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“We Don’t Want a Multicultural Minaret, We Want an Islamic Minaret”: Negotiating the Past in the Production of Contemporary Muslim Architecture in Britain Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Shahed Saleem
Most of the 1800 mosques in Britain today have been formed through the conversion and adaptation of existing buildings; some 200 are purpose built. With the larger adaptations and purpose-built mos...
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Drysfeydd y Cymoedd:1 The Sub-Topographies of South Wales Valleys’ Industrial Crises Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Dimitra Ntzani
In Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History, Cathy Caruth defines as traumatic our encounters not with life-threatening events but with those that cause a break in our perception of tim...
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Assembly: Investigating the Role That Artist Fieldwork Can Play in Islamic Sites of Worship Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Julie Marsh
This photo essay reflects upon the impact of Assembly, a series of site-specific installations comprising 1:1-scale moving film projections of congregational prayer, with surround sound. To date, t...
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Two Mining Areas: Spaces of Care amid Extraction Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Karin Reisinger
Malmberget (meaning ore mountain) lies in both northern Sweden and Sábme, the land of the indigenous Sámi. The mountain Erzberg (also meaning ore mountain) in Styria is part of the Austrian Alps. A...
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From Mission Hall to Church: Theology, Culture and Architecture on a South London Estate Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Sarah A. Dowding
In the UK, small faith buildings of “ordinary” appearance, occupied by Christian congregations who reject ideas of sacred space, have tended to be passed over by the historical record and continue ...
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59 Brick Lane: A History of Adaptive Reuse Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Rebekah Coffman
This paper explores the history of 59 Brick Lane (presently Brick Lane Jamme Masjid) in Spitalfields, East London through the lens of adaptive reuse. 59 Brick Lane was initially built in 1743 as a ...
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Urban Space and the Cultural Construction of Modern Subjectivities: Tehran’s Women in Novels Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Somaiyeh Falahat
Exploring Tehran’s urban modernity through the Iranian novel, this paper argues that the identities of modern urban space and modern female subjectivities are constructed in an intertwined relation...
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Call to Holy Ground: Connecting People and Place Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Laura Moffatt
This photo essay describes a community art project that took place during 2020-2021. It was initiated, curated and managed by Art and Christianity and engaged the artist collaborative Fourthland. T...
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Inhabitation, Housing and the City Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Katharina Borsi, Diana Periton
Published in Architecture and Culture (Vol. 10, No. 3, 2022)
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Housing and Domesticity Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Lilian Chee
Published in Architecture and Culture (Vol. 10, No. 3, 2022)
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Between the Sacred and Secular: Faith, Space, and Place in the Twenty-First Century Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Kate Jordan
Abstract In his 1954 poem, “Church Going,” Phillip Larkin anticipated the end of religion and the ruination of Britain’s churches. “What remains,” Larkin asked “when disbelief has gone? Grass, weedy pavement, brambles, buttress, sky.” In one respect, Larkin was right: the decline of traditional worship in the West did produce scores of redundant churches. But he was also wrong: the tendency to view
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Homes for Today and Tomorrow: Britain’s Parker Morris Standards and the West Ham Experimental Scheme Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Savia Palate
Late 1950s Britain witnessed an unprecedented affordability of consumer goods which, along with a comparative increase in wages for the lower paid, led to a close convergence of middle- and working...
