Desierto magazine. ISSUE #2 PARTYTOPIAS

The second issue of Desierto magazine, PARTYTOPIAS, seeks to reflexion about playfulness as part of the creative architectonical process. Its content consists of interviews and research articles which delves about the task of every issue.

Among the articles and interviews we would specially like to remark the number 06 Exodus & the Berg [Two projects] by Jakob Tigges. Several months ago, almost a year, we published in METALOCUS a music video about the exodus of the Manhattan skyscrapers (we recommend you to see the video!), so well, the reflection about this idea of skyscrapers which escape flying of its surrounding, the architectural zoo of Manhattan, continues by Jakob Tigges.

Only five months after Empire State Building had taken off for Mars, Chrysler Building followed his innate affinity for French romance and left for Paris. Inspired by such bravery and in order to avoid becoming dinosaurs of the 20th century architectural zoo that Manhattan seemed to be more and more, Flatiron and Seagram gave in to their personal nostalgia either for the future or the past. The Statue of Liberty, annoyed by the heroic burden eternally imposed on her, left in search for more understanding company. When even the Freedom Towers vamoosed to Dubai just after completion, a veritable rush-out sets in; and the exodus from the 'city of the captive globe' captures the globe.

Passage of 06 Exodus & the Berg [Two projects] by Jakob Tigges, Desierto magazine #2 PARTYTOPIAS,  p. 118.

Intentions declaration by the authors:

PAPER / Architectural Histamine, the new independent publishing platform recently established in Madrid, presents the second issue of the magazine DESIERTO , Partytopias.

DESIERTO, a mainly to-be-read publication in which different contexts are posed in order to reflect on architectural experience, collects in this second issue papers that investigate the theme of playfulness as an important part involved in architectural creative processes.

While reading PARTYTOPIAS be prepared to be transported to another dimension (dis)ordered according to other laws; to experience the city from a spontaneous gathering of strangers around loudspeakers; to be carried away by the trance of a nightclub; to immerse yourself in the dark space where constant flashes fragment bodies into a piling sequence of snapshots and disconnected postures; to observe how the space around you deforms, swelling and sinking with the sound enveloping you; to dream of sensorial cities founded on hedonism and excess; to take photographs of gigantic mountains, inexistent mountains; to jump on a soft amorphous surface transforming you into a weightless particle floating in space.

Contents index.-

+ Partytopias in Berlin, Daniel Fernández Pascual.
+ The Allure of the Analogue Caves, Manuel Collado.
+ Sacred Clowns (an interview with MI5), G RL Paper.
+ On Space Time Foam, Andrés Lissoni / Tomás Saraceno.
+ Planet Festival, Estéban Salcedo.
+ Exodus & the Berg (two works), Jacob Tigges.
+ Radical Atmospheres (phantasmagoria and extreme immersion spaces), Juan Elvira.
+ States of Emergency, María Langarita.
++ Floor Plan Atlas (Darkrooms in Barcelona city) Pol Esteve / Marc Navarro.

You can get your copy of #2 PARTYTOPIAS in www.paper-paper.es