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Andjelkovic, Katarina. "Kinesthetic Imagination in Architecture: Design and Representation of Space." Život umjetnosti, no. 106 (November 30, 2020): 22–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.31664/zu.2020.106.02.
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Histories of architecture have long-recognized the vital role of concepts, strategies and principles exchanged between architecture and film, which reconfigured their systems of knowledge and made this relationship rich. Nonetheless, film has been used mainly as an instrument of narration and representation in architecture, only rarely engaged in questioning how it affects the way we understand, think and design space. Some of the most recent architectural design practices have recognized that film, using its specific screen environment, can provide a source of new architectural imagination while contextualizing our kinesthetic experience of space. In this article, I will examine how kinesthetic imagination has informed architectural practice in relation to the established practices of architectural representation.
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Schaeverbeke, Robin, and Hélène Aarts. "‘Architectural literacy’: Functions of architectural drawing." Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice 6, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 83–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00052_3.
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‘Literacy’ refers to the ability to both assign meaning to – and to create messages. Transposing this concept to ‘architectural literacy’ could refer to the assigning of meaning to architectural messages and the ability to create such messages. ‘Architectural literacy’ suggests that architects employ a distinct language to communicate, process and design spatial propositions and that the knowledge of such literacy could be of importance to a broader community. In architectural practices, drawing is used to discourse about forms and spaces. Our approach to disassemble architectural drawings in a set of functions, aims to add understanding about a specific ability to learn and understand architecture. Disassembling architectural drawing in a set of functions stems from a reflective conversation upon our practices as drawing teachers in architectural faculties. In an attempt to (re)structure the didactic foundations of our own teaching practices, we started discussing the kind of drawings architects resort to. This research gradually revealed a set of distinct, yet interrelated functions and activities. We introduce architectural drawing as a specific faculty of a large field of drawing practices, which revolves around the convergence of perception, imagination, disclosure and artistic expression. Learning about the distinct activities and abilities to process forms and spaces provides a knowledge base to explore foundations of architectural reasoning.
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Georgopoulou, Maria. "Vernacular Architecture in Venetian Crete: Urban and Rural Practices." Medieval Encounters 18, no. 4-5 (2012): 447–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700674-12342115.
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Abstract The architecture built in Venice’s colony on Crete between its establishment in 1211 and the Ottoman conquest of the island in 1669 displays an intermingling of Western (Latin) architectural traditions with pre-Venetian Byzantine (Orthodox) forms and styles. Previous scholarship has explored the urban architecture of Venetian Crete, but less attention has been granted to the many rural Orthodox churches of the later medieval period that dot the Cretan countryside. While the official monuments of Cretan cities have been interpreted as employing architectural forms with a strong ideological—especially political—intent, the use of forms in rural buildings was not as ideologically charged. These more modest structures employed “Western” and “Byzantine” architectural styles in an ideologically neutral manner that reflected trends in fashion or taste rather than distinctions of cultural or political identity. By the fourteenth century, “Latin” and “Orthodox” architectural traditions had merged into a local style that expressed the cosmopolitan character of medieval Crete.
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Matkovic, Predrag, Mirjana Maric, Pere Tumbas, and Marton Sakal. "Traditionalisation of agile processes: Architectural aspects." Computer Science and Information Systems 15, no. 1 (2018): 79–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/csis160820038m.
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Mechanisms of agile processes, suited for cost reduction and timely reaction to dynamic market changes, have also been recognized as useful in the development of complex software solutions. Recent studies focused on expansion of agile processes point to a viable possibility for coexistence and integration of complementary elements of agile and traditional development. Within the scope of this paper, this phenomenon is referred to as traditionalisation of agile processes. Software architecture modeling is one of the most sensitive issues associated with incorporation of elements of traditional development into agile processes. The goal of this paper was to determine how suitable particular explicit architectural practices are for incorporation into agile development processes. A mixed method research was carried out for this purpose. Qualitative component of the research resulted in identification of explicit architectural practices suitable for application in agile development processes. Their significances were determined by means of the quantitative component, realized in the form of an empirical research. The research confirmed that emergent architecture in agile processes is not sufficient for the development of complex software solutions, and that agile processes need to incorporate certain explicit architecture practices. Research results revealed that the agile community has an affirmative attitude towards the idea of incorporating explicit architectural practices into agile development processes, with overall agreement on the significances of particular explicit architectural practices for the development of architecture of complex software systems.
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Andri Yatmo, Yandi. "Renewing Theories, Methods and Design Practices: Challenges for Architectural Education." SHS Web of Conferences 41 (2018): 02003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20184102003.
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Architectural education should promote the advancement of knowledge that is necessary as the basis for the development of excellent design practice. Architectural education needs to respond appropriately to the current issues in the society. To find its way into the society in an appropriate way, architecture needs to be liquid. The ability to address the liquidity of architecture requires educational approach that promotes the ability to work with a range of design methods and approaches. There are several principles that become the basis for developing architectural education that could strengthen its position within the society: to promote knowledge-based design practice, to embrace variety of design methods and approaches; to keep a balance between design knowledge and design skills; while at the same time to aim for mastery and excellence in design. These principles should be the basis for defining and developing the curriculum and the process of design learning architectural education. Then the main challenge is on our willingness to be liquid in developing architectural education, which needs continuous renewal and update to respond to the changing context of knowledge, technology and society.
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Hernández Pérez, Flor de Maria, and Julio Ariel Hurtado Algeria. "Difficulties and challenges in the incorporation of architectural practices." Sistemas y Telemática 14, no. 38 (October 6, 2016): 74–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.18046/syt.v14i38.2290.
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The architecture software has become a key asset for software organizations because it facilitates achieving quality goals and developing of easy evolvable products. However, in small organizations, software architecture is usually a vague idea about the structure of solution. In this paper, a case of applying several methods of architecture (QAW, ADD and VaB) with small teams constituted by software developers, during a course of software development, is presented. Some difficulties to trace and correctly document the rationale associated with quality attributes, tactics architectural and selected patterns, were identified. It was established the difficulty of following an architectural process and to let consistent evidence about that, especially when the same specification generates conflict between the established attributes and tactics and patterns that going establishing..
