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Ethel Baraona Pohl

Ethel Baraona Pohl

Architect. Co-founder of dpr-barcelona, publisher specialized in architecture, design, technology and its influence on the social and built environment.
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Limited edition of Fahrenheit 451 was bound in asbestos so it wouldn’t burn. Source: io9 - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
Limited edition of Fahrenheit 451 was bound in asbestos so it wouldn’t burn. 
Source: io9
socks-studio: Haus Rucker co. Palmtree Island (Oasis) Project, New York, New York Perspective. 1971. Cut-and-pasted printed paper with gouache and graphite and cut-and-pasted painted paper on silver gelatin photograph on board, 19 3/4 x 29 5/8” (50.2 x 75.2 cm). Image courtest of The Museum of Modern Art architectural-review - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
socks-studio:
  
Haus Rucker co.
 
Palmtree Island (Oasis) Project, New York, New York Perspective. 1971. Cut-and-pasted printed paper with gouache and graphite and cut-and-pasted painted paper on silver gelatin photograph on board, 19 3/4 x 29 5/8” (50.2 x 75.2 cm). Image courtest of The Museum of Modern Art
 
architectural-review
Orwellian Fanzine de edición limitada, 50 ejemplares numerados a mano y preparado especialmente para la presentación “Realidad Aumentada con dpr-barcelona” en la Apple Store de Paseo de Gracia [BCN] el dia 28 de Febrero de 2013. [Interacciones Realidad Aumentada por dpr-barcelona.Tecnología Realidad Aumentada desarrollada por Aurasma.] Textos... - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
Esta tarde… #orwellian con @dpr_barcelona [en Apple Store Barcelona] Gracias! pacogonzalez - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
Esta tarde… #orwellian con @dpr_barcelona [en Apple Store Barcelona]
 
Gracias! pacogonzalez
Check out these short presentations on snowscape parks, signal space, and more, from our [bracket] goes soft launch party the week before last. —via studiox-nyc - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
BBC Television’s live production of George Orwell’s “1984” - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
The first Macintosh (1984), The Macintosh 128K - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
The first Macintosh (1984), The Macintosh 128K
paavo: Flakturm Archives or the Panopticon in Reverse (via Dpr-barcelona) This project undertakes to design archives within one of the Flakturm, former Second World War anti-aircraft towers in the center of Vienna. The idea of constructing an archive within a bunker is not a neutral one. The defensiveness of this building allows, both symbolically... - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
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Flakturm Archives or the Panopticon in Reverse (via Dpr-barcelona)
 
This project undertakes to design archives within one of the Flakturm, former Second World War anti-aircraft towers in the center of Vienna. The idea of constructing an archive within a bunker is not a neutral one. The defensiveness of this building allows, both symbolically and literally, to host and protect goods against the alteration of the externality —whether it is time or a more direct antagonism. Many civilizations of the past have been annihilated, not only physically, but absolutely as any form of their production has been also destroyed with them. The recent history would have still seen several tragic examples of ethnical cleansing directly linked to processes of cultural destructions.
Next weekend we’ll be at Think Space’s Unconference presenting our paper “Transcoding Situationism” More info: http://www.think-space.org/en... - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
Next weekend we’ll be at Think Space’s Unconference presenting our paper “Transcoding Situationism”
 
More info: http://www.think-space.org/en/call-for-papers/#
vivipiuomeno: Teatro del Mondo (World’s Theater) 1979, Aldo Rossi arch. - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
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Teatro del Mondo (World’s Theater) 1979, Aldo Rossi arch.
‘ASTRONEF 732’ Space City François Dallegret. Paris avril 1963 In ‘’Astronef 732’’, an early ‘’Graphos’’ ink drawing from 1963, Dallegret conceived a ‘’Space City’’, to be shot to Mars ’’for the purpose to studying the reactions of younger generations to conditions of extreme crowding in relation to speed’’. With these preoccupations-radical... - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
‘ASTRONEF 732’ Space City 
 
François Dallegret. Paris avril 1963
 
In ‘’Astronef 732’’, an early ‘’Graphos’’ ink drawing from 1963, Dallegret conceived a ‘’Space City’’, to be shot to Mars ’’for the purpose to studying the reactions of younger generations to conditions of extreme crowding in relation to speed’’. With these preoccupations-radical living, machines, speed-Dallegret aligned himself with the great innovators of the 20th century, among them Le Corbusier, Buckminster Fuller (who exhibited a geodesic dome at Expo 67), and Joe Colombo, whose vision for streamlined modular living corresponded with Dallegret’s own futurism.
Maquetas que encontré durante el viaje a la Deste Foundation en Atenas  - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
Maquetas que encontré durante el viaje a la Deste Foundation en Atenas 
Urbanising Technology | Saskia Sassen at @LSECities Urban Age Electric City Conference - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
“the wheel is an extension of the foot the book is an extension of the eye clothing, an extension of the skin, electric circuitry, an extension of  the central nervous system” —The Medium is The Massage, Marshall McLuhan p 31-40 - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
“the wheel
is an extension of the foot
the book
is an extension of the eye
clothing, an extension of the skin,
electric circuitry,
an extension of 
the
central
nervous
system”
 
