Kritik

Transversal Territory is a laboratory of urban, environmental, and artistic experimentation at the renowned Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland. It undertakes transdisciplinary and participatory research on the relationship between us, our bodies, and our built and natural environments. Its unique approach is to explore experiences of-and reflections on-urban space through performative bodywork and on-site artistic installations. This process aims at transcending the conventional paradigms of perception and the understanding of urban space, and at creating a new imagination of it-an augmented reality.Transversal Territory's innovative research is conducted in annual workshops, in which students and local residents collaborate, and subsequent public presentations of the results. This volume features 20 performances and installations realized in 2022 in Mendrisio's Rime-Brech neighborhood, a typical suburban area with its mix of industrial structures, social housing, shopping malls, fast food outlets, parking lots, wastelands, and highways. It is conceived as a map of Mendrisio that spreads across the pages to recontextualize the genius loci in book format.

Densification of our cities is an imperative that inevitably brings the topic of new high-rise buildings and the addition of stories to existing buildings to the foreground of discourse. Architecture and urban design must increasingly address the issues of verticality at all stages of planning, design, and composition. Social and cultural aspects must be considered in this process as well. The French-languag book De la verticalité combines two elements: a case study on high-rise buildings in Zurich and an explorative essay on the subject of verticality in philosophy, culture, and society. Together the threads form a dual commentary that highlights the challenges posed by the transformation of our cities. Illustrated with numerous spectacular montages and visualizations designed to broaden thinking, this volume, which comes from the laboratory of acclaimed Swiss architecture firm Made in, also offers concrete proposals aimed at architects and urban planners, politicians and flâneurs alike.

The book discusses how division affect the fabric of cities, and people's sense of identity and agency, and are reflected in physical features, architecture, and urban planning. The question of divided cities represents a complex and multistranded urban Ecology-at once both social and spatial; it cannot be limited to a single science or discipline, such as social or spatial fields. This suggests integrated and cross- disciplinary understandings, as well as integrated or parallel approaches and solutions. Urban ecologies of division manifest in multiple forms. One of their most palpable expressions is conflict, with parallels around the world, and often with correlations in the spatial fabric. Violence in such contexts is often a surface expression of deeper socio-economic or ideological differences. Whether as a result of intervention by authority or by dissent between groups, a divided city inevitably becomes a place of conflict in various forms andintensity, eroding the joy of living and sense of collective belonging to the detriment of all. In effect, it erodes the collective advantage of being part of a more unified society.A city exists in collections of social structures which mutually form a society. A divided city implies divided social structures and, in consequence, a divided society. The papers compiled in this book present many case studies of divided cities, discussing the different causes of divisions and their effects on societies. Some of the causes can be linked to conflicts, wars, colonialism, or legislative political systems. In response to the serious challenges resulting from these divisions, the book aims to provide opportunities for new approaches and possibilities for new interventions and solutions, making it significant to urban planners, architects, and policymakers.

Fühlen Sie sich gehört?Wir versuchen, unsere Gedanken in Worte zu fassen, um zu beschreiben, was wir fühlen oder woran wir glauben. Wir kommunizieren mit unserem Körper und sprechen durch unsere Handlungen. Aber auch die Stille ist eine Form der Kommunikation. In der Stille entfalten sich komplexe Zusammenhänge, die Stille lässt unausgesprochene Realitäten zum Vorschein kommen. In jeder Abwesenheit liegt eine Präsenz, in jeder Pause eine Möglichkeit.Diese Ausgabe des trans magazins lädt Sie ein, Phänomene der Stille jenseits der Geräuschlosigkeit wahrzunehmen.