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Drobnjak, Boško. "Architecture as a textual phenomenon: Alexander Brodsky's architectural practices of appropriation." SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal 11, no. 3 (2019): 531–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/saj1903531d.
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This paper analyses architecture created through appropriating existing materials while focusing on strategies of intertextuality. It argues that the meaning of an architectural object does not derive from itself, or its poetic concepts, but rather from its relationship with other architectural objects, other art works as texts, cultural texts, and everyday practices. My aim is to show various theoretical problems of the theory of architecture and art, which as a network of overlapping texts of culture, surround the architectural production of Alexander Brodsky. Here I use different and varied theoretical concepts, selecting two case studies by Brodsky - The Pavilion for Vodka Ceremonies and Rotunda-upon which the paper is based as an interdiscursive study.
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Chidlow, Joyce. "Information needs of architectural practices." Art Libraries Journal 16, no. 3 (1991): 18–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200007264.
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Libraria is a small business which provides a visiting library service to architectural practices. Although practices vary, their information needs are similar, and are met from the several categories employed by Libraria to organise information materials: technical literature, trade literature, samples, consultants and contractors, company information, fine art and reference, maps, journals, and in-house material. Information from these categories must be available as required to support successive stages in the building design process from inception to completion. Library services in the construction industry have to provide the right information at the right time, without being a drain on the resources of practices which can only survive as profitable businesses; the librarian must be seen to be an ever-helpful source of practical information.
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Stickells, Lee. "Conceiving an architecture of movement." Architectural Research Quarterly 14, no. 1 (March 2010): 41–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135510000564.
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Ideas about movement were fundamental for Modernist architecture of the early twentieth century and are ubiquitous in contemporary theory and practice. The shifting theoretical terrain in which bodily movement is made sense of has continuously produced different understandings of architectural possibilities. For example, where in much early Modernism, and in present conventional practice, movement is often articulated in terms of technical, functional circulation and narrativised aesthetic experience (the architectural promenade), other recent practices adopt more ambivalent approaches. The emphasis in these later practices is on the relationality of programmatic elements, articulated in terms of dynamic coexistence, continual variation and fluid, interconnected space. In this way, they connect to a pervasive concern with mobility in the late twentieth, and early twenty-first century: culture is increasingly seen as dynamic and hybrid, societies are defined through complex webs of interconnection, and social theory is focused on the nomadic. In this context, examining changing conceptions and structuring of bodily movement within architecture provides a means for productively reengaging with modern architectural history.
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Stenslie, Stahl, and Magne Wiggen. "Preemptive Architecture: Explosive Art and Future Architectures in Cursed Urban Zones." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, no. 12 (April 15, 2017): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i12.165.
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This article describes the art and architectural research project Preemptive Architecture that uses artistic strategies and approaches to create bomb-ready architectural structures that act as instruments for the undoing of violence in war. Increasing environmental usability through destruction represents an inverse strategy that reverses common thinking patterns about warfare, art and architecture. Building structures predestined for a constructive destruction becomes a creative act. One of the main motivations behind this paper is to challenge and expand the material thinking as well as the socio-political conditions related to artistic, architectural and design based practices. Article received: December 12, 2016; Article accepted: January 10, 2017; Published online: April 20, 2017Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Stenslie, Stahl, and Magne Wiggen. "Preemptive Architecture: Explosive Art and Future Architectures in Cursed Urban Zones." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 12 (2017): 29-39.
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Emmons, Paul. "Diagrammatic Practices: The Office of Frederick L. Ackerman and "Architectural Graphic Standards"." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 64, no. 1 (March 1, 2005): 4–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25068122.
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The office of Frederick Ackerman (1878-1950) was the source of the first modern architectural handbook, Architectural Graphic Standards (1932), which was intended as a radical manifesto. Basing his practice on the economic critique of "conspicuous consumption" by Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), Ackerman was a leader of the technocratic movement. Ackerman directed his employees to develop factual architectural data. The authors of Graphic Standards, Charles Ramsey (1884-1963) and Harold Sleeper (1893-1960), worked at Ackerman's firm, and it was for Ackerman's projects that the first versions of the handbook's plates were drawn. Graphic Standards reflected Ackerman's technocratic approach to architecture, whereby he isolated functional facts from appearance, which was understood as self-expression. In its use of diagrams, Graphic Standards reflected the view that such schematic representations were the transparent rendering of facts. Yet, as seen in some of the plates of Graphic Standards, even the most reductive diagrams inevitably include expressive elements. Through many editions, Graphic Standards has been widely hailed as the "bible" of architectural practice, and it is paradoxical that Ackerman's radical practice became the basis of today's normative commercial practices. The attempt to separate functional fact from aesthetic self-expression was an impossible project, but Ackerman's efforts to achieve a modern architecture that was derived from the nature of its use and construction to replace the design of novelties remain a significant achievement.
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Shapiro, Michael J. "Architecture as event space: Violence, securitisation, and resistance." European Journal of International Security 4, no. 3 (July 26, 2019): 366–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eis.2019.13.
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AbstractCentral to the conception of this article is the architectural theorist Bernard Tschumi's dictum, ‘There is no architecture without action, no architecture without events, no architecture without program … no architecture without violence.’ Shaped as well by Eyal Weizman's conception of ‘forensic architecture’, the focus of the investigation is on Israel's architecture of security and on the corresponding Palestinian architecture of resistance. Emphasising an encounter of cartographies that reveals the way Palestinians make life livable in response to the architectural violence they face, the analysis continues with reference to Yari Sharif's analysis of architectures of resistance and with a reading of a feature film, Hany Abu-Assad's Omar (2013) in which the Separation Wall between Israel and Palestine is one of the film's primary agent/protagonists. The article surveys popular culture texts, focused on crime and espionage to analyse a range of security practices and breaches that amplify the analysis with attention to security issues in individual households, multiple-person dwelling arrangements, architectural locations throughout cities, and buildings housing governmental security agencies. That trajectory of architectural sites lends a micropolitical analysis to the macropolitical level of governmental policy and modes of resistance to it.
