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152. O papel do dicionário de Quatremère de Quincy nos debates sobre as preceptivas arquitetônicas
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Renata Baesso Pereira
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media_common.quotation_subject ,Art history ,General Medicine ,Art ,Architectural theory ,media_common - Abstract
Em 1788, Quatremère de Quincy (Paris, 1755-1849), que então se afirmava nos círculos eruditos de debates sobre a Arte na França, foi comissionado para elaborar o Dictionnaire d’Architecture para a Encyclopédie Méthodique do editor Panckoucke. A obra original foi publicada em três tomos (entre 1788 e 1825) e, em 1832, seu autor a redistribuiu e condensou em dois volumes no Dictionnaire historique d’architecture. O artigo discute as razões pelas quais esse gênero de texto, que separa os temas por verbetes e é publicado em fascículos, foi eleita para levar matérias ligadas à teoria da Arquitetura a várias classes de leitores, com o objetivo de orientar a formação do gosto não apenas dos arquitetos, mas também do público letrado em geral. more...
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- 2021
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153. Mademoiselle Sculpsit: A Backstory
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Rebecca Williamson
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Race (biology) ,Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Architecture ,Art history ,Art ,Education ,Architectural theory ,media_common - Abstract
No image is more common in surveys of architectural theory than the frontispiece of the second edition of Laugier’s Essai sur l’architecture.1 In lecture courses that race through centuries in the ... more...
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- 2021
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154. From Architectural Analysis to Architectural Theory: City Gates as Public Spaces in Syro-Anatolian Urban Centers
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Lorenzon
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Archeology ,Engineering ,Architectural engineering ,Architectural analysis ,business.industry ,Conservation ,business ,Architectural theory - Abstract
Elite and imperial architecture is usually associated with public buildings, as these structures are the more accurately designed reflection of empires' intentions to forge identities and craft narratives through the creation and use of public spaces. In the Middle East, the urban built environment of the Iron Age is characterized by a lack of stereotypical public spaces, creating a challenge for historians and archaeologists who study architecture to determine the sociocultural impact of public buildings on communities. Thus, materiality and morphology become two important architectural features to assess architectural ontology and to understand the complex community relationship with architecture. This contribution focuses on investigating public space in the Syro-Anatolian urban centers as a concrete example of community engagement with public architecture to forge and maintain identities. more...
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- 2021
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155. What is the Matter with Macao? Exploring A Materialist and Nomadic Theory of Game and Play
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Dolphijn, Rick and Dolphijn, Rick
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In contrast to the dominant ideas of how 'game and play' work, which I label 'transcendentalist' and 'sedentary', my study on Macao proposes an alternative, 'materialist' and 'nomadic', perspective. This comes down to thinking 'game and play' not as an 'artificial' activity that takes place in a safe, enclosed environment, but as an elementary part of life, crucial to how imagination works, and to how imagination is entangled in the materiality of the urban sphere. After mapping an alternative history of how to think 'game and play' differently, working with anthropologist Karl Goos, architect Aldo van Eyk, artist Constant, and in the end philosopher Gilles Deleuze, I engage with the city of Macao, its architecture, its politics, and its gambling practices. I use fiction authors Leslie T Chang and Louis Borges to show, finally, how Macao, in contemporary China, equals the infinite game of chance, materialized; the much needed other in its contemporary urban landscape. more...
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- 2022
156. Prácticas Críticas: Cuerpo, Arquitectura y Representación
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Diaz Vera, Monica Alejandra and Diaz Vera, Monica Alejandra
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[EN] Studying the theory of the body in architecture not only implies questioning its meaning in the discipline, it also calls into question the representations behind the production and reproduction of the hegemonic discourses that constitute and guide it. How has the theory and practice of architecture been linked to the body? What bodies theorize about bodies? A critical and feminist review of it is vital when breaking down the old disciplinary paradigms, inviting us to rethink the body and its representativeness in the development of theoretical production in architecture., [ES] Estudiar la teoría del cuerpo en la arquitectura no sólo implica el cuestionamiento de su significado en la disciplina, también pone en entredicho las representaciones tras la producción y reproducción de los discursos hegemónicos que lo constituyen y guían. ¿Cómo se ha vinculado la teoría y práctica de la arquitectura al cuerpo? ¿Qué cuerpos teorizan sobre los cuerpos? Una revisión crítica y feminista de resulta vital a la hora de desmenuzar los viejos paradigmas disciplinares invitando a repensar en cuerpo y su representatividad en el desarrollo de la producción teórica en la arquitectura. more...
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- 2022
157. Building Black : Towards Antiracist Architecture
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Mason, Elliot C. and Mason, Elliot C.
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Building Black: Towards Antiracist Architecture brings together the forefronts of Black Studies and architectural theory. Only recently, architecture and urban planning have started to confront their constitution of race as a social referent, and their part in the establishment of racist logics. This confrontation usually results in projects that respond to their surroundings, that merge into a changing and multicultural city. Building Black, however, proposes the construction of a Black radical position: building islands of resistance against the expanding sea of imperial architecture. In Building Black, Mason reads the racial meaning of current construction projects in England through the histories of race and architecture. Closely reading Immanuel Kant’s formulation of the Subject as the creator of space and the development of whiteness in Modernist architecture, Mason finds that Blackness is an ongoing, antecedent island that can never quite be subsumed in the racializing project of modernity. Pushing this further, he positions antiracist architecture on a self-enclosed island de-linked from the city, preserving a sociality that cannot be incorporated into liberal universality. Alongside sustained critiques of architectural theory and Western philosophy, and close engagements with Black Studies and Indigenous thinking, Mason offer a critique of the writing subject as a collaborator in the racialization of urban cartography. In response, Mason turns inwards in this book, opening the impossibility of the writer’s position in architecture and philosophy, and setting up an alternative mode of self-critical architectural writing., CC Y-NC-SA 4.0 more...
