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Journal articles on the topic "Architecture magazines"
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Aboul-dahab, Mai, Yasser Moustafa, and Yasser Mansour. "Architectural Discourse and Gender." Proceedings of The Global Conference on Gender Studies 2, no. 1 (2025): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.33422/genderconf.v2i1.726.
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Architectural magazines serve as valuable historical documents, enriching the narrative of architectural history and informing teaching practices. This paper examines the representation of women in five Egyptian architectural and engineering magazines published throughout the 20th century: al-ʿImara (The Architecture), al-Nashra al-Maʿmarya (The Architectural Bulletin), al-Maʿmar (The Architectural), ʿAlam al-Bena'a (The Construction World), and Majallat al-Muhandisin (The Engineers Magazine), covering the period from monarchy till President Mubarak's era, which had complex shifts toward women's status in society and architectural thought. This study employs discourse analysis, examining both the visual and textual elements of the content in the selected magazines, with particular attention to the language used. It traces how these magazines contributed to shaping the image of women in architecture. Early publications, like al-ʿImara, reinforced male dominance in the field, associating women with domesticity and consumerism. Nevertheless, women resisted these narratives by engaging in writing, art exhibitions, and architectural patronage, though often within constrained frameworks. Publications, such as Majallat al-Muhandisin, aligned with socialist ideologies, presenting women as professionals and maternal figures in line with state-driven modernization efforts. By the late 1960s, however, women’s visibility in professional discourse diminished. The late 70s and early 1980s marked a shift, with a growing number of female architects and increased representation in magazines like ʿAlam al-Benaa. Despite this progress, gender imbalances persisted, as women’s contributions to completed architectural projects were limited and often framed as collaborative efforts with male colleagues. The research highlights the fluctuating representation of women in architecture, shaped by political, cultural, and societal transformations in Egypt.
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P. F., Previn. "Reinventing Work Nature: The Changing Work Landscape in Malayalam Architecture Magazines in the Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Era." Tuijin Jishu/Journal of Propulsion Technology 44, no. 3 (2023): 2398–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.52783/tjjpt.v44.i3.719.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted various industries, including the field of architecture magazines. This study aims to analyze the ramifications of the pandemic on the work nature of architecture magazines, with particular attention given to the editorial, business, and mechanical departments. By utilizing a qualitative research approach involving in-depth interviews with experts, this research investigates the changes that have transpired within the nature of work in architecture magazines as a direct response to the pandemic. Many changes have occurred. Findings from this study contribute to a deeper understanding of the changes and transformations within the architecture magazine industry, shedding light on the evolving work nature, strategies, and practices in the post-pandemic era. The insights gained will inform the key players such as stakeholders and advertisers to navigate the multifaceted challenges within the media landscape, reinforcing the resilience of magazine organizations and paving the way for sustained growth in the future.
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Koliadin, Anton V. "Linguocultural lexical timers and chronemes in the informative code of journalistic discourse (on the material of the magazines National Geographic and Vokrug Sveta (Around the World))." Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism 24, no. 2 (2024): 153–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1817-7115-2024-24-2-153-161.
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The article describes the nominative field of the dominant concept “Time” by identifying the peculiarities of the representation of chronemes and linguocultural lexical timers in the discursive temporal architectonics of journalistic articles on Arabic architecture published in the magazines Vokrug Sveta and National Geographic. The research is determined by the need for taxonomic modeling of the nominative field of the dominant concept “Time” from the perspective of its contextual coupling with the linguocultural range of descriptions of ancient Arabic urban architecture in the journalistic discourse of English-language and Russian-language magazines. The article “The Earth and the Sun of Tunisia” by V. Zakharchenko and V. Kaboshkin as well as the article “These 5 destinations are among the holiest sites in Islam”, written by the editor of the National Geographic magazine, were both considered for the temporal components of the nominative field of the dominant concept “Time”. Their comparative analysis showed trends in the use of temporal markers in the discursive informative code of journalistic texts. The findings indicate that the article by V. Zakharchenko and V. Kaboshkin “The Earth and the Sun of Tunisia” published in the magazine Vokrug Sveta, and the editorial article “These 5 destinations are among the holiest sites in Islam” published in the National Geographic magazine contain 25 and 23 chronemes and linguocultural lexical timers, respectively. The identified temporal markers are used as a reference to the historical period during which a particular architectural construction was created in the urban space. The result of this article involves the replenishment of the theoretical data on the features of the nominative field of the dominant concept “Time” represented by various chronemes and linguocultural lexical timers in journalistic discourse, as well as in the presentation of the author’s classification of chronemes identified in the journalistic texts on Arabic architecture taken from the magazines Vokrug Sveta and National Geographic. The obtained research results can be applied in lectures and seminars on discourse studies, intercultural communication, cognitive linguistics, text theory, in seminars on the interpretation of the discursive informative code of the nominative field of the dominant concept “Time”.
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Medovarov, Maksim V. "“Construction and Decorative Art” Magazine: A Forgotten Word in the Russian Artistic Criticism of the Early 20th Century." Observatory of Culture 19, no. 1 (2022): 88–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2022-19-1-88-99.
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The article is devoted to the history of the Moscow magazine “Construction and Decorative Art”, which played a significant role in Russian art criticism in 1903, despite its short (within six months) existence. This topic needs to be addressed due to the small number of comprehensive studies in the field of Russian art criticism of the early 20th century. On the basis of archival materials of censorship, the article reconstructs the creation circumstances of two homogeneous magazines (“Architecture and Decorative Art”, renamed “Free Art”, and “Construction and Decorative Art”) and their actual transformation into one press organ. There is examined the rapprochement of the architects Vasily Borin and Leonid Betelev with the scandalous journalist Alexey Filippov, their struggle for the permission to publish a new Moscow magazine about art in 1900—1902, the patronizing attitude of the Main Directorate for Press Affairs and the Moscow Governor-General to the new initiative of Filippov. The author introduces into scientific circulation important recorded sources related to the transfer of the rights to publish the magazine to Vasily Borin, and his attempt to pass off the former magazine of Filippov and Betelev as his own (hitherto non-existent) magazine “Free Art”. The article analyzes three issues of the illustrated magazine “Construction and Decorative Art” published in 1903. Basing on the data on the magazine’s format and prices, the author concludes that the publication turned out to be expensive and, therefore, unprofitable. The article pays particular attention to the views of Borin and Filippov on the development of contemporary art, Art Nouveau, and the activities of the artists of the group “Mir Iskusstva” (“World of Art”). In the context of a meaningful analysis of the magazine’s articles, there is discussed the honoring of the architect Nikolai Nikitin in connection with his anniversary. The author poses the question of how the issues of “Free Art” at the end of 1903 should be assessed. There are analyzed the causes for the mysterious closure of both the magazines in 1904—1905, which was not formalized in accordance with the law.