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Schmidt, Tyson. ""... the menace posed to public healthy "insantiary pahs": Sir Māui Pōmare's clean up of Māori architecture." Architectural History Aotearoa 8 (January 1, 2011): 47–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/aha.v8i.7100.
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Apirana Ngata, Te Puea Hērangi and Wiremu Rātana each left behind what Deidre Brown calls "a major architectural movement" – Ngata staged an architectural renaissance based on traditional practices, Te Puea looked to develop a blending of building practices, and Rātana pointed to a new direction altogether. Sir Māui Pōmare, however, left no distinctive architecture that embodied his views of his people's future, and has largely been overlooked in New Zealand's architectural history as a result. Pōmare's crusade to improve the health of Māori communities, however, did have a pervasive and direct impact on Māori architecture. His beliefs and actions provide an important counterpoint to those of his contemporaries, helping us understand the full spectrum of architectural actions taken by Māori in the early twentieth-century. This paper examines Sir Māui Pōmare's work and its architectural impact, placing it in the context of other influential Māori architectural movements of the time.
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Cifuentes Quin, Camilo Andrés. "The Platonic Forehand and Backhand of Cybernetic Architecture." Leonardo 52, no. 5 (October 2019): 429–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01796.
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Since the 1960s, the field of digital architecture has been grounded on a computational practice of design, which has been inseparable from cybernetic constructions of architectural issues. The result of the former has been a common oscillation, in digital architectural practices, between the construction of design problems in reference to technoscientific notions and its construction as a reification of such resources. This article analyzes these aspects of digital architecture in reference to N.K. Hayles's vision of the construction of knowledge as a “seriation” and her conception of the “platonic forehand and backhand” in the work of scientists. Finally, the author identifies possible scenarios for a cybernetic practice of architecture that is not necessarily trapped in technocratic and reified visions of design issues.
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Tamke, Martin, Paul Nicholas, and Mateusz Zwierzycki. "Machine learning for architectural design: Practices and infrastructure." International Journal of Architectural Computing 16, no. 2 (June 2018): 123–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478077118778580.
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In this article, we propose that new architectural design practices might be based on machine learning approaches to better leverage data-rich environments and workflows. Through reference to recent architectural research, we describe how the application of machine learning can occur throughout the design and fabrication process, to develop varied relations between design, performance and learning. The impact of machine learning on architectural practices with performance-based design and fabrication is assessed in two cases by the authors. We then summarise what we perceive as current limits to a more widespread application and conclude by providing an outlook and direction for future research for machine learning in architectural design practice.
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FARENHORST, RIK, PATRICIA LAGO, and HANS VAN VLIET. "EAGLE: EFFECTIVE TOOL SUPPORT FOR SHARING ARCHITECTURAL KNOWLEDGE." International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems 16, no. 03n04 (September 2007): 413–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218843007001706.
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Knowledge management plays an important role in the software architecting process. Recently, this role has become more apparent by a paradigm shift that views a software architecture as the set of architectural design decisions it embodies. This shift has sparked the discussion in both research and practice on how to best facilitate sharing of so-called architectural knowledge, and how tools can best be employed. In order to design successful tool support for architectural knowledge sharing it is important to take into account what software architecting really entails. In this paper, we define the main characteristics of architecting, based on observations in a large software development organization, and state-of-the-art literature in software architecture. Based on the defined characteristics, we determine how best practices known from knowledge management could be used to improve architectural knowledge sharing. This results in the definition of a set of desired properties of architectural knowledge sharing tools. Finally, we highlight the design and implementation of EAGLE, an architectural knowledge sharing portal that implements those properties.
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Kousoulas, Stavros. "Shattering the black box: Technicities of architectural manipulation." International Journal of Architectural Computing 16, no. 4 (November 28, 2018): 295–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478077118801937.
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This article attempts to reverse a fallacy often met in architectural theories and practices: that of a supposed input which through processes of what one can broadly call translations generates a built output. The input–output fallacy produces an architectural black box that treats both architectural thinking and doing as a mere process of projecting, representing and annotating ‘properly’ what will later be executed. On the contrary, a manipulative account of architecture as an active process of ecological engineering will pave the way for not only reversing the fallacy but also towards a particular understanding of architectural practices: architectural technicities and their reticular, affective potentials. Drawing on the theories of Gilbert Simondon, André Leroi-Gourhan, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, I will examine how architecture can be genealogically approached as a reticular technicity which evolves by a reciprocal concretisation of its technical objects and a generalisation of its active practitioners: no longer the application of transcendental design rules, of symbolic deductions or statistical inductions but rather abductive heuristics of affective techniques; no input nor output but practices of sensorial amplification via material manipulation and vice versa.
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Petrescu, Doina, Prue Chiles, and ‘The Agency’. "Agency: alternative practices and alternative worlds." Architectural Research Quarterly 13, no. 2 (June 2009): 109–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135509990194.
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This edition of arq assembles a selection of papers presented at the Conference ‘Agency’ organised by the research group called ‘The Agency’ initiated in 2007 in the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield. We offered to host the 5th AHRA International Conference, giving it the theme of ‘Agency’ and hoping that the submissions would energise the relationships between the humanities, the architectural profession, and society.
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Doglio, Federica. "Episodes toward a Fluxarchitecture. The work of George Maciunas, Shadrach Woods and Joachim Pfeufer." ZARCH, no. 9 (December 4, 2017): 208–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.201792278.
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Fluxus, an artistic movement that emerged in 1960, crossed borders within the arts. Soon it expanded to include sculpture, poetry, performance, photography, and cinema, taking on a multi-disciplinary character that regularly crossed or erased borders within the arts. Its relationship to architecture, however, is more complex. In the 1960s, a few architects sought to resolve contradictions between the principles of Fluxus and the presumptions of their own field, and explored the possibilities of change —flux— in architectural practice. This article will investigate possible connections between Fluxus and the architectural practices. It considers three figures who were both theorists and architects: Georges Maciunas, Shadrach Woods and Joachim Pfeufer. Their practices, considered together, form what in this article I coin “fluxarchitecture”.
