Doodling

"Doodling" © Fabio Barilari

Intangible Reality

"XVII_model 1l" © Fabio Barilari

Should you like to see my lecture "Intangible Reality", here it is. Its main focus is on "Drawing" as a powerful act of self expression in (and out of) the architectural design process. 

Many thanks again to Prof. Bea Martin from Birmingham School of Architecture, for her kind invitation. Further amazing lectures will be hosted every Wednesday at 6pm (UK Time) on her ARCHIZOOM lectures series. 

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Ecco il video della mia lecture "Intangible Reality". E' focalizzata sull'atto del Disegno come potente mezzo di espressione interno ed esterno al processo progettuale architettonico.

Mille grazie alla Prof. Beatriz Gomes-Martin di Birmingham School of Architecture per il suo gentile invito. Altre ottime lectures verranno presentate ogni Mercoledì alle 17:00 (ora in Italia), all'interno della serie ARCHIZOOM lectures 

About Prof. Bea Martin:

Bea is a fully qualified British architect and urbanist with a set of skills and experience that fall in the practicing of architecture and urban design, as well as in the teaching of its theories, training, and enthusiasm for the built environment.

Bea is the founder of Archilibs, an experimental design lab exploring the visual construct in architecture. In her role as a visual theorist, the focus is on a conceptual investigation, digital and analog, of the apparatus of drawing, the challenging boundary of drawing as a work of art, in a research that is both architectural and artistic but never an end in itself. Archilibs questions and reiterates the mission of drawing through continuous research, intense interrogation, and devotion to craft. Exploring the graphic theoria, praxis, and poiesis of architectural verbalisation as a process for drawing. Her work is not limited by the normal conventions of architectural delineation, rather a representation of different types of explorations, material, connections, and notions; A body of drawings that transverses a wider visualisation and verbalisation of the inherent reasons underlying architecture and the built environment.

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Intangible Reality _ Lecture

 

Wednesday November 4th at 6pm (UK time) (7 pm - Italy time) I will present my lecture "Intangible Reality", whitin the ARCHIZOOM Lectures series.

You can join the ArchiZoom Meeting following this link to participate:

https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZEtduyorjgvG9ElTt0M9NWolS...

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Mercoledì 4 Novembre all 19 (ora in Italia), presenterò la lecture "Intangible Reality", all'interno della serie delle ARCHIZOOM Lectures.

Per chi fosse interessato, potete partecipare iscrivendovi al seguente link: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZwrde6hrT0iGdd2NyqdjtH68V96o...

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Thank you very much to Prof. Bea Martin from Birmingham School of Architecture, for her kind invitation.

Roma Sognata

Da / from AR-Magazine #121 

Fabio Barilari Architetti - Viale della XVII Olimpiade al Villaggio Olimpico a Roma

ROMA E LE NUOVE TENDENZE, DA SUPERSTUDIO A NEST VANDENKEN

Approccio visionario, dinamica artistica, immaginazione progettuale

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ROME AND NEW TRENDS, FROM SUPERSTUDIO TO NEST VANDENKEN

Visionary approach, artistic dynamics, design imagination

"C’è una linea immaginaria che in Italia unisce la fine degli anni ’60 al contemporaneo. (...) Non Milano, non Venezia, non Firenze, ma Roma con il suo carico di storia e contraddizioni, con la sua complessa stratificazione urbana, con le sue rovine, con le sue luci e le sue ombre che diventano l’essenza di una rinascita immaginata.

Le dimensioni percettive sono varie: l’astrazione, la surrealtà o la perdita di senso per recuperare nuovi significati, l’indagine interiore o il fare critico dell’approccio ludico, oppure la sperimentazione radicale In sostanza stiamo parlando di attitudini progettuali che costruiscono diversi modi di affrontare l’architettura, spingendo la ricerca oltre i confini del reale e del possibile, per trovare nuovi ipotetici scenari teorici di riferimento.

Da un lato c’è chi ricorre al collage per creare nuove formule-significanti; dall’altro c’è chi predilige il disegno, utilizzato in chiave storica e con gli occhi che guardano al passato; infine c’è chi elabora una dinamica progettuale radicalmente aperta al futuro. 