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Intensity as the Perceivable Dimension of Density in the Urban Environment: The Case of Housing Blocks by MBM Arquitectes in Barcelona, Spain Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Cecilia De Marinis
Abstract The concept of intensity is a concentration of spatial, social, and environmental experiences in the urban environment. It is an extension of density, beyond the quantitative measure of the urban environment toward its qualitative and perceivable aspects. Drawing on urban studies with a human-centered approach by Michael Sorkin, Jane Jacobs, Jan Gehl and William T. Whyte, and proxemics studies
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A Home with a Future. Digital Domesticity and the Vague Fictions of Silicon Valley Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Luis Hernan, Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa
Abstract The last two decades have seen an explosion in the numbers of digital devices that “weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life.” Here we bring to critical attention the material, ethical and spatial consequences of integrating digital devices in physical spaces. We concentrate on the way Silicon Valley constructs a narrative of digital domesticity. Harriet Riches uses the term to describe
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When He Speaks: Neo-Pentecostal Space Making in Costa Rica Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Valeria Guzmán Verri, Paula Morales Solera, David Vallejo Arróliga
Abstract Sociologists of religion have identified the gradual transformation from “garage churches” to megachurches since the 1980s as consistent with the political impact of neo-Pentecostal groups in Latin America today. A challenge arises for architecture to address this spatial impact upon the city fabric. Through on-site visits to neo-Pentecostal churches and interviews held with their pastors
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Made up Ground: Architecture, Science Fiction, and the Surface of Imagined Worlds Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Amy Butt
Abstract Science fiction allows us to establish intimate connections with the surfaces of other worlds, and to focus on the image of architecture within these fictions denies much of their complexity. In response, this article focuses on the embodied experience of touch, drawing on the imagined experiences of other worlds to explore the everyday meetings between the body and the built, the points at
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Ulster’s Evangelical Plain Style: A Visual Inquiry Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Kevin Miller, Ian Montgomery, Catherine O’Hara
Abstract The paper explores the design of the small evangelical halls that exist across the nine counties of Ulster. Conceived of as conduits to salvation, as representing the current non-material iteration of God’s holy temple, and even as prefiguring the coming eschaton, these are simple and unassuming buildings, decorated largely with text. The paper argues that the “plain style” provides a fruitful
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Shanghai Ladies and Lilong Housing: The Feminine Scene Permeating Urban Shanghai Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Jiawen Han
In the Shanghai of the early twentieth century, rapid population growth and the consequent high density meant that, in much of the city, everyday life was condensed into a small and compact box-sha...
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From Gentrification to Sterilization? Building on Big Capital Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Anna Minton
In a period of extreme inequalities, the speed and scale of capital flows into London constitutes a new economic process qualitatively different from that of gentrification. It is underpinned by th...
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The “Prison House” and Normalization. Between the Reassertion of Privacy and the Risk of Collectiveness Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Sabrina Puddu
The principle of “normalization” in penology maintains that the life of people in captivity should resemble as far as possible the positive aspects of “normal” life in free society. To critically u...
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Downstairs, Upstairs: The Division of Domestic Space Between Domestic Workers and Super-Rich Employers in London Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Matt Reynolds
London’s affluent neighborhoods are often reported as places where employers infringe migrant domestic workers’ rights. Much has been written on both the wealthy’s influence on cities and on domest...
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Urgent Minor Matters: Re-Activating Archival Documents for Social Housing Futures Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Heidi Svenningsen Kajita
Architectural archives of large-scale housing projects are usually ordered with construction in mind, but can they also function in support of the social in housing? This article reveals how partic...
