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UNCUBE magazine

Couple pieces for their online Blog

Another friend, this time from Germany, but that I met when she was rebelling at the Getty Center in LA (we became instant friends) hooked me up with Uncube magazine. Uncube was founded by BauNetz, from Berlin. Baunetz is the leading platform of architecture and design in German language, and Louise, my architect and scholar friend, was a regular collaborator. I wanted to write this piece about the new Whitney, and it was too architectural for DAMn, so I asked around...

Actually I have to say that the two articles I wrote for them were Peter Halley´s ideas 😊 He loves architecture and he said I should write, first about the new Whitney that had just opened and then on Bob´s house for his mother! He does has a vision of things...

And so I did!


It is just a pitty that Uncube decided to end its life few months after I started contributing 😊I guess architects don´t read anymore... If you look at what gets build today, you can say so 😊

Project Gallery

Idée Fixe  is a Transdisciplinary Studio of Art and Architecture, run by Cristina Guadalupe Galván.

If in a website you normally find finished objects and products to share, what we are sharing here are more ideas – tested, developed and lived -- and their processes, that in many instances ended up happily physical. The creative process is about experimentation and the life that goes with it. The life and the people.

While building this site I came across a quote that explained it to me much better, by architects Josep Ferrando & Marta Poch, for their Quaderns d´Arquitectura, issue 273, THE THINKING TRADE:

      In a world dominated by images of the finished object and the immediacy of access to multimedia content, this issue of Quaderns sets out to reflect on the role of the architect –by means of their working processes, of the working methods (…) leaving the image of the built project on the background.

For artist Sol LeWitt, the process was also the work:

      The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. (...) It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned. 

Architect Josep Maria Sostres said something similar:

      The project, obviously as a mental conception, as a will to form, has a sovereignty, it has an internal power that must be imposed.

So this archive-website of Idee-Fixe, records more these ideas, processes and in many instances the collaborations that made them possible.

It´s about THE LIFE OF IDEAS.

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