Modern architects thought of the skyscraper as associated with the organization of work, with the office. In fact, the prototypic skyscraper of modernity is the expression of such organization; a optimized arrangement for archiving and connecting workers that archive and connect data.
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At a+t 31. HYBRIDS I, the analysis that a+t does on vertical hybrid buildings is based on the identification and comparison of three concepts on a selection of 12 prototype projects: programme, section and land use.
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Constructing Landscape is a systematically structured reference work about the techniques and theories applied when constructing outdoor spaces. All the relevant topics are vividly covered, from materials and surfaces via building outdoor features to the use of plants. The book shows how landscape designers and architects can implement their creative ideas with expertise and technical skill.
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Article written by Martin Musiatowicz

A large number of current projects–particularly speculative ones– require multiple functions to be housed together. The concentration of various activities into one structure, as Steven Holl has written, places pressures on the architecture and has a capacity to ‘…distend and warp a pure building type’ (1).
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a+t 31. HYBRIDS I is the first issue of the new a+t series related to hybrid buildings. It is a visual analysis of the programs of these complex buildings and its insertion in the territory.

PROYECTS STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS Linked Hybrid. Beijing. China. 2008 ABALOS+SENTKIEWICZ, LEÓN LÓPEZ DE LA OSA Torre Espina. Tur.
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Talks with Aurora Fernández Per and Javier Mozas 15th October, 18.30h Intermediæ [Creación Contemporánea] Matadero Madrid. Pº de la Chopera, 1428045 Madrid.

*The meetings, conversations and presentations are broadcast via streaming: alterpolis.intermediae.es

Following the series Density, In Common and Civilities, we intend to present a new focus on life in common and on buildings that keep up society’s pulse. At this point, we aim to address our investigation on hybrid buildings, as they are structures able to combine different programmes and encourage the interaction of a disparate sequence of urban uses, combining private activities with the public realm. Furthermore, hybridation goes beyond mixing programs: the term refers as well to the combination of public and private interests in housing, public space and civic facilities.
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Within Alter Polis project, a+t (Aurora Fernández Per, Javier Mozas, Javier Arpa) will present the case study of Coin Street.

Coin Street is a little street situated in the South Bank, London.
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In the Students’ Center of the IIT (published in a+t 23. New Materiality I), Rem Koolhaas has hacked off the rosy cheeks of Mies, soiling the candor of Augustinian truth with abject materials. In an interview he states that here he doesn’t use a wide range of materials. In the end, he says, he uses a limited palette, just like Mies.
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In his first project in America, Mies puts his Puritan philosophy to practice (see The moral condition of materials, by Javier Mozas) and, adapting to the urban grid of Chicago, he lays out a campus split into two by the elevated tracks of the Chicago L.
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