ABSTRACT The Mandala Agung at Puri Ahimsa displays the concept of ‘Architecture being non-architectural’ yet it remains based on Balinese culture. This paper reveals the forms of local traditions in the lay-out and preservation of these buildings in a qualitative-descriptive manner. The Balinese physical-social value system is revealed through sense-purpose-essence-awareness. The lay-out of Puri Ahimsa

Green transit-oriented development (TOD) is an evolution of the TOD theory, influenced by sustainable development and green urbanism. This advancement expands the environmental and ecological dimensions of conventional TOD. However, relevant research has only just started, particularly in combination with high-density cities in Asia. This study measures the built environment of Green TOD and identifies

Over the last decades, Australia has taken several measures to tackle the increasing trend of energy use in residential buildings. Recently, the Trajectory for Low Energy Buildings has been endorsed aiming to reduce energy usage in residential buildings. However, the primary focus of this trajectory is on decreasing operational energy without considering the embodied energy of the building and systems

Color preference for the interior of a bedroom of Le Corbusier's Swiss Pavilion was studied using 1931 Salubra color keyboards in a cross-cultural analysis. Results indicate that students from architecture and interior design slightly dislike or are indifferent to Le Corbusier color combinations and prefer pale and low saturated colors for interior architecture. The least preferred colors belong to

New York‐based architectural designer and critic Christian Hubert discusses the change in status of the architectural model since he wrote his seminal text ‘The Ruins of Representation’, published in the Idea as Model exhibition catalogue in 1981. The previous notion of the model as object and representation has become much more complex as contemporary concepts of worldmodelling have been investigated

Professor Mark JP Wolf from Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon takes us on a historical journey, discussing significant aspects and precedents of the practice of worldbuilding, from the ancient Egyptians to JRR Tolkien and George Lucas. He demonstrates that worldbuilding is a deep part of the rich history of human culture, and key to humanity's imagination.

Reminding us of the importance of the narratives and stories we tell each other and their numerous effects on us, Kate Davies, co‐founder of the Unknown Fields travelling design studio, and art and architecture collective Liquid Factory, introduces us to architecture that is a synthesis of the real and virtual worlds that are starting to seamlessly permeate our environment.

In this, his last essay, the late iconoclast Mark Cousins, former Head of History and Theory Studies at the Architectural Association in London, explores the gaps between making architecture, abstracting it in model form, talking about it and writing about it. He reveals a schism in which words become slippery as we inhabit multiple worlds.

Co‐founders of FleaFollyArchitects, Pascal Bronner and Thomas Hillier specialise in the disarming effect of distorting the standard rules of architectural scale. Their propositions consist of wondrous, complex models often based on fictitious stories that they take into the outside world to contribute to the story of the city.

House refurbishment, renovation or simply rearranging the pictures on your walls or ornaments on your shelves is worldbuilding. Chad Randl, Art DeMuro Assistant Professor in the Historic Preservation programme at the University of Oregon, takes us on a psychological trek via our domestic environments to reveal that we worldmodel consistently and perennially at home.

Director of the Architectural Association Design Research Lab (AADRL) and co‐founder of Minimaforms in London, Theodore Spyropoulos describes the necessity to construct artificially intelligent environments that explore our technological sphere so that we may better understand and actively participate in the emerging complexities.

Concurrently arguing from the perspectives of theatre and architecture, Professors Thea Brejzek and Lawrence Wallen, of the University of Technology Sydney, examine the model as an architectural fragment, revealing its performative and worldmaking potential.

Transgressing traditional conceptions of the model and architectural intervention, in the work of their practice Stasus James A Craig and Matt Ozga‐Lawn seek to create a sense of suspended pleasure by partially accommodating the viewer in their installations, giving rise to fleeting fluctuations in the perception of the architecture and its site history.

Through a cartographic dérive of Greenwich, home of the Prime Meridian, Architectural Association Head of Communications Ryan Dillon reveals lines, variances, elisions, paradoxes and lies in a world that cannot be totally known or described. His trajectory provokes musings on the inconsistencies of the map and the modelling of any terrain.