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Zavyalova, Anna E. "Early Works of Mstislav Dobuzhinsky and Jugendstil Graphic Art." Observatory of Culture 19, no. 3 (2022): 293–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2022-19-3-293-300.
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The article examines a number of M.V. Dobuzhinsky’s graphic works published in “Jester”, “The World of Art” and “Apollo” magazines, in comparison with the works of artists in the Munich magazines “Jugend” and “Simplicissimus”. There are revealed the motifs that influenced Dobuzhinsky’s works: the image of pavement and brickwork, the image of a black cat. The author has found that Dobuzhinsky repeated the drawing of the devil by T.T. Heine in a vignette for the magazine “Golden Fleece”. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that, for the first time, it analyzes M.V. Dobuzhinsky’s graphic works published in Russian magazines of the turn of the century, comparing each of them with drawings with similar motifs in the magazines “Jugend” and “Simplicissimus”. The chronological method of analyzing the works of M.V. Dobuzhnisky’s magazine graphics made it possible to reveal the genesis of the image of the city, as well as to clarify the beginning of his appeal to the theme of classicism architecture. In addition, the article introduces into scientific circulation Dobuzhnisky’s drawings for the Petersburg satirical magazine “Jester”. Their chronological analysis in comparison with similar works from the Munich satirical magazines reveals the genesis of the artist’s mastering of Jugendstil drawings in the first year of his autonomous activity. The results obtained demonstrate the influence of woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer on the formation of a unique line in Dobuzhinsky’s drawings. The author concludes that that due to the artist’s appeal to Dürer’s woodcuts, as well as to engravings by Japanese masters, M.V. Dobuzhinsky followed the same path as the masters of the Munich magazine graphics, having developed by the mid-1900s their achievements to a new level in his works.
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Martínez, Daniel Díez. "In Conversation with David Travers, Editor of Arts & Architecture." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 83, no. 3 (2024): 287–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2024.83.3.287.
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Abstract David Travers was the last editor of Arts & Architecture. For five years, he combined the magazine’s postwar avant-garde content with the urban sensibilities of the 1960s, kept the Case Study House program alive, and initiated a new phase of it in the form of the Case Study Apartments. However, unlike his predecessor, John Entenza, Travers is typically overlooked in the literature on this major modernist undertaking. To rectify the historiographical omission, this essay explores Travers’s legacy through an edited, excerpted transcription of a conversation that took place in 2013. This interview provides a nugget of primary source material and offers new information about the architectural publishing industry and the goals and vision of one the most influential magazines of the mid-twentieth century.
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Dainese, Elisa. "Histories of Exchange." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 74, no. 4 (2015): 443–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2015.74.4.443.
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During World War II, interest in indigenous South African architecture deepened, leading to studies that challenged modernism and influenced architectural design. Histories of Exchange: Indigenous South Africa in the South African Architectural Record and the Architectural Review remaps the tension between modern and indigenous cultures during the 1940s and 1950s, examining the diaspora of ideas between South Africa and Britain and revealing a new genealogy of postwar architecture. Elisa Dainese addresses indigenous South African architecture as it was seen in the postwar years from the perspectives of two architectural magazines. In doing so, she provides a new theoretical framework that probes the role of architectural journals, considering them as alternative spaces where contact took place among European and African cultures.
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Sanaksenaho, Pirjo. "1950s and 1960s Modern Home." Architectural Research in Finland 4, no. 1 (2021): 10–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.37457/arf.110605.
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 This article is based on my keynote lecture at the architectural research symposium held at Aalto University on October 25, 2018. The lecture dealt with my doctoral dissertation: Modern Home. Single-family housing ideals as presented in Finnish architecture and interior design magazines in the 1950s and 1960s. (Sanaksenaho, 2017)
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Furundzic, Danilo. "Website applications in urbanism and architecture." Spatium, no. 9 (2003): 34–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/spat0309034f.
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In the context of rapid technology development, followed by Internet spreading worldwide, the amount of information related to urbanism and architecture has remarkably increased. This paper lists a website selection with the aim to present the state of Internet based information sources on urbanism and architecture. The idea is to help colleagues cope with numerous available on-line contents. The websites are, according to their contents, classified into following categories: associations and institutions, international documents, urban planning and design, information and communication technologies in urbanism, on-line available magazines and books, civic networks, architectural design, famous architects and best examples.
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Amado Lorenzo, Antonio, and Vicente López-Chao. "Analogue and Digital Access to Architectural Information." Interaction Design and Architecture(s), no. 47 (February 10, 2021): 237–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-047-011.
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Access to architectural information has undergone great changes due to the global use of the internet. In the digital environment, the quantity of information and its 'free' availability create advantages compared to the high costs of editing and publishing books and magazines. This fact has resulted in a tendency to simplify the content with striking images and avoid information from texts that emphasise the philosophy of the project. Previous research indicates that both digital and analogical sources are complementary, but there is no examination of whether the search behaviours or the types of architectural information influence students’ results. This research aims to observe the digital and analogue access habits of architecture students and to delve into the reasons for these behaviours. A questionnaire on access to architectural information has been designed and validated, in which 170 undergraduate students from the School of Architecture of the Universidade da Coruña have participated. The results show that younger students focus on image-based social networks as a source of information, despite acknowledging that higher-quality information can be found in analogue sources such as books and magazines. Furthermore, it has been detected that information search habits influence student results, depending on the nature of the subject.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Architecture magazines"
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Sert, Gul Berrak. "A Survey On Photographic Representation In Architectural Magazine Covers: Covers Of Arredamento-mimarlik." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608044/index.pdf.
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This study has an aim of exploring how a Turkish architectural magazine, Arredamento Mimarlik, communicates itself to the reader by its cover designs. Since, representation is a tool for architects to transmit ideas and express positions in the discipline of architecture, usage of representation in architectural media has a critical role to promote the communication in architecture.