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Zhang, Liang-Jie, and Jia Zhang. "Service Oriented Solution Modeling and Variation Propagation Analysis Based on Architectural Building Blocks." International Journal of Web Services Research 10, no. 4 (October 2013): 39–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijwsr.2013100102.
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In spite of the widely recognized benefits of applying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to design enterprise-scale software systems, its actual application practice is not always a success. One major reason is the lack of a systematic engineering process and tool supported by reusable architectural artifacts. Toward this ultimate goal, this paper proposes a new method of architectural building blocks (ABB)-based SOA solution design and it is applicable to any layered or tiered infrastructure. The authors present the modeling of solution-level architectural artifacts and their relationships, whose formalization enables event-based variation notification and propagation analysis. The goal is to provide architecture-level support for configuration and re-configuration of architectural artifacts based on industry practices. Their method also supports solution-level project variation management for the process of updating and maintaining architectural artifacts. The authors report a prototype tool that they have developed and describe how they extend the Unified Modeling Language (UML) mechanism to implement the system and enable solution-level enforcement as an example. The prototype has been applied in real projects as an SOA solution modeling tool.
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REPINA, Evgeniya A., and Dariya N. ROMANOVA. "EVOLUTION OF PROFESSIONAL INTEREST FOR ANONYMOUS LANGUAGE PHENOMENON." Urban construction and architecture 7, no. 1 (March 15, 2017): 87–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.17673/vestnik.2017.01.15.
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The relevance of modern Russian anonymous architecture is studied. The evolution of the concept «anonymous» and the variety of its connotations in different contexts are viewed. A brief overview of researches influenced on new values formation is presented. Philosophical and cultural background of inclusion of anonymous language in professional field are analyzed as well as mutual influence of artistic and architectural practices. The question of research typological boundaries is raised. The examples of anonymous language legitimation in Russian and world professional architectural practice are presented. Potential values of Russian vernacular architecture are revealed and classified for professional practice. Objects created by non-professionals demonstrate respect for the place, cultural continuity, careful attitude to things, to manual labor and love of folk material culture.
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Craig, James A., and Matthew Ozga-Lawn. "Emerging practices in design research." Architectural Research Quarterly 19, no. 3 (September 2015): 202–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135515000597.
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This issue of arq explores how academic researchers are practicing design, and how architectural practitioners are researching design. Pedagogy has emerged as a theme bridging these two distinct subfields. Likewise, they are connected through explorations of the nature of architectural representation and process, examining how ideas, strategies, and spaces are communicated across academia and practice. The ever-changing field of architectural representation, and how we engage with it, often escapes close reading. By drawing particular attention to it, the issue aims to highlight the state of design research in the discipline today.
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Dimitrova, Venetsiya. "The internationalization of architectural practice : Mobilizing dependence to secure and enhance (relational) autonomy on the construction site." socio.hu 10, Special Issue (2020): 108–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.18030/socio.hu.2020en.108.
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More than any other profession, architecture has been shaped by the tension between autonomy and heteronomy. Recently, however, this dichotomy is seen as unproductive for understanding architects’ practices in-depth, especially in the context of the growing internationalization that is transforming and restructuring architectural practice. The paper applies the lens of ‘relational autonomy’, grasping architectural practice in relation to the actions of other built environment professionals, and to material artefacts. Dependence is framed not as a threat but as a productive potential. The focus of the paper is on the practices of less prominent architects in celebrity global firms. More specifically, the paper explores the practices enacted during the actual materialization of design-ambitious edifices, on-site and in the workshops of sub-contractors. The main argument is that less visible architects can secure and enhance the (relational) autonomy of global architects during construction, by actively shaping a specific working context, where they can purposefully mobilize dependence. Practices during construction generate new opportunities for creative engagement and enhance architects’ influence over processes beyond their autonomous actions, thereby enabling the making of products with high symbolic value.
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Delitz, Heike. "Architectural Modes of Collective Existence: Architectural Sociology as a Comparative Social Theory." Cultural Sociology 12, no. 1 (September 26, 2017): 37–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749975517718435.
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This article proposes a cross-cultural, comparative architectural sociology as a means of sociological analysis. It also emphasizes the social positivity of architecture. After a short overview of architectural sociology and its history, the article outlines a sociological theory which sees architecture and related practices as a constitutive ‘mode of collective existence’. The article argues that architecture (in a broad sense) is not a mere ‘reflection’ or ‘mirror’ of society, but rather a constitutive and transformative medium of the imaginary institution of society (Castoriadis), its assemblages (Deleuze), as well as its subjects (Foucault). In other words, it claims that architecture is a material and symbolic ‘mode’ through which societies and individuals are constituted and transformed. As architecture is a cultural technique, which is primarily enacted in relation to bodies, perceptions and affects (rather than in a discursive, reflective way), the social effects of architecture can best be understood and analysed through a comparative lens. Finally, therefore, the article unfolds a tableau of diverse architectural modes of collective existence, thus providing an overview of different socio-architectural constellations. Such a comparative and synchronical view of different societies allows for a sociology of architecture which analyses architectural transformations – both historical and contemporary.
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Bredella, Nathalie, and Carolin Höfler. "Processes and practices in computational design." Architectural Research Quarterly 21, no. 1 (March 2017): 5–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s135913551700029x.
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Every architectural design emerges from a process. The different tools and media constitutive of these processes in turn foster approaches to architecture, as well as the creation of new categories of knowledge. With the progressive development of computer-based design techniques, the contemplation of the procedural aspects of architecture becomes increasingly significant for the production and reception of architecture.It is from this perspective that this special issue sets out to examine the specific roles that processes and practices play in computer-based design by seeking to illuminate those techno-cultural contexts and historical and intellectual bonds that unite them. Which traditions and strategies, and what historical correlations among architecture, culture, and technology, have motivated and shaped the development of computer-based design processes?
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Burmaz, Branko. "Concept of a device as an analytical tool in research of architectural queer space." SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal 8, no. 2 (2016): 259–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/saj1602259b.
