Lotus 171 (2021)

The grace with which a dancer in Pina Bausch's ballet corps crosses a river by leaping from one rock to another is likened to the delicate grace of the piers of a bridge. This issue of Lotus sets out to establish a relationship between the body and architecture and to show, in addition to centers of the performing arts, the figures made by bodies in scenes of dance, to the point of proposing them as "objective correltives" of architecture. Out of this come other architectural explorations that conclude in a eulogy of buildings and educational institutions as places where happy social and human relations are still possible.

Giovanni Chiaramonte 

Ponte San Giorgio, Genova 

 

Pierluigi Nicolin, Renzo Piano

Conversazione / Conversation

 

Wim Wenders, Dear Pina

Kazuo Sejima + Ryue Nishzawa / SANAA

Zollverein School of Management and design, Essen, Germany, 2006 

 

Steven Holl Architects 

The Reach, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C., 2012-2019

Steven Holl Architects / Jessica lang Dance 

Tesseracts of Time - A Dance for Architecture, 2015

 

Sou Fujimoto, Serpentine GAllery Pavilion, London, 2013 

 

Ananya Jahanara Kabir 

Come Jerusalema è diventata globale / How Jerusalema Went Global 

 

Dimitris Papaioannou, 2, Nowhere, Since She 

Virgilio Sieni, Atlante del gesto, Ultima cena 

 

Pierluigi Nicolin

Ladies on the Bench: note sul distanziamento / Ladies on the Bench: Notes on Distancing 

 

Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson, Jamie xx

Tree of Codes, Opera House, Manchester, 2015

 

Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Ai Weiwei

Hansel  & Gretel. Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2017

 

Diller Scofidio + Renfro, David Lang

The Mile-Long Opera, High line, New York, 2018

 

Dille Scofidio + Renfro

Us Olympic and Paralympic Museum

Southwest Downtown Colorado Springs, 2014-20

 

Elisabeth Diller, RoseLee Goldberg

Bodybuilding

 

Kazuo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA

New Urban CAmpus for Bocconi University

MIlano, Italia, 2012-19

 

Aldo Van Eyck, Playgrounds

 

Toshiko Mori Architect

Fass School and Teacher's Residence

Fass, Senegal, 2019

 

SelgasCano + helloeverything

Kibera Hamlets

Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya, 2015-16

 

Preescolares del Atlántico

Atlántico, Colombia, 2016

 

Isaac Asimov

Chissà come si divertivano! / The Fun They Had

 

Ger Innovation Hub

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2018-20