Description: Studio d’Architettura Martino Pedrozzi, Mendrisio, Switzerland
workshop (5487) mexicali (170) wish (148) tucuman (62) mendrisio (53) martino (35) accademia di architettura (2) studio d’architettura martino pedrozzi (1) pedrozzi (1) nanjin (1)
Martino Pedrozzi Arch. dipl. epfl - fas/bsa Via Noseda 20 CH–6850 Mendrisio Switzerland t +41 91 942 13 24 [email protected] Photos: Pino Brioschi Design: Gysin-Vanetti
Made in a limited series of 20 copies by the Werner Oechslin Library. In the Egyptian pyramids, Greek columns or Breton menhirs the compression due to own weight is zero at the top and maximum at the base. The compression of the stone varies because, as the mass to be supported increases from top to bottom, it does not correspond proportionally to an increase in plan of the surface that supports it. I perceive this as a static imperfection, a constructive compromise, a sizing defect. I ask myself then: is t
[…] it was a mass of stone, which any unknowing observer would have imagined was a heap of stone cast up by the permafrost. Two assistants, who removed the stones in three hours of enthusiastic work, uncovered some kind of centre and then a rectangular shape, eventually revealing the foundations of a farmhouse. Filled up with stones, they had taken on the shape of a grave. The picture which Loos supplies for his definition of architecture ("Someone was buried here, That is architecture.") focuses on the wor