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Some analyses of spatial practice in architecture use the concept of architectural structure as a device of perception. Metaphor of a device makes possible to merge static representations of spatial models, with dynamic spatial experiences. In research of architectural queer space, a space produced through self-organized practices, and ignored by architectural discipline, concept of a device as an analytical tool, which confronts what is lived, to what is conceived, can be fairly useful. I consider the two of devices, one introduced by Beatriz Colomina as a framing device in her analysis of gendered space, and the other one, an orientation device from "Queer phenomenology" by Sara Ahmed. I argue that, at the beginning of normalization, architecture, working as a device of perception, produces queer space, by simultaneous mechanisms of framing and hiding, and orientation and disorientation. The power of these devices is what makes gapping divide in space and society.
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Saxon, Richard. "Global practice implications Reactions to Duany The West is running out of talent …" Architectural Research Quarterly 5, no. 3 (September 2001): 197–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135501211245.
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Paolo Tombesi sets out a very interesting thesis that Asia will become the ‘back office’ of Western design practice in, ‘A true south for design? The new international division of labour in architecture’ (arq 5/2, pp.171–180). There are many instances of this happening already, though mainly in engineering and in US style architectural practice where documentation consists of the application of rules-based methods and the work used to be done by ‘tracers’. Practices with computer-based standard detailing can have schematic drawings worked up overnight and corrections similarly serviced. UK architectural practice is largely done without back offices or standard solutions and drafting help must be closely supervised. Price competition from the South may well become a factor for change.
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Kurath, Monika. "Architecture as a Science: Boundary Work and the Demarcation of Design Knowledge from Research." Science & Technology Studies 28, no. 3 (January 1, 2015): 81–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.23987/sts.55343.
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Recent STS literature has described a trend of academisation in higher education and universities in which administrative bodies and formalised practices like evaluations have gained increased influence. This article discusses the impact of such trends on the discipline of architecture, focusing on the strains and boundaries that architectural faculties face in their research and teaching practice. Specifically, the development of design knowledge from individual and multiple theoretical and methodological approaches, the tight connection with tacit knowledge forms, as well as the use of non-formalised tenure and peer-review indicate on-going processes of boundary work (Gieryn, 1983), where external disciplines evaluate architectural knowledge production and demarcate it from their own research approaches. Due to the increased meaning of evaluations, such boundary work plays an increasing role in framing the form and content of design research. In this respect, architectural research becomes a matter of negotiation that not only involves architecture, but also traditional research disciplines as well as the added restrictions of interdisciplinary and administrative bodies.
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Johanes, Mikhael, and Yandi Andri Yatmo. "Composing the Layer of Knowledge of Digital Technology in Architecture." SHS Web of Conferences 41 (2018): 05002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20184105002.
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The use of digital tools in architectural practice has been evolving significantly. In following such developments, architectural practice has been incorporating digital technology not only to meet the current demand but also to pursue the vast amount of possibilities ahead. However, the integration of digital technology in architectural knowledge has been reasonably operative that produces uncritical understanding, and it tends to put architects as a passive user of technology. This paper argues that there are layers of knowledge that nees to be acknowledged and nourished accordingly in embracing the use of computation tools yet avoiding the overly simplistic.understanding. It attempts to explore the methods of digital technology in archietctural design practices as well as dicussions that follow to create a critical evaluation of its roles and potentials. The review is conducted theoretically in which the use of digital in the design process is explored in such a way to reveal its importance in architectural design methods. The review also crosses beyond the disciplines of architecture to construct more comprehensive understanding that bridges the logic of digital technology and architecture. The resulted map of methods of the digital thus can be used to develop a framework for digital discourse that bridge the operative knowledge of technology to the more critical perspectives.
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Cukic, Iva, Ksenija Pantovic, and Jasna Kavran. "Methodology and philosophy of architecture and urban planning: Analysis of three methodological models in the field of architectural discourse." Facta universitatis - series: Architecture and Civil Engineering 13, no. 2 (2015): 87–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fuace1502087c.
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Architecture reflects on itself since Vitruvius, but it is difficult to define its epistemological base, so interpretations are sometimes developed in other disciplines. Thinking about architecture is about reflection on and extension of architectural concepts, cultural practices, and interrelated areas of art, philosophy, politics, etc. Incompleteness of understanding is obvious, and it points us toward a paradigm of complex thinking. Contemporary theoretical field of architecture is largely a product of postmodern architectural thought. This paper examines the position from which to build a modern architectural phenomenological opinion through three methodological models - creative, emotional and rational. This research should contribute to the way of understanding contemporary architectural phenomenon, with the intention of providing a general level of credibility and understanding in order to open the possibility of methodological application for a specific job or field.
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Paterson, Aaron, Sarosh Mulla, and Marian Macken. "Drawing the room | Drawing within the room." Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice 5, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 261–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00036_1.
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This project report outlines ongoing collaborative design research that addresses aspects of architectural drawing, in particular scale and time. This project is discussed through the lens of the inhabitation of drawing: in both the making of, and encountering, drawing. ‘Drawing the Room | Drawing within the Room’ (2019) couples projective drawings with post factum documentation – or creative post-occupancy data – of built houses. Using motion capture technology, the movements of inhabitation are captured and translated to line work animations. The resulting drawings of inhabitation are projected full-scale, exhibited in the space of the architectural office, the site of conceiving and production of both drawings and architecture. Using the architectural office as the space of installation and exhibition presents a practice for acknowledging and engaging with these spaces of creativity, beyond casting the office as commercial space. The project explores contemporary performative drawing practices within architecture and considers the ways in which bodies and drawings interact. This work highlights the fundamental importance of lines within architecture, not as demarcation, divider or indexical references, but as temporal traces of bodily movement.
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Salura, Purnama, and Stephanie Clarissa. "Interpretation of the Meaning of Mosque Architecture : A Case Study Mosque 99 Cahaya in Lampung, Sumatera Island, Indonesia." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 2.2 (March 5, 2018): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.2.12321.
