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This article examines the reshaping of Belgrade’s memorial landscape after the Second World War and after the 1999 NATO bombings, with a focus on the role of architects. As such, the paper shifts the scale of memory debates in two ways: first, from the national to the urban; second, from ‘classical’ memory entrepreneurs of the political realm to city makers, usually perceived as ‘technical’ actors, but, as the paper argues, in fact relevant memory actors both through the way they influence sites of memory and through memory debates. The article places the engagement of architects with narratives of heroism and victimhood in Serbia in a historical perspective, examining the shift in memorialisation after the Second World War. It then discusses the hesitant approaches on engaging with ruins of the 1999 NATO bombing, highlighting frictions between various actors in the Generalštab debate. Finally, it analyses the distinctive memorial engagement with the ruins of the Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) building by examining the bottom-up process of the competition for the RTS memorial. The article highlights that, even if not intentionally or by embracing memory-work, architecture and architects play a role in memory processes, while deeply enmeshed in constellations of political and economic power.

Apart from the well-known Russian-born architects, dozens of lesser-known Russian émigrés lived and worked in construction in Belgrade. The paper provides additional biographical data based on the archival material contained in the fonds and collections of the Histor­ical Archives of Belgrade. The addenda concern both those who were registered architects and those whose names are signed on the surviving blueprints and who were not only architects but also engineers, construction workers, building contractors. The paper brings basic biographical data followed by the locations of the structures for which the blueprints survive.

The paper analyzes the motives and artistic expressions of the fine art works of selected architects and painters - teachers and associates at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, published in the faculty journal Crteži (Drawings), in the period from 1956 to 1965. By the classification of fine art works of the entire journal edition were established the represented motives, on the basis of which their characterization was given, and a comparative analysis was carried out in relation to the creative poetics and sensibilities of architects and painters, who contributed the most to the conception of the journal through the ten issues. Although originating from various initiatives and creative sensibilities of faculty members in the fields of architecture and fine art in a wider generation range, the fine art works of their choice for one-year issues of journal, among which the dominant place is free-hand drawing, testify to the high qualitative expression and the variety of represented motifs.

The paper addresses the staff of architects who worked in the towns of Western Siberia in the 1860s to the 1880s. The purpose of the paper is to identify the most demanded architects and the proportion of graduates of Russian leading architectural schools. The paper also deals with the activities of architects whose work had an important influence on the formation of the architectural appearance of the west Siberian town.

This paper is Part II of a study that examines perceptions, attitudes and behaviors regarding termites and treated wood. In Part I, we surveyed homeowners and in this paper we surveyed home builders and architects. The geographic region for both Parts I and II is U.S. states where Formosan subterranean termites (FST) exist. This is a particularly voracious species of termite. Overall, in this paper, respondents are in agreement that treated wood is safe in new home construction framing and is safe if handled and disposed of properly. Forty-one percent of respondents agreed that treated wood is safe for residents in indoor structural applications. Overall, when taking into account the neutral responses, respondents have a favorable view of treated wood safety for all applications posed to them. Fifty-five percent of respondents were not familiar at all with FST. Although they had a general lack of knowledge, 29 percent of respondents said FST were a problem in the regions their companies serve.

Circular building design could significantly reduce the environmental impact of buildings and the pressure on natural resources. However, most buildings today are not designed according to the principles of the circular economy. Most literature has focused on either methods for quantifying the lifecycle analysis of buildings and materials, or on innovative circular building materials, but not much is known about the design process of circular buildings and how architects are dealing with translating the principles of the circular economy to the building sector. A series of semi-structured interviews with architects and consultants that have engaged in circular building design has been conducted to identify the barriers and drivers of the transformation towards a circular building sector. Interviews were analysed using qualitative coding analysis. The conservativeness of the building industry, the lack of political priority and the dependency throughout the building industry were found to be the main barriers, while a supportive client with a well-defined assignment and idea was considered to be the main driver. The contribution of this paper to key actors in the building sector is to identify the main barriers and drivers for a circular building sector.

Very few studies exist on the expectations of clients from architects. There are however, anecdotal evidences that architects may not fully grasp what is most important to their clients. As a pilot study, the aim of this paper was to investigate the expectations of clients from residential design services and architects’ perceptions of those expectations. A questionnaire was designed to suit the purpose of comparison of responses of the two groups. The factor analysis conducted revealed that the expectations from design services could be described in terms of value, professionalism, and empathy. Using mean gap analysis, the study identified areas where architects have under-estimated the expectations of clients as well as those areas where the expectations have been over-estimated. The results would help architects to focus on areas, which are important to the clients and possibly reduce client dissatisfaction. This is study, which is one of the first on the subject, is limited in three ways. First, residential clients were the only ones considered. In addition, respondents were only taken from Nigeria and the sample size as well as the response rate was small.

This article analyses the typological transformations that took place in high-rise accommodation from the 1920’s onwards in Rosario (Argentina). The question that is posed in this paper concerns the role that the architects undertook in the previously mentioned transformations. It continues with the statistical analysis of a representative building sample which has an emphasis on specific buildings (designed by important architects) that are considered as benchmarks of this transformation. This study also includes unpublished information about Rosario that allows the comparison with other times, types of buildings, and also other types of urban realities: all of which contribute to the investigation on the relationship between the architects and the housing market.

This paper deals with Oliver SCHMIDTKE's study of architecture as a professional practice. SCHMIDTKE undertakes to prove that architects form a profession and that architecture represents an activity in need of professionalization. His approach is based on Ulrich OEVERMANN's influential theory of professions, which states that occupational groups become professionalized if they deal, by proxy, with specific crises faced by individuals and communities. In this understanding, architects form a profession because they deal with the practical problem of marking internal and external borders in shared social space. SCHMIDTKE thus examines architectural works with regard to how such crises are aesthetically translated by architects and materialized in an appropriate design vocabulary. His study focuses on the need to professionalize architectural practice in the face of competition from other occupational groups but the analysis of such developments also makes clear the limitations of this theoretical approach to professionalization. Despite this, SCHMIDTKE's account of the professional activity of architects represents an important and highly recommended contribution to the sociology of professions as well as the sociology of architecture. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs090159

El siglo XIX fue propicio para la consolidación de la nueva arquitectura en la provincia Granada. Este artículo pretende ser una aproximación a uno de los arquitectos más relevantes de este período, el masón Juan Monserrat, a través de su importancia en los problemas institucionales mantenidos con la Universidad, el Arzobispado y la Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. La intrusión profesional de los maestros de obra en los trabajos arquitectónicos y los dictámenes y directrices estéticos de la Academia serán otros de los aspectos abordados.In the Nineteenth century, Granada was an appropriate place for the consolidation of the new architecture. The aim of this paper is to present one of the most relevant mason architects of this period: Juan Monserrat through his importance in the institutional problems which happened in Granada between the Archbishopric, the University and the Fine Arts’ Academy of San Fernando. The professional intrusion of mason masters in architectural works and the aesthetical resolutions of the Academy are some aspects analysed in the following text.