The theoretical framework of the research based on the photographic image investigation of Roland Barthes. In the light of this investigation, the study cites that photographic images with accompaniment of texts transmit messages which construct the communicative role of magazine covers in architectural media. In the realm of predefined identity of a magazine, the interpretation of cover concept confronts with a critical position which identifies magazine&rsquo<br>s approach to both architecture and its mediatic character.
Since Arredamento-Mimarlik is a significant magazine which has a discursive approach on cover concept, the publication history and critical position of the magazine is investigated elaborately in the light of Bü<br>lent Erkmen&rsquo<br>s, the designer of the covers, and Ugur Tanyeli&rsquo<br>s, the managing editor, citations.
Through this survey on Arredamento Mimarlik covers, the representation of architecture in media through a significant representative tool-magazine cover- is studied in terms of signification character of image and text. In this sense, the critical role of magazine which orients the comprehension of architecture in society is emphasized as a discursive value in addition to magazine&rsquo<br>s informative character.
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ROSARIO, PINA GRICELYS. "Caribbean modernisms.The discourse on the modern dwelling in four architectural magazines, 1945-1960." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2618309.
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The dissertation examines the relationship between modernity, dwelling and architecture in the Caribbean through an analysis of the postwar disciplinary debates in four architectural magazines Arquitectura (Cuba), Proa (Colombia), Arquitectura/México (Mexico) and Integral (Venezuela). The complexity of the debates on the house shows how the definition of what was modern was not limited to the professional domain, but was simultaneously a cultural, political and disciplinary construction. This research adopts Bourdieu’s theoretical framework regarding the field of cultural production to examine the architectural magazines’ involvement in the production and reproduction of architectural knowledge, and their capacity to establish a common standard of living as the key criterion for modernity and to legitimate a professional practice faithful to the needs of modern living. The investigation reconstructs the collective imagery on the modern dwelling, by scanning all the production mechanisms – debates, advertisement, projects, ideas, technical progress and modernization processes – diffused and discussed through the architectural magazines, that had a critical ongoing impact on the domestic architecture culture.
There are three main narratives to this research: The modern image of the home, which analyses the single ideas, spatial and formal innovations and modernizing factors that shaped a common vision of the modern home, an approach that examines the house not as a unified entity but as one modeled by a series of paradigms, theories, programs and technological choices related to the cultural setting and its modernizing processes; collective housing: social housing and the tall urban building and the single-family house, proposes a transversal examination of the three housing typologies radically transformed by modernity in the Caribbean – or born with it – to observe the theories, projects and debates that defined the modern dwelling, through a review of the production apparatus behind the changes on each category, and that is, the institutions linked to its development, their impact on the various fields of the discipline, the changes on the architectural referents, the new spaces and programs to accommodate modern living ideals, the paradigm shifts caused by the implementation of new types supporting different social interactions, and the productive structures and modernizing forces that made essential, and possible, certain living standards.
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Suwatcharapinun, Sant. "Spaces of male prostitution : tactics, performativity and gay identities in streets, Go-Go bars and magazines in contemporary Bangkok, Thailand." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10720/.
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This research explores the spatial practices of male prostitutes meeting gay male clients in various urban environments in Bangkok, Thailand. The research focuses on the male prostitutes’ spatial practices in three meeting places: the streets around Saranrom park, the gay go-go bars in Surawong’s Boys’ Town, and the representations of space in local gay newsletters. Examining the male prostitutes’ spatial practices through ‘tactics’, this research suggests that male prostitutes use the meeting places differently as ways of responding to the ‘strategies’ of gay male clients. This research also suggests that the tactics of male prostitutes can be examined by exploring the relationship between spatial practices and subjectivities. By exploring how specific performative acts constitute male prostitutes’ subjectivities, this research suggests that male prostitutes ‘perform’ homosexuality. This thesis draws upon Judith Butler’s performativity theory as a discursive mode of constituting subjects and Michel de Certeau’s theoretical discussion, specifically spatial practices of ‘strategies’ and ‘tactics’, as a means of differentiating between ‘place’ and ‘space’. Methodologically, this research works in two directions: the first explores how the spatial practices of male prostitution produce ‘gay’ subjectivities in the moment of sexual encounter – arguing that male prostitutes actively reposition themselves as ‘subjects’ rather than ‘objects’ through spatial and sexual practices; and the second examines the social and sexual constitution of space – arguing that ‘places’ are produced as ‘spaces’ through the practices and tactics of male prostitutes. This research aims to make an original contribution to knowledge in four main ways. The first is an exploration of the relationship between de Certeau’s spatial theory of ‘tactics’ and Butler’s concept of ‘performativity’ as a constitution of subjectivity. The second is the use of de Certeau and Butler’s theories to explore three spaces of male prostitution in contemporary Bangkok, Thailand, through observations drawn from interviews, accounts of spatial experience, and discussions of various representations of space. The third is a reconsideration of these theories of performativity and spatial practices in the light of the specific conditions of the case studies in Bangkok. The fourth is the production of new forms of cross-disciplinary knowledge to bring this discussion of tactics, performativity and gay subjectivities in streets, go-go bars and magazines into architectural history and theory, thereby producing new ways of understanding how spaces are produced through encounters and looks.
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Silva, Maristela Siolari da. "Os periódicos de arquitetura e a formação da arquitetura moderna brasileira: tecnologia e habitação econômica (anos 1920 e 1930)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18142/tde-27112008-105251/.