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This research traced the relationship that exists between the expressions of mosque architecture with the meaning created. The method used for this research is: Firstly, recording building which is based on the theory about the scope of the building. Secondly, described the entire composition and building properties. Thirdly, interpreted the meaning that is created both on the outside and in the view of the space inside. Based on the results of the analysis, it can be concluded that the outside architectural form of the mosque tends to be interpreted as an abstract monument. While it’s inner space interpreted as a shelter that has nothing to do with its function as a religious building. This research is expected to give theoretical contribution to the knowledge of architecture that is by formulating new method to interpret expression of architectural form in general and specifically on the mosque architecture. While in practice, this research could be used as a reference in designing mosque architecture. In addition to scientific and architectural practices, this research could be used as a source of knowledge and offered an alternative perspective for the wider community in appreciating the work of architecture
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Munting, Paul, and Hoffie Cruywagen. "Quality management in South African architectural practices." Building and Environment 43, no. 4 (April 2008): 444–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2006.09.001.
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Arayici, Y., P. Coates, L. Koskela, M. Kagioglou, C. Usher, and K. O'Reilly. "BIM adoption and implementation for architectural practices." Structural Survey 29, no. 1 (April 5, 2011): 7–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02630801111118377.
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Arif, A. A., and A. H. Karam. "Architectural practices and IT: local vs international." Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology 3, no. 2 (July 2005): 155–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17260530510815385.
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SUMINO, Koichiro. "RELATIONSHIP MARKETING : STRATEGIC STUDY FOR ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICES." Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ) 76, no. 668 (2011): 1919–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3130/aija.76.1919.
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Xu, Jin, and Lei Zhang. "Causes of Architect’s “Absence” in Green Building Practices." Advanced Materials Research 1092-1093 (March 2015): 563–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1092-1093.563.
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Beginning from an analysis of the green building evaluation and labeling projects reviewed, this paper has a comprehensive analysis on the low content of green design and obvious “absence” of architects in the majority of evaluation and labeling projects by use of the theories of green architecture and economics. The author holds that such “absence” is originated from the external economy and technical complexity of green buildings and attributes the causes to two aspects: First, there is no sound and effective incentive mechanism in the environment in which the architects are, especially the lack of professional identity and motivation of green design in architectural design appraisal, award and review criteria; Second, architects are less self-motivated, mentally backward and poor in comprehensive quality. Targeted measures are expected to advance the concept changes in the architectural education community, promote architects to transform thinking and enhance capacity and boost the “green” development of green buildings.
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Goncharova, Natalia Vladimirovna, Larisa Evgen'evna Baklyskaia, Maria Borisovna Zadokhina, and Alisa Aleksandrovna Denisova. "Educational meaning of on-location practice for the students of architectural specialties." Педагогика и просвещение, no. 1 (January 2021): 58–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0676.2021.1.35098.
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The subject of this research is the vocational training of the students of architectural specialties and the the need for on-location practices in the Russian and foreign historical cities. The relevance of this topic is defined by the fact that the importance of such practices is questioned in the context of development of new educational curricula. Analysis is conducted on the historical aspect, the role of practice in vocational training, as well as peculiarities of perception of reality by the future architects and designers and cognitive activity in the open-air environment. The author outlines and substantiates the goals and tasks aimed at the development of knowledge and skills acquired the students during on-location practice. The research leans on the experience of conducting practices by the Institute of Architecture and Design of the Pacific National University in Russia and abroad. The authors discuss the positions of the planners, heads and participants of the on-location practices. The conclusion is made that such practices and not only the immersion into the historical environment, but its grasp by means of visual arts, which is an integral part of vocational education. The experience acquired by the student in the course of on-location practice is irreplaceable and necessary for professional growth of future architects and designers in accordance with modern requirements.
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Parnell, Stephen. "Architecture's expanding field: AD magazine and the Post-Modernisation of architecture." Architectural Research Quarterly 22, no. 1 (March 2018): 55–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135518000295.
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This article investigates architecture's ‘expanded field’ – its turn towards culture during the 1980s when the profession expanded its interest to the softer practices of architectural culture. It looks in particular at the emerging enterprises of exhibitions, competitions and awards, publications, and symposia and lectures in the ‘long 1980s’, taken as the Academy years of AD magazine from 1977 – 1992.This period of AD is synonymous with architectural Post-Modernism, as Academy published much of Charles Jencks’ work on Post-Modernism, including six of the seven ever-larger editions of The Language of Post-Modern Architecture.However, by analysing the content and context of AD magazine and the wider context of architectural institutions during these years, this article argues that the Post-Modernisation of architecture should be understood not only as a mere style, but equally as the emphasis on a growing architectural culture, discourse, and the ‘ideal’, and the retreat from building and the ‘real’. In other words, this period witnessed the establishment of architectural culture as a new type of practice, and furthermore, AD was instrumental in this cultural turn.
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Pjesivac, Zeljka. "Architectural promenade as scene of writing: the Jussieu library (1992) by Oma/Rem Koolhaas." Facta universitatis - series: Architecture and Civil Engineering 15, no. 3 (2017): 431–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fuace160930033p.
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This study investigates implementation of the conceptual and textual techniques associated with poststructuralism (such as the poststructuralist concepts of writing, text, intertext, discoursive practices) in Rem Koolhaas's project the Jussieu Library (1992) planned within the Sorbonne University complex in Paris. The main hypothesis of the study is that Koolhaas produces in the project for the Jussieu Library transgression of language of modernistic architecture conceiving the concept of architectural promenade as a scene of writing. In other words, from the understanding of the concept of architectural promenade as a self-reflexive, abstract and autonomous concept, we move to the understanding of the architectural promenade as culturally dependent, but also for culture and society determinant concept. How does Koolhaas embody operative ideological practices of post-structuralism in the case of the Jussieu Library? How can we understand the concept of architectural promenade as a scene of writing? In other words, how can we understand the architectural promenade as a field of lines of deterritorialization and reterritorialization of different narratives, discourses, ideologies, contexts? What role could this concept of the architecture have in a society? In a theoretical context the study draws on the investigations of: Jacques Derrida, Michael Foucault, Joseph Beuys, Gilles Deleuze and F?lix Guattari.
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Blagojević, Ljiljana. "Architecture utopia realism: Thematic framework." SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal 6, no. 3 (2014): 138–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/saj1402138b.
