Saturated Space

ResearchCluster @the ArchitecturalAssociation exploring &celebrating the use of color in Architecture. Run by @furmadamadam & AntoniMalinowski

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Exclusively for Saturated Space Eddie Blake finds love for giant exclamations of colour on the orbital with big box self-storage. Cheaper than an analyst, less questioning than a rabbi, self-storage units are where people can find and lose themselves...

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Colour is political, its enforced absence is ideologically poisonous and fundamentally repressive... make sure you read @owen_hopkins’ brilliant new text The Values of Colour which the excerpt below is from: https://t.co/oddfbxtv0E

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Colour is political, its enforced absence is ideologically poisonous and fundamentally repressive... make sure you read @owen_hopkins’ brilliant new text The Values of Colour which the excerpt above is from: https://t.co/oddfbxtv0E

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@owen_hopkins considers the role colour has played in the construction of western culture, that to exclude colour is to ignore the contingent, the specific, the temporal in favour of a false universalism that serves 2 shut out what doesn’t conform https://t.co/oddfbxtv0E

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In the context of the Gilets Jaune protests, you should check out this essay over on Saturated Space by Will Wiles @WillWiles on the radical potential of Hi Viz clothing https://t.co/ZRqzRxrfnD

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Exclusively for Saturated Space, "The Failed Utopia of the Crystal Chain" a new text by @Oniropolis examines the importance of light and colour for visionary German architects between the wars, and how unbuildable designs altered the future https://t.co/0eJT4jSmj3

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New Text: "Color Imago: Paradigms of Colour" by Giacomo Pala, which explores different attitudes towards colour in architecture through the work and ideas of Adolf Loos, Josef Frank, and Hans Hollein
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...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."

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... 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...

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"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...

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"The Orange and the Green", a new text exclusively for Saturated Space, @jonastbury writes on the ubiquitous alchemy of paint, using MVRDV's Orange/Green Thonik project as a tool for investigation...

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Supercube, Lester Walker, New York, 1967

Photos by Robert L Beckhard

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Appetiser: Leonard Manasseh’s The lighthouse: #CHA Xmas Outing:

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Exclusively for Saturated Space, a new text by @owenhatherley on the surreal and brilliantly polychromatic subway stations of 1930s-1990s socialist Europe

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Casa Gilardi, Luis Barragán, Mexico, 1976. Photo by César Pesquera

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Oscar Tusquets Blanca's Toledo Metro station, Naples

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Union Trust Building, Wirt C. Rowland of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, Detroit, 1929.

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Facade colour scheme, Otto-Richter-Straße, Magdeburg, Germany, Carl Krayl, 1921/22