Scarcity of resources in all forms is commonly portrayed in a negative light. Yet these conditions-which have long been a reality in many extreme climate conditions across the global South and are increasingly becoming a global reality-often stimulate an abundance of innovation, inspiration, and ingenuity. Permanence has created a climate crisis, with spaces constructed with non-degradable materials, resource extraction without active replenishment, and buildings designed for a single-eternal use. Our present reality is marked by a global pandemic, violent conflicts, and the looming threat of climate change-induced environmental disasters. Yet there remains an optimism about the creative possibilities that arise within these constraints.Field Notes on Scarcity, published in conjunction with the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial, examines what scarcity truly looks like on the ground, and the challenges and opportunities it presents across architecture and design. Sixty scholars and practitioners from across the Global South-including Lesley Lokko, Yinka Shonibare, Formafantasma, Rahul Mehrotra, Olalekan Jeyifous, Abeer Seikaly, Ilze and Heinrich Wolff, Chitra Vishwanath, and Deema Assaf-contribute reflections, poems, visual essays, and dialogues exploring what scarcity represents, what it inspires, and what it reveals.

Care work is at once omnipresent and invisible. It encompasses all forms of socially necessary - or reproductive - labor: raising children, cooking, cleaning, shopping, looking after the elderly and the ill, and many other tasks. It is what allows for and sustains productive labor (including architectural labor) in the first place. Although economic production depends on the work of social reproduction, care work is usually unpaid and pushed out of sight. It is indisputable that care work falls disproportionately upon women and unevenly along lines of race and class. Demographic changes, environmental crises, growing mobility, transformations of labor, and the reconfiguration of traditional institutions of care - from the nuclear family to welfare state provisions - have made the inequity of care a key problem in architectural debates.

Als der Computer die Bühne der Architektur betrat, war sein Platz bereits durch jahrzehntelange avantgardistische Experimente vorbereitet worden. Das modernistische Programm der Rationalisierung der gestalterischen Praxis nahm zwischen zwei Generationen von Konstruktivisten in den 1930er und 1960er Jahren eine entschieden bürokratische Wendung. Von Paris bis Cambridge gingen Malerinnen, Dichter, Designerinnen und Architekten mit Nachdruck daran, den Code des künstlerischen Genies zu knacken, in der Hoffnung, die Schaffung besserer Umgebungen zu demokratisieren, wobei sie ein wachsendes Repertoire algorithmischer Techniken förderten. Die Motivation für den Einsatz dieser neuen Techniken resultierte aus dem Versuch, Kunst und Architektur im Sinne serieller Effekte zu verstehen. Durch die Neuformulierung ihrer Disziplinen mithilfe im Bereich des wissenschaftlichen Managements entwickelter Verfahren des Flussdiagramms vollzogen Künstlerinnen und Architekten einen Paradigmenwechsel, der ein lange gehegter Traum der Moderne war: Sie ersetzten Komposition durch Organisation als Grundlage der Gestaltung

Mystical Body ist eine Kurzgeschichte des italienischen Architekten Tino Grisi über den Kirchenbau und sein Erforschen der Liturgie. Aus der frohen Botschaft der Gleichnisse über das Teilhaben an der Schöpfung entwickelt Grisi in offenen Bildern und Metaphern das Phänomen einer Architektur in Gleichnissen und stellt seine neue Poetik von Kunst und Architektur der Kirche mit einer kritischen Auswahl von Zeichnungen und Texten aus seinen Projekten und Studien der vergangenen zwanzig Jahre vor.

The book reveals how the relationship between architectural design and the ubiquitous urban camera can be used to question established structures of control and ownership inherent within the visual model of the Western canon.

" Les Entretiens sur l'architecture ont été publiés en 1863. Viollet-le-Duc y concentre, plus que dans le Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française, l'essentiel de son expérience et de sa pensée. L'architecture n'est pas la seule affaire des architectes, c'est l'affaire de tous : elle naît et se développe dans et avec les sociétés où elle s'incarne. Cette véritable encyclopédie consacrée à l'Architecture Française du XIe au XVIe siècle est un document que tout praticien de l'architecture se doit de posséder."

