Uploaded January 2017 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago
From Contemporary Arts Media https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/tea-and-coffee-towers
DVD and Streaming
In The tea and Coffee Towers project, 20 architects who used to work mainly in urban scale, were asked to design a Tea and Coffee Set as it was a micro-architecture. This project was presented at Venice Biennale in 2002. In this documentary the Architects describe their experience of answering to eight standard questions about the method and process they went through.
At the end, an experiment with Sensory Memory was proposed, asking them to switch from the conceptual to an intimate sensory level. They re-lived the realization of the object they created but this time by remembering with their senses: “close your eyes, have your set in your hands, feel the dimension, the material, the temperature, the weight, the way it opens... stay with it. “
Several years have passed and although the world of design is constantly evolving, the reflections made by the authors are still valid and interesting.
Disc 1:
ALBERTO ALESSI (introduction)
WILLIAM ALSOP
WIEL ARETS
MVRDV
DENTON CORKER MARSHALL
GARY CHANG
UN STUDIO
GREG LYNN FORM
Disc 2
THOM MAYNE MORPHOSIS
ZAHA HADID
TOM KOVAC | DEZSÖ EKLER
TOYO ITO
JEAN NOUVEL
DORIANA, MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS
DOMINIQUE PERRAULT
FUTURE SYSTEMS
JUAN NAVARRO BALDEWEG
KAZUYO SEJIMA, RYUE NISHIZAWA
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
ALESSANDRO MENDINI
From Contemporary Arts Media https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/tea-and-coffee-towers
DVD and Streaming
In The tea and Coffee Towers project, 20 architects who used to work mainly in urban scale, were asked to design a Tea and Coffee Set as it was a micro-architecture. This project was presented at Venice Biennale in 2002. In this documentary the Architects describe their experience of answering to eight standard questions about the method and process they went through.
At the end, an experiment with Sensory Memory was proposed, asking them to switch from the conceptual to an intimate sensory level. They re-lived the realization of the object they created but this time by remembering with their senses: “close your eyes, have your set in your hands, feel the dimension, the material, the temperature, the weight, the way it opens... stay with it. “
Several years have passed and although the world of design is constantly evolving, the reflections made by the authors are still valid and interesting.
Disc 1:
ALBERTO ALESSI (introduction)
WILLIAM ALSOP
WIEL ARETS
MVRDV
DENTON CORKER MARSHALL
GARY CHANG
UN STUDIO
GREG LYNN FORM
Disc 2
THOM MAYNE MORPHOSIS
ZAHA HADID
TOM KOVAC | DEZSÖ EKLER
TOYO ITO
JEAN NOUVEL
DORIANA, MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS
DOMINIQUE PERRAULT
FUTURE SYSTEMS
JUAN NAVARRO BALDEWEG
KAZUYO SEJIMA, RYUE NISHIZAWA
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
ALESSANDRO MENDINI