—The Medium is The Massage, Marshall McLuhan p 31-40
Publishing to the power of two - Architecture - Domus - http://www.domusweb.it/en...
Publishing to the power of two— The digital revolution has spawned a new generation of small, agile and hyperactive publishers who, over the last decade, have profoundly transformed how architecture and design are broadcast, both in print and online. - Ethel Baraona Pohl
“My archive now contains over 2000 hours of interviews recorded in many different places, and I am constantly attempting to discover new rules of the game, new approaches to how an interview can work. For an interview with Hans-Peter Feldmann published initially in AnOther Magazine and then in book form, I emailed him one question per day, and... - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
“My archive now contains over 2000 hours of interviews recorded in many different places, and I am constantly attempting to discover new rules of the game, new approaches to how an interview can work. For an interview with Hans-Peter Feldmann published initially in AnOther Magazine and then in book form, I emailed him one question per day, and each of Feldmann’s responses would take the form of an image. For my interview with Louise Bourgeois, I would send a question and she would email back a drawing. When Julian came to my office with Mark and Daniel for our first meeting, we discussed the idea of a different format with questions from artists, and Julian liked this a lot, suggesting that the artists send the questions as short videos so that he could see them. We set the interview for two weeks later at 10 or 11 p.m., as we discovered that we both work late at night. Traveling more than three hours from London on Sunday, February 27, I arrived at Ellingham Hall, the Georgian mansion near the Eastern coast of England that Vaughan Smith offered Julian to use as his address for bail during his UK extradition hearings. In the living room of the picturesque home he described to me as a “golden cage” we drank many cups of coffee and spoke until 3 a.m. about his life, his nomadism, his early beginnings and the invention of WikiLeaks, his time in Egypt, Kenya, Iceland, and other places, his scientific background, and the theoretical underpinnings of WikiLeaks.”
 
—Hans Ulrich Obrist
In conversation with Julian Assange, Part I
 
Source: e-flux
 
Hans Ulrich Obrist will be part of the 14th Arquine Congress “SPACES” to be held on March 11th-12th 2013. More info: Arquine
Antonio Ottomanelli reports about Gaza Palestine Parkour sport in the new issue of Domus luzstories: DOMUS 966 OUT NOW / Antonio Ottomanelli from Gaza. In copertina Abdullah Anshasi, membro del Gaza Parkour Team, mentre si allena nel campo rifugiati di Kahn Yunis a sud della Striscia di Gaza. Nell’editoriale è riportata un’intervista che ho... - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
Antonio Ottomanelli reports about Gaza Palestine Parkour sport in the new issue of Domus
 
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DOMUS 966 OUT NOW / Antonio Ottomanelli from Gaza. In copertina Abdullah Anshasi, membro del Gaza Parkour Team, mentre si allena nel campo rifugiati di Kahn Yunis a sud della Striscia di Gaza. Nell’editoriale è riportata un’intervista che ho realizzato insieme al direttore di Domus International Joseph Grima ai fondatori della scuola di free running di Gaza. All’interno del numero il photoessay “Re-Reading Gaza” realizzato da me nel Dicembre 2012 propone un’immagine inedita del territorio palestinese. Ho voluto che le didascalie alle immagini fossero scritte dai ragazzi che ho conosciuto durante il mio soggiorno a Gaza. Sono brevi racconti che partendo dalle mie foto, costruiscono immagini più profonde e vere. In particolare ringrazio Majed Abusalama e Yehya Shraim.
Albania's Concrete Mushroom Bomb Bunkers to Become Hostels | Tourism on GOOD - http://www.good.is/posts...
Post on GOOD about Concrete Mushrooms - Ethel Baraona Pohl
Orwellian | Starting new [expanded] publishing project! —via cerreyes-dpr-bcn - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
eternalinternetbrotherhood: Spatial diagram of the 2012 Eternal Internet Brotherhood. 2013 coming up these days #ETINTERBRO - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
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Spatial diagram of the 2012 Eternal Internet Brotherhood. 2013 coming up these days #ETINTERBRO
Communication in Contemporary Architecture and Design. Communication in Contemporary Architecture and Design. Marco Ferrari and Elisa Pasqual will be lecturing at Elisava Barcelona. We’re more than glad to be invited to moderate the conversation. January 31th 2013, Barcelona » More info: Elisava - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
Architecture As Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brow Denise Scott Brown is one of the lecturers of the 14th Congreso Arquine which main topic is SPACE. We highly recommend to read the chapter “Architecture as Sign rather than Space” on this book, as a start point for further reflections about space in... - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
Archigram | Peter Cook | Instant City Airships: Secuence of effect on a typical englis town | 1970 —via: megaestructuras - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
Archigram | Peter Cook | Instant City Airships: Secuence of effect on a typical englis town | 1970
 
—via: megaestructuras
‪Drowning by Numbers‬ [1988] de ‪Peter Greenaway [conferenciante‬ Congreso Arquine 14: ESPACIOS] ‪ ‬ - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
MANERAS DE MATAR “Hay muchas maneras de matar. Pueden meterte un cuchillo en el vientre, quitarte el pan, no curarte una enfermedad, meterte en una mala vivienda, empujarte al suicidio, torturarte hasta la muerte por medio del trabajo, llevarte a la guerra, etcétera. Sólo pocas de estas cosas están prohibidas en nuestro estado.” —Bertolt Brecht - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
MANERAS DE MATAR
 
“Hay muchas maneras de matar.
Pueden meterte un cuchillo en el vientre,
quitarte el pan,
no curarte una enfermedad,
meterte en una mala vivienda,
empujarte al suicidio,
torturarte hasta la muerte por medio del trabajo,
llevarte a la guerra, etcétera.
 