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Students’ Park: A Poetic Dispatch as Placemaking Methodology Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Neha Kumari
Abstract This piece is a creative intervention in the trope of research article writing. This ‘Poetic Dispatch’ is a response to be sent to the readers of this scholarly journal. It transgresses and extends the limit of its readership and genre by employing the ode form of poetic expression. It stresses Doreen Massey’s proposition that space is an incomplete event, always in becoming. The author takes
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A Burst of Architectural Plots: The Diverging Lives of Whipsnade Zoo Estate Bungalows (1933–2020) Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Albert Brenchat-Aguilar
Abstract In 1933, the construction of two twin bungalows, designed by Berthold Lubetkin, began on a site adjacent to Whipsnade Zoo. From their inception, they have been differently appreciated by architects and historians for their formal, technical, functional, material and environmental conditions. This article reappraises these buildings from broader multiple contexts involving human and non-human
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Holes in Architecture: A Queer Eye on a Design Method Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Charles Drożyński
Abstract This article analyzes the formation of a conceptual persona in a narrative which some architects use in the design process. It focuses on a description of such a persona borrowed from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s What is Philosophy? It presents the work of three architects who explore how this persona can express a corporeal, public and emotional presence; elaborating on relations which
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Dismantling the Face: Faciality and Architectural Space in the Age of “Control Societies” Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 George Themistokleous
Abstract In the age of “control societies” there is a need to re-situate understandings of the face in architecture. Historical readings of the face in architecture remain rooted in an anthropomorphism that fails to consider current forms of “simulated surveillance” and the emerging non-human visualities that ensue from such a surveillance apparatus. The article considers the change from disciplinary
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The Boss Fight Game Environment: The High-Rise in Early Handheld Gaming Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Dorothee Leesing
Abstract Nintendo’s first handheld game console was the Game&Watch. It was a major success in Japan, the United States, France and Germany. This article demonstrates how novel urban infrastructures such as the high-rise occupied the central game drive of early handheld gaming in the Game&Watch. Specifically, Japan and Germany display a coming to terms post WWII in regard to their national identity
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Object-Oriented Ontology in the Design Studio: A Dialogue Between Simon Weir and Graham Harman Across Architecture and Philosophy Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Simon Weir, Graham Harman
Abstract This dialogue between Simon Weir and Graham Harman took place in 2021 discussing different ontologies and their consequences in the architectural design studio. Object-oriented ontology classifies three distinct kinds of access to objects. Two are forms of knowledge called undermining and overmining, which amount to false claims of direct access. The other is allusion, an indirect form of
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Foucault’s Relation With Architecture: The Interest of His Disinterest Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 André Patrão
Abstract For over half a century, the works of Michel Foucault have famously exerted tremendous influence upon practicing architects and theoreticians alike. But what of the role architecture played for the French philosopher, who rarely addressed architecture exclusively or primarily as a topic in itself? The following pages assemble a coherent outline of Foucault’s understanding and utilization of
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Welfare as Warfare: The Role of Modern Architecture during the Colombian Dictatorship Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Maria del Pilar Sanchez-Beltran
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Spaces of Welfare: Editorial Introduction Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Runa Johannessen,Kirsten Marie Raahauge,Martin Søberg
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Constructing Copenhagen in a Time of Economic Downturn: Reevaluating 1990s Postmodernist Urban Development before the City Became “Livable” Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Henriette Steiner
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Layered Landscapes of Welfare Values – Revisiting Køge Bay Beach Park in Denmark Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Anna Aslaug Lund,Gertrud Jørgensen,Ole Fryd
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Form Follows People? – Copenhagen’s Ny Nørreport as a Post-Participatory Project Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Nina Stener Jørgensen
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Staging Openness through Atmosphere at the Oslo Opera House Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Jeremy Payne-Frank,Siri Schwabe
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Warm-Soup Proximity: The Spatiality of Eldercare in Hyper-Aged Japanese Society Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Xiaobo Shen
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The Perforated Welfare Space: Negotiating Ghetto-Stigma in Media, Architecture and Everyday Life Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Marie Stender,Mette Mechlenborg
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Un-African Aging? Discourses of the Socio-Spatial Welfare for Older People in Urban Zimbabwe Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Chiko Makore Ncube,Tatenda Goodman Nhapi
