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2013
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// august 4, 2013 // **Weekend Reading.
Groundscapes: towards a re-dicovery of the ground as a critical space in architecture (excerpt)
by Andreas Ruby
[para leer en español da click aquí]
"...Today, we are so used to the idea of the ground as an ecology of architecture that it is difficult to imagine that it was ever any other way. In 1926, in his "Cinque Points d'une Architecture Nouvelle" Le Corbusier proclaimed the "Libération du Sol". The Unité d'Habitation in Marseille (1947-52), the architectural icon of this freeing of the ground, became the predominant building type of the modern movement. WIthout direct ground contact the house escapes from its physical surroundings. The ground ceases to define architecture…Whereas architecture is taking off, the ground is abandoned back on earth. It is impossible to imagine the Villa Savoye on a site with an excavated topography.The solemn aura of its ideal-type geometry needs the undescribed surface of the virgin earth, which embraces the building and makes it look like an island in the sea… the context finally mutates into that featureless mass with which the modern agony of the ground enters its ultimate stage and which -as "tabula rasa"- was to become the "prima materia" of modern urbanism.
The Villa Savoye as a cow shed with hay, ca. 1950ies.
…During the 1960s this idea of the ground as a "terra incognita" gradually began to change. If up to now "Ground Space" had only been defined negatively (as a negative volume between the building and ground level), it is now increasingly seen as a "habitable condition". Interestingly, Le Corbusier was once again a pioneer of this development. In his later constructions, such as The Couvent de la Tourette (57-67) and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts(61-64) this new evaluation of the ground is already announced, but perhaps it is to be seen in its most radical form in the unbuilt Electronic Calculation Center Olivetti (1963).
Centre de calculus électroniques Olivetti. Model.
Le Corbusier: Oeuvre Complète vol. 7, Les editions d'Architecture. 1965
It is precisely this spaces that was coming top the fore of architectural research when Paul Virilio and Claude Parent founded their "Architecture Principe" group in 1963 -same year that Le Corbusier designed his Olivetti-Project. Their point of departure was to fight the monocultures of the horizontality such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Broad-acre City ('35) and the absolute verticality of the New York Skyscraper, yet their position was also contrary to the contemporary metabolic utopias of Constant, Yona Friedman, Domenig/Huth, among others. Virilo and Parent invent with their "Fonction Oblique" a conceptual model for achieving urban continuity: Instead of simply putting a new city on top of the old one, they transfigure the existing ground into a new order, letting the new city emerge out of the old one. In accordance with Virilio's idea of "habitable circulation", all surfaces are multi-programmed. Their venture found little or no following in french architecture, however, it did provide a decisive impulse for the international debate, the constructed results of which were, paradoxically, first seen in France. In 1967 Oscar Niemeyer was commissioned by the French Communist Party to build the new headquarters for their central committee. His project seemed to further develop the ideas of Parent and Virilio, who were to end their partnership one year later… In a spatial mise-en-scène charged with suspense like a Hitchcock movie, Niemeyer gives the ground a form, and extension and a location.
Centre Culturek Charleville, Paul Virilio + Claude Parent.
The function of the oblique. The Architecture of Claude Parent and Paul Virilio 1963-1969 (AA Documents #3, 1996).
…Niemeyer produced pioneering work, still undervalued today, for the architectural trends of the 1980s and 90s, in which the ground finally became a central theme of architecture."
Oscar Niemeyer, sketches for the French Communist Party Headquarters
// july 4, 2013 // 3muros... Lo cotidiano es extraordinario // the everyday is extraordinary...3muros.
// june 21, 2013 // process
// june 15, 2013 // 3muros
// june 11, 2013 // Construction site visits with the smell of ocean.
3muros, construction process.
// june 06, 2013 // We find more shared emotion and authenticity in the renewed use of traditional materials than in the spectacular production of built icons for global audiences.
3muros, construction process
// june 03, 2013 // "The antithesis of the desert is the landscape, the land molded by man".
3muros, Construction progress.
// may 29, 2013 // Mariano Arias-Diez lecture as part of the ENADII Baja California Sur 2013 event. Sharing visions & knowledge with young architecture students of Baja Sur.
(photo by Ivan Hernandez / ludens)
(photo by Emmanuel Castro)
// may 21, 2013 // 3muros, construction process. Rammed earth walls being built.
// may 18, 2013 // **Weekend Reading excerpt:
"...A diagram today is architecture. It is not a scheme, a simplification, nor a preparatory drawing to be translated into a language or specific discipline. It is directly space, form, and the material of construction. The diagram is a direct voice, synthetic word, without language, metaphor or structures of profound thoughts. It is the marrow of form and content, a node of information. The diagram always works, at least partially through time. It defines from through procedures or actions. Not imaginary, the diagram is specific and concrete; like an algorithmic graph, it is complex and complicated. The diagram is a mechanism of the intellect as much as the final image of architecture. It tends towards abstraction, for direct performance between thought and making, causing the time of conception to coincide with the moment of construction."