Phil Ayres is an associate professor at the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) in Copenhagen. Here he discusses bio‐hybrid structures and their novel applications in creating ‘greener’ worldmodelling architectural outcomes at odds with established formal tectonic tropes.

The evolution of augmented, mixed and virtual realities has opened up opportunities for some artists to construct work that in the past would have required expensive sets. Art historian and curator Kathy Battista shows us some examples of these new creative models of practice and the speculative worldmodelling they have produced.

Guest‐Editor Mike Aling describes his infatuation with the model, particularly the long tradition of the British model village and its often‐surreal manifestations. He focuses on some of his favourites and introduces us to his own contemporary model village – Groenwych.

The notion of the ‘paracosm’ is a useful one for architects to understand. Some of the best writers and designers often work within personal, modelled imaginary worlds, sometimes constructed over decades, enabling them to give birth to their narrative scenarios and spaces. Here, Guest‐Editor Mark Morris looks at various literary and architectural paracosmic precedents.

(2021). American Autopia: An Intellectual History of the American Roadside at Midcentury. Fabrications. Ahead of Print.

Semi-open spaces – largely incorporated in vernacular dwellings in Cyprus during the 19th and 20th centuries – formed diachronically significant socio-cultural, functional and environmental features of the vernacular architecture of the area. The climate of the Eastern Mediterranean region, i.e., hot summers and mild winters, encouraged the use of open weather protected spaces, thus leading to the

(2021). Editorial: Smart and healthy within the two-degree limit. Architectural Science Review: Vol. 64, Smart and Healthy within the 2-degree Limit Passive and Low Energy Architecture Association, pp. 1-4.

(2021). Correction. Architectural Science Review: Vol. 64, Smart and Healthy within the 2-degree Limit Passive and Low Energy Architecture Association, pp. i-i.

(2021). (Mis)understanding Bomarzo: the Sacro Bosco between history and myth. Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes: Vol. 41, Bomarzo between history and myth, pp. 77-79.

(2021). ‘Bizzarrie del boschetto del Signor Vicino’: the figurative language of the Sacro Bosco. Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes: Vol. 41, Bomarzo between history and myth, pp. 80-96.

(2021). Among the wonders of Bomarzo: the sylvan landscape, the paragone, and memory games in the Orsini Sacro Bosco. Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes: Vol. 41, Bomarzo between history and myth, pp. 97-123.

(2021). ‘Nel cuore di tufo’: vernacular architecture and the genius loci of Bomarzo. Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes: Vol. 41, Bomarzo between history and myth, pp. 124-140.

(2021). Botanical Symbolism in Vicino Orsini’s Sacro Bosco. Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes: Vol. 41, Bomarzo between history and myth, pp. 141-154.

(2021). ‘Impressions so alien’: the afterlives of the Sacro Bosco at Bomarzo. Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes: Vol. 41, Bomarzo between history and myth, pp. 155-183.

(2021). Alchemy and Archetype? Bomarzo and Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden. Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes: Vol. 41, Bomarzo between history and myth, pp. 184-195.

(2021). Violent Foundations. Architectural Theory Review. Ahead of Print.

Walking experience through urban spaces is a frequent daily activity. Thus, planning and designing for walkability become crucial for building up quality of life. Our daily walks around the city are affected by fulfilling the needed psychological contentment that is in turn measured unconsciously by our temporal perception. This contentment is inherent in what we experience in accordance with urban

As an essential part of the urban landscape, linear urban landscape (LUL) is the interaction between humans and nature, which is closely associated with daily life and brings multiple characteristics to visual perception. Current studies focus on complex models that describe visual perception using static viewpoints, but lossing the continuous and dynamic features of visual perception. This paper provides

This study explores the design possibilities with knitted architectural textiles subjected to wind. The purpose is to investigate how such textiles could be applied to alter the usual static expression of exterior architectural and urban elements, such as facades and windbreaks. The design investigations were made on a manual knitting machine and on a CNC (computer numerically controlled) flat knitting

