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Territories of incarceration The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Sabrina Puddu
Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 28, No. 7, 2023)
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Adolescents’ positive attitudes towards school: a reflection on the spatial configuration of school buildings The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Chrystala Psathiti, Kerstin Sailer
Evidence connecting the socio-spatial properties of a school building with adolescents’ positive attitudes towards school is rare. This study examines whether the socio-spatial context of school al...
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Rationalising violence: Leros The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Beth Hughes, Platon Issaias
The paper considers Leros in the Greek Dodecanese as a case study in the history of rationalist architecture of the fascist Italian regime, implicating varied forms of surveillance, exile, detainme...
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Memories of difference: architects' perceptions of professional regression and gender inequality in Pinochet's Chile The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Amarí Peliowski, Alicia Olivari
Architecture, as practised in Western countries, is one of the professions that has amply incorporated women in the last century, gradually encouraging equality in the workplace. But, as is common ...
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Furthermore: a letter The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Jennifer Bloomer
Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2023)
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Introduction: Jennifer Bloomer, a revisitation The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Hélène Frichot, Emma Cheatle
Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2023)
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Amulets: keeping the gift in motion The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Katarina Bonnevier
Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2023)
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The material kept the score: media and material practice in Jennifer Bloomer’s constructions, 1985–1992 The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Karen Burns
Recent scholarship has highlighted the significance of media — photographs, drawings, magazines, and exhibitions — for late twentieth-century architectural production. The proliferating media of th...
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Learning and teaching with the ‘body’: pedagogical hatches from Jennifer Bloomer The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Doina Petrescu
In 1999, I ran a studio at Iowa State University, College of Design, at the invitation of Jennifer Bloomer, who was working as a professor there. This invitation was motivated by her interest in my...
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DD: holding up the girls The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Julieanna Preston
This two-part essay bridges the gap, at the clasp, and gasp, of the sternum, the cleavage, a hollow — between the lived and dynamic reality of having breasts and that of imagining, creating, and na...
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The gravid ground: stories of bed and street The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Emma Cheatle
Entangled with the complexity of Jennifer Bloomer's creative/theoretical ideas on chickens, beds, eggs, birth, and time, this essay is a ‘poetic/politic'1 dialogue between interior and exterior, pr...
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The Fontanelle The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Laura Harty
‘The Fontanelle’ suggests that a consideration of the everyday architectural detail, not as ornament but as action, may increase the range of what architectural theory sees and thus may increase th...
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Swerving with a tiger: architecture after the animal The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Lilian Chee
Why is a tiger prowling through the passages of architectural discourse? Since its appearance in 1902, a tiger called Stripes continues to be associated with the Billiard Room of the Raffles Hotel ...
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Dirty materialism: what Jennifer knew The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Hélène Frichot
New Materialism and the Environmental Humanities challenge assumptions about human exceptionalism by telling environmental stories from diverse points of view. Combining these tendencies in thought...
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‘O my shining stars and body!’: Mitchell Squire's body photographs The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Emma Cheatle, Hélène Frichot
Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2023)
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‘Zoooooop! Look quickly or you’ll miss it!’: Pella Rolscreens®, Pilkington Insulight Activ™ and Jennifer Bloomer’s disappearing matter The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Katie Lloyd Thomas
Even before new materialism, Jennifer Bloomer’s writing on matter made it possible to rethink materiality in architecture from a feminist perspective. Drawing on this rich body of work, and on my r...
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L is for … . Lucia, Laura and architecture’s other lost daughters The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Jane Rendell
Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2023)
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BookCreative Practice Inquiry in Architecture The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Hélène Frichot
Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2023)
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Mettray 1840/2022: a photo-essay The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Giaime Meloni, Sabrina Puddu
Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 28, No. 7, 2023)
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From common land to farmhouses: agricultural penal colonies and the project of modern rurality in Sardinia, Italy The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Sabrina Puddu
Between the 1860s and 1960s, sixteen colonie penali agricole were built in Italy, half of them on the island of Sardinia. As the tangible instances of a geopolitical project that intertwined penal ...