(...) Le nuove tendenze italiane del contemporaneo vedono però anche altri modus operandi vicini alla progettazione operativa del presente, proiettati non più verso un immaginifico passato ideale ma verso un futuro critico, con originali modalità ancorate saldamente allo studio sulla dinamica della forma, legate indissolubilmente ad altri filoni teorici radicali, internazionali, con matrici di riferimento sostanzialmente zeviane: Fabio Barilari raccoglie l’eredità operativa prefigurata da Zevi che fonda le sue origini sullo spazio e sulla dinamica quali elementi in grado di modificare l’esistente. In Barilari l’opera d’arte, con tutta la sua espressione linguistica, torna ad essere progettuale: l’indagine che porta avanti con il suo lavoro disegna non più una super-astrazione-pop, come avveniva in Superstudio, o una poetica artistica autografa che guarda all’indietro, ma ricomincia a ragionare proprio sullo spazio e sul progetto d’architettura, analizzando le dinamiche che scaturiscono dalla comprensione delle leggi naturali che governano il mondo. Fabio Barilari imposta una meccanica teorica proiettata verso il domani, approfondendo la capacità che ha il disegno – e che hanno tutte le tecniche di rappresentazione a disposizione – di prefigurare nuovi scenari operativi. Per questo i suoi lavori per la XVII Olimpiade di Roma evidenziano la capacità stessa che ha la forma di liberarsi dalle gabbie del passato, tracciando nuove traiettorie nello spazio.

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There is an imaginary line in Italy that joins the late ’60s to the contemporary time. (...) Not Milan, not Venice, not Florence, but Rome with its burden of history and contradictions, with its complex urban stratification, with its ruins, with its lights and shadows that become the essence of an imagined rebirth. 

The perceptive dimensions are manifold: abstraction, surreality or the loss of meaning to recover new meanings, inner analysis or the criticism of the play ful approach, or radical experimentation. In essence, we are talking about design attitudes that embody different ways of approaching architecture, pushing research beyond the boundaries of reality and of what is possible, to find new hypothetical theoretical scenarios of reference.

There are many ways: on the one hand, some people use collage to create new meaningful formulas; on the other hand, there are those who prefer drawing, used in a historical perspective, looking at the past; finally, there are those who develop a design dynamic that is radically open-minded towards the future.

(...) The new contemporary Italian trends, however, show other modus operandi close to the operational design of the present, no longer projected towards an imaginary ideal past but towards a critical future, with original methods firmly anchored to the study of the dynamics of the shape, indissolubly linked to other radical, international theoretical strands, largely based on Zevi’s references: Fabio Barilari takes up the operational legacy prefigured by Zevi, based on space and dynamics as elements capable of modifying the existing. In Barilari, the work of art, with all its linguistic expression, is once again a project: his study longer draws a super-abstration-pop, as happened in Superstudio, or an autograph artistic poetics that looks backwards, but begins to think about space and architectural design, analyzing the dynamics that arise from understanding the natural laws that rule the world. Fabio Barilari sets up a theoretical mechanics projected towards the future, deepening the ability of drawing ‒ and of all representation techniques available ‒ to predict new operational scenarios. For this reason, his works for the 17th Olympics in Rome highlight the very ability of shape to free itself from the cages of the past, plotting new trajectories in space.

Marco Maria Sambo

Architetto, Direttore editoriale AR MAGAZINE, 

Direttore editoriale Architetti Roma edizioni, Consigliere Ordine degli Architetti di Roma e Provincia

Architect, Editorial Director of AR MAGAZINE and Architetti Roma edizioni,

Board member of Chamber of Architects Rome and Province 

ROMA SOGNATA. GLI ARCHIVI DI ARCHITETTURA DAL NOLLI ALLE NUOVE POETICHE RADICALI

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ROME AS A DREAM. ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVES, FROM NOLLI TO THE NEW RADICAL POETICS

La sensazione che si stia rimettendo in moto una macchina incastrata e arrugginita da decenni.

Che non vuol dire "la certezza", ma almeno la possibilità.

La convinzione che solo una lettura radicale dell'esistente, del potenziale, del progettuale, possa fornire la spinta propulsiva necessaria.

Per mettere insieme tutti i pezzi del puzzle.

Per riassaporare il gusto della sfida.

AR-Magazine #121, il secondo numero della nuova rivista dell'Ordine degli Architetti di Roma. 450 pagine... Si chiama "Magazine", ma si respira il risultato di un'impresa titanica. E non parlo solo della produzione editoriale.

Anche per questo va promossa, fatta circolare.

Occorre darle ossigeno.

Un secondo numero da collezionare, come il primo.

Marco Sambo, il suo team, Architetti Roma Edizioni, in questi mesi hanno dato vita ad una delle pubblicazioni più interessanti ed innovative in circolazione, in questo settore.

Per tutti questi motivi, sono sinceramente onorato e grato di essere stato selezionato tra i lavori presentati.

Fabio Barilari Architetti - Viale della XVII Olimpiade al Villaggio Olimpico a Roma

Un ringraziamento particolare a Marco Maria Sambo, ed alla "complessità necessaria", che applica alla lettura di ciò che sta accadendo.

Avanti così.