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- 2022
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158. Le sol est un bien commun
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Hertweck, Florian and Hertweck, Florian
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- 2022
159. Complejo Habitacional Bulevar Artigas, Uruguay: propuesta de ciudad desde la crítica de la segunda posguerra
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Ritter, Carolina, Castro Gonsales, Celia, Ritter, Carolina, and Castro Gonsales, Celia
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This article is essentially inserted in the conceptual and projectual field of Uruguayan housing cooperatives, and its objective is to verify how and with what intensity the proposals of the international critical scenario of the 1950s and 1960s are resented, in relation to the functionalist city, in the projectual strategies used in the Bulevar Artigas Housing Complex. For this study, the scenario is mainly played by the groups Team 10 and Metabolistas, and it is argued here that, in an initially positive context given by the cooperative system, the reverberations of the principles of these groups were a great contribution to the success of this complex in terms of appropriation of the spaces by the inhabitants and of a general understanding, on their part, of their habitat. The limits and potentialities of these theoretical proposals, as well as their dialogue with contemporary life, could be verified through the observation of the “reality” of the housing complex by the authors., Inserido essencialmente no campo conceitual e projetual das cooperativas habitacionais uruguaias, este artigo tem como objetivo verificar de que modo e com que intensidade estão presentes as propostas do cenário crítico internacional dos anos 1950 e 1960, em relação à cidade funcionalista, nas estratégias projetuais do Complexo Habitacional Bulevar Artigas. Para este estudo, o cenário é protagonizado principalmente pelos grupos Team 10 e Metabolistas, e defende-se aqui que, em um contexto inicialmente positivo dado pelo sistema cooperativo, as reverberações dos princípios desses grupos foram de grande contribuição para o êxito desse conjunto em termos de apropriação dos espaços pelos moradores e de uma compreensão geral, por parte desses, de seu habitat. Os limites e potencialidades dessas propostas teóricas, assim como seu diálogo com a vida contemporânea, pôde ser verificado por meio da observação da “realidade” do conjunto habitacional, por parte das autoras., Inserido esencialmente en el campo conceptual y proyectual de las cooperativas de viviendas uruguayas, este artículo tiene como objetivo verificar de qué modo y con qué intensidad se presentan las propuestas del escenario crítico internacional de los años 1950 y 1960, en relación con la ciudad funcionalista, en las estrategias proyectuales utilizadas en el Complejo Habitacional Bulevar Artigas. Para este estudio, el escenario es protagonizado principalmente por los grupos Team 10 y Metabolistas, y se defiende aquí que, en un contexto inicialmente positivo dado por el sistema cooperativo, las reverberaciones de los principios de estos grupos fueron de grande aporte para el éxito de ese conjunto en términos de apropiación de los espacios por los habitantes y de una comprensión general, por parte de estos, de su hábitat. Las autoras averiguaron los límites y potencialidades de esas propuestas teóricas, así como su diálogo con la vida contemporánea a partir de la observación de la “realidad” del conjunto de viviendas. more...
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- 2022
160. The ineffable and the knowable : a design theory on the double unknown side of the architectural project
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Vaíllo-Martínez, Gonzalo and Vaíllo-Martínez, Gonzalo
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Ziel dieser Dissertation ist es, einen theoretisch-praktischen Rahmen für das architektonische Projekt (abgekürzt AP) zu entwickeln, um seine Konzepte, Potenziale und Effekte auf die Tätigkeit der Raumgestaltung und -nutzung im Rahmen eines zeitgenössischen Anti-Exzeptionalismus des menschlichen Subjekts zu untersuchen. Unter der Annahme, dass das Ende der Moderne—und das kritische postmoderne Projekt—auf einer anthropozentrischen Weltansicht basiert, stellt sich die Frage, wie sich der architektonische Diskurs und die Praxis unter einem subjektlosen Schema artikulieren können. Ausgehend von einer realistischen Sichtweise, in der jedes Objekt irreduzibel auf die Art und Weise ist, wie es wahrgenommen wird, steht das AP als autonome One/Many-Entität da: Jedes AP ist ein unteilbares Paket einer einheitlichen Existenz oder Seins, das mit einer heterogenen Vielfalt von Manifestationen verbunden ist. Wie geht unsere Herangehensweise an das freistehende AP mit seiner ontologischen Bedingung der Einheit-Mannigfaltigkeit um? Was bedeutet es für die kognitiven Aktivitäten des Entwerfens und Bewohnens, dass das, was das AP ist, was es tut und was es ausmacht, nicht vollständig erfasst werden kann? Diese doppelte Unmöglichkeit, die existentielle Tiefe und die materielle Extension des AP genau zu erfassen, ist nicht nachteilig, sondern gerade förderlich, um seine doppelte Unbekanntheit als kognitive Herausforderung anzusprechen. Hierfür wird die Ästhetik zum Mittel, um in die Tiefe und Offenheit des Projekts einzudringen. Einerseits offenbart sich das einheitliche Sein jedes AP—One—für die Erfahrung unbeschreibbar. Sein tiefes ästhetisches Register kann erahnt werden, entzieht sich aber materieller Artikulation. Andererseits führt die qualitative Mannigfaltigkeit der AP—Many—zu einer Pluralisierung ihrer verbleibenden Myriade von Erscheinungen und Wirkungen jenseits ihres biografischen und gegenwärtigen Zustands. Da es keine essentiellen Formulierungen oder autoritativen Ansätz, The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to elaborate a theoretical-practical framework on the architectural project (abbreviated AP), to explore its conceptions, possibilities, and impacts on the activity of spatial design and occupation under a contemporary anti-exceptionalism of the human subject. Assuming the end of modernity—and its critical postmodern project within it—based on an anthropocentric worldview, the question is how architectural discourse and practice can be articulated under a subjectless scheme. Adopting a realist view in which every object is irreducible to how it is apprehended, the AP stands as an autonomous One/Many entity: each AP is an indivisible package of a unitary existence or being coupled with a heterogeneous multiplicity of manifestations. How does our approach to the free-standing AP deal with its ontological condition of unity-multiplicity? What does it mean for the cognitive activities of designing and inhabiting that what the AP is, as well as what it does and what composes it, cannot be fully encompassed? This double impossibility of faithfully attaining the existential depth and material extension of the AP, instead of unfavorable, is precisely conducive to addressing its double unknown as a cognitive challenge. For this, aesthetics becomes the means to enter into the project’s depth and openness. On the one hand, the unitary being of each AP—or One—reveals itself ineffable to experience. Its deep aesthetic register can be intuited but escapes material articulation. On the other hand, the AP’s qualitative cornucopia—or Many—incites a pluralization of its remnant myriad of appearances and effects beyond its biographical and present state. Since there are no essential expressions or authoritative approaches, each observer can freely engage with the project. Such emancipation of the cognizer suggests a form of socio-political equality that derives from the AP’s autonomous and ontological condition, rather than from moral or rational, Gonzalo Vaíllo-Martínez, Dissertation Universität Innsbruck 2022, Kurzfassung englisch, deutsch und spanisch more...
