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Architecture, often regarded as a three-dimensional art form, relies on a multitude of abstractions during the design process. In this context, architectural elements are effectively represented through vector-based data processing techniques, offering a canvas for creative exploration. To further our understanding of spatial configurations and generate multiple design insights, mathematical structures known as graphs come into play. Graph theory, a fundamental component of this process, it is a mathematical field that studies relationships and connections between objects using vertices and edges, finding applications in computer science, network analysis, and more finds application in architectural design. This study delves into the application of graph theory in the analytical exploration of urban networks, with a focus on tourism parameters in the picturesque town of Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, India. Traditionally, urban network analysis seeks to determine the shortest distance between origin and destination, a metric rooted in accessibility. However, in leisure destinations, a novel approach involving an optimized distance-based algorithm is introduced. This innovative methodology aims to facilitate efficient access to all tourist destinations within the spatial extent while minimizing discrete physical distances. To illustrate this concept, we take the iconic French Quarters in the White Town of Pondicherry as a case study. By applying the optimized distance-based algorithm, we endeavor to uncover the most efficient route for tourists to navigate and leisurely explore the area. The outcome of this analysis reveals a path graph structure, which, when compared to a circular graph structure, demonstrates superior efficiency in guiding tourists through the space. The implications of this tourist route extend beyond the realm of tourism itself. It has the potential to enhance the organization of tourist activities, allowing stakeholders to manage and regulate the flow of visitors. Additionally, it presents an opportunity to promote and develop the region's often-underestimated tourist destinations, which can, in turn, have a positive impact on the local economy. In summary, the integration of graph theory into architectural and urban design methodologies enriches the approach to tourism and offers a holistic perspective on spatial optimization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This issue of Architectural Theory Review explores various themes in contemporary architecture and design. The articles cover topics such as mannerism in contemporary architecture, the aesthetic politics of the quaint in Irish environments, references to metabolism in architectural design, the implications of mid-century modernism in Palm Springs for Native American dispossession, large-scale architectural projects commissioned by Saudi Arabia, the work of Mitchell/Giurgola Architects, the intersection of queerness and architecture, the relationship between architecture and machines, and the significance of style in architectural theory. The reviews of recent books on these topics provide further insights and perspectives. [Extracted from the article]

Environmental factors like air, water, clime, nature, or land can push space to show how it is a complex phenomenon as a society can produce or transform spaces to meet their demands in response to unexpected happenings. Societies driven by environmental, climate, or exterior forces could re-produce new spaces or return to the previous spaces when these forces disappear. Even though people are recently recovering from the global pandemic, scientists believe that the climate crisis will be the next external force waiting for humanity. This paper examines how people react and respond to unexpected exterior forces and happenings when designing their urban life or architecture. As climatic change is expected as the ensuing global force after the pandemic, this paper takes the 16th-19th century Great Frost of London as an example to research urban and architectural assembly instead of this unexpected happening. It discovers that numerous visual documents are recorded that Londoners transformed the Thames River into Thames Frost Fair, and it disappeared when the frost was gone. However, all souvenirs and ephemeral documents as the memory of Frost Fairs still exist. As Lefebvre believes that every society produces its own space, this study aims to reveal that design is only sometimes planned; it sometimes happens even under difficult and impermanent circumstances, depending on the society. Furthermore, it discovers that the term ephemera is not limited by these documents in the case of Frost Fair as architecture and urban space can be ephemera themselves since space was the fundamental source of those, as mentioned earlier ephemeral memorial document. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The laboratory ALICE (Atelier de la Conception de l'Espace) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) advances a comprehensive approach to data-based drawing oriented towards architectural and urban co-design processes. This drawing methodology has been key in the contributive design process they have applied over the last seven years, covering a range of scales and contexts, both within the public and private spheres. Contribution has become a relational strategy that unites a diverse range of participants, each hailing from various backgrounds and carrying unique needs, which come together around the drawing. For this reason, the cultivation of a robust drawing culture, from their teaching to their research and design activities, has become a cornerstone of ALICE's philosophy, where drawing is embraced not merely as a representational tool but as a constructive means for design work. Their methodology has now evolved to include data-based drawing techniques, skillfully merging precise surveying with qualitative data analysis, thereby bridging the gap between quantitative and qualitative facets of design. This article explains this data-based approach to drawing through a series of projects developed in the Greater Geneva region. Throughout them, they explain how ALICE's situated data-based drawings facilitate intricate coordination among students, leading to real-scale interventions; explore the potential of transforming main roads into landscape infrastructures that promote sustainable mobility and urban development; or offer an innovative lens to comprehend the affective connections between citizens and their urban surroundings, transcending traditional cartographic representations. Finally, these efforts are summarised through the analysis of a single drawing showcased at the 2021 Venice Biennale, illustrating the potential of this methodology to harmonize the collective efforts of various stakeholders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the historical research in the field of architecture. It mentions he narrative of the intentions of the figures involved, summarised and represented in the built building; and s the building within the narratives on the same level as architectural projects, urban plans, models, paper architecture, and utopian project.