-Federico Soriano.
FISURAS #12 Diagramas
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**Lectura de fin de semana, extracto:
"...Un diagrama hoy es arquitectura. No es un esquema, una simplificación, un dibujo preparatorio que necesita ser traducido a un lenguaje o a una disciplina especifica. Directamente es el espacio, la forma, el material que lo construye. Son voces directas, palabras sintéticas, sin lenguaje, ni metáforas, ni estructuras de pensamiento profundas. Son tuétanos de forma o de contenido. Son nudos de información. Uno de sus constituyentes siempre es el tiempo. Definen la forma mediante procedimientos o acciones. No son irreales sino precisos y concretos. Son algoritmos gráficos. Son sintetizaciones y no reducciones. Son complejos y complicados. Son mecanismos de intelecto como imagen final de la arquitectura. El diagrama aboga por la ejecución directa entre pensamiento y ejecución. Hace coincidir el tiempo de la concepción con el momento de construcción."
-Federico Soriano.
FISURAS #12 Diagramas
// may 17, 2013 // 3muros, construction process.
// may 13, 2013 // Today we start brainstorming on our new project, Casa A. This is going to be a really exciting project!
// may 10, 2013 // Local rocks foundations being built in 3muros.
// may 6, 2013 // Construction started for our 3muros project! (images and feature in the projects section coming soon!)
// may 2, 2013 // Casa Volcanes design process.
// april 23, 2013 // "In architecture, there are no details in execution” said Paul Valery, trying to explain that being detailed negates potential to a true architecture. Just as Le Corbusier prayed for "Emphatic forms, graceful details" to illustrate the ambivalence between the generality of volumes and the particular of the interiors...
// april 18, 2013 // "We experiment, build, think and rebuild" and lately we've been playing with dirt! Here are some images of explorations with sandbags & super adobe construction systems. (you can also see the use of reclaimed water hoses to fabricate shade and screens)
// february 5, 2013 // .....Wooha!! it took us almost a year to post back in our news sections, a lot of transformations and improvements are happening in our office.
We are pretty sure you would notice them, and like them as much as we do.
2012
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// june 1st, 2012 // .....And welcome to our new website (finally!!)
2011
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// september, 2011 // We updated our profile at Archinect, more projects will updated soon, meanwhile check our profile there and become part of the Archinect community.
// august, 2011 // We are currently working on an update to our website, stay tuned for a revamped webpage design in 2012.
// march 17, 2011 // On March 17, Mariano Arias-Diez lectured at the Covention Centre of Puebla as part of the ENADII 2011 "irreverente" tour Puebla, México.
// february 1st, 2011 // Mariano Arias-Diez is invited by Guillermo Rivero (a.k.a. @redmarker) to noiselab.tv for an interview + music selection session.
// january 16th, 2011 // In collaboration with entorno, we been awarded as winners of the competition to design the Landscape Architecture of the new "Centro Cultural Roberto Cantoral" a building designed by Broissin Architects, in Mexico City.
20a10
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// december 16th, 2010 // a10studio exhibit their work at Manada Gallery in Mexico City with a show named "20a10 process". See more images here
// november 15, 2010 // a10studio's Agriculture Museum as also Re*evolution lounge are published at TEORIA + PRAXIS "Irreverente" book.
// november 5th, 2010 // Mariano Arias-Diez it's invited to moderate a round table in the 10th anniversary of ENADII in Mexico City (some of the participants in the round table are: Ivan Hernández, Pablo Kobayashi, Santiago Gitanjalli, Elizabeth Gomez, Gabriel Salazar, and Nadia Borras)
// october, 2010 // a10studio is invited to be part of the Urban Social Design network, and international online based network of professionals researching the posibilities of a new framework of refference based on remote collaboration network environments, the open code culture, use of new communication technologies and social innovation.
We will post more details soon!.
// september, 2010 // a10studio's MAC published at FRAME Magazine issue no.76
// august, 2010 // Mariano Arias-Diez it's invited to participate as tutor at the 11th DOCOMOMO workshop at Studio Luis Barragán.
// august, 2010 // a10studio's MAC published in MARK Magazine issue no.27
// july, 2010 // Mariano Arias-Diez is appointed as head of Urban Design Studio at The School of Architecture, Universidad Anahuac Norte, Mexico.
// june, 2010 // Mariano Arias-Diez was invited to be part of the ENADII event at the city of La Paz (Baja California, Mexico), sharing lectures with other young offices from the area as FABRIK-G and COLECTIVO MX.
