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SADAR + VUGA: A Review
Edited by Ilka and Andreas Ruby
Hatje Cantz, 2011 |
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264 |
| illustrations: |
450 |
| color illustrations: |
174 |
| drawings: |
118 |
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So what? This is not a monograph. It is a discourse that radiates around the work of Sadar + Vuga architects.
In 2010, when Ilka and Andreas Ruby started to conceptualize a book covering one and a half decades of the firm's work, it was clear that this would become a project in itself involving colleagues, critics, a museum, and a publisher in rethinking what it means to present architecture in a book. Sadar + Vuga's first major publication, 3D to 2D 1 from 2001, designed by The Designer's Republic, was so cryptic that you almost thought it was meant to deny representing architecture in a book at all, as well as in general. In 2006, the book Sadar Vuga Arhitekti: Formula New Ljubljana 2 published with Actar then looked like a sophisticated account of various design themes, the manual for remixing the ingredients extracted in Tendencies,3 the ten-year anniversary DD book on Sadar + Vuga's "work in progress." In it, I asked them a few questions about how they communicate their thinking. What resulted was another extreme-essentially an archive of all the stages of each project, in any version, and as complete as possible in each design process. It was so much, even too much, another counterattack on the convention of doing a book on architecture. It nevertheless turned into an insightful dialogue between Jurij and Bostjan about where to go from "here." Now, Sadar + Vuga: A Review is a project that surprises us again with another twist on making an architecture book. It presents a solid adventure into the architecture of exchanging ideas, testing, pushing the limits, from small scale to something too big to still be called urban intervention, from a testing field in the firm's office to reinventing their architectural language with each project, creating multiplicity, and generating a broader international reflection by different voices, so enthusiastically curated by Ilka and Andreas Ruby. Here again, I would also pose my last question from the Tendencies book, since it echoes so much of the thinking behind Sadar + Vuga's contribution to architecture and remains a challenge and reminder to all of us: "What kind of questions do you ask yourself?"
Jürgen Mayer H. |
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