Architecture continues to draw cities as though humans occupy them alone. Plans trace circulation routes, zoning maps assign functions, and buildings are evaluated according to human comfort, safety, and efficiency. Walking through cities across India and Southwest Asia reveals something much more complex. Dogs sleep beneath market stalls, monkeys move across rooftops, birds nest in […]
Eight years after its founding, amass undertook a renovation of its own workspace. The project was not driven by a need for expansion, but by a reconsideration of how the studio works: when a space must continuously adapt to new projects, materials, and modes of collaboration, are the fixed and irreversible elements of conventional fit-outs […]
"Los muros están ahí para otorgar privacidad, para ocultar a quien habita, para permitir desarrollar dentro de la casa la vida profundamente libre, al margen de toda moral o tradición, al margen de toda vigilancia social o policial –al margen, en definitiva, de esa insoportable visibilidad que la moral calvinista imponía a sus compañeros modernos […]