// may 29, 2010 // "...un proyecto muy interesante en el cual se ha trabajado de una manera exquisita el contacto de los edificios con el terreno dotandoles de una belleza de gran calidad arquitectonica.
El proyecto busca construir una completa redescripción del lugar; proponiendo, ante todo, la invención de una topografía. Así con este doble movimiento, desde la naturaleza al proyecto y del proyecto a la naturaleza, se rescata una condición “ecomonumental”.
Actuar sobre lo próximo, lo inmediato, lo táctil, y entender al mismo tiempo muchos otros receptáculos y dimensiones que se modifican con las acciones del usuario, es en conclusión un programa de trabajo flexible para los próximos años..."
El proyecto del museo de Agricultura en el portal de Arquitectura FLAV
// may 21, 2010 // The Agriculture Museum of Culiacan published in +MOOD. See it clicking here
// may 19, 2010 // Our project (done in collaboration with Carlos Marin/lab07) of the Agriculture Museum of Culiacan gets published at Design Boom's website today. check it out here
// may 19, 2010 // Mariano Arias-Diez will be part of the final jury at the Architectural Studio III leaded by Fernando Velasco (AS/D Architecture) at the School of Architecture, Anahuac University in Mexico City
// may 12, 2010 // On May 13th, Mariano Arias-Diez will lecture at the Universidad de Guanajuato as part of the ENADII 2010 "irreverente" tour Guanajuato, México.
// march 18, 2010 // a10studio gets published in Arquine Magazine (one of the most relevant publications of architecture and design in Latin America) in an article about the re*evolution lounge in Cabo San Lucas.
// march 15, 2010 // On March 19th, Mariano Arias-Diez will give a day-long workshop as part of the first stop of the ENADII 2010 "irreverente" tour in Valle de Bravo, México
watch the promo videos clicking here.
// march 1st, 2010 // a10studio its invited to a competition for the development of 20 to 30 high-end residences in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
// february, 2010 // We have new offices in Mexico City!!!, located at Lomas de Chapultepec, neighborhood in Mexico City
For all the locations of our offices you can go to our contact page
// february 12th, 2010 // Re*evolution lounge is published in the february 2010 issue of OBRAS Magazine (Mexico City).
// february 2nd, 2010 // a10studio is the only mexican Architecture/Design/Interior firm to be nominated in this year’s Restaurant & Bar Design Awards, with the project re*evolution.You can read more in our blog.
// january 12th, 2010 // Mariano Arias-Diez is invited to join the Digital Department of the School of Architecture at Anahuac University, where he will be teaching a semester-long studio with remarks in digital fabrication and digital tools for project visualization.
// january 1st, 2010 // We are very happy to welcome Arq. Luis Alarcón as new partner architect in a10studio, we are excited of the dynamic of work we will generate with this long time friend and very skilled professional.
// january 1st, 20a10 //
2009
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// december 24, 2009 // We at a10studio would like to wish you:
FELICES FIESTAS Y FELIZ AÑO NUEVO 2010!
BONES FESTES I ELS MILLORS DESITJOS PER L'ANY NOU 2010!
VESEL BOZIC IN SRECNO NOVO LETO 2010!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!
// december 9, 2009 // images of midterm presentations of projects at Anahuac University in Mexico City where Mariano Arias-Diez was invited juror.
// december, 2009 // a10studio's re*evolution lounge project gets featured in more online publications, like: DeZona, Arkinet, Newsodrome, and Plataforma Arquitectura.
// december 4, 2009 // Mariano Arias-Diez will attend as invited juror to midterm presentations of projects at Anahuac University in Mexico City (dec. 5, dec. 9. dec. 11).
// november 30, 2009 // we recently got published in a couple of architecture and design websites like +mood and ArchiTOUR, remember we have material for media and press available for download clicking here.
// november 11th, 2009 // we started a new BLOG where we rant and write about the ideas we have on our heads at specific moments, some theoretical text and reflections we make, feel free to take a look around at: a10studio | blog.
// october, 2009 // we just received a beautifull copy of the LARD series book by Commonwealth, thanks Zoe and David !!!!
// september, 2009 // we finished on time for the opening of Re*evolution bar, was a stressing final week but we did it, client and customers are very satisfied with the final product, is nice to see how people react to the materialized ideas you knew they didnt fully understood on paper. (double satisfaction!)
check images of the bar clicking here: re*evolution
// august 7, 2009 // the project for a lounge bar [re*evolution] is getting close to completion... sneak preview:
// june 22, 2009 // construction images, still a lot of junk to take out and some digging started...
// june 2009 // on 17th we broke ground in our new project for a restaurant bar in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, images coming soon!