Andrea Palladio's Renaissance villas are amongst the most famous and widely studied examples of domestic architecture ever produced. The majority of past research about Palladio's architecture employed historical, mathematical and computational methods to analyse their complex proportional systems and rules. In contrast, this paper examines three of Palladio's arguments about his villas plans which

Abstract: The French occupation and governance of mandate Syria and Lebanon after World War I coincided with the rise of aviation as a tool of intelligence gathering. Surveillance from the sky served both military and scientific objectives for the French deployed to the region, and the development of “aerial archaeology” soon captured the fascination of experts and the public. This article examines

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Heritage, Preservation, and Decolonization: Entanglements, Consequences, Action? William Carruthers (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. The Ramses II statue from Mit Rahina, Egypt, just after its installation outside Cairo’s Ramses Station in the 1950s. Photograph by Van-Leo, courtesy of the American University in

Abstract: Since its inception as a nation-state in 1970, Oman’s expanding heritage industry—exemplified by the boom in museums, exhibitions, cultural festivals, and the restoration of more than one hundred forts, castles, and citadels—fashions a distinctly national geography and a territorial imaginary. Material forms of old mosques, restored forts, museumified living settlements, and national symbols

Abstract: This essay builds upon the premise that heritage and decolonization share histories of obsessive emphases upon exclusive, unique and fiercely acquisitive identities. Considering that the scholarship of decolonization increasingly fixes attention upon the displays of the colonial in the realms of the former imperial powers, the aims here are to shift attention to the curation of the national

Abstract: The listing of the capital of Eritrea Asmara as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017 has raised a series of contradictory questions around Italian fascist colonial heritage: is the nomination part of the longer path of Eritrea’s decolonization and reappropriation of its colonial history or does this lead to the celebration of modernist architecture and its entanglements with colonialism and

Abstract: Postcolonial philosopher Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak delivered the little-known “City, Country, Agency” as the keynote presen tation at the Theatres of Decolonization: [Architecture] Agency [Urbanism] Conference held at Chandigarh, India, in 1995. Republished after twenty-five years as a historical document in this issue of Future Anterior with contemporary commentary by the author, this keynote

Abstract: A reading of Gayatri Spivak’s 1995 “City, Country, Agency,” this article offers a framework for constructing a responsibility-based agency for architecture and urbanism in service of decolonization. Weaving together deconstructive readings of select verses from the Mahābhārata and other Sanskrit texts, it posits an alternate ecologist understanding of history and society as dhāranā, as a

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Counterpreservation: Architectural Decay in Berlin since 1989 by Daniela Sandler Luise Rellensmann (bio) Counterpreservation: Architectural Decay in Berlin since 1989 Daniela Sandler Cornell University Press, 2016 Monuments are not finished objects. However, in everyday preservation practice they are often treated as such

Though subjective feelings affected by lighting have been studied a lot, multivariate experimental studies are lacking in this research field. Central composite rotatable design (CCRD) was applied to investigate the influence of illuminance, correlated color temperature (CCT) and illuminance uniformity on satisfaction in this study. A series of subject experiments were carried out and polynomial regression

The critique in design education is founded on philosophical traditions that have remained embedded in pedagogical practices as a mode for assessing and developing students' ability to communicate processes and ideas. Research, however, indicates that the traditional critique may not always be effective at aligning with or supporting contemporary learning and professional practice. As a discipline

Eye movements are highly dependent on the task and stimuli given to a viewer. If no tasks are specified, do individuals see the item or scene in the same way? How are one's spatial ability and creative performance in spatial design related to visual attention when looking at various visual aspects of an environment scene? This exploratory case study aimed at understanding individuals' visual attentional

Given the growing recognition of design's influence on a range of performative outcomes, interior designers stand to capitalize on new opportunities—if they adeptly respond to new responsibilities. These responsibilities often begin by formulating well‐defined problems, which, in turn, serve as the basis for informed‐design solutions. However, the extent to which commercial interior designers offer

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore stakeholder' perspectives of control within general correctional and solitary confinement environments with findings focused on trust, sound, views to nature, routine, and time. Research was conducted at two medium security prisons in a large US state with male inmates. Using a survey methodology, interviews occurred with 10 inmates, 10 correctional