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Neste trabalho pretendeu-se identificar nos discursos arquitetônicos dos periódicos de Arquitetura publicados no Rio de Janeiro e em São Paulo, entre 1920 e 1940, a presença de um pensamento tecnológico relacionado aos processos construtivos, ao estudo dos materiais, à recepção das concepções modernas, à problematização da habitação econômica, às possibilidades de uma arquitetura nacional e à propugnação das novas possibilidades construtivas, articuladas a um contexto propício à conformação da arquitetura moderna brasileira. Verificou-se que houve desenvolvimento tecnológico e introdução de indústrias de materiais de construção nacionais e que a consolidação da arquitetura moderna brasileira ocorreu de forma paralela, articulada, mas não dependente, ora se apropriando dos recursos tecnológicos já disponíveis, ora demandando novas soluções que respondessem às preocupações de linguagem, ora também operando no interior das dificuldades técnico-construtivas e, apesar destas, sendo realizada. Nesse processo, a questão habitacional se manteve à margem dos debates presentes nos periódicos do período, não conformando um novo programa vinculado ao novo estatuto da nova arquitetura.<br>This work aims at identifying, in the architectonical speeches of Architecture magazines published in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo between 1920 and 1940, the presence of a technological thinking related to the constructive processes, as well as to the material study, reception of modern conceptions, problematization of the economic dwellings, possibilities of a national architecture and to the propagation of new constructive possibilities, articulated to a propitious context for the conformation of the Brazilian modern architecture. It was verified that there was a technological development and the introduction of national building material industries, and that the consolidation of the Brazilian modern architecture occurred in a parallel and articulated way, but not in a dependent one, sometimes taking hold of the already existent technological resources, sometimes demanding new solutions that would fulfill the language worries, sometimes operating in the inner of the technical-constructive difficulties, and despite them, being successfully performed. In this process, the housing matter stayed outside of the debates present in the periodical of the researched time, not conforming to a new program bounded to the new statute of the new architecture.
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Costa, Juliana Braga. "Ver nâo é só ver: dois estudos a partir de Flavio Motta." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16133/tde-09062010-102456/.
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A dissertação trata das relações entre o campo intelectual da arquitetura e a atividade de projeto, na tentativa de reconhecer aproximações entre os projetos culturais, estéticos e políticos de vanguarda e a prática profissional. Nosso foco especifico é a interlocução de Flavio Motta com o meio arquitetônico em São Paulo, através de sua atividade crítica, da sua produção intelectual, do ensino de história da arte e das colaborações diretas que desenvolveu com alguns arquitetos. Partimos de uma breve apresentação de sua trajetória, sobretudo sua atuação como professor no MASP, no Curso de Formação de Professores de Desenho da FAAP e na FAU-USP. A partir daí, desenvolvemos dois estudos específicos: o primeiro se detém no texto que Motta escreveu como apresentação do número especial sobre o Brasil para a revista italiana Zodiac, em 1960; o segundo tem como foco o plano de atividades que ele propôs para o Pavilhão do Brasil em Osaka, na equipe vencedora do concurso, coordenada pelo arquiteto Paulo Mendes da Rocha, em 1970.<br>This essay addresses the relationships between the intellectual field of architecture and its design activities, in the attempt to recognize connections among cultural, aesthetics and political avant-garde projects, with professional practices. Our specific focus is the exchanges between Flavio Mottas work and the architectural environment of São Paulo, throughout his critical activity, as a professor of Art History, and his direct work with some architects. Primarily we begin with a brief presentation of Flavio Mottas path, stressing in his teaching activities at the MASP (São Paulo Art Museum), and as a professor at both Universities FAAP and FAU_USP. From there we develop two specific surveys: the first is centered in the introduction text that Motta wrote for the Zodiac Magazines special issue about Brazilian Architecture in 1960; the second focuses in the exhibition plan that he conceived for the Brazilian Pavilion project to the Osakas International Exhibition in 1970, which project was design by the architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha.
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Souza, Jacqueline Adriana Diorio de. "A prática profissional do arquiteto no Brasil: o debate em revistas especializadas (1962-1996)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/102/102132/tde-02072013-144823/.
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Este trabalho estuda a prática profissional do arquiteto no Brasil, tomando como referência reportagens editadas em três periódicos especializados: \"Arquitetura: Revista do IAB\", \"Projeto: arquitetura, planejamento, desenho industrial, construção\" e \"AU - Arquitetura e Urbanismo\", no período compreendido entre os anos de 1962 e 1996. Realiza também uma revisão bibliográfica deste tema nos contextos internacional - com enfoque nos séculos XIX e XX - e nacional - do período monárquico até a virada da década de 1960. Analisa as atribuições da classe, o papel do ofício e os processos de formação profissional, dos ateliês às escolas. Investiga a heterogeneidade da categoria, as relações de trabalho entre profissionais liberais e assalariados e a composição de diversos tipos de escritórios de arquitetura. Verifica as conquistas e desafios relacionados à regulamentação e à remuneração profissionais. Aponta os diversos métodos de produção do projeto, com ênfase especial nas ferramentas informatizadas. Examina as principais características da interação arquiteto-cliente e as alterações no perfil desta clientela ao longo do período em análise.<br>This work studies the architect\'s professional practice in Brazil, having as reference articles published in three journals: \"Arquitetura: Revista do IAB\", \"Projeto: arquitetura, planejamento, desenho industrial, construção\" and \"AU - Arquitetura e Urbanismo\", between 1962 and 1996. It also makes a literature review of this topic in the international - with emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - and the national - from monarchic period up to the turning of the 1960\'s - contexts. It analyzes professional assignments, the worker\'s role and professional education process, from ateliers to schools. It investigates the class heterogeneity, the working relationship between liberal professional and earners and the organization of different types of architecture offices. Moreover, it checks achievements and challenges related to professional regulation and remuneration; it points out different production methods of project, with special focus on computerized tools. Finally, it checks the main characteristics of architect-costumers interaction and the changes on this clientele\'s profile during the analyzed period.
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Grinover, Marina Mange. "Uma idéia de arquitetura: escritos de Lina Bo Bardi." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16133/tde-01062010-113936/.