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A special thanks to Marco Maria Sambo, and to the "necessary complexity", which he applies in reading what's going on.

Way to go.

Fabio Barilari Architetti - Viale della XVII Olimpiade al Villaggio Olimpico a Roma

Fabio Barilari Architetti - Viale della XVII Olimpiade al Villaggio Olimpico a Roma

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"One Step Beyond" | Project for the requalification of Viale della XVII Olimpiade _ Olympic Village, Rome 

Fabio Barilari Architetti - Viale della XVII Olimpiade al Villaggio Olimpico a Roma

The Architectural Review - Folio

Very honored to be just published on The Architectural Review - Folio: a selection of works from all over the world, dedicated to Drawing Architecture research. 

This work is part of the "Out There" Series and, more widely,  of a speculative personal research dedicated to find new meanings and paths about the act of drawing in the current Post-Digital Revolution era.
Looking for a dialogue between unconscious hand drawing and hyper-rational software calculation.
The publication follows previous ones from the past years: Many thanks to The Architectural Review for their interest in my work. 

www.dwg67.com

The Architectural Review _ DWG201017_b “Out There” Series

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"Mapping Paths" series

DWG130718 - "Mapping Paths" series

DWG140718 - "Mapping Paths" series

DWG170718 - "Mapping Paths" series

DWG201017_d - "Out There" Series

DWG201017_d - "Out There" Series _ © F Barilari

Architettonica - Out There #4

DWG20102017 - "Architettonica - Out There" Series - 90x110cm © Fabio Barilari

Architettonica - Out There #3

DWG20102017 - "Architettonica - Out There" Series - 90x110cm © Fabio Barilari

DWG20102017 - Detail

DWG151014

"Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic."

Keith Haring

Drawing about Architecture

Really honored and proud to share the "Brave Drawn World" page on Archilibs with such Masters...
Many thanks to the publisher.

Architettonica - Out There #2

DWG1510217 - "Architettonica - Out there" Series - 90x110cm © Fabio Barilari

Architettonica - Out There

DWG250917 - "Architettonica - Out there" Series - 90x110cm © Fabio Barilari

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Design: Fabio Barilari Architetti

ARCHILOVERS (Italy)
DIVISARE (Italy)
ARCHELLO (USA)
云芽创意 (China)
HOUZZ (Germany)

All the images are © Fabio Barilari

Wien Museum Neu - Experiencing Der Kuss

WMN competition - Progetto: Fabio Barilari Architetti

Augmented Topography

Un'architettura per Vienna, un'architettura che sia elegante come Vienna;

Che accolga al suo interno tutte le geometrie del contesto.

E una passeggiata che si sviluppa dentro e sul Museum Neu: Un nuovo percorso, pubblico, sul Nuovo Museo della città.

Un prospetto urbano, per la città e un prospetto, differente, per il parco e contro il cielo grigio di Vienna

Il Giardino, l'Oro, il Bacio di Klimt,

solo per Vienna.

Augmented Topography

An architecture for Wien, an architecture elegant as Wien;

which welcomes in its interiors all the context geometries.

And walks that develop inside and on the Museum Neu: A new public path, on the New Museum for Wien.

An urban elevation, for the city and a different elevation for the park, in front of the gray Wien sky.

The Garden, the Gold, The Kiss by Klimt,

only for Wien

STUDI

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Tamman Azzam Kiss - Syria

50 Consejos

Su ARCHDAILY 28.11.2014 - 50 Consigli per gli studenti di architettura. 

#9: Disegna

#10: Sul serio, esci e vai a disegnare.

Imagen base © Fabio Barilari. Image

Drawing Architecture

Architectural Review

The Architectural Review has just selected and published these two works I made in the last years.
A new debate is growing about meanings and targets of drawing in architecture in the digital era.
The Architectural Review presents an interesting selections of works in its Architectural Review's Folio.

From their website:
"The Architectural Review's Folio Project is a growing archive of the best architectural drawings from around the world. Highlighting unknown students, small practices and selecting work from influencial portfolios, AR Folio promotes the finest architectural drawings old and new"

From the point of view of architectural research, this new interest in drawing, brings with it many topics suspended in the last 20 years of digital revolution, several potential developments, great risks.

On one side, the research, projected towards the need for a dialogue between this primary medium of human's expression and the most advanced research in computing, as well as the contemporary social issues. 

On the other, the risk of an erroneous nostalgic view and misunderstood meaning of the drawing media, which can only lead to an involution of the architectural discipline.

The Architectural Review, "the home of architectural criticism since 1896", published in UK, is one of the oldest, most important and well-known publications about architecture in the world. A real institution.
I'm honored of their appreciation of my work, also because I think that this debate is going to grow in the next years, and it will be important to mantain the distinction between evolution and involution, in drawing architecture.