// may 2009 // the new website is up, still we are polishing details of it, but pretty much you can get an idea of what is going on in the office, hope you all like it!.
// april 2009 // we are working on couple of projects, including a self sustainable residence in Pedregal de Cabo San Lucas, and some eco-friendly interiors for a medical practice in San Jose del Cabo among others.
// march 2009 // we started to plan our web presence.
// january 2009 // a10 joined early in 2009 the think-tank CAPAlab which will address new strategies and sustainable projects for the region of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico.
2008
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// december 2008 // Mariano Arias-Diez was invited to contribute to AMBIENTES magazine in their last number of Winter of 2008 with an article about our friends of ELASTIK and a review of the best of the year 2008 in the fields of architecture and design.
// november 2008 // a10 studio has been working lately on couple of projects in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico., and Guadalajara, Mexico, which range for single residential housing to large urban regenerations and new hybrid public space.
// fall 2008 // Mariano Arias-Diez publishes the article: "think you living green?: THINK AGAIN!" in HOME magazine. Los Cabos, Mexico.
// fall 2008 // publication of the work by a10studio in HOME magazine: "Meet the neighbor".
2007
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// november 28, 2007 // Mariano Arias-Diez is invited to give the lecture: "LOOPS : FEEDBACK | DESIGN : FABRICATION" at the School of Architecture of Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Michoacán, Mexico
// september 21, 2007 // Mariano Arias-Diez and fellow LaN founders Monika Wittig and Shane Salisbury give the lecture: "PLASTI+CITY: Applying Digital Tectonics" at the Montana State University, School of Architecture, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
// september 2007 // Mariano Arias-Diez co-directs a Digital Fabrication Workshop at the Montana State University, School of Architecture (co-director with Monika Wittig and Shane Salisbury of LaN), Bozeman, Montana, USA.
slideshow of the workshop's images
2006
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// october 2006 // Mariano is an Invited tutor for the Digital Tectonics workshop leaded by Marta Male-Alemany at the Institut d'arquitectura avançada de Catalunya (IaaC), Barcelona, Spain. Check the slideshow below!
// march 2006 // Our collaboration with LOAD for an urban regeneration project in the Italian city of Pontedera [70 m2] gets published in the catalogue: LEVEL 4 ricerca: indefinibilita della citta globale, Ed. Tegete, Italy.
2005
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// november 24, 2005 // The project: From BTC city to BTC citizen gets exhibited at the Galeria P74 as part of the [cc] Center-City exhibition (nov 24 to dec 8), Ljubljana, Slovenia
www.zavod-parasite.si
// november 10, 2005 // Mariano Arias-Diez invited to lecture at the Institut d'arquitectura avançada de Catalunya (IaaC), presenting its project From BTC city to BTC citizen
(developed in collaboration with Spela Stern and Roman Cordero). Barcelona, Spain.
// october 2005 // Publication at Pasajes #70 (magazine). project: "New Tourist Organizations: Nuevo Parque [industrial] CAMPSA", Spain.
// september 3-15, 2005 // a10studio is part of the exhibition: HyperEurope: Emergent Territories [slovenia + croatia] organized at the Luza Castle in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
www.arhitektura.info / www.dubrovnik.hr
// may 26 - june 26, 2005 // Mariano Arias-Diez is part of the project team for MareVostrum (towards an intelligent coast) curated by Manuel Gausa + LOAD. exhibited in: "FLOOD" the 2nd International Architecture Biennale of Rotterdam. NAi, Rotterdam, Netherlands. www.biennalerotterdam.nl
// may 31, 2005 // a10's project: RYANEUROPE (mapping europe), developed with Roman Cordero, is exhibited as part of the U.E. ESPON Program 'Youngstars Seminar', Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2004
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// january 2004 // Our collaboration with Lebbeus Woods (unfolded blue extension off CHASE HQ building) gets published in the book: GR[O]UND: workshop 2002, by Lebbeus Woods and Guy Lafranchi. Ed. Springer-Verlag, New York, USA.
// january - may, 2004 // Mariano Arias-Diez is an invited critic for the Salvador Nuñez Studio (architectural design 1st year) at the Universidad Anahuac del Norte, Huixquilucan, Mexico.
2003
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// january - december 2003 // Invited Faculty at the Universidad Nuevo Mundo School of Architecture (Computer Assisted Design + digital project representations) Huixquilucan, Mexico
// april, 2003 // Mariano Arias-Diez publishes the article "hyper-environments" for the 2nd Virtual Architecture virtual meeting (EVAV 2003), Caracas, Venezuela.
2002
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// may 2002 // Organic Kindregarden and Toreo4: urban regeneration, two early projects of a10studio get exhibited as part of the "Diseñar and build the New World" show at the Mundo E shopping center in Mexico.
