage to Mark Fisher]

Click to enlarge “He flew Tina Turner over her audience on a huge mechanical arm, drove U2 through their arena inside a mirror-studded lemon, and thrust the Rolling Stones between stages on a 45m-long telescopic bridge, complete with helicopter searchlights. The architect and set designer Mark Fisher, who has died aged 66 after a long

2012 Recap: MAS Context Analog | Chicago

Photograph by Matthew Messner The lapse from 2012 to 2013 and the months that followed have been a particularly busy period, both regarding my work as Klaus and my scholarly life, so almost a year has gone by without my posting a single word about the ARCHITECTURAL NARRATIVES Exhibition in the MAS Context: analog event

But today we collect Gags (short text for The Importance of the Way Stories are Being Told)

Click to enlarge But today we collect Gags [and gigs, and schticks] Gropius wrote a book on grain silos, Le Corbusier one on aeroplanes, and Charlotte Periand brought a new object to the office every morning, But today we collect ads.[i] Today (today), Rem Koolhaas writes big fat books and reinvents OMA each ten years

Tell me more! (Article for Conditions magazine #10: Gossip)

click to enlarge (…) Digging into the dirty laundry of the architectural star-system is, in any case, neither a recent phenomenon nor a curiosity exclusively circumscribed to today’s divas. The mouth-to-ear airing of our architectural heroes’ private sins has been an inevitable aside of their rise as idols. Small talk on the lower passions of