Monday 3 September 2018

The Failed Utopia of the Crystal Chain



Exclusively for Saturated Space, a new text by Darran Anderson

"The Failed Utopia of the Crystal Chain" by Darran Anderson, examines the importance of light and colour for visionary German architects between the wars, and how unbuildable designs altered the future.  



Monday 23 July 2018

Color Imago: Paradigms of Colour


Exclusively for Saturated Space, a new text by Giacomo Pala


Pala explores different attitudes towards colour in architecture through the prism of three Austrian architects for whom colour and its utilization was extremely important, Adolf Loos, Josef Frank, and Hans Hollein


Wednesday 7 March 2018

The Orange and the Green




Exclusively for Saturated Space, a new text by Jon Astbury

"Paint is ubiquitous, one of the most prevalent mediators between vision and the built environment. And yet as a complex material in its own right, any discussion of paint is often subjugated to the realms of superficiality and superfluity: it isn’t party to discussions of architecture making, it is simply a form of clothing that architecture wears.

Here, using the example of MVRDV’s repainted Studio Thonik project in Amsterdam, the theoretical considerations that the use of paint and the act of painting can encourage will be considered, in an attempt to open up some areas in which its usage can be reclaimed as just as worthy of consideration as space or form."