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The term or concept of realism seems to be recurring in recent theoretical inquiries, from debates in philosophy and aesthetics to those in theory and practice of architecture. Since 2000, the architectural discourse has been concerned with a wide range of related issues coming from its own post-critical debates on utopianism and realism and the possibility of an 'utopian realism', as suggested by Reinhold Martin (2005). The debates on realism resonate in the architectural theory anew as a reflection on the Manifesto of New Realism by the philosopher Maurizio Ferraris from 2011. The questions of realism vs. postmodernism, "new realism" on the ashes of post-modernism, critical and operative notions of realism and the like, have been asked both through practices of contemporary architecture and through reconsideration of the socialist realism in history and theory of architecture. The thematic issue of SAJ: Architecture Utopia Realism aims to further the ongoing discussion on the relations of architecture with realism and utopia
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Wang, Chen, Wan Thing Hong, and Hamzah Abdul-Rahman. "Architectural Examination on Feng Shui Bedroom." Open House International 43, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 40–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-02-2018-b0007.
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Bedroom Feng Shui practices have been criticized as myth over the years but in fact having its scientific origin that is not purely superstitious. This paper aims to examine whether the architects' design practice for bedroom interior arrangement is concurring with the recommended bedroom Feng Shui practices. The study has successfully interviewed 16 architects from diverse backgrounds to avoid bias, seeking their design perspectives in bedroom interior configuration. Subsequently, the interviewees submitted sketches of ideal bedroom layout based on their expertise, with pre-set requirements. Data from semi-structured interviews were analyzed using mixed method approach. In agreement with our expectations, majority of the interviewees have matching thoughts that “bed arrangement” is the primary consideration in bedroom interior configuration. Most of the design outputs were highly attached to favorable Feng Shui conditions. The overall findings implied that bedroom Feng Shui is not merely superstitious but most components are practical design references for architects from diverse backgrounds.
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Silberberger, Jan. "Architecture Schools and Their Relationship with Research: It’s Complicated." Dimensions 1, no. 1 (May 1, 2021): 77–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/dak-2021-0110.
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Editorial Summary In »Architecture Schools and Their Relationship with Research: It’s Complicated«, Jan Silberberger describes the problematic divide between practicing architects that teach design at architecture schools and scholars investigating the practices of designing from a theoretical or social scientific perspective. Identifying three recurrent misunderstandings between these two groups, he stresses the lack of awareness about genuine research approaches within the discipline of architecture. Emphasizing the interconnectivity of research and practice, Silberberger highlights the potential for further development of the discipline that thorough reflections on the methodologies applied in architectural design afford. [Katharina Voigt]
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Wang, Yuqian, and Yi Yang. "A Study on Meteorological Architecture." E3S Web of Conferences 237 (2021): 03027. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202123703027.
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Under the background of global warming and energy crisis, exploring the new relationship between architecture and climate has always been a hot spot in the construction industry. Thus, a new design pattern “meteorological architecture” guided by a localized meteorological condition is developed. The paper starts with the distinction of the concepts of “meteorology” and “climate” to explains the connotation of “meteorological architecture”. Through the analysis of current theories and practices related to meteorological architecture, a new principle of architectural space division and architectural form generation logic have been summarized. Finally, the enlightening effect of meteorological architecture on other fields is proposed.
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Grunskis, Tomas. "KŪRYBINIO EKSPERIMENTO SAMPRATOS ARCHITEKTŪROJE." JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 35, no. 1 (March 31, 2011): 21–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/tpa.2011.03.
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While analysing creative experiments in architecture, one finds a number of different phenomena and examples, not so easy to discuss in a more or less systematic way. These phenomena and results, in one or another way related to experimental architecture, can hardly be defined by a single category and, as shown by the history of architecture, have become one of its driving forces contributing to the development of architecture in the course of time. The issue of the concepts of architectural experimentation on the whole is important and urgent in two aspects. First of all, such concepts are used in attempting to formulate basic architectural and cultural declarations, consequentially applied in forming and proclaiming different political creeds (usual practice of international architectural biennales and expo exhibitions). Secondly, their cultural value is of key importance too, as the ideas and thoughts expressed through the experimental creation often convey social aspects and states, also the idea, how architecture is understood during a specific period of time and the role given to it by society. Finally, as architecture is a language used by society to convey its socio-cultural status and values, the experimental architectural creation can be significant, although often ignored, in architectural practice. The most outstanding examples of architectural experiments confirm that architecture as artistic creation has long ago gained certain features of a cultural phenomenon, which eventually has become closely connected to society. Thus the area of culture and forms of its expression has becoming more and more relevant and significant to architectural experimentation. Although artistic and scientific experiments have certain similarities within contemporary discourse of architectural practices, they still differ a lot in the aspects of their backgrounds, processes and even results. But still, the interdisciplinary aspect, common to contemporary artistic experimentation, draws art and science closer together. Fairly often, peculiar new forms of art borrow scientific data or ideas interpreting, expressing and using them effectively to make pure art. The concept of architectural experimentation still does not exist as an integral concept. Only a few general features and attributes can be named as helping to define the architectural phenomenon as an experimental one. These are: (a) the idealistic trend and (b) very active element of motivation. It is also noteworthy that looking retrospectively, within different epochs the architectural experimentation had different relationship with other arts. The discussed in the article experimental practices of architecture in the 1950-ies – 1970-ies accumulated and effectively operated the languages of other visual – and not only – arts. Although, at the same time it should be admitted that they did not have the same close relationship to traditional, fundamental arts, such as sculpture and painting. So does the contemporary, the 21st century, architectural experimentation – it no longer has closer connection to traditional arts. Although it has to be admitted that the most recent, media-related arts influence experimental architecture on the levels of its forms as well as concepts. In general, the architectural creation at the beginning of the 21st century (both building architecture and urban planning) is getting more and more social. The experiment in such creation is less artistic or valuable as pure art in the traditional sense. Fewer experiments are made on the form only, but rather on the process itself and then – the form. Although the most innovative architectural images being developed and declared are getting more abstract and universal, they are easier to implement than before (due to the most advanced technologies). So, it is not so simple to draw a dividing line between purely idealistic and realistic experimental architecture, because what was just a vision not so long ago, today can be easily realized. Does it mean that experiments have become more social and less creative? Probably, not. Most likely, it’s because creativity has become transformable and gained new ways of expression. Santrauka Straipsnyje analizuojamos esminės kūrybinio eksperimento sampratos architektūroje. Apžvelgiami pagrindiniai mokslinio ir meninio eksperimento principai, konceptai juos charakterizuojant bei lyginant tarpinternatvyje, detalizuojant tiek esminius skirtumus, tiek ir logines sąsajas tarp vienų ir kitų. Taip pat tekste plačiai analizuojamas kūrybinio eksperimento reiškinys architektūroje, aptariant ir mokslinės, ir meninės sričių įtakas jam, jo specifikas ir ypatumus.
