David Giorgadze Architects and Maxime Machaidze | Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura & Alin V Wallach | Francisco Pardo Arquitecto | Productora | Gradolí & Sanz Arquitectes | Studio Ossidiana | Jonathan Tuckey | Alma Siedhoff-Buscher | Typology: Stadium
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As Maria Smith writes in the keynote for this issue, ‘play isn’t “just a game”’. Play is political, an attitude to pick up, put on and appropriate, with which to tackle the daily regime of work. In this issue, we explore play in many forms – from the suggestive or surreal spaces constructed in video games and theatre sets, to the real spaces for play in the city found in playgrounds, skate parks, schools, stadiums, theme parks and theatres – as well as all its attempts to explain, perform, or provide avenues for escape from everyday life.
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May 2021
Play
Keynote: play the system, Maria Smith
Mziuri skate park and parkour ground in Tbilisi, Georgia by David Giorgadze Architects and Maxime Machaidze, Tinatin Gurgenidze and Gigi Shukakidze
What happens in Vegas, Mimi Zeiger
Space for play in Mexico, Suleman Anaya
Case study: Parque Los Héroes in Toluca, Mexico by Francisco Pardo Arquitecto
Case study: Fresnillo playground in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico by Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura and Alin V Wallach
Case study: Tlalnepantla playground in Tlalnepantla de Baz, Mexico by Productora
In practice: Studio Ossidiana, Alessandra Covini and Giovanni Bellotti
Building virtual worlds, Rob Gallagher
Reputations: Alma Siedhoff-Buscher, Anja Baumhoff
Imagine Montessori Primary School in Paterna, Spain by Gradolí & Sanz Arquitectes, Rafael Gómez-Moriana
Outrage: the unwilding of the Pyramid of Tirana, Dorina Pllumbi
Setting the stage, Louis Rogers
David Brownlow Theatre in Newbury, UK by Jonathan Tuckey Design, Ellie Duffy
Typology: Stadium, Tom Wilkinson
War games, Angela Washko
Workers’ playtime, Edwina Attlee
Architecture workers of the world, unite, Charlie Edmonds
Editorial contributors
Edwina Attlee
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