An interview with Adam Caruso features in a new gta Verlag publication, Against and For Method. Edited by Jan Silberberger, the volume tries to tackle the deficiencies in studio teaching and proposes possibilities for integrating research approaches into teaching and practice.
It features a range of contributors, including Bernhard Böhm, Johan De Walsche, Kim Helmersen and Monika Kurath, among others. In addition to these essays, five interviews were conducted with practising architects, who are also studio professors at ETH Zurich. These contributions and conversations are intended to urge studio teachers to consider that conceptually coherent approaches aids their students.
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Peter St John's London Met Unit will investigate the theme of Second Life. The term comes from the artist and social activist Theaster Gates, who states that almost everything can be reused. This is evident in his work which has involved collating discarded objects and materials, as well as salvaging and refurbishing whole buildings.
Students will look at the question of how to renew buildings; how construction can be less energy-demanding and creating systems where buildings are indivisible components in a regenerating ecological system.
Students in studio Adam Caruso at ETH Zurich will spend their Autumn semester working on a group of structures around Helvetiaplatz in Zurich. Through model-making and drawing students will engage with not only the adaptive reuse of existing buildings, but also how we can reframe the cultural value of them.
How can we build today so that housing becomes affordable, social and sustainable again? ‘Wohnen/Housing’ published by DETAIL, shows 33 projects from the fields of social housing, cost-effective construction and building in existing buildings. Veemgebouw by Caruso St John Architects features in this publication with detailed construction drawings, alongside text and photographs.
Royal Belge is featured in the 63th issue of a+t, which is the first in the new 2ndHAND series. The issue discusses buildings in Belgium, France and Switzerland that are hybrid in program as well as construction.
The Butterfield Student Center for Downing College, Cambridge features in the recent publication Building in Stone Today, written by architect and researcher Natalia Petkova. The book explores what the choice of stone in structure does to contemporary architecture.
A book launch and conversation with Hugh Strange will take place at the AA Bookshop in London on November 4th at 6pm.
In a recently published essay in Forum #2, Adam Caruso writes about gleaning in architecture and the need for architects to discover new ways of working with the structures and materials already present in our built environment.
Adam Caruso has been interviewed by architect and writer Nile Greenberg for the September issue of The Brooklyn Rail.
Opia Store Sihlstrasse is featured in french architectural magazine d'architectures. Issue n°335 focusses on workspaces/hotels/restaurants/shops.
A new publication about Hospitalfield is out now. Published by Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche on the occasion of the 34th Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens. The book tells the story of Hospitalfield, from its 13th century origins as a hospital to an art school founded by Patrick Allan Fraser, and to the current program of artist residencies and community programs.
Volume 3 of Caruso St John’s Collected Works is out now. Between 2010 and 2020, Caruso St John expanded its reputation for sensitive and characterful architecture through a remarkable range of projects. Major buildings in the heart of Swiss, German, and Belgian cities explored the role urban landmarks can play in the present day, while smaller domestic projects provided the opportunity for experiments in restoration, materials, and colour. Transforming buildings for reuse – from beloved public institutions to long-abandoned industrial sites – became a focal point for the practice as it sought to emphasise its work with the existing rather than contribute to the escalating production of new construction. Their designs for memorials, exhibitions, and museums further developed this engagement with memory and an aliveness to the past.
Gavin Hale-Brown, architect and co-founder of Henley Halebrown, reviewed Caruso St John's Collected Works Volume 3 2010-2020 for BD Online. He reflects on the book's thematic arrangement of projects, found texts and contemporaneous interviews, noting how it draws the reader into a literary game of connections across the decade.
'It is hard to think of another practice that has managed to maintain this level of rigour and invention without becoming a brand.'
Laboratorium, the calisthenics gym that is inside the Swiss Caruso St John headquarters, is published in About: Sportscapes, a magazine by About: platform.
When a big part of the office remained empty after the pandemic, an opportunity to turn the empty space into a gym arrived. Frida Grahn argues that this unexpected combination of uses - an architectural office and a work-out space - doesn't feel out of place, and demonstrates how design can enable diverse activities to co-exist.