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In the era of rapid development of science and technology, in order to attract the public's attention, many architectural designs unilaterally pursue nonmainstream design, completely ignoring the surrounding environment and historical context. The original spatial features and scales have disappeared, and the root cause is that the spatial shaping is separated from the urban context. Urban design that continues the urban context is not only a method to solve specific urban space problems and contradictions but also an important means to build a beautiful urban space and achieve sustainable development. The urban design of the two banks of the Pinghe River in the east of Foshan is based on the sorting and analysis of the material and spiritual elements of the context of the base. This article will go back to the trend of Western architectural contexts and discuss how to design new buildings while respecting the historical context of the city through rational speculation on the two dimensions of contextualism architectural theory, space and time, combined with architectural cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Parametric design, driven by digital technology, has sparked extensive research and debate in the domains of architecture and urban planning, offering a new approach to issue solving. Architecture and landscape architecture, like architecture and urban planning, are disciplines that are part of the artificial environment. Architectural landscape design has begun to be influenced by parametric design. This study presents a more technical parametric design technique of architectural landscape design that involves artificial intelligence parametric analysis and proposes an architectural landscape planning and design method that incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) parametric analysis. This is a new discipline of concurrent design that complements and expands architectural landscape design methodologies and is based on artificial intelligence methods. This study integrates artificial intelligence parametric design theory and methodology into architectural landscape design and presents a parametric method appropriate for landscape architecture design based on architectural landscape architecture characteristics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fernando Chueca's architectural work covers a wide period from 1936 to 2004. During this time, he got involved in architectural and urban projects, and developed a wide range of activities related to cultural heritage preservation. His multifaceted personality resulted in his being a full professor, a tireless researcher, an eloquent speaker, and a prolific essayist. Through this graphic biography (where all kinds of drawings and writings are running in parallel, acting in a complementary manner), we will highlight Chueca's most significant aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PhD programmes within the disciplines of architecture and urban design have in the last decades presented various designerly approaches. In this paper, we suggest viewing the numerous conceptual contributions as an 'emerging archipelago' of different attitudes and positions which PhD candidates, as much as PhD programmes, need to navigate, find their standing point within, and contribute to. By presenting five cross-sections of this archipelago, our aim is to offer perspectives to dissect, cut through and explore the nature of the complex conceptual landscape of PhD by Design (PbD). These cross sections have been drawn up from literature reviews and discussions within the context of the Erasmus+ project 'Mapping, Reflecting and Developing PhD-by-Design Programmes'. Each of the five sections presents one of the following topical debates: science/design, subjectivity, disciplinarity, literacies and practice/theory. In our analysis of Annelies De Smet's doctoral thesis, 'Architecting Bodies by Immersive Gestures', we (graphically) sketch out how a research project can be positioned within the messy and continuously emerging PbD landscape. Introducing the metaphor of an emergent archipelago, the paper opts for an open attitude. By dissecting this archipelago, we aim (in an inevitable act of simplification) to unpack perspectives and raise questions regarding the various approaches that coexist, with overlaps, nuances and oppositions present in their own foundations. We encourage readers to explore in a non-dogmatic way - and to position themselves in - the 'emerging archipelago' of attitudes and positions and to thus contribute to its ongoing formation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses the midst of Lebanon's so-called October protests of 2019 and 2020 which saw students and citizens demonstrate for weeks against the country's sectarian political system, as well as against unemployment, corruption in the public sector. It mentions that this arq ‘perspective' accounts for the Egg as a cultural sounding board and recounts its appropriation as a political act.

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In this article the author talks about toward a heterogeneous account of theory disseminated across different genres and media. Topic discussed include all the presentations employed more than one of the proposed genres, and indeed genres not covered in this report, and genres are essentially literary institutions, or social contracts between a writer and a specific public.