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Annotation as Review: Graphic Thinking in Enric Miralles’ Ph.D. Thesis Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-28 Javier Fernández Contreras
Abstract Enric Miralles’ Ph.D. thesis was first presented in November 1987 at the Barcelona School of Architecture in two small volumes, the first one containing thirty-one pages of text and the second sixty-one illustrations. The thesis, entitled Cosas vistas a izquierda y derecha – sin gafas (“Things Seen to the Right and Left, Without Glasses”), focuses on the relationship between annotation and
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Potential Space: Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-02 Sigal Eden Almogi,Shelly Cohen
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Mies van der Rohe’s Zeitwille: Baukunst between Universality and Individuality Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Marianna Charitonidou
Abstract The article explores the relationship between Baukunst and Zeitwille in the practice and pedagogy of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and the significance of the notions of civilization and culture for his philosophy of education and design practice. Focusing on the negation of metropolitan life and mise en scene of architectural space as its starting point, it examines how Georg Simmel’s notion
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The Skin of a Line: Surface Conditions in the Ceramic Skin of Art Nouveau Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-19 Arielle Marshall
Abstract This paper develops a material history of Art Nouveau with reference to the ceram ic façade of André Arfvidson’s block of artists’ studios at 31 rue Campagne-Première, Paris (1911). Tracking the constituent element of this façade (glazed tile), this paper narrativizes the exchanges between four contexts – industry, craft, architecture and art – that underscored the rise and fall of Art Nouveau
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Filarete’s Libro and Memoria: The Archive within a Book Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Berrin Terim
Abstract The first illustrated manuscript on architecture was produced in the fifteenth century by a sculptor turned architect, known as Filarete (1400–1469). Written as a dialogical narrative, taking place between a patron and his architect, the treatise’s pedagogical tone unfolds as a form of storytelling about the design and construction of an ideal city. Accordingly, the architectural drawings
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And Yet It Moves: Ethics, Power and Politics in the Stories of Collecting, Archiving and Displaying of Drawings and Models Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Federica Goffi
This special issue of Architecture and Culture on the ethics, power and politics in the stories of collecting, archiving and displaying architecture media draws attention to curatorial responsibilities in finding the proper placement for architecture collections, and how accessibility, reproducibility and promotion impact the cultural, economic and socio-political role of architecture media. And Yet
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A Lifetime of Collecting: Pietro M. Bardi and Lina Bo Bardi’s Archive Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Sol Camacho
Abstract Thirty years after its creation, this article provides insights into the Instituto Bardi’s archive, responsible for over 40,000 items from Lina Bo and Pietro Maria Bardi’s collection. It discusses the Bardi couple’s intention of creating an archive within the space of their dwelling as part of a broader preservation plan of their design, which involved the foundation of a cultural institution
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Archival Futures. Born Digital Architecture Media: Annet Dekker Interviewed by Federica Goffi Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Federica Goffi,Annet Dekker
Abstract The interview by Federica Goffi with curator and researcher Annet Dekker focused on the archival futures of born digital media. Dekker discussed her 2014–2016 collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI), through the speculative project: New Archive Interpretations, which probed into the digital archive as a system of how processes and individuals influence what can and cannot be seen, accessed
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Uncertain Architecture: Transforming Normativity through the National Memorial for Peace and Justice Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Nicholas Forrest Frayne
Abstract Drawing on the philosophies of Mbembe, Butler, Deleuze and Guattari, and a range of interdisciplinary authors, this article argues that history, which is the perceptual field through which our visions of the world are constructed, can actively hide or legitimize violence by creating fixed, borderized senses of identity. As part of this construction, architecture should, I contend, work to
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Collecting State Contents: Territory and Value in France c.1700–1850 Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-15 Jonah Rowen
Abstract Around 1700, the French administration had few tools for understanding its domain. Expenses from constant war incited the regime to develop new representational means of conveying knowledge about state contents and extents across geographic distances, in order to assess available resources and productivity. This article argues that administrators formulated the state based on technologies
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“Ugly” Architectural Drawings of William Hardy Wilson: (Re)Viewing Architectural Drawings with Difficult Origins or Content for Curation and Display Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-09 Yvette Putra
Abstract This article identifies architectural drawings as "ugly" not aesthetically, but where there are difficult origins or content. It argues for an explicit methodology for their curation and display. The twentieth- and twenty-first-century shift in the viewing of architectural drawings has brought architectural drawings closer to artworks for public consumption. However, the recent reassessment