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From hof to homes: interwar housing exchange between Vienna and Atlanta The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Christina E. Crawford, Alessandro Porotto
Techwood Homes (1937) in Atlanta, Georgia, was both the first federally funded public housing in the US and a synthesis of early twentieth-century European mass housing accomplishments. This articl...
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The ‘perimeter’ prisoners of Russian secret cities: the case of ZATO Krasnoyarsk-26 The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Katya Larina
Since the 1930s, the Gulag system of labour camps was a driving force behind the main geopolitical projects of the Soviet Union, playing a critical role in mega-infrastructural projects to colonise...
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Representing the unrepresentable: the Mosque of Córdoba and the ideal Islamic temple The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Pablo Martínez Capdevila
Influential architects such as Norberg Schultz, Rafael Moneo, and Stan Allen have interpreted the Great Mosque at Córdoba, arguably the most famous example of hypostyle mosque, as the embodiment of...
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The architecture of colonial jurisdiction: the annexation of Queensland's offshore islands The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Jasper Ludewig
This paper explores the relationship between architecture and colonial sovereignty. It considers the case of the British colony of Queensland’s offshore islands, which existed somewhere between com...
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Wastelands of empire, sites of ‘salvation’: landscapes of ‘reform’ in late nineteenth-century Germany The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Hollyamber Kennedy
This essay traces a rural network of modern carceral and internal colonial land enclosures developed in late nineteenth-century Germany. It considers the extent to which long-running debates over t...
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The territory of John Howard's measured buildings: from local jail to national project The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Lisa Haber-Thomson
The British Penitentiary Act of 1779 has been understood as an important mark dividing one era of judicial sanction from another — when the prison sentence became widely accepted as the ideal form ...
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Stories that resists, ethics that persist: A. J. Lode Janssens’ living experiment in 1970s suburban Belgium The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Isabelle Doucet
In 1973, Belgian architect A. J. Lode Janssens embarked on a ten-year-long countercultural living experiment together with his young family in the outskirts of Brussels. A fascinating adventure beg...
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Adapting to change in theory and practice The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Deljana Iossifova, Doreen Bernath
Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 28, No. 5, 2023)
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Punishment, re-education and agriculture: Portuguese internal and imperial penal colonisation in the nineteenth century The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Ricardo Costa Agarez, Marta Macedo
This paper considers a set of Portuguese state-funded projects for agricultural colonisation using coerced subjects. In the second half of the nineteenth century, mounting urbanisation, joblessness...
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Are ‘tiny homes’ good for the environment? Focus on materials, land-use, energy and carbon footprint The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Matti Kuittinen, Ksenia Ruuska, Bergpob Viriyaroj, Laura Zubillaga
Material consumption and greenhouse gas emissions are rising in building stocks. At the same time, the floor area of residential buildings per capita has been increasing. New houses can be very ene...
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Comfort in a castle: adaptation due to long-term residency in a historic monument The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Mattias Legnér
This article adds to a growing interest within architectural studies in which the indoor climate and comfort of heritage buildings used for residence is in focus. The purpose is to understand how S...
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Architectural design competitions: the effects of competition format on design processes and outcomes The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Gethin Davison, Robert Freestone
Much of the extensive literature on design competitions is based on individual case studies and grounded in long-standing beliefs and assertions about the merits of what we term here ‘pure’ competi...
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Bonifica Umana: the psychoanalysis of human reclamation The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Dario Melossi
The concept of land reclamation has often been associated with a metaphorical meaning that extends it to the reclamation of human beings, i.e. in Italian, bonifica umana. This short essay departs f...
