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"The availability of new technologies transformed the architectural practice into a global, intercontinental phenomenon.
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Patricio Pouchulu and
Susanne Biek heve been associate partners since 1998 and they are
currently experimenting with the concept of a "mobile office", working at the same time from different places and toward different parts of the World.
Some projects are thought while
traveling, crossing Europe or the Atlantic Ocean, and then designed in Munich, London, or Buenos Aires.
The office is currently involved in international competitions.
See Website
: Meran Bath, Italy, 1999, GEM, Great Egyptian Museum, Egypt, 2002. In 2000 they founded
Avenger Architects, doing exhibitions and conceptual installations.
The Pouchulu website
has just been updated to include their stunning
submission for the Grand Egyptian Museum
Competition, pictured above right.
If you do nothing
else today, you must visit the Pouchulu website and
spend a good hour or so marveling through this
unique portfolio. If you are an architect worthy of
the title you will be left charged, renewed and
inspired. Pouchulu's work has that effect.
Not since Peter Cook
.... (See Archigram)
The Pouchulu Biek
vision for the "mobile practice" serves as
an inspiration to thousands of African architects
stranded in the diminishing or stagnant economies of
Africa. We hope one of the many schools of
architecture in Africa has the vision to drag the
master to our shores. We need Light, soon ...
Click
here to go to Patricio Pouchulu's Website.
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