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BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide) . photos: © Dylan Perrenoud

Plaster, the extracted form of gypsum, essentially composed of calcium sulphate dihydrate, appears as a good figuration of the BUREAU’s general attitude towards architecture. If we were to define ourselves as minor architects, following Jill Stoner’s book «Towards a minor architecture», working with what is considered a minor material seems quite d’à-propos. It is one that has been utilised to prefigure and anticipate master pieces in the numerous “galéries des plâtres” around the world, fabricating figurative positive moulds of definite sculptures, forever “graved in stone”. The plaster seems more malleable, elastic, fragile. Continue reading BUREAU

BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide) . photos: © Dylan Perrenoud

A project about floating, mentally and bodily experiencing a certain state of suspension, in a rather safe space, where the outside is imaginary, evoked, lived uniquely through imagery. From a very interiorized experience one is thrown outside, travelling in and out. Obviously, this was not the brief, but a poetic take on it, on how to create a world from which one can rest and imagine, evocative, abstract yet somewhat graspable. When one closes the eyes, the light that has been absorbed, lived transforms into colors, flashes of that connect with undefined sensations. Connecting realities, perceived in the space but also, most of them, outside of it. Continue reading BUREAU

BUREAU . photos: © Francisco Nogueira

The architectural classification that is applied to how an apartment plan is distributed, how its parts are arranged is frequently referred as housing typology: it defines and catalogues common characteristics or types. It is a quite well know concept in architecture, and particularly in spaces dedicated to inhabitation: apartments, houses. Continue reading BUREAU

BUREAU Daniel Zamarbide

Joseph Beuys’ 7000 oaks for the 1982 Documenta in Kassel constituted a turn in the art world. By a quite simple conceptual gesture the artist managed to use the power of art discourse and action to activate an environmental concern that has grown ever since. This happened in the1980s, the same decade which saw a very substantial acceleration of violence towards all living beings on earth. Ever since, we have been trying to develop our consciousness to counter this movement, with a relatively poor success. Continue reading BUREAU

Daniel Zamarbide | BUREAU . photos: © Dylan Perrenoud

In the past years, we have learned about mobility. Commuting and professional nomadism. We have been around, working everywhere, hurting our backs in bad chairs, home, cafés, construction sites, all sorts of transports. Micro-scale travelling in a reduced European perimeter, still quite intensively on the move. It does feel good to find, at last, a generous resting base-camp in the heart of our beautiful Lisbon. A space from the past that allows us to see further in the future, to project ourselves into something else, something we are not yet and that we might become. A good space is a space where one can project oneself, individually and collectively. Continue reading Daniel Zamarbide