Mereology offers an approach to considering the city through its composing parts. Daniel Koehler – co‐founder of the architectural research practice Lab for Environmental Design Strategies (lab‐eds), leader of an Urban Design research cluster at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Innsbruck in Austria – sets out its philosophical background and explores how it can be applied in this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Writing a generation later, well after Bunshaft's death and with the benefit ofhistoricalhindsight,Adamsincorporates previous articles of his own, on SOM as well as on Bunshaft. BOOKS 113 Downloaded from http://online.ucpress.edu/jsah/article-pdf/80/1/113/458200/jsah.2021.80.1.113.pdf by Inception Technologies Inc, Mike Dussa on 25 March 2021 The subtitle notwithstanding, Adams's main interest is in Bunshaft'spsyche, a challengegiventhearchitect'sguardednature and aversion to self-disclosure. Not only architects and artists but also enlightened officials who were equally dedicated to the avant-garde ethos. That Bunshaft began work on Lever House the same year the film version of AynRand'snovelTheFountainheadwasreleased (1949) seems hardly coincidental: Bunshaft surely identified with Howard Roark, the solitary, individualistic young architectwhodefiespublicnormsintheinterestofartisticintegrity. [Extracted from the article]

There is increasing interest among architectural historians in addressing environmental concerns on both historical and theoretical terms. Simultaneously, other fields have been looking to architectural scholarship to understand the historical relationship between the built and the natural environment. For architectural historians, and others, this has also involved correlating the shifting discourse on environment with a history of architectural transformations and disciplinary expansions. These engagements have made clear that the environmental history of architecture does not simply add more objects to the historical database, but also changes the terms of historical analysis, as new matters of concern and new conceptual frameworks come to the fore. This paper gathers together a dialogic set of projections from scholars responding to the question of how we might newly understand the historical relationship between the built and the natural environment, and the opportunities and challenges this new phase presents to scholars, design researchers, and architects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the literature that has dealt to date with architecture and urban design related to London's 2012 Olympics and their urban legacy, emphasis has been placed on questions of where and what has been built or envisioned, and on how this can be viewed as reflective of broader political agendas, economic contexts and accompanying issues. In this, there has been relatively little emphasis on design processes and ideas, and particularly on questions of how these are oriented toward and help construct urban legacy as a future – as a matter of how and when. An urban legacy design process was established in 2008 to facilitate the transition of the Olympic Park to a set of new neighbourhoods by 2031 and, through it, to help fulfil a promise of long-term sustainable regeneration for east London. The twenty-three year timeframe and its intended outcome raise questions concerning the urban and architectural imagination of distant futures as of the possible processes of their realisation. Indeed, the ability to design for legacy depends on ways of anticipating the social, political and economic realities that will shape development in east London in the future and of using these to both chart and represent possible paths and conceptual approaches to desired outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents the discussion on Matias del Campo and Neil Leach being both the architects and professors working in the area of AI. Topics include SPAN's award-winning architectural designs informed by advanced geometry, computational methodologies, and philosophical inquiry; and helding two NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellowships developing 3D-printing technologies for the Moon and Mars.

The article focuses on the profile of several contributors of the periodical including Jennifer Bonner, an Associate Professor of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Yinka Ilori, a London-based multidisciplinary artist who specialises in storytelling; and Cristina Monteiro a RIBA chartered architect and a co-founder of DK-CM.

At a time when architecture's historical relationship to the city -founded on various formal and, more recently, informal homologies - has been rendered inoperative, how might a renewed architecture constructively inform the megalopolis? RE Somol flings all the formal and informal protocols offered to the city by architecture out of the pram and calls for a politics of shape, a potential trajectory tested with two projects by Zago Architecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our paper addresses how building design elucidates the connection between two definitions of politics: ‘Big Politics’ and micropolitics. We will seek to examine how these two versions of politics are imbricated; how, in other words, codified ideologies and political institutions circulate within the everyday practices by which new actors and sites of contestation enter the social collective. The conceptual space for this argument has already been mapped out by various authors, including Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Bruno Latour and Michel Foucault. These authors have variously proposed how powerful totalities always travel along small, fragile conduits. Or, as Deleuze and Guattari put it, ‘the boss's office is as much at the end of the hall as on top of the tower’. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In recent decades, conservationists and planners have co-opted contextualism, reducing it to a tool for enforcing urban conformity. Here Charles Jencks reclaims contextualism as a dynamic design strategy. He identifies four different contextual treatments that as well as ensuring continuity are potentially transformative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]