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364 / Ricardo Palacio: Cluster

Submission #364 | Ricardo Palacio: Cluster — Cultural production has entered a stage in which archived digital material can be used at will, thus making canonical architectural work accessible beyond mere quotation by turning it into hackable material for new work. The project takes Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion, as a database to be hacked and extended into a residential high-rise in Downtown Brooklyn.

184_Paul Germaine McCoy and Francisco Javier Rivera: In Between

Submission #184 | Paul Germaine McCoy and Francisco Javier Rivera from Texas A&M University — The significance of the objects Barcelona has aggregated to create its urban fabric go beyond the formal intentions flattened on each facade. Behind them and in between the slabs resides the floating consciousness of a generation with the desire of immediate gratification and long term impact. We investigate this idea by pushing life and work under one roof.