FAS is BIG in JAPAN (or not)

FAS in Japan- 

at Magazine-JP.

http://www.magazinelibrary.jp/

http://www.magazinelibrary.jp/who/

" In 2009, french-born japan-based designer david guarino first presented his magazine library exhibition concept  at tokyo's omotesando hills, a display of print publications including magazines, art books, zines and special editions from 47 countries."

FAS is a happy guest of the Storefront in NY.

FAS (ARCHIZINES) in Milan

Foreign Architects Switzerland is at ARCHIZINES exhibition in Milan
from 27 January – 23 February 2012 at Spazio FMG.

Photos: Mauro Consilvio / SpazioFMG

FAS -exhibited at the AA

(pic Valerie Bennett)

Well, we can't be unhappy about representing Switzerland in the Architecture-Zines production.

So we are happy to be presented at the ARCHIZINES exhibition at the AA.

The press release say: " Architectural Fanzines and Alternative Publishing Phenomenon Celebrated at the AA School

• New exhibition reveals astonishing insight into how people around the world relate to their built environment.
• From the homemade fanzine to the professional magazine - the desire to talk about architecture is global.
• ARCHIZINES: Public Opening 5 November – 14 December 2011."

Thank you. We feel less lonely out there.

There is a catalog:
http://www.bedfordpress.org/forthcoming/archizines/

PJZ= call to Zurich voters!

"Achtung: Wer den Polizei-und Justizpalast nicht will, muss JA stimmen!"

Swiss democracy is awesome. So awesome that local citizens can vote on what's being built around them. I know of no other country that does that.
However, foreigners can't vote (some political parties can for that), so FAS calls for our Swiss/Zurich supporters to think and vote correctly, for once. So a YES for a NO.
Because the voting are not asked namely: do you want the PJC built or not? The question is: do you want the law requiring the construction of the PJC cancel, or not? Who does not want the PJC, must apply for the lifting of the PJC-law and agree that YES! Clear?

We hate the project and we hate the idea of wanting to build just anything without consultation. We would like a green house, or a pet paradise. Certainly NOT a jail.



Remember the project?
















NO THANKS!

Architecture Foundation publication: The Mosque in the Contemporary Urban West

The Architecture Foundation launches a publication documenting and critically expanding upon the AF's November 2010 symposium, Faith in the City: The Mosque in the Contemporary Urban West, featuring new essays by Lukas Feireiss, Foreign Architects Switzerland and Professor Nasser Rabbat amongst many other notable contributors.

Check it out here

Save The Guterbahnhof!

To our great jubilation, plans for a new Police-and-Justice-Center in Zurich came to a screeching halt last autumn, when its budget was nixed by parliament. Months earlier, FAS had given Theo Hotz' competition-winning project for the (glorified jailhouse) "Police Center" our heavily sarcastic WTF (What The Fuck) Award. The Guterbahnhof rail depot in Kreis 4 would be a fantastic location for just about anything except a penal institution. The 75,000 m2 site is perhaps the last large chunk of land in the rapidly developing district of town.

It is therefore no suprise that upon cancellation of the project, a flood of speculation and intrigue came. Vast swaths of developers, collaboratives, and politicians now feast their eyes on the Guterbahnhof, with dreams of claiming the site for more yuppy offices, low-cost housing, parkland, or even a museum.

FAS (Fundamentally Ambiguous Strategies) came to the conclusion that Zurich already has everything that you can name under the sun. Except, of course, undefined space. Especially in an age where real-estate tycoons are quick to market every square meter of space in the city for a target use, it is hard to find anything that grows organically. But rather than let a system of committees decide its fate, we imagine that, if left to its own devices, the Guterbahnhof will eventually rise to become a haven of culture, the last vestige of creativity in a city of dwindling prospects; its eclectic mixture of tenants and its vast and atypical spaces provide the generative matrix for a cross-pollination of ideas.

CALL FOR LOVERS

The Guterbahnhof, a protected site, was only threatened by a mandate stating the construction of the Police-Center and necessary. (A citadel? Necessary?) So while the rail depot is temporarily safe, its days are still limited: it is only a matter of time before luxury apartments are deemed as necessary for the welfare of the city. Therefore, FAS (Feeble Attempts at Salvation) is launching another call for ideas, to ensure the protection of the Guterbahnhof by turning it into an Icon of Zurich. But we don't just need architects: the Guterbahnhof's future needs no plans or planners, it needs lovers.

We are asking for your vision of a future for the GBH. How can the life of Zurich inhabit the Guterbahnhof?

Responses can take the form of a postcard from the future, a love-letter, poem, sketch or painting, and can be as abstract or as realistic as you like. The introduction of new programs/functions is allowed, but not necessary, to depict a future for the Guterbahnhof.

Select entries will be displayed in the city as part of a campaign to save the soul of the city. Send your dreams to:

FAS

8000

Zurich

or faszine@gmail.com

Deadline: May 1, 2011