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Anti-Vitruvian Architects and Contemporary Society, Ashraf M. Salama (2011)

by Ashraf M. Salama

Architects for Peace Editorials, September 2011, arch - peace, Australia

Certain issues keep presenting themselves on the map of discussions about architecture and its role as a profession in... more Certain issues keep presenting themselves on the map of discussions about architecture and its role as a profession in contemporary societies. Recently, I came across two web interventions that highlight some of these issues. The first is a video clip on You Tube, titled “is the architect obsolete?” and the second is an article on the website of DesignIntelligence by Helena Jubany, titled “The Social Responsibility of Architects” These were a trigger for this editorial in which I re-iterate some of the issues I presented in my earlier writings.

While practicing architecture works very well for some professionals, many are suffering from norms, traditions, and customs adopted by the profession itself. This is due to the fact that the profession still clings to the antiquated notion of an architect or designer waiting in an office for a client to come in with a project. It is also due to the fact that architects do not know how to convince others of their value. The question here is why? Is it the ineffectiveness of professional organizations, is it the notion of ‘starchitects’ that dictates the architectural scene in many parts of the world? Well, it might not be so difficult to offer a validated answer!

More can be found here
http://archpeace2.blogspot.com/2011/09/anti-vitruvian-architects-and.html

Toyo Ito's Philosophy Platform at Designing the Mediatheque in Sendai as a New Architectural Prototype of a Library Building

by Nadya Stamatova

Un Interstice Impalpable (French version, English and Portuguese translation)).

by Armando Menicacci

Published in Scenes d'architecture. Nouvelles architectures françaises pour le spectacle, Paris, Editions du patrimoine, Culturesfrance/Centre des monuments nationaux, Paris, 2006, pp. 18-23

Published for the exhibition representing France at the 7th international Biennal of Architecture in São Paulo

I'm trying to understand how the performing space is changing since the arrival of digital technologies I'm trying to understand how the performing space is changing since the arrival of digital technologies

Thinking Architecture as Art: Cesare Brandi (1906-1988) and his Conservation Philosophy

by Fidel Meraz

Paper in progress presented in the Association for the Study of Modern Italy Annual Conference 2010, Italy and its Past. Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London.
Co-authored with Valeria Carnevale

Cesare Brandi dedicated great part of his theoretical reflections to identifying the essence of art. His concern was... more Cesare Brandi dedicated great part of his theoretical reflections to identifying the essence of art. His concern was fuelled by the fact that the precious treasury of Italian art was at risk of disappearance after the World War II. As founder of the Istituto Centrale del Restauro, he was responsible for the protection of the architectural heritage. Therefore, the preoccupation in finding the most authoritative theory was more than justified and consequently his philosophical journey is one of the most consistent in the Italian art theory scene.

His theoretical corpus overcame the Crocean idealism that preceded him and incorporated new approaches to study art, and architecture as art, such as phenomenology and semiotic studies. Since his philosophical journey seemed devoted to a theoretical understanding of art, this paper offers a mapping of how, by considering architecture as a work of art, Brandi approached, at least in his Restoration Theory, its conservation as the rest of the fine arts.

We argue, he did not consider the qualities of architecture’s inhabitation within his theory, influencing for a long period the way in which Italian conservation culture considered the built environment. Architecture, by this influence, lingered in the middle for a long time, between the role of the dynamic and changing place of human dwelling and the one of support of the intemporal work of art.

Evocation - Make a qualitative evocation of Kazimierz Dolny with "objets trouvés" on a "site trouvé" following a chosen theme

by Angelica Fortuzzi

Co-authored with Patrick Labarque, HW&K Sint-Lucas School of Architecture
published in the Workshop results «Visibile & Invisibile Context of Architecture», Warsaw University of Technology, 13-24 September 2006.

GELENEKSEL KONUTLARDA KULLANICI-MEKÂN İLİŞKİSİ: MİDYAT ÖRNEĞİ

by Neslihan Dalkılıç

MİDYAT GELENEKSEL KENT DOKUSU VE EVLERİ ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME

by Neslihan Dalkılıç

Domestic Diversity at Kincaid Mounds

by Tamira Brennan

This paper reports the preliminary findings of Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s eight week archaeological... more This paper reports the preliminary findings of Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s eight week archaeological field school at the Kincaid site, a major Mississippian period (AD 1000-1450) mound center located along the Ohio River in southernmost Illinois. The purpose of this research, in addition to training a new batch of archaeologists, is threefold: to explain the intra-site diversity at this important but understudied site, to examine prehistoric identity as it is revealed through such diversity, and to improve the interpretability of magnetometry survey at Kincaid and elsewhere with complementary in-the-ground data.

MEANING IN THE TRADITIONAL DWELLING OF NORTH GUJARAT, INDIA: AN ETYMOLOGIAL EXPLORATION

by Rutul Joshi

MEANING IN THE TRADITIONAL DWELLING OF NORTH GUJARAT, INDIA: AN ETYMOLOGIAL EXPLORATION

by Rutul Joshi

Grasping the Green Void

by Anuradha Chatterjee

Twist and Flow: Thinking through ‘From Form to Formless’ Exhibition

by Anuradha Chatterjee

Twist and Flow: Thinking through ‘From Form to Formless’ Exhibition, Published by City of Sydney, http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/customshouse/whatson/documents/FormtoFormless-DrAnuradhaChatterjee.pdf