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161. Nikola Dobrović - The Shifting Modes of Critical Practice in Architecture
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Milinković, Marija, Milinković, Marija, Milinković, Marija, and Milinković, Marija
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Knjiga Nikola Dobrović – The Shifting Modes of Critical Practice in Architecture posvećena je profesionalnom životu i radu arhitekte Nikole Dobrovića (1897–1967), nesporno jednoj od najistaknutijih ličnosti arhitektonskog modernizma u Srbiji i Jugoslaviji. Monografija je nastala kao rezultat istraživanja originalne arhivske građe i studijskih putovanja koja su, tragom Dobrovićeve bogate stručne prakse, vodila obalom Jadranskog primorja od Ulcinja do Dubrovnika, preko Praga, Roterdama i Haga, do Beograda i Novog Sada. Kroz studiju dobro poznatih realizovanih objekata, od Hotela Grand na Lopudu (1934-1936) do zgrade Generalštaba u Beogradu (1953-1963), nerealizovanih projekata i konkursnih radova kao i ključnih urbanističkih planova, publikacija i rukopisa, autorka daje nov uvid u Dobrovićeve autorske pozicije i ukazuje na kontinuitet i značaj njegovog kritičkog mišljenja i delovanja u arhitekturi. more...
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- 2022
162. Brutalist Trauma, Picturesque Repair
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van den Heuvel, D. (author) and van den Heuvel, D. (author)
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A discussion of the interrelations between post-war Brutalism and Picturesque revival in the work of Alison and Peter Smithson, in response to the conference question of urban design urgencies of today, most notably the question of city repair., Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public., Space & Type more...
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- 2022
163. Collapse and Reconstitution: Autonomy and the Avant-Garde
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van den Heuvel, D. (author) and van den Heuvel, D. (author)
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A critical discussion of the historical avant-garde, De Stijl and the work of Theo van Doesburg and its reception and re-interpretations through the years. For the occasion of an art installation at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht by the artist Antonis Pittas., Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public., Space & Type more...
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- 2022
164. Two Visions of Architecture and the Problem of Representation
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Sirowy, Beata and Fløistad, Guttorm, editor
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- 2007
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165. Prisons, Palaces, and the Architecture of the Imagination
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Coulson, Victoria and Rawlings, Peter, editor
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- 2007
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166. Reflections on Interdisciplinarianism
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Williams, Kim and Williams, Kim, editor
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- 2006
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167. Architectural design in the era of technology
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Herman Neuckermans
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architectural theory ,architectural technology ,technological innovation ,Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying ,NA9000-9428 ,Architectural drawing and design ,NA2695-2793 - Published
- 2017
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168. Atouts, complexité et difficultés d’une étude portant sur le patrimoine hospitalier
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Pierre-Louis Laget
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history ,hospital ,hospital architecture ,inventory of sources ,documentary research ,architectural theory ,Fine Arts - Abstract
Any study of the hospital heritage will come up against two major obstacles. The first difficulty is in defining the territorial perimeter of the study, a region with some sort of geographical and political coherence, considering that the architectural issues were transnational one, as early as the eighteenth century. The second obstacle derives from the first in that the corpus to be studied is a national one, at least, and the categories of buildings to be considered were spread out all over the national territory, witnessing extraordinary development from the middle of the nineteenth century. Hospitals, hospices, mental asylums, sanatoriums... there were several thousands of them at the end of the twentieth century. This mere number might appear to be an insurmountable obstacle to a study that aims at being both exhaustive and in-depth. But the researcher nonetheless has a precious tool in the multitude of publications, mainly articles in the press, dealing with this subject and often taking into consideration the questions of architectural design. There is probably no other building type that is so thoroughly addressed by published texts, although of course this is at the same time another drawback since reading all these articles takes time. Nonetheless, the variety of viewpoints expressed in these articles allows the researcher not to go off in search of unpublished archival sources. The disadvantage of these published sources, however, is that they tend to present analyses of the predominant architectural types, marked by the ideology, the tyranny, of progress, at the expense of other designs following other conceptions and consequently unpublished and unknown to us. more...
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- 2017
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169. Pojav eksperimentalne arhitekture in začetek diskurza o kritični arhitekturi na Kitajskem na prelomu 21. stoletja
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Pepelko, Karin and Vampelj Suhadolnik, Nataša
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arhitekturna teorija ,Yung Ho Chung ,experimental architecture ,People’s Republic of China ,Liu Jiakun ,kritična arhitektura ,eksperimentalna arhitektura ,critical architecture ,Ljudska republika Kitajska ,architectural theory - Abstract
Diplomsko delo razišče, v kakšnih političnih, gospodarskih, družbenih in kulturnih pogojih so se konec devetdesetih let 20. stoletja na Kitajskem pričeli uveljavljati novi arhitekti z zasebnimi praksami ter kaj so želeli doseči z alternativnim pristopom do arhitekturnega oblikovanja. Ti t. i. eksperimentalni arhitekti so kljubovali dolgoletni predpisani tradiciji beaux-arts, ki je prevladovala v Maovem času, hkrati pa so zavračali masovno gradnjo pod okriljem kapitalizma, ki je vzniknila konec osemdesetih in v devetdesetih letih, ko je kitajska vlada izvajala ekonomske reforme z namenom modernizacije in napredka za vsako ceno – pri arhitekturi je to rezultiralo v nepremišljeni reprodukcijski gradnji. Ta nova generacija arhitektov je težila k ustvarjanju drugačne arhitekturne prakse, ki deluje človeku, družbi in naravi v prid ter ne služi kot propaganda ideološkim načelom vladajočih, niti ni njen primarni objektiv čim večji zaslužek. S to naravnanostjo so eksperimentalni arhitekti ustvarjali arhitekturo, na kakršno Kitajska ni bila navajena, s poudarkom na avtonomiji, kritičnemu regionalizmu in formalnih operacijah arhitekture. Posledično so med preostalimi arhitekti in arhitekturnimi eksperti, akademiki in umetniki zanetili intelektualno razpravo o kritičnosti arhitekurne prakse in njunih možnostih oz. limitacijah pod političnimi in družbenimi pogoji sodobne Kitajske. This bachelor’s dissertation explores the political, economic, social and cultural conditions in which new architects with private practices began to gain ground in China in the late 1990s, and what they wanted to achieve with their alternative approach to architectural design. These so-called experimental architects defied the long-standing tradition of beaux-arts that prevailed in Mao's time, while simultaneously rejecting mass construction under the auspices of capitalism that emerged in the late 1980s and during the 1990s, when the Chinese government implemented economic reforms to modernise the country, promoting progress at all costs and resulting in reckless reproductive construction. This new generation of architects wanted to offer the Chinese nation a different architectural practice that would benefit man, society and nature, and would not serve as means of endorsing the ruling class’ ideology, nor would it be its primary objective to profit substantially. With such notions and principles, experimental architects commenced designing architecture never before seen in China, with an emphasis on autonomy, critical regionalism, and the formal operations of architecture. This practice sparked an intellectual discussion amongst other architects and architectural experts, academics and artists alike regarding the criticality of architectural practice and its possibilities or, more likely, limitations under the political and social conditions of contemporary China. more...