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Este trabalho de pesquisa refere-se à documentação da obra escrita da arquiteta ítalo-brasileira Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992). A partir do levantamento de seu acervo escrito, estrutura o banco de dados para organizar a catalogação de seus textos com informações bibliográficas, dados das revistas e resumo de conteúdos, bem como faz a indicação dos acervos onde é possível encontrar os textos. Em paralelo, a pesquisa descortina o cenário intelectual das publicações nas quais a arquiteta trabalhou na Itália e no Brasil. Através do levantamento das ideias fundamentais de seus colegas na Itália racionalista de 40 a 46, do debate nas revistas e jornais como Domus, Casabella, Lo Stile, Grazia, apresenta-se o contexto no qual a arquitetura moderna se consolidou no país. Os discursos transitavam entre as definições estéticas e técnicas do racionalismo e as posições político-sociais. Lina Bo Bardi, recém formada, absorveu este debate de modo estrutural para a atividade profissional desenvolvida no Brasil. O trabalho aborda também o panorama das ideias de arquitetura no Brasil modernista e pós Brasília percorrendo o período de 1947 a 1985 para estruturar o percurso do trabalho escrito da arquiteta imigrada. Elaborando sua ideia de arquitetura nas revistas Habitat, Mirante das Artes, Malasartes, ou jornais da época, Lina Bo Bardi colaborou para a difusão da arquitetura moderna nacional valorizando a construção de uma cultura urbana ancorada nas experiências das vanguardas modernas europeias e de um sentido desalienado para o léxico popular. A pesquisa publica ainda, fac-similares de artigos ao longo do texto sobre este estado de questões no campo da arquitetura na Itália e no Brasil. Eles estão articulados ao panorama de conceitos e debates no qual forjou-se a ideia de arquitetura de Lina Bo Bardi.<br>This work refers to the written documentation about the Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992). It is the result of a survey of the archives of her written works. It structures the data bank to organize the catalog of her texts which contain bibliographic information, data from magazines and abstracts, and it indicates the archives where the texts are. Also, this research unveils the intellectual scene of the publications in which the architect worked both in Italy and in Brazil. Through the survey of her colleagues fundamental ideas in the 1940-46 rationalist Italy and the debate in magazines and newspapers such as Domus, Casabella, Lo Stile, and Grazia, the context in which modern architecture consolidated in the country presents itself. The discourse variegated between the aesthetic and technical definitions of rationalism and the social-political positions. Lina Bo Bardi, newly graduated then, absorbed this debate in a structural fashion into her professional activities in Brazil. The research also addresses the panorama of ideas on architecture in modernist Brazil post-Brasília from 1947 to 1985 to structure the pathway of the written works of the immigrant artist. Elaborating her ideas on architecture either in magazines such as Habitat, Mirante das Artes, Malasartes, or in newspapers from that period, Lina Bo Bardi collaborated with the diffusion of the national modern architecture, emphasizing the construction of an urban culture based on the state of the art experiences in modernist Europe, and on a non-alienated sense for the popular lexicon. The research also publishes facsimiles of articles about this state of questions in the architectural field both in Brazil and in Italy. They are articulated to the scenery of concepts and debates in which Lina Bo Bardis idea of architecture was steadily built.
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Brancas, António Manuel Quintas. "A prática social do arquiteto na habitação económica da década de 1920 e a sua divulgação n´A Achitectura Portugueza." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/27792.
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No início do século XX a industrialização promoveu a oferta de trabalho nas grandes cidades, dando
origem a um carência de habitação económica. O aumento da população verificado nas grandes
cidades na década de 20 causa novos problemas de salubridade e higiene, a que os arquitectos
procuram dar resposta, quer em artigos de opinião quer na elaboração de projectos de arquitectura,
que se publicam em periódicos de arquitectura e construção.
Ao identificar-se a necessidade de promover, projectar e construir habitação económica, procurou-se investigar como se expressa na prática profissional do arquitecto a resposta a este problema,
explorando a sua divulgação na 1ª série da revista A Architectura Portugueza (1908-1929).
A metodologia estabelecida permitiu concluir que, face a uma necessidade social premente nos
meios urbanos, houve uma resposta da classe profissional à necessidade de construir habitação
económica condigna e confortável, que se divulgou nos periódicos de arquitectura; ABSTRACT:
In the beginning of the 20th century industrialization promoted the supply of work in large cities,
giving rise to a shortage of economic housing. The increase in the population observed in large cities
in the 20’s creates new health and hygiene problems, to which architects seek to respond both in
opinion articles and in the design of architectural projects, which are published in architectural and
construction journals.
By identifying the need to promote, design and build economic housing, it was sought to research
how the answer to this problem is expressed in the architect’s professional practice, exploring its
dissemination in the 1st series of the magazine A Architectura Portugueza (1908-1929).
The established methodology led to the conclusion that, in view of a pressing social need in urban
areas, there was a professional class response to the need to build decent and comfortable economic
housing, which was disseminated in architectural journals.
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Salomon, Gitta B. "Design and implementation of an electronic special interest magazine." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/15057.
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Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.<br>MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.<br>Bibliography: leaves 81-86.<br>Electronic publishing has been established as a unique means for providing information in an interactive and personalized manner. Although scholarly journals have been published electronically, large circulation magazines have not. The trend in these popular magazines towards more specialized content makes their electronic publication particularly attractive. This thesis explores the possibilities for such a publication. A system has been developed which assembles and displays an electronic magazine containing both editorial content and advertisements of specific interest to an individual. Useful methods of interaction with the magazine are provided. The material is presented in a stylized and entertaining manner, in keeping with the nature of popular magazines.<br>by Gitta B. Salomon.<br>M.S.V.S.
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MARCHETTI, GUSTAVO. "DESIGN REVIEW: ARCHITECTURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN MÓDULO MAGAZINE (1955-1965)." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=32491@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO<br>O presente trabalho apresenta uma reflexão sobre a relação entre arquitetura e fotografia no contexto das revistas especializadas ao longo do período de modernização acelerada que se deu no Brasil a partir da década de 1950. Com o amparo de uma investigação sobre o histórico da fotografia de arquitetura e da consolidação do modelo de revista ilustrada moderna, foi realizada uma breve análise gráfica da revista Módulo em seu primeiro período de circulação (1955-1965), com o objetivo de verificar na publicação elementos identificados na pesquisa e discutir a importância da memória gráfica na historiografia da arquitetura moderna brasileira.<br>This work presents an examination on the relationship between architecture and photography concerning the specialized magazines through the rapid process of modernization that took place in Brazil from the 1950s. Supported by an investigation on the history of architectural photography and the development of the modern illustrated magazine standard, we conduct a brief graphical analysis of the first circulation phase of Módulo magazine (1955-1965), aiming to relate some of the publication aspects to the research made and ratify the
importance of graphic memory to the Brazilian modern architecture historiography.
Books on the topic "Architecture magazines"
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Storefront Gallery for Art and Architecture. Clip/Stamp/Fold: The radical architecture of little magazines 196X - 197X. Storefront for Art and Architecture, 2006.
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Bechthold, Martin, Johan Bettum, Tobias Bonwetsch, et al. GAM Architecture Magazine 06. Springer Vienna, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-99210-4.
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S, Saunders William, ed. The new architectural pragmatism: A Harvard design magazine reader. University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
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Panigyrakis, Phoebus Ilias. Architectural Record 1942-1967: Chapters from the history of an architectural magazine. BK Books, 2020.
