HISTORY
Carring on a 25 year tradition «Arhitext» is more than a magazine, may be regarded as a collection publication carrying theoretical weight in the field of architecture, proposing an inter-disciplinary approach by closely following the evolution of arhitecture and its related fields, ilustrating the most important trends, from a perspective that sets the local evolution of architecture within a regional and global context. Each issue is constructed both on a theoretical and a practical theme by means of an inter-disciplinary analysis of concepts and a direct approach of contemporary projects. Through the magazine and cultural events Arhitext design Foundation has become a platform for the exchange of ideas where the critical and theoretical coherent approaches form the necessary critical thinking and highlight the latest trends and cultural values.
ROMANIAN DESIGN WEEK APPEARANCES
2015 // The Beauty and the Beast / Mediated Architectures
This issue aims to research the binary opposition between ''positive'' and ''negative'' values, firmly rooted in almost all the mythical meta-structures, and its proof towards architecture. The balance between aesthetic and grotesque (beauty and macabre) derives rather from the meeting and as a result of the interaction between these opposing values than by abolishing one of the terms from the equation. Issue no. 4/2014 of «Arhitext» is based on three views of analysis on the modified aspects of old mythical structures, as they are discussed today at a theoretical level and expressed on a creative level by artistic projects and by mediated architectures. The cover illustration is a (first) example of a mediated transmission of information. It looks like a simple set of geometric objects arranged in a 6 x 6 matrix. Overlaying and translating horizontally (over these) a transparent foil with a set of opaque, vertical, parallel, equidistant and of constant thickness lines, the human eye perceives the shape transformation of the geometric objects as in an animation – the process is called «scanimation» and is a particular form of the Moiré pattern.
Carring on a 25 year tradition «Arhitext» is more than a magazine, may be regarded as a collection publication carrying theoretical weight in the field of architecture, proposing an inter-disciplinary approach by closely following the evolution of arhitecture and its related fields, ilustrating the most important trends, from a perspective that sets the local evolution of architecture within a regional and global context. Each issue is constructed both on a theoretical and a practical theme by means of an inter-disciplinary analysis of concepts and a direct approach of contemporary projects. Through the magazine and cultural events Arhitext design Foundation has become a platform for the exchange of ideas where the critical and theoretical coherent approaches form the necessary critical thinking and highlight the latest trends and cultural values.
ROMANIAN DESIGN WEEK APPEARANCES
2015 // The Beauty and the Beast / Mediated Architectures
This issue aims to research the binary opposition between ''positive'' and ''negative'' values, firmly rooted in almost all the mythical meta-structures, and its proof towards architecture. The balance between aesthetic and grotesque (beauty and macabre) derives rather from the meeting and as a result of the interaction between these opposing values than by abolishing one of the terms from the equation. Issue no. 4/2014 of «Arhitext» is based on three views of analysis on the modified aspects of old mythical structures, as they are discussed today at a theoretical level and expressed on a creative level by artistic projects and by mediated architectures. The cover illustration is a (first) example of a mediated transmission of information. It looks like a simple set of geometric objects arranged in a 6 x 6 matrix. Overlaying and translating horizontally (over these) a transparent foil with a set of opaque, vertical, parallel, equidistant and of constant thickness lines, the human eye perceives the shape transformation of the geometric objects as in an animation – the process is called «scanimation» and is a particular form of the Moiré pattern.