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Undrawn Spatialities. The Architectural Archives in the Light of the History of the Sahrawi Refugee Camps Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Julien Lafontaine Carboni
Abstract What happens if architectural knowledge is not mediated through drawing or does not produce any type of record? How can an architectural archive exist and make sense in a context where the circulation of knowledge and the emergence of spatialities leave no physical traces? This essay offers insights into the traces left by undrawn spatialities and how they could be recorded and interpreted
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Designing in Real Scale: The Practice and Afterlife of Full-Size Architectural Models from Renaissance to Fascist Italy Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-26 Claudia Conforti,Fabio Colonnese,Maria Grazia D’Amelio,Lorenzo Grieco
Abstract Full-size models are powerful and expansive tools required in critical constructive situations and contexts. Part of both sculptural and architectural creative processes, they have been privileged by Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo and Bernini, who were architects and sculptors at the same time. Several documented cases of their real-size models reproducing portions of buildings on-site
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Drawing in a Memory Theater: Revisiting Marco Frascari on Carlo Scarpa’s Reggia – Mastio Bridge Drawings at the Castelvecchio Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Sam Ridgway
Abstract Studying, teaching and working with Carlo Scarpa (1906–1978) provided the remarkable architect and scholar Marco Frascari (1945–2013) with a unique opportunity to later write about and reveal his insights – of which there are many – into Scarpa’s world of drawing and imagining buildings. With reference to a selection of Frascari’s texts, this essay reexamines two drawings Scarpa made of the
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Tableaux Vivants: Tables and Stages of Architectural Striving Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Lisa Landrum
Abstract This essay explores the worktables of architects, especially architecture students, as crucial sites of dramatic knowledge construction. More than an instrumental platform for drawing operations, the space and occasion of worktables provide an immersive, allusive, and speculative environment for rehearsing architectural performances, negotiating divergent desires, and conjuring meaningful
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Conversation Rooms: Critical Dialogues in Architectural History and Theory at the GSA, Johannesburg Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-03 Huda Tayob
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
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Stories from the Global Staffroom: Experiences of Caring and Uncaring Architectures at work with Effy Harle and Jos Boys Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-03 Manual Labours (Sophie Hope,Jenny Richards)
Abstract Learning from the work of artist and maker, Effy Harle and cofounder of The DisOrdinary Architecture Project, Jos Boys, Manual Labours (Sophie Hope and Jenny Richards) critically examine an excerpt of their conversation from the podcast series The Global Staffroom Podcasts which reflects on experiences of and relationships to the staffroom both as a concept, virtual and physical space. In
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“Sun and Shadow:” Exploring Marcel Breuer’s Basic Design Principle Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-03 Evangelia Tsilika
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. By identifying the influences that helped shape the background to his theoretical approach, and with the support of broader philosophical resources, the characteristics and subtleties of Breuer’s
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Survival Praxis through Hood Feminism, Negritude and Poetics Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Clareese Hill
Abstract In efforts to protect my sanity while learning computational arts at a Western institution, I have established a subversive anti-conformist strategy where I activate the ideologies of Hood Feminism, Negritude and Poetics to survive. Hood Feminism explores Black womanhood in a different modality from Black feminist studies. I am activating Hood Feminism in its intended form as praxis of women
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Lessons from Tradition in the Building of Contemporary Settlements: The Case of Tafilalt in the M'zab Valley, Algeria Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Naimeh Rezaei
Abstract Since Algeria’s independence from France in 1962, the M’zab Valley in the northern Sahara has witnessed a rapid growth in population. Both legal and illegal housing has been built outside the walls of the M’zab’s ancient towns, damaging the environmental and cultural heritage of the area. In response, its long-standing residents have identified protocols for building a number of carefully
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After the Strike? Part 2: Solidarity In and Out Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Jane Rendell
Abstract This is part two of the essay exploring the activities of strikers at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL over a 14 day-period in the early spring of 2018. These days were part of the 2018 University and College Union (UCU) Pension Strike, one of the largest strikes of university academics in recent times, which occurred over a four-week period, with strike days increasing from two days
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Online Learning Platforms and the Confessional Subject Architecture and Culture (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-02-26 Eleanor Dare
Abstract Is there a connection between pedagogic practices of confessional reflectivity, online learning platforms, and the massively scaled surveillance of Higher Education student transactions via data analysis? It is the contention of this paper that there is an ideological and processual logic which connects these practices and platforms. It argues this logic has been benignly embedded in pedagogy