#inspiration# du vendredi

L'ornement est un crime....

Adolf Loos

Today .BAUHAUS.

"We fundamentally believed that design could not be reduced to an intellectual or material discipline, but simply had to be integrated into all aspects of life"

Walter Gropius

Beauty in Reykjavik / Henning Larsen & Olafur Eliasson / 2011.

*The Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center in Reykjavik, Iceland. Designed by Henning Larsen Architects and Olafur Eliasson. 2011.

Special feature for domus 950.

Architects have it all!

MStudio

Shot number 2


For the wise man, one word is enough....

Plautus,

The beginning of an era,

MStudio

Shot number 1

Always change processes and structures while they still function

105 anos de vida,

Parabéns Oscar,

ArchiBLOB_Io sono l'architetto

Matrix Reloaded -
Beppe Grillo -
Massimiliano Fuffas -
Renzo Piano -
Zaha Hadid -
Monty Python -
Frank Gehry -
Phillip Johnson -
Philippe Starck -
Gilberto Gil -
Renaud Donnedieu de Vabre -
Rudy Ricciotti -
Cardinale Poletto -
Pier Paolo Maggiora -
Jean Nouvel -
Oscar Niemeyer -
Rafael De La Hoz -
Albert Speer -
Massimiliano Fuksas -
Bruno Zevi -
Vittorio Gregotti -
Matteo Clemente -
Franco La Cecla -
Philippe Daverio -
Luciana Littizzetto -
Adriano Celentano

Culture . Peuple . Poétique de l'Architecture

Le dernier interview de Rudy,
Toujours un plaisir de l'écouter,


;)

Atelier 154, A visiter IMPÉRATIVEMENT!!!

Il lui manque un je-ne-sais-quoi d’excitant, de viril, de brut de fonderie, de mal dégrossi. Votre appartement, il serait tout simplement parfait avec une touche d’industriel.

L’atelier 154 est situé dans une allée pavée et herbeuse du 11ème. Quand on y pénètre, on laisse la ville lisse en contreplaqué derrière nous. Tout au fond, on entre dans le Showroom et on se laisse guider par Stéphane Quatresous, le maître des lieux. Il bosse la tôle et le bois brut et connaît le meuble industriel sur le bout de ses doigts rugueux. Ses grandes tables en métal sont patinées d'usines, ses chaises fleurent bon les écoles de nos grand-mères et ses étagères charpentées sortent des établis d'ouvriers.

C’est bon la virilité !

Frisson métallurgique garanti.

Atelier 154
154 rue Oberkampf, Paris 11e, Métro Ménilmontant
Tel : 06 62 32 79 06
www.atelier154.com

Impressions,

ATTITUDE _Marrakech&Essaouira_

Passing by a kiosque in Chiado to buy my favourite portuguese magazine, got that pleasant surprise :Art, Design, Architecture, Style.....ATTITUDE issue about Marrakech&Essaouira.

Sometimes I wonder if people in Europe really know what Morocco is,
Apart beaches, surf, tourism and holidays....
A country where values, words are important,
Country where the "art de vivre", has inspired designers, artists, poetes, cooks, painters, movies...... and still,
A country where we live with refinement, and where everything exists with art,
A country that is in the top 10 of the most luxurious destinations in the world,
A country that has the strongest culture and tradition in the arabic world, mixed with a very open minded mentality to embrace whatever is new.....
A country where women are the most emancipated in the arabic world, they are tough, strong, and the best for business,
Where no one dies starving, where everyone shares everything, from the heart,

When you are hosted in a moroccan house, the fascination you feel about the slightest details takes you into a journey throughout food, decoration, music, lights, flavours, scents.....Everything!
When you have a moroccan friend, you can be sure that he is close to you, more than family can be, he says, he does, you need him, he will be there for you.....
One day, an Italian friend told me,
"when you date a Moroccan woman, you enter in a realm full of magic, delicacy and mystery .... the charisma, the hair, the eyes, the smile, the way they move, and the way they know how to take care of men....You cannot go back to "normality", she can leave you if you don't value her, but you can never leave or forget her"

.......

By living in abroad since 7 years, working in famous groups, knowing famous people, traveling, visiting good places......I concluded that the majority of Europeans missed it all!!!
Looking through their ego of being "in the community"....they missed life,
I still get surprised by their ignorance, narrow mind, and judgment.....