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Ivy, Robert, ed. Architecture Record: Laboratory design, design vanguard, product reports, architectural design. The magazine of AIA. 2nd ed. The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2007.
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Ferguson, Bruce K. Landscape architecture magazine, cumulative index, 1910-1987. PDA Publishers Corp., 1988.
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(Firm), Petersen Tegl. Petersen: A magazine about brickwork and responsible architecture. Petersen Tegl A/S, 2014.
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Coultre, Martijn F. Le. Wendingen 1918-1932: Architectuur en vormgeving. V+K Publishing, 2001.
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S, Saunders William, ed. Commodification and spectacle in architecture: A Harvard design magazine reader. University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
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Huls, Mary Ellen. The architecture of magazine and book publishing companies: A bibliography. Vance Bibliographies, 1986.
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Massey, Anne. "Writing for Magazines." In Writing and Publishing in Architecture and Design. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003335450-3.
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Coronado Martín, Jesús Ángel, Julia Fontenla Pedreira, and Darío Flores Medina. "Architecture Communication in Online Magazines." In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46068-0_65.
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Ruby, Ilka, and Andreas Ruby. "Iconomania or the Stockholm Syndrome of Architecture." In Graz Architektur Magazin / Graz Architecture Magazine. Springer Vienna, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-69287-5_2.
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de Muynck, Bert. "Aspekte der Überbevölkerung." In Graz Architektur Magazin / Graz Architecture Magazine. Springer Vienna, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-211-37790-5_5.
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Steiner, Dietmar. "Architektur: Neustart." In Graz Architektur Magazin / Graz Architecture Magazine. Springer Vienna, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-69287-5_1.
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Eisinger, Angelus, and Stefan Kurath. "Die emergente Rolle der Architekten." In Graz Architektur Magazin / Graz Architecture Magazine. Springer Vienna, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-69287-5_11.
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Lootsma, Bart. "The Paradoxes of Contemporary Populism." In Graz Architektur Magazin / Graz Architecture Magazine. Springer Vienna, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-69287-5_12.
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Eisenman, Peter. "The Post-Indexical: A Critical Option." In Graz Architektur Magazin / Graz Architecture Magazine. Springer Vienna, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-69287-5_13.
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Eisenman, Peter. "Duck Soup." In Graz Architektur Magazin / Graz Architecture Magazine. Springer Vienna, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-69287-5_3.
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Miessen, Markus. "Critical Spatial Practice as the Margin of Opportunity." In Graz Architektur Magazin / Graz Architecture Magazine. Springer Vienna, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-69287-5_5.
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TUĞLUK, Mehmet Emin. "A COMPETITION TO FIND AN EQUAL TO THE TWELVE FOREIGN WORDS ORGANIZED BY THE ŞEHBÂL MAGAZINE (1909-1914)." In 3. International Congress of Language and Literature. Rimar Academy, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/lan.con3-4.
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One of the important magazines of the Second Constitutional period was the magazine Şehbâl, which was published between 14 March 1909 and 14 July 1914. Political events and comments in Şehbâl magazine; culture, literature, music; painting, sculpture, architecture; health,sport; inventions and inventions, discoveries, accounting, humor, fashion, make-up, embroidery, housework; articles on many subjects such as information about new publications and selections from English, French, German and American magazines have been published. Another important feature of Şehbâl magazine is that it organizes competitions on various subjects. One of these competitions organized by the Magazine is The Competition to Find an Equal to The Twelve Foreign Words In this competition, it was requested to find the equivalents of the words bibliographie, boycottage, caprice, caricature, clup, conference, concert, decor, monologue, paradoxe, surprise, taximetre. Various words were suggested to this competition by 517 people. However, none of the suggested words are used in standard Turkey Turkish instead of the desired word. However, this competition is important in terms of showing the influence of foreign languages on Turkish and the awareness and resistance shown against this influence. Key words: Şehbâl Magazine, Competition, Second Constitutional, Foreign Languages, Turkish Equivalent.
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Martínez-Aguilar, Gladys, and Jorge Galindo-Díaz. "La funcionalización del interior de baluartes: el caso del fuerte de San Carlos de Perote (Veracruz, México)." In FORTMED2025 - Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. edUPV. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4995/fortmed2025.2025.20246.
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Since the 15th century, the presence of bastions in military architecture has likely been the feature that most clearly characterises a structure as a modern fortification. However, over the years, both the forms and dimensions of these singular elements underwent significant modifications, adapting to advancements in the art of warfare as well as the range and destructive capacity of weaponry. From a constructional perspective, a clear transformation took place at the end of the 17th century, such that many bastions ceased to be solid and began to be hollow, utilising their interiors for the creation of functional spaces such as cisterns, storage depots, or gunpowder magazines. The first part of this paper describes and analyses this phenomenon based on classical treatises on fortification, while the second part exemplifies it through the case of the San Carlos de Perote Fort (Veracruz, Mexico).
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Di Resta, Sara. "The lagoon and the WWI. Memory and inclusive use of the system of forts in the entrenched camp of Mestre (Venice)." In FORTMED2025 - Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. edUPV. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4995/fortmed2025.2025.20397.
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The recognition of cultural values of military heritage, through appropriate enhancement actions, can trigger a stimulus effect giving social and economic benefit for the communities, activating the acknowledgement of new values and awareness. The paper describes contents and strategies of the research proposal “The lagoon and the World War I. Memory and inclusive fruition of the entrenched camp in Mestre (Venice)” aimed at developing an enhancement model for the second-generation forts, military batteries and powder magazines composing the defensive network constructed between 1907 and 1912 at strategic points of the Venetian mainland, consisting of Fort Rossarol, Fort Poerio, Fort Mezzacapo, Polveriera Bazzera, Fort Sirtori, Fort Cosenz and Fort Pepe. The research deals with the documentation, cataloguing and cultural promotion of the disused military heritage, connecting the forts through digital and physical routes linked to slow and sustainable mobility, broadening the visitor experience and the understanding of memory places.
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Tunzi, Pasquale. "I castelli nei periodici illustrati del primo Ottocento in Italia." In FORTMED2024 - Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. Universitat Politàcnica de València, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/fortmed2024.2024.17948.
