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Inspirations of the Corpora

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Corpora Blog editor Peter Fuchs was giving a round question for the core members of the doublenegatives architecture group on the possible inspirations of Corpora, and also asked if they can highlight some literally source for further reading.

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Corpora in Si(gh)te book I available for download

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Corpora in Si(gh)te book I is a documentation and concept book for the previous exhibition of the project Corpora in Si(gh)te, held between October 2007 and January 2008 at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM). The book includes explanation drawings, comments and concept texts by the members of doubleNegatives Architecture (the authors of the project) and texts by curators.

The book is available to download from our site under in PDF under  CC-nc-by-sa license, and the texts of the  second volume, Corpora in Si(gh)te book II is being published  under the Venice Catalogue entry, on a weekly basis.

Central Catalogue Corpora Text

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Corpora in Si(gh)te

What can architecture learn from the cities hollowed out from the Cappadocia cliffs, from a wasp’s nest, or even from the structure of an anthill? The architectural project Corpora in Si(gh)te exhibited in the Hungarian Pavilion of the 11th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia explores the possibilities of design based on unique notation systems and local time based informations.

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Mucsarnok flyer/ Summer Issue – Corpora text

Sunday, April 27th, 2008


“What can architecture learn from the cities hollowed out from the
Cappadocia cliffs, from a wasp’s nest, or even from the structure of
an anthill? The project Corpora in Si(gh)te of the team
doubleNegatives Architecture, born of a Japanese-Swiss-Hungarian
collaboration, follows the model of structures originated without the
guidance of a designer-engineer, organized from the bottom up,
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The Palace and the Bridge

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

A small text as an example of easy theoretical background materials, this time on the Place of Emperor Diocletian and William Gibson’s mind.

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Meeting at the Pixel Gallery, Budapest

Friday, April 18th, 2008

16.04.2008. I had an excellent meeting with Stephen Kovats, the artistic director of Transmediale.

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General Outline Of the 11th Architecture Exhibition

Monday, April 7th, 2008

The 11th International Architecture Exhibition, directed by Aaron Betsky and entitled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building and organised by La Biennale di Venezia presided over by Paolo Baratta, will take place in Venice from Sunday, September 14th to Sunday, November 23rd 2008. The preview will be on September 11th – 12th – 13th.

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The Motivation for the Decision of the Jury

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Here is the motivations of the Jury of the projects of the Hungarian Pavilion of the 11th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. There were 9 applicants, the winner is the Corpora in Si(gh)te project.

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