Interrogating Pop in Architecture

Daniel Konrad colaborando con Jason Danziger del grupo docente de investigación Adip,de la Technische Universitat de Berlín, a editado la publicación Interrogating POP.

Arte POP, cultura POP, música POP, POPeros, cultura POPular. Un concepto suficientemente ambíguo y relevante a nivel cultural como para pensar sus repercusiones sobre la forma de pensar la ciudad y la forma en que influye en la arquitectura contemporánea.

Con la colaboración de arquitectos profesores y sicologos invitados como Sandra Bartoli , Valéry Didelon , Pedro Gadanho , Iassen Markov y Dr. Riklef Rambow y proyectos de Kalina Aleksandrova, Andreas Bengtsson, Kai Bergmann, Uta Böcker, Carlos Gor , Martin Hartwig, Julie Hoffmann, Anna Hyyppä, Valle Medina Ibanez, Jongki Park, Sybille Paulsen, Ben Reynolds, Anna von Roeder, Karen Rose, Hege Schjonhang, Giulia Tubelli, Martha Maria Silva y Berta Sola Sánchez.

Content:
Though always rare and exciting, the occasional iridescently vibrant proposal is well established as a component of today’s architectural and building practice. More recently, however, the frequency of this phenomenon has grown exponentially, and today, we increasingly note the construction of ever more radical architectural icons, changing both our physical and cultural landscapes. Furthermore, these icons have themselves directly become denizens of the media and attractions to the wider public. As a result, more and more architects are aspiring to and even becoming admired as POP stars in their own right. INTERROGATING POP IN ARCHITECTURE explores the cultural phenomenon of POP with an eye towards understanding its relevance in the world of contemporary architecture. It is an open inquiry which seeks to frame the term “POP architecture,” through concretely exploring the possibilities and risks of POP phenomena as they are translated into architecture. It traces the contributions and discussions of a hybrid group of students, teachers, and invited guests from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and psychology, all of whom worked together at the TU Berlin, commonly engaged in a journey to decipher the relationship between POP and architecture.