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European publishing in the early 19th century promoted the dissemination and knowledge of historical heritage through illustrations. For the first time, ordinary people could see depictions of buildings that had marked the milestones and workings of civilisations over time and in different places. The favoured historical period was the Middle Ages, a time in which the noble origins of European peoples were rooted. Castles were the emblem of those civilisations whose national identity needed to be sustained. In this contribution, we look at castles published in Italian magazines from 1834 to around 1850. A selection of the castle subjects depicted and commented on has allowed us to address the graphic and figurative aspects, to dwell on some of the information and narratives offered to the public with the intention of elevating them culturally. What emerges is a singular picture in which the defensive or military-technical aspect was not considered, but the castles were given their historical character.
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García González, Víctor. "La fortaleza de Porto Longón: el puesto avanzado de Felipe V en Italia (1715-1735)." In FORTMED2024 - Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. Universitat Politàcnica de València, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/fortmed2024.2024.18066.
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The Presidios of Tuscany have received less historiographical attention than other fortified sites on the Mediterranean coast. In this context, it is worth mentioning a place unjustly forgotten: Porto Longone (Porto o Puerto Longón in Spanish), today’s Porto Azzurro, on the island of Elba. During the twenty years following the end of the War of the Spanish Succession, Longone was an isolated enclave, Philip V of Spain’s last stronghold in Italy, whose preservation depended on a frail diplomatic and military balance. Despite its fragile situation, the fortress would be of key importance in maintaining the network of contacts with Italy within the revanchist strategy of the Spanish Bourbon and obtaining intelligence from the territories controlled by the imperial forces of Charles VI. The king’s will to turn Longone into a powerful forward base meant that some of the most experienced military engineers of the newly created Spanish Royal Corps of Engineers were stationed there, such as Antonio Montaigut de la Perille, Pedro Coysevaux or Simón Poulet. The project for Longone detailed in the plans of 1722 and 1727 written by Coysevaux was comprehensive and addressed both fortifications like the bastions of Castellón, Toledo or Zúñiga and their advanced works as well as other constructions necessary to ensure the defence of the fortress and decent service conditions for its garrison: barracks, warehouses, powder magazines and water cisterns. The War of the Polish Succession would increase the weight of the stronghold as a base for operations in Italy. From 1735 onwards, Porto Longone would be cut off from the dominions of the kings of Spain, but the previous two decades attest to the effort put into its fortification and improvement, without which its conservation would probably have been more seriously challenged by the rivals of Philip V.
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Webster, Dillon. "Written into Existence: Publications and the Perceived Narratives of Gregory Burgess’s Architecture." In The 38th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. SAHANZ, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55939/a3991p9ifg.
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This research contributes to the influential work of Melbourne-based Architect, Gregory Burgess. Awarded the RAIA Gold Medal in 2004, Burgess is best known for celebrating human values through design and for his spiritual methodologies, organic aesthetic, and work with Indigenous landowners. While Burgess has initiated very little writing, his work has been the focus of numerous articles published within a variety of journals, newsletters, magazines, and books including those from the construction industry which are often overlooked in journalistic reviews. This paper investigates discussions of architecture in publications through lenses such as intended audiences and physical medium, which consequentially develop narratives and form perceived relationships between an architectural project, an architect, and reader. Conducted as archival research within Gregory Burgess’s anthology of saved publications, the examination and cataloguing of over 230 publications that mention him and his work date from 1979-2013. The breadth of the collection provides publications which range from local timber fabrication companies to Russian journals reviewing organic architecture, the majority in which the architect and the work was discussed without consultation from the design team. As a robust collection was maintained by the architect himself, general issues of discovering and accessing publications including those which fall within the digital dark age can be accessed and provide a fuller historical perception of the built work. The discussions of and narratives formed within this literature portray Burgess and his work in conscientious manners through the written word targeted for specific audiences: the construction industry, the trained architect, and members of the general public. Often, rather than contributing to architectural journalism or critique in a meaningful way, prominent projects and their broader themes become a vehicle for the author to promote their own voice and ideas. The findings argue that the different relationships an author has experiencing an architectural space demonstrates a broader picture of the architectural industry and the ways that historical publications can generate a perception of a designer and their designs.
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Moreno Moreno, María Pura. "L’Architecture Vivante y Le Corbusier." In LC2015 - Le Corbusier, 50 years later. Universitat Politècnica València, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/lc2015.2015.929.
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Resumen: Las publicaciones especializadas de arquitectura facilitan la difusión de ideas, métodos y técnicas del período concreto de su existencia. Sus contenidos, analizados al cabo del tiempo, conforman un atlas de pensamiento capaz de enmarcar la interpretación social de un contexto espacio-temporal bajo el prisma de lo constructivo. Jean Badovici funda en 1923, junto al periodista Christian Zervos, la revista L’Architecture Vivante (1923-1933) editada por Albert Morancé. La aparición en sus páginas de una arquitectura técnicamente bien definida, acompañada de reseñas redactadas con rigor crítico por su director, o por los propios autores de las obras, hicieron de ella un instrumento prestigioso de propagación de las nuevas ideas entre el público profesional. Una relectura contemporánea de los textos y proyectos publicados, permite detectar el itinerario intelectual llevado a cabo por sus responsables respecto al convulso y cambiante entorno arquitectónico europeo en el que fijaron su mirada. En esa evolución, manifestada en apenas el período de una década, hay que subrayar el protagonismo adquirido por la obra de Le Corbusier que, a partir del cierre de L’Esprit Nouveau en 1925, no dudó en considerarla una excelente herramienta de exposición al debate de sus ideas, incluyendo en ella los proyectos y escritos realizados en pro de una arquitectura moderna. Abstract: The specialized publications in architecture facilitate the diffusion of ideas, methods and techniques of the particular period of its existence. Its contents, analyzed over time, make up an atlas of thought capable of framing the social interpretation of a spatial-temporal context under the prism of the constructive. Jean Badovici founded in 1923, together with the journalist Christian Zervos, the magazine L'Architecture Vivante (1923-1933), edited by Albert Morancé. The appearance on its pages of an architecture technically well- defined, accompanied by critiques written with critical rigor by its director, or for the authors of the works, they did of her a prestigious instrument of spread of the new ideas among the professional public. A contemporary revisiting of the texts and published projects, allows to detect the intellectual itinerary carried out by its persons in charge with regard to the convulsed and changeable European architectural environment in which they fixed its look. In this evolution manifested, in just the period of a decade, we must emphasize the prominence given to the work of Le Corbusier who, from the closure of L'Esprit Nouveau in 1925, did not hesitate in considering it as an excellent tool for exposure to the discussion of his ideas, including in it projects and writings made for a modern architecture. Palabras clave: Le Corbusier; L’Architecture Vivante; Jean Badovici; revistas; arquitectura. Keywords: Le Corbusier; L’Architecture Vivante; Jean Badovici; magazines, architecture. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.929
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Peiffer, Keith. "Acoustic Panel Ceilings: Origins." In 108th Annual Meeting Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.108.3.