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170. L'architettura tra Withes e Grays. Strumenti, metodi e applicazioni compositive / The architecture between Whites and Grays. Tools, methods and compositive applications
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Emanuela Giudice
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Whites ,Grays ,Oppositions ,Perspecta ,IAUS ,Postmodernismo americano ,American Postmodernism ,Letture compositive ,Teoria dell'architettura ,Architectural Theory ,Architecture ,NA1-9428 - Abstract
Il Novecento dell’architettura ha conosciuto numerosi episodi di dibattito intenso. È il secolo nel quale si sono moltiplicati in maniera esponenziale gli «strumenti discorsivi»: i manifesti, i saggi critici, le riviste, le scuole, le mostre. Così, più ancora che nei secoli precedenti, ha preso piede il discorso intorno all’architettura, sovrapponendosi a tratti all’architettura medesima, alle sue forme e alla sua costruzione. La parola, prendendo il sopravvento, può nascondere allo studioso la forma architettonica, a meno che lo studioso medesimo non ricorra al disegno come strumento di analisi, vero apparecchio scientifico utile a disvelare grammatiche e sintassi di composizioni architettoniche attraverso la tecnica della «lettura compositiva». / The Twentieth century in architecture has experienced many episodes of intense debate. It is the century in which the 'discursive tools" increased through manifestos, essays, journals, schools, exhibitions. Thus, even more than in the previous centuries, the talk around architecture improved, overlapping at the same time the architecture itself with its forms and its construction. The word takes over and it can hide the architectural form to the scholar, unless this one does not use the design as a tool of analysis, true scientific and useful medium to reveal the architectural composition and its syntax, using the «compositive lectures». more...
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- 2014
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171. Patterns of the Expanding City: An Algorithmic Interpretation of Otto Wagner’s Work
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Zoltán Bereczki
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Archeology ,History ,Materials Science (miscellaneous) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,generative modelling ,Conservation ,01 natural sciences ,Boom ,urban planning ,Austria-Hungary ,Urban planning ,0601 history and archaeology ,Economic geography ,media_common ,Architectural theory ,Pattern language ,060102 archaeology ,Interpretation (philosophy) ,010401 analytical chemistry ,Empire ,06 humanities and the arts ,0104 chemical sciences ,Archaeology ,pattern language ,Capital (economics) ,Vienna ,CC1-960 - Abstract
Central Europe witnessed an urban boom at the beginning of the 20th century. By that time, the leading state of the area was Austria-Hungary, with Vienna as its capital. Before the First World War, even larger expansion of the cities was predictable. Otto Wagner, a leading architect of the empire and an expert in urban planning and architectural theory, published his vision about the future of the evolution of cities in 1911. In this book, he formulates clear rules about how a city should sustainably expand in a controlled manner. In this article, these rules of the inherited patterns are systematised and turned into recursive algorithms to simulate the urban growth controlled by them and the resulting patterns. The algorithms are tested on 1911 Vienna and, as comparison, on 2021 Miskolc, a medium-sized city in Hungary with different geographic surroundings. In the article, the resulting patterns are presented in 2D and 3D. more...
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- 2021
172. Pre-war design, post-war sovereignty: four plans for one city in Israel/Palestine
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Hadas Shadar and Eli Maslovski
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Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,State (polity) ,Sovereignty ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Political science ,Architecture ,Economic history ,Post war ,Israel palestine ,Architectural theory ,media_common - Abstract
Architectural theory, the British Garden City concept, and the precedent of post-war British cities were central to Zionist planning before the establishment of the State of Israel during the 1948 ... more...
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- 2021
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173. In defense of the wrongly convicted—Ernst Börschmann’s Chinesische Architektur and the controversial synchrony of the Chinese architecture survey
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Alexandra Harrer
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Cultural Studies ,History ,Field (Bourdieu) ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Art history ,021107 urban & regional planning ,02 engineering and technology ,Building and Construction ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,021105 building & construction ,Architecture ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Civil and Structural Engineering ,Architectural theory - Abstract
Writing the architecture survey remains one of the biggest challenges in the field. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western scholars usually followed a synchronic approach (literally ‘with-time’)... more...
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- 2021
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174. Tas-de-charge – An Essential Part of Gothic Vault
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Krisztina Fehér
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Course (architecture) ,Vault (architecture) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Art history ,Historiography ,Art ,Charge (warfare) ,Architecture ,Arch ,Architectural theory ,Medieval architecture ,media_common - Abstract
Gothic architecture can be viewed from several perspectives, including stylistic aspects, architectural theory, and structural analysis.As Gothic architecture is a skeletal construction, it is essential to achieve an equilibrium with the multiple loads and forces. Medieval master masons' architectural knowledge was firmly based on empirical learning, which stimulated the dynamic development of structural innovations.This paper emphasises and describes a particular type of vault springer, one of the most complicated and sensitive parts of Gothic construction. Known as tas-de-charge, it became especially characteristic of high Gothic architecture. According to its principle, the springer's lower courses contain the merged vault nerves and are carved from one single stone block in each course. The beds of these courses are not radial as those of the average voussoirs, but horizontal. Without the concept of tas-de-charge, the development of late Gothic vaults could not be imaginable. This particular solution made possible the creation of elegantly narrow imposts supporting the vault ribs, the double arch and the formerets. So far, tas-de-charge has not been a focus of interest in the historiography of Hungarian medieval architecture; however, it appears that it was commonly applied in our late Romanesque and early Gothic monuments. more...
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- 2021
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175. 'Sun and Shadow:' Exploring Marcel Breuer’s Basic Design Principle
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Evangelia Tsilika
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Urban Studies ,Cultural Studies ,Structuralism (biology) ,Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,Philosophy ,Architecture ,Dualism ,Shadow (psychology) ,Epistemology ,Architectural theory - Abstract
This study is an exploration of Marcel Breuer’s basic design methodology as it appears in his writings, particularly his 1956 monograph Marcel Breuer: Sun and Shadow, the Philosophy of an Architect... more...
