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Atelier Blumer. Seven Automatic Architectures and other exercises

Atelier Blumer. Seven Automatic Architectures and other exercises
Atelier Blumer. Seven Automatic Architectures and other exercises
Atelier Blumer. Seven Automatic Architectures and other exercises
Atelier Blumer. Seven Automatic Architectures and other exercises
Atelier Blumer. Seven Automatic Architectures and other exercises
Atelier Blumer. Seven Automatic Architectures and other exercises
Atelier Blumer. Seven Automatic Architectures and other exercises
Atelier Blumer. Seven Automatic Architectures and other exercises
Atelier Blumer. Seven Automatic Architectures and other exercises
Atelier Blumer. Seven Automatic Architectures and other exercises
Atelier Blumer. Seven Automatic Architectures and other exercises
Atelier Blumer. Seven Automatic Architectures and other exercises

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The book presents a series of installations, conceived and built by Riccardo Blumer’s students at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture. They are a further stage in a distinctive educational process where the fundamental principles of architecture are learned in particular by reflecting on the role of the human body: emphasising its poietic role (the body that builds objects), its scenic potential (the body as a spatial device in motion) and its function as a unit of measurement of the world. The students then identified two areas of investigation to be combined. On the one hand a simple, archetypical architectural theme (door, wall, path, etc.); and on the other, a reflection that investigates physical phenomena and their relation with the body, using electronics, programming, bricolage, etc. The result is a set of installations, which the observer’s body can interact with, and which gives rise to a meditation on the primary themes of architecture.

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