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Acoustical panel ceilings (APCs) are a mainstay in contemporary architecture. As a flexible, modular system of cross-T frames and solid panels suspended from the structure above, the APC provides the enclosure above many of the spaces we inhabit everyday: schools, offices, hospitals, and retail stores. It is a humble system, functional yet inexpensive, and it is everywhere. If “the secret ambition of design is to become invisible” as Bruce Mau asserts, then the APC has achieved this hallowed place within design as an assembly that performs effortlessly while often receding into the background, ubiquitous and taken for granted. Its current status as a background material, however, belies its revolutionary beginnings. Although certainly not limited to this lineage, the contemporary APC was birthed as an in¬novative materialization of the aspirations, conflicts, and contradictions within Modernism, and is particularly indebted to the slab-style office buildings of the 1950s. To establish this context this paper will explore Modernism’s interests in standardization and industrialization of building components, clear-span universal space, and the integration of new technology through the following precedents: Mies van der Rohe’s clear-span pavilions, architectural magazines, product adver¬tisements featuring renderings by Helmut Jacoby, and three 1950s high-rise office buildings. The confluence of these interests, explored in architectural practice, spurred more than a decade of focused development of the suspended ceiling in the 1950s, resulting in the Acoustical Fire Guard product that closely resembles the APC still installed broadly today. Although architectural history and theory has not often mentioned the APC specifically, we can trace broader disciplinary influences to their manifestation in the APC. My interest is not in arguing for a newer or better alternative ceiling system, but in placing the APC at the center of the story, synthesizing various theoretical, historical, and technical developments to return to its beginnings with fresh eyes.
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Marcus, Adam, and Matt Hutchinson. "Component / Assembly: Pragmatism and Precedent in Digital Fabrication Pedagogy." In 108th Annual Meeting Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.108.48.
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This paper discusses a series of academic design studios that explore ways to imbue pedagogies of digital fabrication with a critical sensibility rooted in architectural precedent. The work looks to the Case Study House Program spearheaded by John Entenza of Arts & Architecture magazine in Los Angeles (1945- 1966) as a model for how architects can re-conceptualize and re-materialize domestic space through an understanding of the limits and possibilities of new manufacturing techniques. Just as the architects of the Case Study House Program crafted new prototypes for domestic living inspired by the postwar (modernist) logics of mass production, this work speculates how contemporary (postmodernist) logics of mass customization can inform new models of domestic space appropriate for today. The research explores the architectural detail as a locus for reconsidering contemporary domesticity in the context of new technologies of design, fabrication, and assembly. Adapting ideas from research into architectural components from seminal case studies, the work tests ways to employ technologies of mass-customization to reconsider the com-ponent’s definition, its construction, and its assembly into larger configurations of structure and space. The ambition is to develop new understandings of part/whole relationships that reflect contemporary modes of living at all scales, from the component to the broader architectural organization. By melding computational workflows and advanced fabrication processes with the pragmatics of building and assembly, this work advocates a subtle but nonetheless radical shift in how we design and make architecture. And by grounding the work both conceptually and tectonically in precedent and in architecture’s social capacities, the studio pedagogy fosters a critical ethos that sometimes is lacking in academic approaches to design computation and digital fabrication.
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Sturlaugson, Brent. "Supply Chain Materialism." In 108th Annual Meeting Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.108.58.
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The goal of this paper is to unsettle prevailing assumptions of sustainability in architecture by analyzing the supply chain of building materials. By closely following the transformations of architectural materials and those that transform them, the tangible effects of design become more apparent (e.g. material extraction, environmental pollution, waste streams), and the intangible forces become more visible (e.g. economic incentives, labor abuses, political spending). The paper begins by outlining several theoretical and representational challenges of supply chains, followed by examples of how these ideas can be applied in teaching and practice. Methods of representing supply chains fall into two categories. The first category documents supply chains in abstract or distanced representations, in what Donna Haraway might call “a view from nowhere.” These often take the form of maps, diagrams, or explanatory text that attempt to communicate the networked topology of material production. However, the comprehensive ambition of these representations often com¬promises their affective appeal. The second category adopts a momentary or situated representational strategy, often in the form of installations, images, or narrative text. These representations aim to highlight specific spaces or embodied relationships that speak to the character of the process, what Haraway might consider the “partial perspectives” that offer a more visceral understanding of a process. These types of representations, however, often risk underselling the extent to which decisions affect distributed sites and relationships. To better grasp the impacts of design, this paper argues for hybrid approaches that draw from both methodological categories. It explores these ideas by describing the format and content of a graduate seminar called “Supply Chain Materialism.” The course itself is structured as a specula¬tive supply chain. At the beginning of the semester, students select an everyday construction material (e.g. steel, concrete, glass, plastic, wood, brick, silicone) and document its trans¬formations alongside the weekly theme. Paired with this independent research, the course offers a range of theories that help frame a more critical understanding of sustainability, drawing on texts in architecture and other spatial disciplines. The course also presents a catalog of spatial practices that align with different stages in the supply chain, including art installations, activist demonstrations, architectural projects, curated exhibitions, and performances. Throughout the semester, students demonstrate their understanding of the course content through three representational techniques. First, students make collages using images clipped from trade magazines. These collages exploit the disjointed nature of material production by juxtaposing images of the seemingly dissociated sites, actors, and effects. Second, they create a narrative that documents specific activities involved in each stage of production of their selected material. Third, students design a folly that highlights the invisible aspects of their reconstructed supply chain. By creating a useless object out of a useful material, the folly seeks to challenge notions about the ubiquitous materiality of building design through techniques of estrangement, hesitation, or defamiliarization. Ultimately, the course exposes students to a broadened conception of sustainability and a widened field for intervention through a careful examination of the supply chain of mate¬rial production.