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- 2021
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176. Conversation Rooms: Critical Dialogues in Architectural History and Theory at the GSA, Johannesburg
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Huda Tayob
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Cultural Studies ,Postcolonialism ,architecture ,Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,media_common.quotation_subject ,postcolonialism ,architectural pedagogy ,History of architecture ,Visual arts ,Urban Studies ,Architecture ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,Conversation ,Sociology ,race ,Curriculum ,architectural theory ,media_common ,Architectural theory - Abstract
This paper discusses Architectural History and Theory at the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg in 2019. The curriculum is centered on a series of conversations as the means to generate forms of engagement for a plurality of voices, contested views and dialogic encounters, as a way of working toward an alternative institutional imaginary. The focus on conversation and dialogue aims to create a space for slow and shared scholarship, to become a manifestation of spatial resistance to the imperatives of the neoliberal university and global economies of higher education. This paper discusses some of the key conceptual and practical moves undertaken in the development of a new history and theory course through examples of student work. The paper points to inclusive and reflexive pedagogical methods and modes of collaboration as central to resistance, and as the means that enable generative and supportive networks across geographic and institutional boundaries. more...
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177. Heimat. Volkstum. Architektur
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Schmitz, Rainer
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Architekturtheorie ,Bund Heimatschutz ,Kaiserreich ,Nationalsozialismus ,Olympiastadion Berlin ,Ernst Rudorff ,Volkstum ,Heimat ,Nationalisierung ,Kollektive Identität ,Architektur ,Kulturgeschichte ,Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts ,Architectural Theory ,German Empire ,National Socialism ,Olympia Stadium Berlin ,Home ,Nationalization ,Collective Identity ,Architecture ,Cultural History ,bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture ,bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies - Abstract
Um 1900 entwickelte die Heimatschutzbewegung aus dem Volkstumsdiskurs heraus eine identitätspolitische Spielart der Moderne, die eine eigene Architekturprogrammatik einschloss. Rainer Schmitz untersucht deren Entstehung und Konzeption durch Akteure des 1904 gegründeten »Bundes Heimatschutz« wie Ernst Rudorff, Paul Schultze-Naumburg oder Otto March. Im Fokus seiner Sondierungen steht die Übersetzung gesellschaftlicher Konstrukte und Phänomene wie der »sozialen Frage«, Heimat, Volkstum oder Antisemitismus in den Baudiskurs sowie deren Architektonisierung in Projekten wie den Nationalstadien oder der »deutschen Ostkolonisation«. Damit trägt er u.a. zur Debatte über die Konstruktion kollektiver Identitäten bei. more...
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178. SDR: Networking : A web-based learning environment to promote an interdisciplinary and participatory education in the information age
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Madrazo, Leandro, Dillenbourg, Pierre, editor, Wasson, Barbara, editor, Ludvigsen, Sten, editor, and Hoppe, Ulrich, editor
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179. Genesis of Spatiology •
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László Daragó
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Theoretical physics ,Engineering ,Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,Field (physics) ,business.industry ,Architecture ,Conservation ,Space (mathematics) ,business ,Architectural theory - Abstract
We can find the sprouts of the architectural approach of space in ancient Greek Philosophy. The process lasts from the Pythagorean notion (kenon) – which is the emptiness between the numbers – to the definition of space by St Augustine, where he determines the forming of space as the main role of architecture. The enquiry regarding architectural approach of space intensified after the Second World War – Hajnóczi joined into this discourse with his works on the field of spatial theory in the 1960’s. He intended to create a unified framework for the different approaches of space from different fields of science. This common range of interpretation is deriving from the analytic understanding of space – that is Spatiology. Overviewing Hajnóczi’s theoretical works we will try to show the evolution of his thoughts and will try to identify the antecedents of his theoretical structures in the works of contemporary thinkers. In his academic doctorate dissertation in 1977 with the analytic approach he subdivided the architectural space into its elemental spatial relations generated by the constructional objects and then he has attempted to give the quantitative and also the qualitative understanding of them. In his Genesis – as the last accord of his oeuvre – he tried to understand the particular elements of this system and also build an intelligent whole of them again.A tér építészeti értelmezésének megalapozását az európai kultúrában már a görög bölcseletben megleljük. A püthegóreusok számok közötti ürességétől (kenon) az építészeti tér Szt. Ágoston általi meghatározásáig tart a folyamat, melyben végül az építészet legfőbb feladataként a tér alakítását határozták meg. Ezen értelmezések körüli érdeklődés felizzott a második világháborút követő időben – ebbe a diskurzusba kapcsolódott be Hajnóczi Gyula térelméleti munkássága az 1960-as években. Azzal a szándékkal lépett fel, hogy egységes keretet adjon a sok tudományág felől érkező építészeti tér-értelmezéseknek. Ez a közös értelmezési tartomány a tér analitikus értelmezéséből sarjad – ezt a tértudományt nevezte el spaciológiának. Végigtekintve Hajnóczi Gyula térelméleti műveit igyekszünk bemutatni a gondolatok kifejlődésének folyamatát, valamint kísérletet teszünk arra, hogy felmutassuk a kortárs kutatók munkásságában Hajnóczi Gyula gondolati rendszerének előzményeit. Az 1977-ben megjelent akadémiai doktori értekezésében az építészeti tér analitikus értelmezésével szétbontotta az építészeti teret az azt meghatározó konstruktív közegek elemi térviszonylataira, és ezek mennyiségi és minőségi értelmezését kísérelte meg. Az életmű végső akkordjaként írt, Az építészeti tér genezise c. műve az analitikusan szétbontott és egyenként értelmezett térelemek rendszerének megértésére, az elemek újbóli összeépítésére tett kísérletet. more...
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180. Architecture and philosophy of antiquity: The formation of classical architecture
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Sociology of scientific knowledge ,Antique ,Computer science ,Ancient philosophy ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,020101 civil engineering ,02 engineering and technology ,0201 civil engineering ,Variety (cybernetics) ,Epistemology ,Identification (information) ,021105 building & construction ,Classical architecture ,Architecture ,Architectural theory - Abstract
The classical architecture is being constantly developed in time, and, consequently, is relevant nowadays. The paper deals with the development of classical architectural in antiquity up to the present time. This is necessary for further study of modern architecture. The aim of this work is to identify the most stable formation of the classical antique architecture. Scientific novelty lies in the systematic approach to the studying the evolution of ancient architectural theory, taking into account a variety of external factors and based on ancient philosophy. The main level of scientific knowledge is a theoretical (historical) method, which involves a study of graphic and textual information covering the era as well as a systematic analysis of the material for the identification of basic principles of the antique architecture. It is shown that the main principles of the antique architecture are being developed in a close connection with philosophy, and determine the further development of the classical direction in architecture. more...