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Pastoral entrapment and the idyllic-carceral continuum The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Hanneke H. Stuit
Agrilogistics, a frame of mind and a set of behaviours that consider the environment as existing outside of humans and as inherently pliable to utilitarian and economic purposes, has determined hum...
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The environmental semantics of rural and urban architecture standards in British Mandate of Palestine, 1920–1940 The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Martin Hershenzon
This paper analyses the 1940 exhibition catalogue, Twenty Years of Building: Workers' Settlements, Housing and Public Institutions, published by the Federation of Jewish Workers in Palestine to cel...
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Experiencing resonance: everyday life in modernist blocks of flats in Oslo, Norway The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Anna Ulrikke Andersen
Based on an interdisciplinary approach to architectural history, drawing upon sound studies and anthropology, this article offers a case study of contemporary experiences of resonance by residents ...
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Ecology, history and the senses The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Deljana Iossifova, Doreen Bernath
Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2023)
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Images making places: the role of image rhetoric in shaping the housing ideal in London The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Michela Pace
This article considers visual design as a complementary form of strategic planning that relies on images to sway the approval of future housing developments. The study of promotional materials in t...
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Deserts Are Not Empty The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Ivan Lopez Munuera
Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2023)
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The coloniality of Italian fascist architecture The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Emilio Distretti
This article traces the modern history of the Piazza di Porta Capena in Rome. It begins with the design of a modernist building for the square by the architects Ridolfi and Cafiero in 1938 created ...
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Distance between theory and practice in a project by Luigi Moretti, parametric architecture’s first theorist The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Roberta Lucente, Giuseppe Canestrino
Starting in the 1940s, Luigi Moretti was the first theorist of architettura parametrica, suggesting a novel scientific vision of architectural design. However, the contribution of this theory to hi...
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‘The germ of future extension and perpetuity’: capitalism and the Peabody Trust The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Jesse Honsa
Housing discourses are often framed along a public/private binary, between the polarities of anarchic capitalism versus planned order. But, as Fernand Braudel argues, ‘capitalism' represents the in...
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Striving for a new monumentality: the non-classical influence on Gunnar Asplund’s architecture The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Carolyn Ahmer
Gunnar Asplund’s architecture is today synonymous with 1920s Classicism and Nordic Classicism. His designs for the Woodland Chapel (1918–1920) and the Stockholm City Library (1920–1928) stand as pr...
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Un-building: a utopia of receding construction The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Miguel Guitart
Spanning the past two centuries, the world has seen voracious urban expansion premised on exponential population growth and radical transformations in the productive means and methods used to gener...
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Her buildings, our buildings The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Doreen Bernath, Deljana Iossifova
Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 28, No. 3, 2023)
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Un-making architecture: an introduction to a critical framework The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Jason E. Nguyen, Elizabeth J. Petcu
Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 28, No. 2, 2023)
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Vacant spaces NY; Houses for sale The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Michael Robinson Cohen
Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 28, No. 2, 2023)
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Resisting Postmodern Architecture: Critical Regionalism Before Globalisation The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Léa-Catherine Szacka
Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 28, No. 2, 2023)
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Between passion and possession: women architects and the houses they built for family, love and work The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Henriette Steiner
This article discusses a specific architectural type: single-family homes designed by and for heterosexual couples who were both architects and collaborators, and who dedicated a particular space in their home to architectural work. My examples are a handful of modest houses built in the suburbs of Copenhagen with state-supported mortgages during the post-war period by Inger and Johannes Exner, Karen
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Lyda Caldas and women architects in Colombia: the landscape of Universidad del Valle in Meléndez The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Felipe Hernández
