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Tostões, Ana. "Manuel Salgado interviewed by Ana Tostões." Modern Lisbon, no. 55 (2016): 74–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.52200/55.a.wdsh9h4l.
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On August 2016, Ana Tostões interviewed the architect Manuel Salgado, councilor of the Municipality of Lisbon since 2007, in order to discuss the main policies undertaken and his ideas on urban planning in its connection to mobility infrastructures, public space and the continuous reconstruction of park and green areas, in Lisbon. Manuel Salgado was born in 1944, Lisbon, and studied architecture at the Lisbon School of Fine Art (1968). From 1971 to 1982, he was the technical responsible for the architectural office CIPRO and in 1984 he became manager of the architectural office Risco. From 2002 to 2008, he was architecture professor, at Instituto Superior Técnico. He has participated in conferences worldwide and widely published, on urban planning, and has designed major urban projects and buildings in Portugal: the Belém Cultural Centre (with Vittorio Gregotti), the Lisbon Theatre and Film School, the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, the Expo’98 public areas, the FC Porto Dragão Stadium, the Lisbon Luz Hospital, etc. His architectural and public space projects received several awards: the Valmor Award (1980, 1998), the International Award Architecture in Stone (1993), the AICA Award (1998); the Portuguese National Design Award (1999) and the Brick in Architecture Award (2003). Within the Municipality of Lisbon, he took the position of councilor of the Urbanism and Strategic Planning Department in 2007, which accumulates, from 2009 to 2013, with the Municipality Vice-Presidency. Currently, as councilor, heads the Department of Planning, Urbanism, Urban Rehabilitation, Public Space and Construction of the Municipality of Lisbon.
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Zhang, Donia. "Pingyao Historic City and Qiao Family Courtyard." Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism 4, no. 1 (March 11, 2022): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.36922/jcau.v4i1.47.
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Historic cities all over the world are facing challenges on how to best preserve their architectural heritage. We need good examples to follow. This study explores the historic city of Pingyao in China’s Shanxi Province, and the Qiao Family Courtyard in Qiaojiapu Village of Qi County nearby. Pingyao is a representative of northern Chinese city planning and vernacular architecture during the Ming (1368‒1644) and Qing (1644‒1911) dynasties, and it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. Qiao Family Courtyard is famous not only because of its majestic architectural compound and exquisite craftsmanship, but also it embodies the unique style of Chinese residential architecture in the Qing dynasty. Zhang Yimou’s 1991 film “Raise the Red Lantern” was shot here. Hu Mei’s 2006 TV series “Qiao’s Grand Courtyard” based on the business history of the family have made the compound internationally acclaimed. From an architectural and urbanist perspective, this paper examines what has made Pingyao Historic City and the Qiao Family Courtyard resilient and responsible. The findings reveal, among other things that, Confucian ethics of honesty, trustworthiness, and righteousness were the backbone accounting for the robust success of Shanxi merchants who held deep-rooted cultural values, and who conducted their businesses accordingly.
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Tokeshi, Angélica Maeireizo. "Self-culture and sustainable development of a community in the Peruvian Rainforest." Ekistics and The New Habitat 73, no. 436-441 (December 1, 2006): 311–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.53910/26531313-e200673436-441131.
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The author, an architect who graduated in 1996 from the Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Ricardo Palma University, Lima, Peru, is currently working as a research visitor at the Urban Studio of Professor Haruhiko Goto at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. Further to being Head of her architectural firm in Lima (since 2003) with a grant from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), her projects include the final coordination, with Austrian architect Hans Hollein, of the Landscape Project for the Lima Headquarters of Interbank (the second largest bank in Peru); her role as Assistant Project Manager of EMILIMA S.A. (Lima Municipal Real Estate Firm), and her research work on Japanese Gardens in Okinawa (Shuri Castle's Gardens restoration Consultant) under landscape engineer Shimada Hiromitsu. The text that follows is a slightly revised and edited version of a paper presented by the author at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity," organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.
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González Cubero, Josefina. "MICROHISTORIAS DE ARQUITECTURA Y CINE I: LOS ARQUITECTOS EN LOS CONGRESOS CINEMATOGRÁFICOS EN ESPAÑA, 1928-1931." Proyecto, Progreso, Arquitectura, no. 20 (2019): 180–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/ppa.2019.i20.01.
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Stevens, Jeroen. "Theatre City: On Design in the Interplay of Social and Material Space (Teatro Oficina, Bixiga, São Paulo)." Culture and Local Governance 5, no. 1-2 (December 30, 2015): 45–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.18192/clg-cgl.v5i1-2.1457.