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181. Cedric Price’s Chats: Orality and the Production of Architectural Theory
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Jim Njoo
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Aesthetics ,Orality ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Production (economics) ,Art ,Architectural theory ,media_common - Published
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182. A Victorian Wrenaissance: Historical Narrative at St. Paul's Cathedral
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Dory Agazarian
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Cultural Studies ,Battle ,Literature and Literary Theory ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Narrative history ,Art history ,Historiography ,Art ,Italian Renaissance ,Comparative historical research ,Architecture ,Eclecticism ,Architectural theory ,media_common - Abstract
The condition of St. Paul's Cathedral was central to concerns about the perception of London over the course of the nineteenth century. Designed by Sir Christopher Wren, it faced public criticism from the start. Unlike gothic Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's was an eclectic amalgam of gothic and neoclassical architecture; its interior was never finished. Efforts to decorate were boxed in by the strictures of Victorian architectural revivalism. This is the story of how academic historiography resolved a problem that aesthetic and architectural theory could not. Throughout the century, cathedral administrators sought to improve the cathedral by borrowing tools from historians with varying success. In the 1870s, a solution emerged when historians reinvented the Italian Renaissance as a symbol of liberal individualism. Their revisionist Renaissance provided an alternative to pure gothic or neoclassical revivalism, able to accommodate Wren's stylistic eclecticism. Scholars have traditionally plotted disputes about St. Paul's within broader architectural debates. Yet I argue that these discussions were framed as much by historical discourse as aesthetics. Turns in Victorian historiography eventually allowed architects to push past the aesthetic limits of the Battle of the Styles. New methods in Victorian historical research were crucial to nineteenth-century experiences of urban space. more...
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183. Words of Weather
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Parikka, Jussi and Dragona, Daphne
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environment and media ,Architectural theory ,Anthropocene ,art theory ,media theory ,environmental humanities - Abstract
Weather exists as an atmosphere that can be measured, as an environment that is lived, and as time in which we experience humidity, pressure, temperature, and visibility. What would be the appropriate terms of weather that speak to this trio of concerns – measure, experience, and time? This glossary of weather is a manual to navigate through the contemporary moment on the surface and in the air, on bodies, and in our environments. It examines how weather has significance as a reality defined through scientific models and technical sensors, while it is being felt differently and unevenly in different parts of the world. It studies the weather as an ecology taking in mind its technologies and affects, its scientific language and poetics, its phenomena and interpretations through various perspectives, cultures, and geographies.The Glossary accompanies the exhibition “Weather Engines” (curated by Daphne Dragona and Jussi Parikka), and provides familiar and unexpected terms as proposed and written by artists, philosophers, academics, and architects.The book is published both in English and Greek. more...
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184. Ellen Gates Starr and Frank Lloyd Wright at Hull House: The Machine as the 'Will of Life'.
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Alford, Sarah
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ARTS & crafts movement ,ARCHITECTURAL philosophy ,INDUSTRIAL design ,HISTORY - Abstract
Frank Lloyd Wright's address 'The Art and Craft of the Machine' is widely remembered as an early manifesto for the modern movement and machine-made simplicity. However, Wright's concept of the 'Machine' was influenced by Louis Sullivan's organic theories of architecture, which combined Victorian science and idealism. An acknowledgement that Wright's Machine was also metaphysical, the 'Will of Life', resituates his characterization of the arts and crafts movement as anachronistic and elitist. Furthermore, Wright delivered his speech at Hull House and directed much of his criticism at the social settlement workers and indirectly at their neighbours, many of whom participated in craft activities after working on machines all day long. Ellen Gates Starr, bookbinder and co-founder of Hull House, responded to Wright's address and agreed that handwork and social work are not synonymous. She also made it clear that neither she, nor other members of the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society were against the machine. Starr's insight drew upon the conditions of contemporary industrial society, while Wright's conception was based on the power of individual genius. This complicates a persistent narrative that the arts and crafts movement failed because its practitioners made expensive, hand-crafted items and refused to embrace standardization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...
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185. Nature Versus Denture: An Ontology of Dental Prostheses.
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Ansari, Iman
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DENTURES ,MASTICATION ,DENTAL implants ,ONTOLOGY - Abstract
Between 1922 and 1950, a growing interest inmechanical principlesled to the emergence of a range of non-anatomic dentures that aimed to eliminate the disadvantages of their anatomic counterparts in favour of better mastication efficiency, stability, comfort, and durability. This paper investigates why the development of these non-anatomic prostheses came to a halt. In doing so, it analyses a range of cultural and anthropological factors concerned with dental morphology, and concludes that the concept of who we are and what makes ushuman—our identity, personality, language, culture, or technology—no longer rests within the bounds of our material body, but in the non-material world we have created. And that the social, cultural, and technological systems we have built outside of us have as much influence over our physical and anatomical attributes as we did in shaping them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...
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186. Vectores de una cartografía teórica: una brújula de navegación para un océano de tesis doctorales en arquitectura.
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Chupin, Jean-Pierre
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Copyright of Revista de Arquitectura (1657-0308) is the property of Universidad Catolica de Columbia, Facultad de Arquitectura and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.) more...
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187. The House that Semper Built.
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Chestnova, Elena
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GERMAN architecture ,ARCHITECTURAL philosophy ,ARCHITECTURAL design ,MATERIAL culture ,NINETEENTH century - Abstract
Gottfried Semper’s concept ofStoffwechselcontinues to attract attention from scholars and practitioners, but the detailed context in which it emerged is little examined. Fascination with material culture and reclassification of artefacts as means of producing knowledge in the public domain were major aspects of this context. This paper will examine these with the focus on the elements of domesticity in the early formulation of Semper’s theory of architecture in the manuscript,Practical Art in Metal and Hard Materials(1852). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] more...
