Series: 2G

2G 93: Studio Other Spaces - Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann is the first monograph on the SOS studio founded by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann. It presents some of their joint works as well as architectural works by Studio Olafur Eliasson. Studio Other Spaces (SOS) connects architecture and art through interdisciplinary and experimental building projects and artworks for public...

Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter is based in Copenhagen. Their projects include pavilions, the rehabilitation of historic buildings, office and warehouse buildings, and museum installations. The works featured in this 2G 90: Johansen Skovsted issue present their work as an intelligent response to current challenges, able to connect with contemporaneity as well as with the respective genius loci.

2G 92: NP2F presents the work of NP2F, an architectural studio established in 2009 by François Chas, Nicolas Guérin, Fabrice Long, and Paul Maitre Devallon. Today, the studio is composed of approximately twenty people based across Nice and Paris, with operations extending to various cities in France and internationally. The focus of NP2F encompasses both architectural and urban projects, with...

The first monograph on b+ reflects their wide-ranging practice, including building projects in Berlin, Minneapolis, fashion shows and furniture pieces. b+ is a collaborative project led by Arno Brandlhuber, Olaf Grawert, Jonas Janke, and Roberta Jurcic that understands architecture as an open process, and views buildings as part of larger systems that require a systemic approach and can have a...

Ensamble Studio is a cross-functional team founded in 2000 and led by architects Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa, both architects by the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), with studios in Madrid and Boston. Balancing imagination and reality, art and science, their work innovates typologies, technologies and methodologies. Currently, through their startup WoHo, they are invested in increasing the quality of...

Alejandro de la Sota probably arouses more impassioned responses in Spain than any other modern Spanish architect. His work is the subject of pilgrimages by architects and students looking for a unique way of working, an encounter with an almost magical revelation. Although he is a very well-known modern master in Spain, he is quite unknown abroad. This 2G issue...

2G 89: BAST features an architecture practice that has adopted a proactive attitude towards research, seeking to experiment with the diverse potential of each project. During every step of the design phase, they offer multiple different solutions. As a result, they do not adhere to a strict formal method; instead, their projects evolve through an ongoing process. BAST's architecture practice...

The house has gone from being an individual affair to becoming the built element with the greatest impact on the planet. In this study, Fernanda Canales analyses the evolution of this space over the last two centuries through projects, exhibitions and books that have transformed the ways of inhabiting towards a collective understanding of housing. My House, Your City offers...

Arquitectura-G is a young architectural studio based in Barcelona, run by Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Aitor Fuentes, and Igor Urdampilleta. The studio began its professional career amidst the economic crisis, a time when public architecture competitions in Spain were paralyzed and private housing construction was at a standstill. Their initial projects were apartment renovations in Barcelona, the few opportunities the...

Founded in 2005, adamo-faiden reformulated their role as architects in the new Argentinian social context upon their return to Argentina after the crisis. Among their first projects were residential and office buildings. Others were added to this tried-and-true typology that have consolidated adamo-faiden as one of the reference studios in the Southern Cone. This issue includes their recent work, from...

This latest issue of 2G is dedicated to the work of Carla Juaçaba, who founded her eponymous architectural practice in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2000. Her firm engages in both public and private projects, focusing on housing and cultural programmes; she designed Brazil's first cancer hospice and an outdoor chapel for the Vatican's pavilion at the Venice Biennale. This...

Chilean architect Smiljan Radic's career is one of the most unique in the contemporary architecture scene. Although he works mainly in Chile, his work has crossed borders after building the Serpentine Gallery pavilion (London, 2014). This 2G issue features a selection of the houses built by Radic in almost thirty years of his career, from the extension of the Charcoal...