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365 / Ernesto Medina: Castelvecchio Composite

Submission #365 | Ernesto Medina: Castelvecchio Composite — “After visiting and photographing this 14th-century castle restored by the great Carlo Scarpa in the 1950s, an analytical drawing was produced in order to understand the many motifs carried out by the architect when renovating this military construction in order for it to now work as a museum; one that would not only reflect history through the exhibits on display but also through the exposed architectural details of the building itself.”

93_Jamison Sweat: Death of the Detail

Jamison Sweat: Death of the Detail — "With the removal of the joint, more specifically, in the discourse of contemporary architecture, surface continuity and the diagram reign supreme. Jointless modernist organisms work so hard to detail in ways that hide the actual mechanics and ontological condensation of how buildings come into being. Tectonic is described in two realms, one pertaining to ontology, or how things come into being, and the other as representational, or the representation of a constructional element, which is present, but hidden."