Pelinu Books

23/06/2022

ACCOUNTS by AE Foundation - https://aefoundation.co.uk; softcover, 16.5 x 23 x 2.1 cm // available at Pelinu Books (link in bio) //

19/04/2021

Our 'bricks' in the Land of the Rising Sun, at .site in Aoyama. Thanks and .

07/01/2021

02/01/2021

RAPHAEL ZUBER FOUR PROJECTS explores spaces through a series of cinematic representations, counterbalanced by beautiful yet banal objects scanned in a 1:1 scale, a depiction as close as possible to reality. The virtual and the real are enhanced by a deep black background.

Funeral Chapel Steinhausen, animation still / Honey, scanned.



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20/12/2020

https://www.archdaily.com/952966/raphael-zuber-four-projects?ad_source=search&ad_medium=search_result_all

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10/10/2020

Thank you all for a very lovely evening last Friday ! ♥


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Photos Mihai Șom

30/09/2020

Making a good book is not much different than making a good building. Thanks to (production) and Alin Cincă .bff (design).



Launching event:
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09/07/2020

RAPHAEL ZUBER FOUR PROJECTS in the pipeline, carefully crafted.
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29/06/2020

RAPHAEL ZUBER FOUR PROJECTS nearing completion.

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13/06/2020

“…and all our competitors went for the very same interpretation of memory, openness and transparency. Our first thought was that this memory was extremely fragile and that it needed protection. So, we thought of the building as a safe. At the same time we understood that there was the need to convey this memory on the surface of the building, so the first thing that came into our mind were polyptych’s from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance, where there is an effort to present collectivity, a set of stories, all together, on a given surface. The Polyptych of the Madonna of Misericordia, by Piero della Francesca is a good example— FIGURE 1. Obviously the aesthetic is very different now, but luckily, Gerhard Richter is always there to help, not only in terms of aesthetic, but also in terms of how to tackle this set of memories related to such difficult events. There’s an impressive series of paintings by Richter. Portraits of the members of the Baader Meinhof terrorist group from Germany at the end of the ‘70s. What interested was that they are composed of small portraits, big collective scenes, and his signature blurring, for us was almost like saying that these memories were impossible to forget and impossible to remember, as if by blurring it made these memories more distant and at the same time terribly present.” Andrea Zanderigo p. 29, Accounts.
(photo of House of Memory by Stefano Graziani)

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21/05/2020

August 2019
photo by Magda Juravlea

09/04/2020

A nice review of Accounts in the current issue of Modulor. Thank you !

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01/04/2020

One of our ongoing projects!


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Working on S P A C E S B O O K - a selection of projects done by students at ETH Zurich. Follow for future news.

20/03/2020

…and read a good book!

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13/03/2020

“Talking about beauty is one of the most difficult discussions. This is why we don’t talk about it very often. In my whole education no one talked about it, except Peter Zumthor once as a guest lecturer. For me personally in the office beauty is the main force driving me to survive in architecture. If I see a beautiful building like Hagia Sophia it gives me so much energy to go on, because we all know it’s a tough metier to work as an architect. (…) I wish for our discipline, for architecture, that we as architects, as individuals can get back the licence to build beautiful buildings, that the client relies and trusts, and that we can continue as experts to explore this thing we call beauty.” Angela Deuber p. 18 - p. 21, Accounts. ⁣
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26/02/2020

We recently got a nice book from .

Cat Fuji likes it too.

09/01/2020

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Accounts, photograph by Jonathan Sergison. "We live in a consumer society that is the product of capitalism. And I think because of this buildings have become no more than something we wrap around us, an apparatus to provide comfort. I think in the past buildings had more meaning and these linguistic rules were used to signify and express certain common aspects of society and the life of its citizens." Peter Märkli p.184, Accounts.

30/12/2019

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"Authorship is a modern concept that only appears at the end of the Middle Ages. Earlier in history society had mediators. Speakers would be praised not for the content of their sayings but for the eloquence of their speech. In other words, what used to stand at the centre of attention was not the what but the how." François Charbonnet p. 86. Image from copyrightbookshop.be

28/12/2019

We end this year with a good start - Santa brought us the first finished copy of Raphael Zuber's book. Many thanks to Fabrik and Alin Cincă, magicians in book-making.

15/12/2019

Accounts, by Samuel Penn and the AE Foundation, with an impressive list of contributors discussing about Architecture. Find it on www.pelinubooks.com.

11/12/2019

Fuji helping us out. We love books, architecture and yes, cats!

08/12/2019

Luigi Snozzi in ACCOUNTS: `I would say the biggest problem today for architects is the city, and for that reason it is important in architectural education to start with the problem of the city. Whereas usually in education one starts with a small project a little house or something like that, I think that instead I would rather start with giving them a piece of the city to design. (…) I think the single house is the most difficult project and it’s better to leave it to the end, when one already has experience. `

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27/11/2019

you can now find our first book on www.pelinubooks.com
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Álvaro Siza in ACCOUNTS: `Learning architecture means knowing more and more. And at a certain moment our projects were no longer copies but something that came from inside our mind, that often comes, and this is the best way, from the subconscious.`
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10/11/2019

Packed room and good debate at our first book-launch. Samuel Penn, the editor, challenged Angela Deuber, Pascal Flammer, Olivier Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan to a discussion starting from the importance of being serious in architecture, ending to define common ground despite different practice: strategies to deal with consumerism, keeping oneself curious, and creating the autonomy for architecture to survive in the most dystopian context. Discussions turned into a 1:1 sample of the book. Many thanks to our friends at Hochparterre Bücher for hosting us.

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04/11/2019

https://www.hochparterre.ch/nachrichten/buecher/blog/post/detail/architekten-im-gespraech-1/1571841917/

30/10/2019

ACCOUNTS BOOK-LAUNCH
Friday 8 November 2019, 19:00 – 21:00, Hochparterre Bücher, Gasometerstrasse 28, Zürich

You are cordially invited to the "Accounts" book-launch. The event will include an introduction and a short informal discussion on the relationship between individual practice and the architectural canon, with Angela Deuber, Pascal Flammer, Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan, chaired by Samuel Penn.
“Accounts” is the record of an extended conversation about Architecture and Architectural Education that took place between the members and invited guests of the AE Foundation in the first five years of its activity. Beginning with Doubt, Architecture, Buildings, City, History, Houses, the discussions continued to explore the many and varied schools of thought that occupy the discipline.

21/10/2019

ACCOUNTS, our first publication, is a record of an extended conversation that took place among the members and invited guests of The Foundation for Architecture and Education. It includes lectures, discussions and interviews with prominent figures in today's architectural scene. More about the book-launch soon! www.aefoundation.co.uk
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