This article explores Lyda Caldas’ landscape design for Universidad del Valle to enquire about the position of women in Colombian architectural education and practice. It questions modern architecture, which emerged as a masculine discourse that, following ideals from the Enlightenment, assumed the superiority of western culture; after the Second World War, it became a vehicle for socio-economic and
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A flat of one’s own: the Elisabeth Brugsmaflat in The Hague (1945–1958) The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-05-31 María Novas-Ferradás
In the 1950s, married women in the Netherlands were assimilated into the fixed ideal of heteronormative family and traditional family housing standards which were the norm; single women were not. Single women represented not only a separate category in post-Second World War society but also a stigmatised one. What was a woman without a man? Women were simply not expected to live alone. In the mid-twentieth
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Deconstruction in Tasmanian New Heritage Architecture The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Andrew P. Steen
The literary-philosophical practice of deconstruction has suffered abuse in architectural discourse for decades. Popularised interpretations of metaphor-heavy and art-referencing iconic architecture have undermined the potential of an exercise that holds potential for much insight. This paper looks to recover some of that potential burnt out in flagrant forms and beaten down in opaque missives of discursive
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Creating alternatives: stories about participation, collaboration and gender in architecture, the 1960s and 70s The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Svava Riesto
Today, while there is a pressing need to rethink architectural practices in the face of societal, climatic, and ecological crises, a better understanding of how architects in the past have rethought their role and contribution seem increasingly relevant. This article examines projects from the 1960s and 70s by two Danish women architects, Susanne Ussing and Anne Marie Rubin, and the people with whom
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‘My Village’: organising the world and structuring the colonial architectural archive The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Mark Crinson
The problems of archives accumulated under colonialism are now well known. This paper uses aspects of the Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection at the University of Edinburgh to reflect on how to interpret the archive not only through what it records, or the relation between what survives and what does not, but in terms of alternative ways of understanding the archive’s conceptual structure. As an influential
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Roof politics: the materiality of interpellation The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Delia Duong Ba Wendel
In 2010, the Rwandan government rolled out a mandatory roof modernisation programme to replace grass thatch on every house and outbuilding in Rwanda. The initiative was ostensibly one of shelter modernisation, but rather more embedded in post-genocide nation and peace building. The paper considers Louis Althusser’s concept of ‘interpellation’ as a useful framework for understanding how the Rwandan
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The city as precarious medium in granducal Tuscany The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Victoria Addona
This paper focuses on the concept of infrastructural precariousness in early seventeenth-century administrative drawings that document urban and natural environments by the architect-engineer Gherardo Mechini. Each drawing responds to a report produced for the granducal administration on broken property: walls, streets, and banks crumbling due to floods, fires, storms, vandalism, or, more often, cumulative
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Big Mound: settler destruction as historic preservation The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Ana María León
In 1869, the Osage burial monument known as Big Mound, located in the middle of downtown St. Louis, was destroyed. But the desecration of the site did not end there. The multiple destructions and memorialisations that this sacred site subsequently endured reveal the markers of settler colonialism, a form of occupation that replaces Indigenous populations with invasive societies. We can see this pattern
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‘Some residue of prejudice against atomic power’: Oscar Newman’s underground city and peaceful nuclear explosions The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Eliyahu Keller
Beginning in 1957, the United States Government pursued an unimaginable enterprise. For eighteen years, and as part of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s ‘Atoms for Peace’ initiative, the controversial Project Plowshare employed hundreds of scientists, engineers, and policymakers, and facilitated 27 tests and 31 nuclear detonations for an outrageous goal: the use of nuclear weapons for constructive means
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A kaleidoscope of trajectories: research in/on/with China The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Deljana Iossifova, Doreen Bernath
Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 27, No. 7-8, 2022)
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Embodiment takes command: re-enacting Aldo and Hannie van Eyck’s homelife The Journal of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Alejandro Campos-Uribe, Paula Lacomba-Montes
Grounded in an experiential understanding of architecture, this research explores ways in which architectural history can help bring works or ideas more vividly to the present. We propose here an embodied visit to Aldo and Hannie van Eyck’s house in Loenen aan de Vecht. In the house, layers of temporality, materiality, everyday living, and lived experience mingle with design solutions and worldviews