I remember how I laughed when a frenchy asked me, "oh I never imagined that a Muslim girl can be dressed like this, so, how does it feel to be in europe? you don't have to wear the veil here huh?", then I replied "have you ever been to morocco or an arabic country?", he said :"no", then I said: "then may be you should visit, rather than watch Muslim TV"
Another one asked me "ah you speak french so well, without accent, are you french with moroccan origins", I said "No, I learned arabic and french at the same time, and my parents always talked to me both languages", then she said with a surprised look "Oh your parents speak french ???and how many languages you speak?", then I replied with the smile "5 languages, and you?"....then she said: "I speak french, and can have a basic talk in english....."!!!
In my first job in Paris, in the architecture department of Louis Vuitton, every morning I brought croissant for everyone, not to eat alone in front of them, after 4 times, they started asking me if I was trying to get something from my boss doing that, and I said, "no in my culture, it's impolite to eat in front of the others without sharing, so I bring for everyone....", could it be any worse??? Yes ... :)
One day, I was wearing a short skirt, and a collegue passed and said "u shouldn't be wearing short things, u are muslim", I replied "because I have the body that fits with it......", ok ok a bit bitchy, but she deserved it..........

Last week I was talking with my master about europeans, how they think they are the best ..... and that they should be the reference, does it have a relation with colonization ? for sure....

but why portuguese forget their history then? and forget that they have arab blood....culture, architecture, art.....and names everywhere, how can they act racist, or overproud, with their own roots, instead of considering it a wealth?.....

The only reason I can find for that questions is : IGNORANCE!

So, read, watch and learn
;)

Coming soon.....

New Louis Vuitton architecture book comes out this month.
3 limited edition covers..

and my babies will be there

;)

"Architects are the sexiest"

Because things are not by the meaning, but by the feeling,
......because no one can understand what I have in my 3D mind,
And because I can turn something basic to poetic,

I am the architects,

Louis Vuitton Architecture....By Me,

First Louis Vuitton Appartement Concept Store,
Ninhonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo_Japan,

"MM"

Was born today,

:)

............ more info soon,

New arrival,

A Full-color reproductions of some 60 napkins-with sketches by Tadao Ando, Mario Botta, Steven Hall, Josef Paul Kleihues, Dominique Perrault and Robert Venturi, among others-are interspersed with bon mots on the subject of drawing by the likes of Josef Albers, Le Corbusier (who was never a fan of the architectural sketch) and Mies van der Rohe. The sketches themselves range from quick scribbles to more elaborate works of art; they are striking enough to carry the book on their own, with the wattage of the collective reputations behind them.

**HQE? "H, j’en prends un peu, le Q le plus possible, pour le E, j’attends demain" Rudy Ricciotti,

« Je veux bien admettre que ma gueule de voleur de poule et mon accent de bâtard méritent peu de considération, mais ce contrat scandaleux et méprisant n'incarne pas l'idée que je me fais de l'Etat, de la démocratie et de la culture.

“Je veux bien admettre que les pulsions fascistes et autoritaires puissent amener à ce délire psychopathe, paranoïaque et tortionnaire, mais je ne veux pas me faire enculer avec le sourire sardonique de la Joconde sans protester tout de même.”

“Par voie de conséquence, je vous prie de chercher le pigeon corvéable à merci, plumable à souhait, docile et sodomisable frontalement ailleurs que dans mon cabinet. Je vous accolade cependant à la manière des commandos marines. Je veux bien renoncer aux exorbitants 20 000 euros d'honoraires pour toute cette mission et ainsi ne rien signer et travailler gratuitement ce qui me reviendra moins cher.”

My Architect : Louis Kahn

"En 1974, au sommet de sa gloire mais criblé de dettes, l’architecte américain Louis I. Kahn meurt d’un arrêt cardiaque dans une gare de New-York. Nathaniel Kahn, son fils illégitime, est alors âgé de 11 ans. Trente ans plus tard, il décide de percer le mystère de ce père absent, qui partageait sa vie entre son épouse, deux concubines et les enfants nés de ces trois unions. Des architectes renommés, dont Frank Gehry, Philip Johnson et Mosch Safdie, des employés de la firme ainsi que des membres de ses trois familles, dont les deux demi-sœurs du réalisateur, viennent témoigner de la personnalité énigmatique de l’architecte. D’autre part, en filmant les réalisations de ce dernier, dont le parlement du Bangladesh à Dacca, Nathaniel cherche à se réconcilier avec son célèbre père."

18 Sept. 2011
Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine
_Paris