MHC Felix Claus workshop - Interview by Studio Banana TV
MHC Felix Claus workshop produced by Studio Banana TV

MHC Felix Claus workshop produced by Studio Banana TV
Studio Banana TV features Gas Natural Tower in Barcelona with explanations by its author, Italian architect Benedetta Tagliabue. The new building shows a clear desire to be compatible with its urban surroundings: the small scale of the neighborhood of La Barceloneta…the nearby houses and the park…the new tall buildings of Barcelona.
Their projects and writing have been collected in books as “from cero9 to AMID” or “Breathable”. They are regular contributors to El Croquis and their works and articles have been extensively published in many books, magazines, catalogues and specialized publications. They have won more than thirty prizes in national and international competitions. Amongst their award-winning projects are the competition for Jerte Valley, 2008; Giner de los Ríos Foundations Headquarters in Madrid, 2005; Intermed...
* Fresh Film Factory Studiobanana TV > News > Architecture > Studio Banana TV Interviews Hrvoje Njric Studio Banana TV Interviews Hrvoje Njric Studio Banana TV interviews Croatian architect Hrvoje Njric, one of the most prominent European architects. He is based in Zagreb and has won numerous competitions and awards in Croatia and Slovenia. His work has been published and exhibited widely.
Studio Banana TV features the Fishermen Department in Cangas, Galicia, Spain, with explanations by its authors, Spanish architects Irisarri-Piñera. On the one hand, a pier that hosts multiple activities, with a range of pre-existing facilities amongst which the new fishermen’s sheds to be added might be just another individualised component. On the other hand, an urban scene in which the pier breakwater is already a public space, used spontaneously for marine events, a yacht club isolated from t...
Studio Banana TV interviews architect Carlos Arroyo, one of the most prominent young Spanish architects. He is based in Madrid, where he develops projects of a very varied nature with a special emphasis on sustainable development and research into new forms of housing.
Studio Banana TV interviews up-and-coming Japanese artist Kohei Nawa. Nawa belongs to a new generation of Japanese artists that is erupting in the global contemporary art scene with fresh ideas. In the interview he talks about his Liquid, Beads, Scum series but also about other works with glue, drawing etc. He also explains his new endeavor, SANDWICH, a creative platform he has founded in Kyoto.
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Studio Banana TV interviews Japanese architect Toyo Ito on the occasion of his lecture at the European University of Madrid. Toyo Ito is one of the world’s most innovative and influential architects. Ito is known for creating extreme concept buildings, in which he seeks to fuse the physical and virtual worlds.
Network of Ceramics Chairs ASCER Collaboration between Architecture schools and the Ceramic Industry This video portraits the architecture workshop held in Castellón, Spain, during November 2009. The event was directed by the directors of the Ceramics Chairs from four different schools of architecture (Alicante, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia) with the participation of guest architects Luis Moreno Mansilla (Mansilla -Tuñón), Enrique Sobejano (Nieto – Sobejano) and Pepe Morales (Morales – de Giles)....
Studio Banana TV features the Canal Theater building in Madrid with explanations by its author, Spanish architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg.
Studio Banana TV interviews Italian architect Benedetta Tagliabue from the studio Miralles-Tagliabue (EMBT) in Barcelona on the occasion of their exhibition “4 quarters” at the European University of Madrid. Tagliabue is an Italian architect based in Barcelona and was the partner of the late Enric Miralles.
Studio Banana TV interviews Taiwanese videoartist Chen Chieh Jen. Chen’s near silent works visually condense a range of human emotions such as pain and isolation to examine the social, political, and historical burdens of marginalized people and communities in Taiwan and beyond. He presented his first video work, Lingchi – Echoes of a Historical Photograph, at the 2002 Taipei Biennial. In this work, the artist reinterprets Chinese history by analyzing an early twentieth-century documentary photo...
Studio Banana TV interviews Thai visual artist Rirkrit Tiravanija who has transformed the constant movement and cultural interaction of his own life into an engaged conceptual art practice.
Iñaki Abalos (San Sebastian, 1956) is an architect from the School of Architecture of Madrid, Professor of projects and since 2001 director of the Laboratory of Techniques and Contemporary Landscapes ETSAM. Currently he is Kenzo Tange Professor at Harvard GSD. He has been a visiting professor at many universities including the Architectural Association in London, the ETH Lausanne, Columbia University, Princeton University or the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio. After being a partner in Ab...
Under the title “Sueñas Ciudades?” (“Do you dream cities?”) Studio Banana TV produced 4 mini-documentaries featuring a diverse group of citizens asking them about their notion of utopia and future cities. It was a project done during 2008 in collaboration with the creative platform Studio Banana for the Alterpolis program at the Intermediae-Matadero cultural centre in Madrid.
