Some Kind of Romance, Any Kind of Existence
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Beschreibung
The relevance of place
Aesthetics and sustainability
A reference work on the Portuguese firm’s impressive body of work
This book is a bifurcated journey through fifteen years of the architecture practice OODA, designed as a “dream state” inner dialogue between Some Kind of Romance and Any Kind of Existence: mirrored reflections of past and future projects that reflects the practice’s work and exploring path from Porto to the world. Read together, these two parts are less about buildings than about a way of being in the world, offering an open narrative where architecture is presented as if in a chronicle, a journal. In Albania, it traces a transformative engagement with urban regeneration and identity reconstruction in a context of rapid urban change. In Portugal, it explores continuity through both rehabilitation and new construction, treating time, heritage, and landscape as active materials. Together, these two dimensions reveal a practice shaped by persistence and risk, belonging and transformation, grounded in place yet open to reinvention.
Autor*in
OODA
Themen in »Some Kind of Romance, Any Kind of Existence«
Mixed-Use Skyscraper Design Adaptive Reuse and Heritage Rehabilitation Landscape as Active Material Urban Strategy and Master Planning Concept-Driven Design Firms Social Connectivity in Housing OODA Architecture Architecture Monograph 2010–2025 Portuguese Contemporary Architecture Experimental Architecture Porto OODA Architektur Monografie Zeitgenössische portugiesische Architektur Gemischtgenutzte Quartiersentwicklung Landschaft als Baumaterial