Architectural Review Folio - F Barilari_Harbor Town

Architectural Review Folio - F Barilari_Architettonica

Drawing Architecture

Penso che il tema del disegno di architettura rappresenti attualmente una delle più interessanti forme di ricerca nel campo architettonico: la questione su quale direzione possa prendere e quale significato possa avere il disegno nell'era digitale, rimanda alla questione che si pose sul significato della ricerca pittorica all'indomani della scoperta della fotografia.

Tralasciando, naturalmente, qualunque nostalgico ritorno/rigurgito di formule superate, se ci si vuol fare un'idea di cosa significhi la ricerca in questa direzione, consiglio di visitare questo sito su Perry Kulper:
Vidi la sua mostra all'Architectural Association, credo nel 2006, e come tutte le forme di ricerca, la comprensione implica un approfondimento.

Ci sono un paio di pubblicazioni particolarmente interessanti su questo tema:
La prima è di Peter Cook (e di chi altri poteva essere...) "Drawing, The Motive Force Of Architecture" AD Primer - 2008

La seconda, recentissima, di Neil Spiller "Drawing Architecture", data settembre 2013.

Infine, anche se non riguarda prettamente l'ambito architettonico, "Vitamin D - New Perspectives in Drawing", bellissimo libro della Phaidon
Due siti raccolgono materiale molto interessante sul disegno di architettura: 
The Draftery and Drawing Architecture
Qui c'è una selezione dei miei lavori su the Draftery: No. 034 - "When the Paths of Every City Are Committed to Memory"

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I think that the drawing of architecture currently represents one of the most interesting fields of the research in architecture: the question of which direction it can take and what meaning can have it, in the digital era, reminds the question about the significance of painting in the aftermath of the discovery of photography.

Leaving aside, of course, any nostalgic return/regurgitation of formulas overcome, if you want to get an idea of what it means to the research in this direction, I suggest to visit this website about Perry Kulper:

I saw his exhibition at the Architectural Association (I think it was in 2006) and, as for all forms of research, understanding involves deepening.

There are a couple of particularly interesting publications on this topic:

The first is by Peter Cook (and who else could it be ... ) "Drawing , The Motive Force Of Architecture " AD Primer – 2008.

The second, recently, by  Neil Spiller "Drawing Architecture", September 2013.

Finally, although not strictly related to the field of architecture, "Vitamin D - New Perspectives in Drawing": beautiful book of Phaidon.

Two web sites present very interesting selections of works, about drawing architecture, and look for new approaches: The Draftery and Drawing Architecture.

Here is a selection of my works in this field, by the Draftery: No. 034 - "When the Paths of Every City Are Committed to Memory"

Architettonica #121113

If “action painting” is produced by the dynamics of dripping, smearing, and sweeping brushstrokes of paint to reveal the complex character of abstract art, then “action drawing” would be something like juxtaposing lines, planes, volumes, typographical elements, photographs, and paper cutouts on a drawing that aims to uncover the intricate universe of architectural ideas.

WAI - Drawing Architecture / A conversation with Perry Kulper

Architettonica #1

Free Style Dwg

“…we think that the drawing in architecture, that is, the unconscious act, which calls logic into question, could be the “blind spot”. The coincidence that is not a coincidence, leads us to a method of design in which the drawing becomes important. Free from physical constrains, without thinking about spatial consequences, the drawing comes into being an instant, and “administrates” the building. And when you see the drawing, created in an explosive moment, you see the superimposition of plan, elevation and section. Everything is in drawing.”  

Wolf Prix, LectureDresden, 1995

Free Style Dwg #7

Free Style Dwg

"I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles. I don't think they mean anything to anybody except to me, and then at the end of the day, the end of the project, they wheel out these little drawings and they're damn close to what the finished building is and it's the drawing..."
Frank O. Gehry

Mind Games - in The Draftery: "When the Paths of Every City Are Committed to Memory"

"An architectural drawing is a prospective unfolding of future possibilities…a recovery of a particular history to whose intentions it testifies and whose limits it always challenges.

In any case a drawing is more a shadow of an object, more than a pile of lines."
Daniel Libeskind

"By 1979, I was making these drawings every morning. As a method of catching intuition and first thoughts it is a technique which sets the imagination free.

In the meditation associated with the initial conception of a building, its first stirring towards form, space and light, the watercolors played a crucial role: they gave intuition a primary position.

(...) Chance operations opened many paths for the composer John Cage, my next door neighbor who lived on 6th Av in NY. Cage used chance protocols to escape the tyranny of the ego. He recommended unintentional acts as key aspects of his method"

Steven Holl - Written in Water

Arcadia University Office - Roma