Under the title “Sueñas Ciudades?” (“Do you dream cities?”) Studio Banana TV produced 4 mini-documentaries featuring a diverse group of citizens asking them about their notion of utopia and future cities. It was a project done during 2008 in collaboration with the creative platform Studio Banana for the Alterpolis program at the Intermediae-Matadero cultural centre in Madrid.
Under the title “Sueñas Ciudades?” (“Do you dream cities?”) Studio Banana TV produced 4 mini-documentaries featuring a diverse group of citizens asking them about their notion of utopia and future cities. It was a project done during 2008 in collaboration with the creative platform Studio Banana for the Alterpolis program at the Intermediae-Matadero cultural centre in Madrid.
Under the title “Sueñas Ciudades?” (“Do you dream cities?”) Studio Banana TV produced 4 mini-documentaries featuring a diverse group of citizens asking them about their notion of utopia and future cities. It was a project done during 2008 in collaboration with the creative platform Studio Banana for the Alterpolis program at the Intermediae-Matadero cultural centre in Madrid.
Studio Banana TV interviews Esther Pizarro, a prominent figure of contemporary Spanish conceptual sculpture.
Rockwell Group Europe commissioned Studio Banana TV the audiovisual documentation of the 4-lecture series “Asalto Creativo” during October-November 2008. It includes interviews with the lecturers: publicist Jerry Hough, visual artist Daniel Canogar, fashion designer Agata Ruiz de la Prada and composer Cristobal Halfter.
Rockwell Group Europe commissioned Studio Banana TV the audiovisual documentation of the 4-lecture series “Asalto Creativo” during October-November 2008. It includes interviews with the lecturers: publicist Jerry Hough, visual artist Daniel Canogar, fashion designer Agata Ruiz de la Prada and composer Cristobal Halfter.
Rockwell Group Europe commissioned Studio Banana TV the audiovisual documentation of the 4-lecture series “Asalto Creativo” during October-November 2008. It includes interviews with the lecturers: publicist Jerry Hough, visual artist Daniel Canogar, fashion designer Agata Ruiz de la Prada and composer Cristobal Halfter.
Rockwell Group Europe commissioned Studio Banana TV the audiovisual documentation of the 4-lecture series “Asalto Creativo” during October-November 2008. It includes interviews with the lecturers: publicist Jerry Hough, visual artist Daniel Canogar, fashion designer Agata Ruiz de la Prada and composer Cristobal Halfter.
Studio Banana TV interviews visual artist and architect Pablo Valbuena (Madrid, 1978). After working in digital media designing virtual architectures for videogames, he currently looks for new ways of using light to introduce the dimensions of time and movement in urban spaces, altering the perception of physical space through projected virtual realities.
Studio Banana TV interviews José María García Sánchez, author of the sports activities centre in the Tajo river basin, Caceres, Spain.
Studio Banana TV interviews Andrés Jaque, author of the controversial Tupper home housing project. Tupper Home is the first product offered by Tupper Shop, the catalog of architectural products marketed by the Andrés Jaque Architects office, of which a first prototype has been built in the city center of Madrid. Proposed as an alternative to the official line of urban planning, it is based on the experience of demonstration marketing —Tupperware, Avon, Herbalife, Thermomix— which became popular ...
Studio Banana TV interviews Belzunce-Mauriño-García Millán, authors of the hill-crawling social housing complex in Mina del Morro, Bilbao. The initial needs program, proposed for the Europan 4 competition, called for the construction of 356 dwellings on a plot of land of 29,500 m2. These housing units were complemented by 8,700 m2 for commercial use, 16,100 m2 for services, and 4,400 m2 for social infrastructures. Of course, solutions were also needed for the street network and parking areas, as...
Studio Banana TV interviews Magüi Gonzalez, author of the sea-side Ruiz House in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The house is situated in a fishermen’s neighborhood on the island of Gran Canaria in a landscape dominated by self-built houses and shanty dwellings, and sits apparently unfinished in this place on the city outskirts. Intended for an artist, it consists of a single interconnected space on two floors and a habitable basement, of great height and as unobstructed as possible. Three equivalen...
Studio Banana TV interviews Rueda-Pizarro, authors of a young people housing complex in Parla, Madrid. In mid 2005, the Town Council of Parla in Madrid, in collaboration with the Madrid Architects’ Association (COAM) Competitions Office, organized a competition with a novel approach: 826 dwellings distributed in 6 lots for public housing. They were rental dwellings for young persons, optimized to 35 m2 of usable surface area in order to fit the maximum number of units onto the available land. In...