What is striking when looking at their portfolio from that date onwards, is how both offices have maintained such high standards of design and theoretical research in spite of the turbulence. In particular, amongst the works of Alejandro, recently associated with Maider Llaguno (former architect of FOA), appear very interesting projects : like the Palazzo del Cinema of Locarno, and the Saint Martins Library, both in Italy. The first is a project that is in contrast with the tendency of a formally exasperated architecture, it communicates with its environment through very simple elements, frames and games of light, the second has a strong global nature (global as the nature of knowledge contained in a library) with local accents in the research of materials and references used. What in FOA was a research on coherence of language and surveys on compositional possibilities and program, in AZPML becomes a research about the sense of architecture in the contest of a cultural and economic crisis. In 2008 the current research scenario of the study could already be anticipated: in 2008 he began a master class at the Berlage entitled “The politics of the envelope �, almost simultaneously the omonimous article is released in the issue 17 of Volume.
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