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// august 4, 2013 // **Weekend Reading.
Groundscapes: towards a re-dicovery of the ground as a critical space in architecture (excerpt)
by Andreas Ruby
[para leer en español da click aquí]
"...Today, we are so used to the idea of the ground as an ecology of architecture that it is difficult to imagine that it was ever any other way. In 1926, in his "Cinque Points d'une Architecture Nouvelle" Le Corbusier proclaimed the "Libération du Sol". The Unité d'Habitation in Marseille (1947-52), the architectural icon of this freeing of the ground, became the predominant building type of the modern movement. WIthout direct ground contact the house escapes from its physical surroundings. The ground ceases to define architecture…Whereas architecture is taking off, the ground is abandoned back on earth. It is impossible to imagine the Villa Savoye on a site with an excavated topography.The solemn aura of its ideal-type geometry needs the undescribed surface of the virgin earth, which embraces the building and makes it look like an island in the sea… the context finally mutates into that featureless mass with which the modern agony of the ground enters its ultimate stage and which -as "tabula rasa"- was to become the "prima materia" of modern urbanism.
The Villa Savoye as a cow shed with hay, ca. 1950ies.
…During the 1960s this idea of the ground as a "terra incognita" gradually began to change. If up to now "Ground Space" had only been defined negatively (as a negative volume between the building and ground level), it is now increasingly seen as a "habitable condition". Interestingly, Le Corbusier was once again a pioneer of this development. In his later constructions, such as The Couvent de la Tourette (57-67) and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts(61-64) this new evaluation of the ground is already announced, but perhaps it is to be seen in its most radical form in the unbuilt Electronic Calculation Center Olivetti (1963).
Centre de calculus électroniques Olivetti. Model.
Le Corbusier: Oeuvre Complète vol. 7, Les editions d'Architecture. 1965
It is precisely this spaces that was coming top the fore of architectural research when Paul Virilio and Claude Parent founded their "Architecture Principe" group in 1963 -same year that Le Corbusier designed his Olivetti-Project. Their point of departure was to fight the monocultures of the horizontality such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Broad-acre City ('35) and the absolute verticality of the New York Skyscraper, yet their position was also contrary to the contemporary metabolic utopias of Constant, Yona Friedman, Domenig/Huth, among others. Virilo and Parent invent with their "Fonction Oblique" a conceptual model for achieving urban continuity: Instead of simply putting a new city on top of the old one, they transfigure the existing ground into a new order, letting the new city emerge out of the old one. In accordance with Virilio's idea of "habitable circulation", all surfaces are multi-programmed. Their venture found little or no following in french architecture, however, it did provide a decisive impulse for the international debate, the constructed results of which were, paradoxically, first seen in France. In 1967 Oscar Niemeyer was commissioned by the French Communist Party to build the new headquarters for their central committee. His project seemed to further develop the ideas of Parent and Virilio, who were to end their partnership one year later… In a spatial mise-en-scène charged with suspense like a Hitchcock movie, Niemeyer gives the ground a form, and extension and a location.
Centre Culturek Charleville, Paul Virilio + Claude Parent.
The function of the oblique. The Architecture of Claude Parent and Paul Virilio 1963-1969 (AA Documents #3, 1996).
…Niemeyer produced pioneering work, still undervalued today, for the architectural trends of the 1980s and 90s, in which the ground finally became a central theme of architecture."
Oscar Niemeyer, sketches for the French Communist Party Headquarters// july 4, 2013 // 3muros... Lo cotidiano es extraordinario // the everyday is extraordinary...3muros.
// june 21, 2013 // process
// june 15, 2013 // 3muros
// june 11, 2013 // Construction site visits with the smell of ocean.
3muros, construction process.
// june 06, 2013 // We find more shared emotion and authenticity in the renewed use of traditional materials than in the spectacular production of built icons for global audiences.
3muros, construction process
// june 03, 2013 // "The antithesis of the desert is the landscape, the land molded by man".
3muros, Construction progress.
// may 29, 2013 // Mariano Arias-Diez lecture as part of the ENADII Baja California Sur 2013 event. Sharing visions & knowledge with young architecture students of Baja Sur.
(photo by Ivan Hernandez / ludens)
(photo by Emmanuel Castro)
// may 21, 2013 // 3muros, construction process. Rammed earth walls being built.
// may 18, 2013 // **Weekend Reading excerpt:
"...A diagram today is architecture. It is not a scheme, a simplification, nor a preparatory drawing to be translated into a language or specific discipline. It is directly space, form, and the material of construction. The diagram is a direct voice, synthetic word, without language, metaphor or structures of profound thoughts. It is the marrow of form and content, a node of information. The diagram always works, at least partially through time. It defines from through procedures or actions. Not imaginary, the diagram is specific and concrete; like an algorithmic graph, it is complex and complicated. The diagram is a mechanism of the intellect as much as the final image of architecture. It tends towards abstraction, for direct performance between thought and making, causing the time of conception to coincide with the moment of construction."