The interior frequently masquerades a resistance to being clean, often demonstrating different levels of hygiene, containment, and control. Yet, it is the‐body‐inside that simultaneously resists and distributes infection within the mineral contexts of the building. Ever since Van Leeuwenhoek's (1993) discovery of a strange microbial world of bacteria and protozoa, societal, bodily, and spatial interpretations

Public spaces do not exist without the presence of bodies. Mediation repositions bodies in space in relation to one another. Existing scholarship has focused on these effects in spaces of civic action, but everyday publics are less understood. This analysis of two recently completed public interiors at Hudson Yards in New York City examines the interplay of spaces, bodies, and images and the impact

Prevailing conceptions of disability in architectural discourse give rise to the devaluing of disabled people's lived experiences. However, several studies in architecture and disability studies show how disability experience may lead to a careful attentiveness toward the qualities of the built environment that are relevant for design. Using focused ethnography, we examine how architect William Feuerman's

The story of idleness in interiors is one of contradictions and unresolved tensions. This article reflects on the idle/leisurely body in architectural interiors over time. Gender, class, and racial stereotypes overlay Western masculinist ideals coloring the meaning and perception of the word “idleness.” Nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Western artists produced a wealth of artwork, which displayed

This paper proposes an understanding of the human body as a plural object. Drawing on the ideas of Bennet, Merleau‐Ponty, and Wilson, it envisions the body as a complex ecology in which the human biome, the billions of microbial communities that symbiotically live within our bodies, act as a dynamic system of flows and feedbacks within its environments. This body's spatial experiences are not fixed

In the wake of a turning tide on the legalization of medicinal and recreational marijuana, and with the recent decriminalization of psilocybin in Denver, a psychedelic renaissance may too be on the horizon. Psychedelics have again become the subject of rigorous study at institutions such as Yale, UCLA, NYU, and Johns Hopkins. Many clinical accounts underscore the psychedelic experience with a “dissolution

Editor of AD Neil Spiller interviews the four founders of AHMM: Simon Allford, Jonathan Hall, Paul Monaghan and Peter Morris. The discussion embraces topics that include the history of the firm, architectural education and above all their thoughts on architectural praxis and the pragmatic philosophies behind the practice and its success.

Architectural journalist, publisher and founder of the World Architecture Festival Paul Finch charts the ebbs and flows of the post‐Second World War London architectural scene and its genealogy. He shows where AHMM fits into this family tree, but also how their embracing of ‘generalism’ and ‘good architecture’ applied to the everyday has set them apart from some of their peers.

Archigram founder member and co‐founder of CRAB Studio Peter Cook remembers early soirées at architectural theorist and historian Reyner Banham's house, coming across first David Allford and seeing the early flowerings of his son Simon Allford and Paul Monaghan as teachers and architects, and their subsequent professional rise during his tenure as Chairman at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University

Writing on behalf of AHMM, Simon Allford describes the founding directors’ catalytic joint project, the Fifth Man, developed in their final year at university: its insights, the personalities that influenced it and how, over 30 years later, its dictums are still a guiding light in their contemporary practice as they explore the idea of how the ordinary can become ExtraOrdinary architecture.

Isabel Allen is Editorial Director of BEAM (Built Environment and Architecture Media). Here she describes how three decades of innovation – and an ongoing delight in the poetic possibilities of the home – make AHMM perfectly positioned to deliver a new kind of housing that responds to the practical and psychological challenges of these extraordinary times.

Martyn Evans is Creative Director of U+I, which specialises in complex, mixed‐use, community‐focused property development and regeneration projects. He looks at AHMM's engagement with office design, in particular their commercial, spatial reconfiguration, occupancy, newbuild, refurbishment and retrofitting expertise – a terrain within which they are renowned innovators.

AHMM has significant expertise in designing architecture for educational purposes. Ellis Woodman is an architecture critic and curator and the Director of the Architecture Foundation in London. He surveys this aspect of the practice, particularly in relation to the freeing up and creation of accessible, social space to learn within.