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Focus: Beyond the Pale, Architecture in Taiwan
Focus: Beyond the Pale, Architecture in Taiwan
Marco Casagrande is now principle at the Ruin Academy at the JUT Foundation's Urban Core Arts Block as well as professor at the Department of Architecture at Danjiang University, Taipei. After his group was given a studio on the block, his group built the Ruin Academy, and even produced a whole magazine on the groups theory, practice and...
Focus: Beyond the Pale, Architecture in Taiwan
Suggesting that every society have their own ideas of what is authentic and what is not, might strike most people as too obvious to require re-iteration. However the charismatic contemporary ideology which suggests that authenticity and self expression are things to be encouraged by their own right, needs to be re-considered if it is to avoid...
Read more: Questioning Individual Expression in an Urban Context: The Example of Treasure Hill
Focus: Beyond the Pale, Architecture in Taiwan
Chen Bo-I, aka 'The King of the ruins' doesn’t necessarily come across as glamorous as his nickname sounds. Currently, working on his PhD in Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, a most realistic and practical trade, yet beyond his advanced studies in man-made structures on the ocean, he is also avid reader of the fascinating marks of history...
Focus: Beyond the Pale, Architecture in Taiwan
Since attending drinks and bbq session at the Ruin Academy, Urban Core, Taipei City in fall of last year, I gradually became more and more familiar with Marco Casagrande’s C-lab and the offshoots (ruin academy, third generation city, local knowledge, urban acupuncture, anarchist gardener). I also became convinced that Taipei has great need...
Focus: Beyond the Pale, Architecture in Taiwan
Marco Casagrande is now principle at the Ruin Academy at the JUT Foundation's Urban Core Arts Block as well as professor at the Department of Architecture at Danjiang University, Taipei. After his group was given a studio on the block, his group built the Ruin Academy, and even produced a whole magazine on the groups theory, practice and...
Focus: Beyond the Pale, Architecture in Taiwan
Amidst the tide of modernization how does a granary that has stored countless quantities of rice become a derelict building, and then from this dereliction rise again to new life?
Can older buildings that are invested with many of the community's residents' memories bring about a new cultural vitality in a locality?
Focus: Beyond the Pale, Architecture in Taiwan
Amongst the participants of the opening of the Illegal Architecture exhibition held in Ximen in March of this year, was mainland Chinese architect and artist Wang Shu. Perhaps aptly, given the topic of the exhibition, there was a construction crew digging up the road right beside the exhibition's marquee. Despite the repressive authoritarian...
Read more: The Cultural Inheritance Behind Illegal Architecture
Focus: Beyond the Pale, Architecture in Taiwan
Recently I have had many architectural dreams, I remember two of them in particular: one was taking place in a European city, probably Paris or London, I could easily recognize the white stone buildings 6 or 7 stories tall, representative of the Haussmann style. But only because I was dreaming, they were also displaying new decorative items...
Focus: Beyond the Pale, Architecture in Taiwan
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