-Federico Soriano.
FISURAS #12 Diagramas
//
**Lectura de fin de semana, extracto:
"...Un diagrama hoy es arquitectura. No es un esquema, una simplificación, un dibujo preparatorio que necesita ser traducido a un lenguaje o a una disciplina especifica. Directamente es el espacio, la forma, el material que lo construye. Son voces directas, palabras sintéticas, sin lenguaje, ni metáforas, ni estructuras de pensamiento profundas. Son tuétanos de forma o de contenido. Son nudos de información. Uno de sus constituyentes siempre es el tiempo. Definen la forma mediante procedimientos o acciones. No son irreales sino precisos y concretos. Son algoritmos gráficos. Son sintetizaciones y no reducciones. Son complejos y complicados. Son mecanismos de intelecto como imagen final de la arquitectura. El diagrama aboga por la ejecución directa entre pensamiento y ejecución. Hace coincidir el tiempo de la concepción con el momento de construcción."
-Federico Soriano.
FISURAS #12 Diagramas
// may 17, 2013 // 3muros, construction process.
// may 13, 2013 // Today we start brainstorming on our new project, Casa A. This is going to be a really exciting project!
// may 10, 2013 // Local rocks foundations being built in 3muros.
// may 6, 2013 // Construction started for our 3muros project! (images and feature in the projects section coming soon!)
// may 2, 2013 // Casa Volcanes design process.
// april 23, 2013 // "In architecture, there are no details in execution” said Paul Valery, trying to explain that being detailed negates potential to a true architecture. Just as Le Corbusier prayed for "Emphatic forms, graceful details" to illustrate the ambivalence between the generality of volumes and the particular of the interiors...
// april 18, 2013 // "We experiment, build, think and rebuild" and lately we've been playing with dirt! Here are some images of explorations with sandbags & super adobe construction systems. (you can also see the use of reclaimed water hoses to fabricate shade and screens)
// february 5, 2013 // .....Wooha!! it took us almost a year to post back in our news sections, a lot of transformations and improvements are happening in our office.
We are pretty sure you would notice them, and like them as much as we do.
2012
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// june 1st, 2012 // .....And welcome to our new website (finally!!)
2011
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// september, 2011 // We updated our profile at Archinect, more projects will updated soon, meanwhile check our profile there and become part of the Archinect community.
// august, 2011 // We are currently working on an update to our website, stay tuned for a revamped webpage design in 2012.
// march 17, 2011 // On March 17, Mariano Arias-Diez lectured at the Covention Centre of Puebla as part of the ENADII 2011 "irreverente" tour Puebla, México.
// february 1st, 2011 // Mariano Arias-Diez is invited by Guillermo Rivero (a.k.a. @redmarker) to noiselab.tv for an interview + music selection session.
// january 16th, 2011 // In collaboration with entorno, we been awarded as winners of the competition to design the Landscape Architecture of the new "Centro Cultural Roberto Cantoral" a building designed by Broissin Architects, in Mexico City.
20a10
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// december 16th, 2010 // a10studio exhibit their work at Manada Gallery in Mexico City with a show named "20a10 process". See more images here
// november 15, 2010 // a10studio's Agriculture Museum as also Re*evolution lounge are published at TEORIA + PRAXIS "Irreverente" book.
// november 5th, 2010 // Mariano Arias-Diez it's invited to moderate a round table in the 10th anniversary of ENADII in Mexico City (some of the participants in the round table are: Ivan Hernández, Pablo Kobayashi, Santiago Gitanjalli, Elizabeth Gomez, Gabriel Salazar, and Nadia Borras)
// october, 2010 // a10studio is invited to be part of the Urban Social Design network, and international online based network of professionals researching the posibilities of a new framework of refference based on remote collaboration network environments, the open code culture, use of new communication technologies and social innovation.
We will post more details soon!.
// september, 2010 // a10studio's MAC published at FRAME Magazine issue no.76
// august, 2010 // Mariano Arias-Diez it's invited to participate as tutor at the 11th DOCOMOMO workshop at Studio Luis Barragán.
// august, 2010 // a10studio's MAC published in MARK Magazine issue no.27
// july, 2010 // Mariano Arias-Diez is appointed as head of Urban Design Studio at The School of Architecture, Universidad Anahuac Norte, Mexico.
// june, 2010 // Mariano Arias-Diez was invited to be part of the ENADII event at the city of La Paz (Baja California, Mexico), sharing lectures with other young offices from the area as FABRIK-G and COLECTIVO MX.