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Sasi, Ashwini. "Redefining: Cultural Impression in Princely States During Colonial Period." Resourceedings 1, no. 2 (November 27, 2018): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.21625/resourceedings.v1i2.325.
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India is well diverse with a variety of cultural and traditional practices. Impact of age-old practices redefined the idea of culture and tradition, not only as a hereditary system, but also as part of art and architecture. Factors such as the cultural changes between North and South India, impact of the British, changes in spatial organization and patriarchy and matrilineal system drew an impact on cultural impression of India through time.
Palaces (04th —18th century) and the lifestyle of the heirs, being a soul example to exhibit the Indian uniqueness, gradually inclined towards British culture and morals. This influence brought a change in the architectural design of palaces, which is the core study area in the thesis.
Comparing the architectural planning of palaces from the 13th to the 18th century showed a clear change on how British influenced Indian palace design. This became one of the finest reasons to identify cities with palaces based on their culture and tradition, and on art and architecture. In addition to finding how it has brought the influential change and what is the present scenario of the same palaces.
The architectures that were adopted in India was a form of true traditional architecture which is been followed through a very long time and hence it was collaborated with Italian, French, Indo Sarcenic or European style.
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Lukito, Yulia Nurliani, and Fildza Miranda. "The Earlier Era of Eco-Technology: Pavilions at the Colonial Exhibition of Pasar Gambir and the ‘Eastern-Western’ Architectural Influences in the Netherlands Indies." E3S Web of Conferences 67 (2018): 04042. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20186704042.
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This paper examines architecture in the Netherlands Indies and analyses how some innovation in the practice of architecture is actually coming from an adaptation to local conditions. It is in the notion of sustainable architecture not as a single entity of Western descendent but as loaded with cultural, historical and local contexts that this paper gravitates. As the discussion are pavilions in Pasar Gambir of Batavia - a temporary architecture practices - and ITB main hall that was designed with a strong connection to local conditions. During the Dutch colonial time in Indonesia there was already eco-technological practice in architecture with the aim to adapt to local conditions. The discussion of pavilions in Pasar Gambir showed some innovation in building forms, although temporary, that not only pushed the limit of building tradition but also created extraordinary event for colonial society. The discussion of ITB building illustrate the possibility of combining western-eastern architectural principles and surpassing the limit of architectural forms. In conclusion, the earlier of eco-technology in the Netherlands Indies has shown deeper cultural, historical and local meanings and how traditional architecture is related to the social and cultural dimensions of sustainability.
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Farmer, Graham. "Re-contextualising design: three ways of practising sustainable architecture." Architectural Research Quarterly 17, no. 2 (June 2013): 106–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135513000468.
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The predominant model of sustainable architecture is based on a sharp differentiation between technical and social realms that tends to situate architectural design practice in an ambiguous and marginalised position. Sustainable architecture as a whole has come to be dominated by a focus on engineering design with a related emphasis on energy efficiency and climate-change strategies that seek to improve the economic performance of buildings whilst providing little or no consideration of the wider contexts of architectural design and production. This paper argues for an expanded understanding of sustainable design and draws on ideas developed within the Philosophy of Technology to point to the broader cultural values and practices that surround particular design choices. From this perspective the work of engineers, architects, and other designers of the built environment provide settings upon which the ongoing dramas of political action are mounted.Through analysis of ‘live’ student design-build projects, the paper explores three distinct conceptualisations of sustainable design practice in which buildings are interpreted as physical manifestations of differentiated frames of design thinking that emphasise either de-contextualised, context-bound or re-contextualising design processes. Although these apparently distinct practices can be analytically differentiated, it is argued that the realisation of sustainable design practices inevitably involves a seamless interaction and interchange between the differentiated dimensions. The conclusion draws on the work of Andrew Feenberg to conceptualise sustainable design as a concrete practice whereby abstract technical concerns and social considerations seamlessly converge to produce artefacts that fit specific contexts.
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Anatoliev, Mitko. "Some Public Buildings of Vasilyov-Tsolov Architectural Bureau." Sledva : Journal for University Culture, no. 41 (August 20, 2020): 104–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.33919/sledva.20.41.15.
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After a short survey of influences of German architecture on the formation of Bulgarian architectural scene after the Liberation (1878), the paper focuses on the interwar period known for its architectural practices, consisting of two leading architects. The influence of the modernist movements from this period on the classical architecture of the state and public buildings in Bulgaria is traced through the history of Vasilyov-Tsolov Architectural Bureau, its formation and philosophy. The article presents four examples of their significant projects, which are the pinnacle of their careers and largely shape the urban look of Sofia city center, having become its symbols, namely: St. Nedelya Church, Sofia University Library, the National Library, and Bulgarian National Bank.
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Šuvaković, Miško. "Architecture as cultural practice." SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal 1, no. 3 (2009): 171–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/saj0903171q.
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In this study my intention is to interpret the "discursive" and the "ideological" differences between the architecture of postmodernism and the architecture of globalism. I will point to the paradigmatic differences between these practices and also to some specific "local examples" of execution of social quality by means of architecture being the "cultural instrument" of actualities realization. This study was written by interdisciplinary methodology of cultural studies based on Fuko's discursive analysis and Altizer's ideological analysis of the architectural productions.