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Architecture is both theory and practice.
Our work is caught between the drive to make 'good' spaces and things, and the wish to root this ‘making’ in an understanding of the Space-making process in Society.
This approach is at the same time projective (design-oriented) and analytical (reflective).
Only through a dialectic method can we have a strong voice and influence in molding the built environment.
Architectural Design in daily life is formally expressive and yet socially rooted. Our aim is to understand the mechanisms for Urban and Architectural form-making in our society, while experimenting with methods of form generation and expression, and their effects on people. This approach is reflected in our course offerings, both in students‘ earliest steps in
architectural experimentation —the foundation course in the BA Programme— as well as in upper-level, MA Studio investigations and research projects.
The ‘modern’ avant-garde posited a connection between Production, Society, and Form as a way of creating a new aesthetic. Today the market has long implemented form-making mechanisms which roughly suit the needs of producers and consumers, but which are largely independent of architectural influence and often devoid of quality.
The Architectural Profession needs to take again responsibility for the spatial realm.
Any contemporary architectural design method thus needs to begin with an analysis of contemporary form-making as a social phenomenon.
Prof. Juan Pablo Molestina is a practicing architect. His office Molestina Architekten is based in Cologne and Madrid. Further information can be found under
www.molestina.de [www] >>
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Prof. M. Arch. Juan Pablo Molestina
Studentische Hilfskraft
Elena Tzintala
Raum AE 35
Tel. 0211 43 51 108
Fax. 0211 43 51 103
molestina@gmx.net
entwurf_molestina@gmx.de
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Mittwochs und Donnerstags
16:00 bis 18:00 Uhr, o. nach Vereinbarung / by appointment
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