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188. The Paradoxes of Vandalism: Henri Grégoire and the Thermidorian Discourse on Historical Monuments
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Vidler, Anthony, Popkin, Jeremy D., editor, and Popkin, Richard H., editor
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189. Architecture of Culotta & Leone for the Historic Centre of Cefalù: plan, project, execution
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Giuseppe Di Benedetto and Maria Luisa Germanà
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Architectural Design ,Architectural Theory ,Historic City ,Multiscalarity ,Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying ,NA9000-9428 ,Architectural drawing and design ,NA2695-2793 - Abstract
Architectural interventions in historical contexts throughout most of the 20th century were inter-linked by the two extremes of conservation and transformation. In the 1980s, in Italy, an important step forward was taken along the theoretical and operational path towards the approach as demanded by the current and future conditions of historical urban areas: long-term strategy oriented; more responsible; multi-scale and including the entire contemporary urban settlement. The experience of Culotta & Leone in the Historic Centre of Cefalù may well constitute a unicum, as a result of their particular anchoring to the social context, and yet it offers an interesting example of continuity (between plan, architectural design and execution) that gave substance to architectural solutions which may be seen as an evolving continuity of the historical remains. more...
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190. The evaluation of the technological and functional appropriateness, regarding to the intervention in the former military and service urban heritage
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Rossella Maspoli
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Architectural Design ,Architectural Theory ,Historic City ,Multiscalarity ,Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying ,NA9000-9428 ,Architectural drawing and design ,NA2695-2793 - Abstract
Architectural interventions in historical contexts throughout most of the 20th century were inter-linked by the two extremes of conservation and transformation. In the 1980s, in Italy, an important step forward was taken along the theoretical and operational path towards the approach as demanded by the current and future conditions of historical urban areas: long-term strategy oriented; more responsible; multi-scale and including the entire contemporary urban settlement. The experience of Culotta & Leone in the Historic Centre of Cefalù may well constitute a unicum, as a result of their particular anchoring to the social context, and yet it offers an interesting example of continuity (between plan, architectural design and execution) that gave substance to architectural solutions which may be seen as an evolving continuity of the historical remains. more...
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191. Publication of Renaissance architectural treatises in the Soviet Union in the 1930s: Alexander Gabrichevsky's contribution to the theory and history of architecture
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Nadejda Podzemskaia
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architectural theory ,philosophy of art ,constructivism ,classical art ,Renaissance treatises ,eclectism ,classical heritage ,architectural education and training ,Arts in general ,NX1-820 ,Anthropology ,GN1-890 - Abstract
In just a couple of years in the second half of the 1930s, a considerable corpus of architectural treatises, mostly written in the Renaissance, was translated and published with detailed commentaries in the USSR. This great publishing program was conceived of as part of a new system of architectural training. This article formulates the question of the historical and cultural significance of this publishing project in the wider artistic and political context of the 1920s and 1930s. In discussions about the destiny of classical heritage, two majors tendencies, constructivism, represented by Moisei Ginzburg, and classicism, advocated by Ivan Zholtovsky, show not only their differences, but also their shared positions, such as the criticism of eclecticism. The paper concentrates on the collaboration between Zholtovsky and the art historian and theorist Aleksandr Gabrichevsky. This was a true meeting of minds based on profound mutual understanding and common basic notions of art (such as the ambiguous concept of 'classical art’). Because of the language barrier, Gabrichevsky and his works have remained little known to scholars who work in West-European languages. A disciple of Paul Frankl, during the 1920s he researched the problems of space and time in a broader theoretical and philosophical context at the GAKhN. His main work of the time, The Morphology of Art, demonstrates influences of Friedrich Schelling, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Henri Bergson and, above all, Georg Simmel. This work could not have been completed nor published at the time. Its recent publication revealed the profound philosophical foundations of Gabrichevsky’s studies of architecture as well as of the project of publishing Renaissance architectural treatises that he organized. more...
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192. Zarch
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architectural design ,architectural theory ,urbanism ,Fine Arts ,Architecture ,NA1-9428 - Published
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193. RETHINKING HEIDEGGER'S DWELLING THROUGH ARABIC LINGUISTICS
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Mustapha Hashem El Moussaoui
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Archeology ,Arabic ,Cultural context ,Religious studies ,Building and Construction ,Space (commercial competition) ,language.human_language ,Linguistics ,Terminology ,Urban Studies ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Phenomenon ,Architecture ,Etymology ,language ,Meaning (existential) ,Sociology ,Architectural theory - Abstract
Inhabiting a space or dwelling has been a debatable terminology in architectural theory practice. Martin Heidegger's conference paper "Building dwelling thinking" is a major philosophical work that influenced architects in the 20th century. The philosopher interpreted the word as an etymological archaeologist, working on the word's essential meaning until he related it to, Being-in-this-world and Being-towards-death. In this research, we examine the term "dwelling" through the Arabic parables "Maskan" and "Manzel" to reach a more comprehensive understanding that will unveil its essential meaning in its local cultural context. Moreover, we base our research on a survey answered in Lebanon, on the meaning of the word Maskan in its contemporary form, while linking it to Heidegger's etymological findings. Our results explicitly an Arabic term used that describes a different phenomenon in other cultures. more...
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194. 'Renaissance' of intellectual capital, which is displayed in non-traditional (innovative) methods at forming in architectural systems
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Vera V. Galishnikova and Aleksandr A. Pleshivtsev
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technological techniques ,architectural systems ,construction experience ,The Renaissance ,techniques and methods of composition ,Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) ,Intellectual capital ,intellectual capital ,Aesthetics ,innovative solutions ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Sociology ,TA1-2040 ,architectural theory ,General Environmental Science ,innovative technologies - Abstract
The research has established the main features of the current state and prospects for the development of intellectual resources (capital), which can lead to the formation of a new level of qualitative and quantitative indicators of traditional and non-traditional architectural systems. The article presents the conceptual apparatus of the phenomenon of Renaissance of intellectual capital as a modern form of development of intangible assets and a way to implement innovative technologies (from various fields of knowledge) in the process of architectural creativity. The features of the state and development of intellectual capital for solving architectural problems and construction practices of past historical epochs are considered. An algorithm for solving non-standard problems of architectural creativity (non-traditional, problematic situations) with the involvement of an intellectual resource has been developed. It is established that the intellectual resource is the basis of research and practical innovation, which is carried out in the specific context of the formation of non-traditional architectural systems, methods and methods to ensure the level of their manufacturability (design, manufacture, transportation, construction, operation). The availability of intellectual resources is a key factor in providing the necessary competitive advantages over traditional architectural systems and ways to organize them into architectural objects. more...
