Ark Journal • VOL XI
Magazine
240 pages.
REF. 91273
W.23,5 x H.2 x D.31,5cm
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Ark Journal Volume 11 ponders how history shapes our understanding of art, design and architecture, and celebrates the fluidity of interpretations that evolve over time and the importance of context. It explores how architects navigate the interplay between tradition and innovation, drawing upon historical precedents while thinking about the future, how adaptive reuse breathes new life into old structures and how architectural interventions honour a site’s cultural heritage.
This edition features two iconic mid-century modernist houses, in Mexico City and Cincinnati, that have undergone transformations, but with a deep respect for each house’s rich history and significance. The Southern Californian language of architect Ray Kappe is translated into a contemporary home in Berlin, while a house on an island in the Baltic Sea is built to experience untamed nature. South African-born architect and curator Sumayya Vally is a voice of the latest generation, and in this interview she emphasises the power of identity, belonging and cultural hybridity in shaping architecture outside conventional norms. It also visits Hvitträsk, the early Finnish home of Eliel and Loja Saarinen, where creativity and community are radically entangled.
In Case Studies, Pernille Vest explores furniture as objets d’art, crafted from rare noble wood, marked by time and expert hands. In Basel, a lesson in how to live and work with art delivered by two generations of the von Bartha family of gallerists. In Design Metaphors, Ettore Sottsass used photography to explore the origins of architecture. Dung Ngo talks to Ana Elena Mallet, curator of an exhibition at MoMA on the design histories of Latin America, where craft and industry shaped hybrid identities. And in Portfolio this edition delves into how new ideas of utopia in architecture, design and art shaped a distinct Latin American version of modernity.
Ark Journal explores the spaces around us, the objects we put in them and the people who make them. Bridging architecture, design and art, the Journal show them as interplay rather than in silos, and with a sense of enduring Scandinavian values and aesthetics. It celebrates good ideas, honest and inventive design and materials and encourage critical debate. Each issue the magazine visits extraordinary homes around the world that are more than the sum of their parts and that express the personal narratives of the people who live in them, their philosophies and influences. Architecture is placed at the core of Ark Journal, in the broader context of our lives, reflecting its more humanistic side and celebrating tactility and individual dimensions.
Copenhagen-based, Ark Journal is a biannual magazine founded by Editor-in-Chief Mette Barfod and made by an experienced team of designers, stylists, photographers and editors. The 240-page magazine is sold in 25 countries around the world.