// may 29, 2010 // "...un proyecto muy interesante en el cual se ha trabajado de una manera exquisita el contacto de los edificios con el terreno dotandoles de una belleza de gran calidad arquitectonica.
El proyecto busca construir una completa redescripción del lugar; proponiendo, ante todo, la invención de una topografía. Así con este doble movimiento, desde la naturaleza al proyecto y del proyecto a la naturaleza, se rescata una condición “ecomonumental”.
Actuar sobre lo próximo, lo inmediato, lo táctil, y entender al mismo tiempo muchos otros receptáculos y dimensiones que se modifican con las acciones del usuario, es en conclusión un programa de trabajo flexible para los próximos años..."
El proyecto del museo de Agricultura en el portal de Arquitectura FLAV
// may 21, 2010 // The Agriculture Museum of Culiacan published in +MOOD. See it clicking here
// may 19, 2010 // Our project (done in collaboration with Carlos Marin/lab07) of the Agriculture Museum of Culiacan gets published at Design Boom's website today. check it out here
// may 19, 2010 // Mariano Arias-Diez will be part of the final jury at the Architectural Studio III leaded by Fernando Velasco (AS/D Architecture) at the School of Architecture, Anahuac University in Mexico City
// may 12, 2010 // On May 13th, Mariano Arias-Diez will lecture at the Universidad de Guanajuato as part of the ENADII 2010 "irreverente" tour Guanajuato, México.
// march 18, 2010 // a10studio gets published in Arquine Magazine (one of the most relevant publications of architecture and design in Latin America) in an article about the re*evolution lounge in Cabo San Lucas.
// march 15, 2010 // On March 19th, Mariano Arias-Diez will give a day-long workshop as part of the first stop of the ENADII 2010 "irreverente" tour in Valle de Bravo, México
watch the promo videos clicking here.
// march 1st, 2010 // a10studio its invited to a competition for the development of 20 to 30 high-end residences in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
// february, 2010 // We have new offices in Mexico City!!!, located at Lomas de Chapultepec, neighborhood in Mexico City
For all the locations of our offices you can go to our contact page
// february 12th, 2010 // Re*evolution lounge is published in the february 2010 issue of OBRAS Magazine (Mexico City).
// february 2nd, 2010 // a10studio is the only mexican Architecture/Design/Interior firm to be nominated in this year’s Restaurant & Bar Design Awards, with the project re*evolution.You can read more in our blog.
// january 12th, 2010 // Mariano Arias-Diez is invited to join the Digital Department of the School of Architecture at Anahuac University, where he will be teaching a semester-long studio with remarks in digital fabrication and digital tools for project visualization.
// january 1st, 2010 // We are very happy to welcome Arq. Luis Alarcón as new partner architect in a10studio, we are excited of the dynamic of work we will generate with this long time friend and very skilled professional.
// january 1st, 20a10 //
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// december 24, 2009 // We at a10studio would like to wish you:
FELICES FIESTAS Y FELIZ AÑO NUEVO 2010!
BONES FESTES I ELS MILLORS DESITJOS PER L'ANY NOU 2010!
VESEL BOZIC IN SRECNO NOVO LETO 2010!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!
// december 9, 2009 // images of midterm presentations of projects at Anahuac University in Mexico City where Mariano Arias-Diez was invited juror.
// december, 2009 // a10studio's re*evolution lounge project gets featured in more online publications, like: DeZona, Arkinet, Newsodrome, and Plataforma Arquitectura.
// december 4, 2009 // Mariano Arias-Diez will attend as invited juror to midterm presentations of projects at Anahuac University in Mexico City (dec. 5, dec. 9. dec. 11).
// november 30, 2009 // we recently got published in a couple of architecture and design websites like +mood and ArchiTOUR, remember we have material for media and press available for download clicking here.
// november 11th, 2009 // we started a new BLOG where we rant and write about the ideas we have on our heads at specific moments, some theoretical text and reflections we make, feel free to take a look around at: a10studio | blog.
// october, 2009 // we just received a beautifull copy of the LARD series book by Commonwealth, thanks Zoe and David !!!!
// september, 2009 // we finished on time for the opening of Re*evolution bar, was a stressing final week but we did it, client and customers are very satisfied with the final product, is nice to see how people react to the materialized ideas you knew they didnt fully understood on paper. (double satisfaction!)
check images of the bar clicking here: re*evolution
// august 7, 2009 // the project for a lounge bar [re*evolution] is getting close to completion... sneak preview:
// june 22, 2009 // construction images, still a lot of junk to take out and some digging started...
// june 2009 // on 17th we broke ground in our new project for a restaurant bar in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, images coming soon!
