This month gta Verlag is publishing Values and Surfaces: Art, Economy, Architecture, the English translation and expansion of a collection of essays by art and architectural historian Philip Ursprung first published in German in 2017. Lynnette Widder, architect and professor at Columbia University, read the collection and sent us her impressions on it.
An ihrer ETHZ-Professur erforscht und entwirft Elli Mosayebi tragenden Naturstein. Gleichzeitig plant sie mit ihrem Büro EMI Architekt*innen ein Haus aus Naturstein.
Architectural ornamentation has been a recurrent subject of debate across the industry for decades. A practice that was largely abandoned during the Modernist movement could now be standing on a platform that might, again, allow its resurgence, due to the current convergence of robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital fabrication. (Prof. Benjamin Dillenburger)