A Certain Primal Dignity—on the Work of the Independent Practice Albor Arquitectos in Today’s Cuba

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 6
3. Call for Contributions 8
4. Introduction: Constructive Disobedience 10
5. Reallabor Tiny House—a Design-Build Project at KIT 16
6. Big Brick Hybrids and the jtB House 28
7. Oriented Dowels, Spatial Joint—Speculations towards a Digital Building Culture 42
8. Prestressed Rammed Earth—Kiln Tower, Brickworks Museum Cham 52
9. Long Short Stories 66
10. Seeking New Ways—with Traditional Means 78
11. Ms Fabrication and Mother Waste—Material Foundations and Enhanced Expertise 88
12. Ways of Prefab-ing —the Case of MINIMOD as a Constructive Obsession 98
13. A Certain Primal Dignity—on the Work of the Independent Practice Albor Arquitectos in Today’s Cuba 110
14. Constructive Experimentation as Research 122
15. Contributors 129
16. Constructive Trojans 170
17. Sticks and Stones and —an Atlas of Heterogeneous Constructions 182
18. Repertoire 192
19. Lime Floors 200
20. Places of Rural Practice 212
21. Open Dialogue as an Opportunity for Innovation 224
22. Constructive Land 236
23. Dolomitic Lime—Hemp Lime in the Engadine 246
24. Seasonal Wall Dressing—an Experimental Exploration of a Vernacular Climate-Adaptation Strategy from the Baltic Sea Area 258
25. Resolving the Conflict—Thatch as a Welcoming Provocateur 272
26. Experimental C(l)ause 284
27. Appendix 291
28. Acknowledgements 293