Introducing the architectural, urban, and landscape challenges of Albania.- Part 1: Next cities between neoanthropocene and asceticism.- Augmented cities in the neoanthropocene.- A multi-scalar design proposal: s-RGB (Safe - regenerative green blue) design for the contemporary city.- Materiality and asceticism in architecture. A paradigm to learn from.- Part 2: Urban and territorial challenges in Albanian context.- Tirana-next. A complementary development strategy (and consequent urban tactics) for the informal and historical urban fabrics within Tirana super blocks.- An observation on gated communities in post-socialist Albania: Three case studies from Tirana.- The Mangalem quarter in Berat (Albania): Studies in the urban composition of the aggregate and the historical building techniques with relation to seismic action.- A comparative study between the wildfire prone forest surfaces within the metropolitan area of Sarajevo and Tirana.- Part 3: Architectural challenges in Albanian context.- Infill design in informal housing in Tirana, Albania: Transformations and spatial qualities.- Past, present and the claim for a possible future: The case of Tirana national theatre.- A study on the prisons morphology, case of Albania.- Space syntax analysis as a tool for evaluation of social and cultural values of Albanian housing - Case study of Tirana.- The rise of modernism in Tetova.- Part 4: Afterword: Tomorrow challenges in cities and planning.- Cities of tomorrow - Tomorrow of planning. Lessons for the Albanian cities.

The latest edition of the University of Virginia School of Architecture's design journal, LUNCH 15 turns to the concept of Thickness and considers what possibilities lie in poché, thick description, thin assemblies, and in the many layers of the built environment. <BR>The issue considers Thickness in four sections: "Places" navigates the ways we understand the spaces in which we live and work. "Materials" delaminates the building blocks of our world and how we know them. "Representation" traces the many forms and layers of communication through which we see or that might obscure our vision. Finally, "Relations" follows threads that bind. In a world operating between the thick and thin of it, how will your lines be drawn?

In Designing Social Architecture, Fuyuki Makino examines how experimental methods in modern architecture have helped form micro-relationships, social networks, and social structures among inhabitants of Manila, Philippines, and considers whether the architects’ aim to promote certain social behaviors was successful or not.

This volume explores the concept of 'spatial transparency'; a form of spatial continuity that articulates depth through permeable, layered or porous three-dimensional organizations where interstitial light is present.

Boredom is a ubiquitous feature of modern life. Endured by everyone, it is both cause and effect of modernity, and of situations, spaces and surroundings. As such, this book argues, boredom shares an intimate relationship with architecture-one that has been seldom explored in architectural history and theory. <BR><BR> Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience investigates that relationship, showing how an understanding of boredom affords us a new way of looking at and understanding the modern experience. It reconstructs a series of episodes in architectural history, from the 19th century to the present, to survey how boredom became a normalized component of the everyday, how it infiltrated into the production and reception of architecture, and how it serves to diagnose moments of crisis in the continuous transformations of the built environment. <BR><BR> Erudite and innovative, the work moves deftly from architectural theory and philosophy to literature and psychology to make its case. Combining archival material, scholarly sources, and illuminating excerpts from conversations with practitioners and thinkers-including Charles Jencks, Rem Koolhaas, Sylvia Lavin, and Jorge Silvetti-it reveals the complexity and importance of boredom in architecture.

This volume of Incomplete Works is about DWA's design for a prototype building called The College of Colour (CoC). The design development was influenced by events of Mies' posthumous career that took place in the 1980s. They were, first, a pair of public inquiries in London and, second, the rebuilding of the Barcelona Pavilion. The CoC design and the influences that caused it, are set out in two parts. First, visually, as sequences of views that show the CoC design in its most evolved form, i.e., as DWA conceived it at the time they were compiling this publication. Second, in the form of an essay, which tries to capture and order the influential events as a historical narrative.<BR><BR>

Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated: is a small atelier located in Nonthaburi, Bangkok. Founded in 2007 by Cherngchai Riawruangsangkul, it specializes in architectural design, interior design, and related fields for small and medium-sized residences in metropolitan areas.The practice is driven by discovering design alternatives and conducting interdisciplinary experiments to find new, unique and innovative design methods. Going beyond conventional techniques and solutions, the office seeks alternatives that open up unique opportunities to create a new physical and emotional experience for both the owner, society, and the observers.Archimontage's works aim to challenge, question, and examine the definition of design in its essence, both in theory and in practice.