Sólo pocas de estas cosas están prohibidas en nuestro estado.”
 
—Bertolt Brecht
Especies de Espacios por Georges Perec Recomendamos la lectura de este libro en el marco del 14o Congreso Arquine, cuyo tema este año es ESPACIO. Entre los conferencistas invitados están Hans Ulrich Obrist, Denis Scott Brown, Saskia Sassen et al. Más info: Congreso Arquine - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
“Pintar primero una jaula con la puerta abierta pintar después algo bonito algo simple, algo bello, algo útil para el pájaro. Apoyar después la tela contra un árbol En un jardín en un soto o en un bosque esconderse tras el árbol Sin decir nada, sin moverse A veces el pájaro llega enseguida Pero puede tardar años antes de decidirse. No hay que... - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
“Pintar primero una jaula
con la puerta abierta
pintar después algo bonito
algo simple, algo bello,
algo útil para el pájaro.
Apoyar después la tela contra un árbol
En un jardín en un soto
o en un bosque esconderse tras el árbol
Sin decir nada, sin moverse
A veces el pájaro llega enseguida
Pero puede tardar años 
antes de decidirse.
No hay que desanimarse
Hay que esperar
Esperar si es necesario durante años
La celeridad o la tardanza
En la llegada del pájaro
No tiene nada que ver
Con la calidad del cuadro.
Cuando el pájaro llega, si llega
observar el más profundo silencio 
esperar que el pájaro entre en la jaula
y una vez que haya entrado
cerrar suavemente la puerta con el pincel.
 
Después borrar uno a uno todos los barrotes
cuidando de no tocar ninguna pluma del pájaro.
 
Hacer acto seguido, el retrato del árbol,
escogiendo la rama más bella para el pájaro,
Pintar también el verde follaje
Y la frescura del viento,
El polvillo del sol 
y el ruido de los bichos de la hierva en el calor estival
y después esperar
que el pájaro se decida a cantar.
 
Si el pájaro no canta, mala señal,
Señal de que el cuadro es malo,
Pero si canta es buena señal,
Señal de que podéis firmar.
Entonces arrancadle delicadamente
una pluma al pájaro
Y escribid vuestro nombre
En un ángulo del cuadro.”
 
—Jacques Prévert, “Para hacer el retrato de un pájaro.”
“All alone in space and time. There’s nothing here but what here’s mine. Something borrowed, something blue. Every me and every you.” —Placebo - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
OPEN-SOURCE INTERCONNECTED WORLD | DPR-barcelona “As a technological practice of innovation, Open Source has not quite been about cities, but about the technology. Yet it resonates with what cities have and are at ground-level, where its users are. The park is made not only with the hardware of trees and ponds, but also with the software of... - http://ethel-baraona.tumblr.com/post...
OPEN-SOURCE INTERCONNECTED WORLD | DPR-barcelona
“As a technological practice of innovation, Open Source has not quite been about cities, but about the technology. Yet it resonates with what cities have and are at ground-level, where its users are. The park is made not only with the hardware of trees and ponds, but also with the software of people’s practices. How can we forget the turnaround of New York’s Riverside Park from being a no-go zone to being a park for all those who wanted to use it in part because dog-owners started to walk their dogs in large numbers. Having a dog was itself a function of feeling insecure in a city of high murder rates and much mugging. But the city allowed people to talk back: get a dog, walk your dog, go in groups, and you recover the territory of the park. The proliferation of farmers’ markets was also not a top-down decision. It resulted from a mix of conditions, primarily the desire of city residents to have access to fresh produce. Here we see that a thousand individual decisions created a possibility for viable farmers markets.
[…]
There is much work to be done. Recovering the incompleteness of cities means recovering a space where the work of open sourcing the urban can thrive. Developing an urban Wikileaks would take cities in a very different direction from the intelligent city model—and for the better.”
TEXT: Sassen, Saskia. “Open-Source Urbanism”. Op-ed Domus. June 2011 | http://www.domusweb.it/en/op-ed/open-source-urbanism/ [accessed January 16th 2012] / IMAGE: Superstudio. “Supersurface: An Alternate Model of Life on Earth”. Still from the film with the same name, produced for the exhibition “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape”, MoMA 1972.
 
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This is our contribution to the project Unface Book
Masters of Suspicion – The New Inquiry - http://thenewinquiry.com/essays...
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