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195. Fictional Proto-architecture as an Introduction to Biologic Design: Challenging the Concept of Morphogenesis of Neo-architectural Organism
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Andreea Felciuc
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Cognitive science ,Dialectic ,Multidisciplinary ,Computer science ,Architectural design ,minimal organism ,Complex system ,reaction norms ,phenotypic plasticity ,self-referential form ,lcsh:Technology (General) ,lcsh:T1-995 ,lcsh:H1-99 ,Architecture ,lcsh:Social sciences (General) ,Cyberspace ,Design methods ,resilience ,Organism ,Architectural theory - Abstract
The architecture is based on a dialectical search for new ways of matter representation. We deal with the form of contemporary architecture under two approaches: expression and content. The article examines how mathematical principles based on natural growth can be applied in architectural design to create a dynamic, not static, structure. The dynamic process of the cell and its growth provides the basic structure. The continuity of the domain is exemplified by the impact of the new forms on the society that has already begun to emerge from the obscurity. The paper argues that without a deeper and more receptive connection between geometry and performance from a bio-morphogenetic perspective of complex systems. The experimental design methods are applied both to generate and to evaluate an architecture of the futuristic lines. These methodological frameworks focus on cyclically restated themes in the field of parametrises, which are identified as endemic to architecture: the realization of buildings, of multifunctional volumes and customized per se through a gradual approach of the architectural properties and the exploitation of a "concept construction" integrated as a process, obtained through innovative modelling environments. And so, and the reconstruction of architecture as an organ of nature is demonstrated. The new vanguard of proto architecture describes difficulties and inconsistencies in the relationship between theories and structures, difficulties arising from the very idea of "virtually" itself. It becomes difficult to say that a drawing in cyberspace is an architectural form or just a graph of architectural theory; in the virtual space, there is no difference between the particular structure and the general principle. Therefore, the form is first designed, only after to be constructed. Naturally, it is impossible (theoretically or technically) for design and construction processes to take place simultaneously. Predictably, bio-morphosis leads to multiple forms of expression, defined and transmitted in geometric terms. Doi: 10.28991/esj-2020-01248 Full Text: PDF more...
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196. THE PROBLEM OF TRADITION IN MODERN ARCHITECTURE
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Nazar Bozhynskyi and Bohdan Bozhynskyi
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Dialectic ,Originality ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Phenomenon ,Historicism ,Context (language use) ,Sociology ,Architecture ,Positivism ,Epistemology ,media_common ,Architectural theory - Abstract
It has been established that the traditional approach in architecture should be considered as a socially and aesthetically determined phenomenon; the issues of implementing the capabilities of the traditional approach are considered in the context of the goals and objectives of contemporary architectural creativity.The problems of evolution of the "folk" architectural tradition are considered together with architectural activity, and a principled analytical approach to its implementation.Using the criteria for the systematization of architectural theory, attention is focused on the stages of development of ideas about tradition in architecture, due to the growth of the socio-cultural significance of the original approach to architecture and the manifestation of traditions in architectural creativity.At the beginning of the twentieth century, traditionalist philosophers spoke of the crisis of a crushed, positivist, mechanical-quantitative science. They called for a return to a new level to a pre-scientific, syncretic view of the world. Moreover, this unifying way of thinking must choose the naive manner of speech inherent in life and at the same time use it in proportion to how it is necessary for the evidence of evidence. This «naivety of language», which clearly expresses clear thoughts, today is sorely lacking in architecture studies, which are replete with new terms, but often suffer from blurred content.Innovation, which at first denied the tradition of historicism, soon becomes a «tradition» itself. However, after spending a long period in his clothes, it then strives back into the bosom of historicism, and it can be qualified as a new and daring innovation. Today you can find such examples when, tired of the dominance of «glass» architecture, you can suddenly see a return to the classics, which you just want to call an innovation.Actualization of the ideas of traditional originality in modern architecture is conditioned by specific tasks and prerequisites and is a natural stage in the evolution of world architecture. At the same time, the problem of dialectical interaction of traditional and modern foundations in architecture is obvious; a problem that is becoming more acute as the methods, capabilities and goals of the construction industry change. more...
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197. Guarino Guarini’s Architectural Theory and Counter-Reformation Aristotelianism: Visuality and Aesthetics in Architettura civile and Placita philosophica
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Branko Mitrović
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History ,Literature and Literary Theory ,Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Counter-Reformation ,Art history ,Aristotelianism ,Art ,Music ,Architectural theory ,media_common - Published
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198. Resolving the Theoretically Irreconcilable: Aldo Rossi’s Giant Kitchenware Models as Generative Object--Subjects
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Dijia Chen
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Cognitive science ,Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,Analogy ,Sociology ,Object (philosophy) ,Generative grammar ,Urban theory ,Architectural theory - Abstract
This essay investigates Aldo Rossi’s coffee vessel models as exhibited in his “Domestic Theater” project as a mediator between conflicting ideas in his architectural and urban theory. Entangled wit... more...
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199. Bourdieu in London
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Patrick Malone
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Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,Work (electrical) ,Capital (economics) ,Architecture ,Sociology ,Neoclassical economics ,Architectural theory - Abstract
The significance of Pierre Bourdieu’s work for architectural theory is partly owing to his account of capital. For Bourdieu, capital is not limited to economic resources, but it also includes speci... more...
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200. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF MODERNITY THEORY AND UNIFIED ARCHITECTURAL THEORY ON THE REALITY OF CONTEMPORARY EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
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Hosam El-Din Sabry Mahmoud Hegazy and Muhammad Atef Muhammad Abu Ashour
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Meaning (philosophy of language) ,Aesthetics ,Modernity ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Identity (social science) ,International Style ,Sociology ,Architecture ,Building design ,Adaptation (computer science) ,Architectural theory ,media_common - Abstract
People's responses to architectural forms and blocks vary according to their backgrounds and according to their understanding of the theory on which the building design is based, and the assimilation process often differs from the fact that the recipient is an ordinary person or an architect, so it is often affected by the reaction based on his performance and comfort in the case of the average person, while the architect is often ignored These feelings and the architectural work receives through a unified theory that respects standards abstract from feelings, this unified theory called by some theorists to restore the lost meanings of the intangible architecture that modernity concealed its features and produced forms that are not connected without meaning, and the current Egyptian architecture has become a continuation of the international style that concealed the features of identity In countries and their features erased their traditional building materials, hence the research raises an important question about the extent to which the Egyptian architectural reality was affected by modernity and the extent to which contemporary architects resorted to the unified architectural theory that was established by the mathematician and architectural theorist Nikos Salingeros, the research is based on the analytical approach to trace the influence of both theories On the Egyptian reality through a quantitative analysis to measure the language of architectural design and regional adaptation, to reach the final output The study indicated that most of the buildings follow the international style of modernity, which calls for a mechanical study to work with the unified architectural theory in Egypt. more...
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