// may 2009 // the new website is up, still we are polishing details of it, but pretty much you can get an idea of what is going on in the office, hope you all like it!.
// april 2009 // we are working on couple of projects, including a self sustainable residence in Pedregal de Cabo San Lucas, and some eco-friendly interiors for a medical practice in San Jose del Cabo among others.
// march 2009 // we started to plan our web presence.
// january 2009 // a10 joined early in 2009 the think-tank CAPAlab which will address new strategies and sustainable projects for the region of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico.
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// december 2008 // Mariano Arias-Diez was invited to contribute to AMBIENTES magazine in their last number of Winter of 2008 with an article about our friends of ELASTIK and a review of the best of the year 2008 in the fields of architecture and design.
// november 2008 // a10 studio has been working lately on couple of projects in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico., and Guadalajara, Mexico, which range for single residential housing to large urban regenerations and new hybrid public space.
// fall 2008 // Mariano Arias-Diez publishes the article: "think you living green?: THINK AGAIN!" in HOME magazine. Los Cabos, Mexico.
// fall 2008 // publication of the work by a10studio in HOME magazine: "Meet the neighbor".
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// november 28, 2007 // Mariano Arias-Diez is invited to give the lecture: "LOOPS : FEEDBACK | DESIGN : FABRICATION" at the School of Architecture of Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Michoacán, Mexico
// september 21, 2007 // Mariano Arias-Diez and fellow LaN founders Monika Wittig and Shane Salisbury give the lecture: "PLASTI+CITY: Applying Digital Tectonics" at the Montana State University, School of Architecture, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
// september 2007 // Mariano Arias-Diez co-directs a Digital Fabrication Workshop at the Montana State University, School of Architecture (co-director with Monika Wittig and Shane Salisbury of LaN), Bozeman, Montana, USA.
slideshow of the workshop's images
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// october 2006 // Mariano is an Invited tutor for the Digital Tectonics workshop leaded by Marta Male-Alemany at the Institut d'arquitectura avançada de Catalunya (IaaC), Barcelona, Spain. Check the slideshow below!
// march 2006 // Our collaboration with LOAD for an urban regeneration project in the Italian city of Pontedera [70 m2] gets published in the catalogue: LEVEL 4 ricerca: indefinibilita della citta globale, Ed. Tegete, Italy.
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// november 24, 2005 // The project: From BTC city to BTC citizen gets exhibited at the Galeria P74 as part of the [cc] Center-City exhibition (nov 24 to dec 8), Ljubljana, Slovenia
www.zavod-parasite.si
// november 10, 2005 // Mariano Arias-Diez invited to lecture at the Institut d'arquitectura avançada de Catalunya (IaaC), presenting its project From BTC city to BTC citizen
(developed in collaboration with Spela Stern and Roman Cordero). Barcelona, Spain.
// october 2005 // Publication at Pasajes #70 (magazine). project: "New Tourist Organizations: Nuevo Parque [industrial] CAMPSA", Spain.
// september 3-15, 2005 // a10studio is part of the exhibition: HyperEurope: Emergent Territories [slovenia + croatia] organized at the Luza Castle in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
www.arhitektura.info / www.dubrovnik.hr
// may 26 - june 26, 2005 // Mariano Arias-Diez is part of the project team for MareVostrum (towards an intelligent coast) curated by Manuel Gausa + LOAD. exhibited in: "FLOOD" the 2nd International Architecture Biennale of Rotterdam. NAi, Rotterdam, Netherlands. www.biennalerotterdam.nl
// may 31, 2005 // a10's project: RYANEUROPE (mapping europe), developed with Roman Cordero, is exhibited as part of the U.E. ESPON Program 'Youngstars Seminar', Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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// january 2004 // Our collaboration with Lebbeus Woods (unfolded blue extension off CHASE HQ building) gets published in the book: GR[O]UND: workshop 2002, by Lebbeus Woods and Guy Lafranchi. Ed. Springer-Verlag, New York, USA.
// january - may, 2004 // Mariano Arias-Diez is an invited critic for the Salvador Nuñez Studio (architectural design 1st year) at the Universidad Anahuac del Norte, Huixquilucan, Mexico.
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// january - december 2003 // Invited Faculty at the Universidad Nuevo Mundo School of Architecture (Computer Assisted Design + digital project representations) Huixquilucan, Mexico
// april, 2003 // Mariano Arias-Diez publishes the article "hyper-environments" for the 2nd Virtual Architecture virtual meeting (EVAV 2003), Caracas, Venezuela.
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// may 2002 // Organic Kindregarden and Toreo4: urban regeneration, two early projects of a10studio get exhibited as part of the "Diseñar and build the New World" show at the Mundo E shopping center in Mexico.