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Cultural mapping reflects a spatial turn broadly taken in related areas of urban studies, all of which, in different ways, care about the interaction between social and material space. This article will contribute to this emerging interdisciplinary field by exploring applications of cultural mapping as tools for more inclusive forms of urbanism. The main argument holds that particular forms of cultural mapping can help bridge certain constraints of ethnographic methodologies of social sciences, on one hand, and spatial analysis and design methodologies, on the other hand, as they can operate in the same interstices of social and material space. This article is the result of a three-year and ongoing collaboration between the Research Group on Urbanism and Architecture of the University of Leuven and theatre company Teatro Oficina, located on a highly contested urban site in São Paulo’s central neighbourhood of Bixiga, which for thirty years has been part and parcel of a Lute Urbaine (‘urban battle’) between the cultural group and a major real estate development firm. Both the theatre building and the surrounding terrain present themselves as pars-pro-toto for a theatrical city paradigm, offering insights on the dialectic vicissitudes of socio-cultural actions vis-à-vis the material transformation of the city.Keywords: urban activism, participatory urban design, modernism, urban stage, theatre cultureRésumé: La cartographie culturelle reflète un tournant spatial dans le champ des études urbaines et disciplines associées qui sont à tout le moins toutes concernées par les interactions entre les espaces sociaux et les espaces matériels. Cet article tente d’apporter une contribution à ce débat interdisciplinaire en explorant les applications de la cartographie culturelle dans le cadre des projets d’urbanisme participatif, voire d’urbanisme plus socialement inclusif. Certaines formes de cartographie culturelle peuvent permettre de répondre à certaines contraintes émanant des méthodologies ethnographiques en sciences sociales et ce, en comblant les lacunes découlant de la rencontre des espaces sociaux et matériels. Les résultats de cet article découlent de trois années de collaboration entre le Research Group on Urbanism and Architecture de l’Université de Leuven et le Teatro Oficina, situé dans un espace contesté du quartier Bixiga, au coeur de São Paulo. Ce quartier en question a été au coeur de plusieurs luttes urbaines (Lute Urbaine) entre groups sociaux culturels et promotteurs immobiliers. L’immeuble du théâtre et ses environs se présent en tant que pars-pro-toto pour le paradigme de la ville théâtrale, offrant des points des perspectives sur la dialectique de l’action culturelle vis-à-vis la transformation matérielle de la ville.Mots clé: l’activisme urbain, dessin urbain participative, modernism, scène urbaine, culture théâtrale
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Osiri, Navanath. "The Development of Modern Landscape Architecture in Thailand." Nakhara : Journal of Environmental Design and Planning 21, no. 1 (June 10, 2022): 206. http://dx.doi.org/10.54028/nj202221206.
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The profession of landscape architecture has been firmly established in Thailand and has continued to flourish for over 40 years. Throughout this time, landscape architecture has made important contributions in improving environments, the people’s quality of life, and the aesthetics of Thailand’s cities and communities. This research discusses the development of the landscape architecture profession and design concepts in Thailand from the beginning to present to understand how landscape architecture has been cultivated through the processes of adaptation and appropriation.
The major contents of this research were obtained from the analysis of interviews conducted with 20 practitioners of landscape architecture firms in Thailand. The topics of discussion include multiple factors affecting the concepts, styles, and typologies of landscape architectural design.
The results show that landscape architecture in Thailand has developed in parallel with global design trends since the beginning of this profession. However, contextual factors, particularly socio-economic, political, and environmental issues, also affected the variation of project types and detailed designs. These trends and factors help foster the richness of landscape architecture in Thailand.
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Colón Mur, Alegría, and María Pilar Biel Ibáñez. "Secundino Zuazo’s intermediate stations on the Caminreal–Zaragoza rail line: minor architectures for a paradigm shift." ZARCH, no. 16 (September 13, 2021): 194–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2021165664.
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The firm Compañía del Ferrocarril Central de Aragón built 21 stations and halts along the 120 kilometres separating Caminreal and Zaragoza. The construction of this line in the 1930s marked a turning point in Spain’s railway history as it was an example of adapting technological solutions to the circumstances of the environment. Its most important novelty, however, was that great architects provided minor architectures, which served as an experimental laboratory of design mechanisms that would end up being identified with modernity in our country. The stations designed for this line by Secundino Zuazo (1887–1971) represented an opportunity for him to reflect on a modern language combining rationalist elements with local traditional ones but without ever losing sight of the appropriateness to the surroundings. The rational use of new materials, whose qualities differ greatly from traditional ones, determined a new architecture.
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Faulconbridge, James R. "The Regulation of Design in Global Architecture Firms: Embedding and Emplacing Buildings." Urban Studies 46, no. 12 (October 16, 2009): 2537–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098009344227.
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The emergence of global architecture firms and their role in the production of city architectures raises a number of questions for social scientists. For example, how— indeed do—global architects ensure that the buildings they design are ‘in place’ and appropriate for the urban cultural, economic, social and political contexts in which they are to be built? The aim of the paper is to consider this question. ‘Regulation’ is taken in its broadest sense and the paper explores the role of standards and codes as well as other forms of social regulation in the process of emplacing designs. It is argued that, in order to understand how buildings are put in their place, analysis is needed of both the design-side adaptations architects make to buildings and also the consumption side regulation of designs and the way the behaviours of those inhabiting buildings produce ‘local’ meaning.
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Rossetto, Tania, and Annalisa Andrigo. "Cities in music videos: Audiovisual variations on London’s neoliberal skyline." Urban Studies 55, no. 6 (June 13, 2017): 1257–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098017707928.
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Despite the resurgence of music video clips in the YouTube era, they have not received attention as a specific subject of inquiry in either cultural or urban geography. This article is aimed at providing a full consideration of music videos with a focus on the urban realm. In particular, the paper concentrates on how neoliberal iconic buildings and city skylines emerge in music videos by using London as a case study. Drawing from recent developments within architectural geography and urban morphology, as well as in the geocultural subfields of music geography, media geography and film geography, the paper shows how a partial return to critical traditional interests and text-based research styles could be still useful to appreciate the mutable, fluid, and affective ways in which skylines are mediated. The empirical part of the paper provides an analysis of three music videos set in London and with lyrics and music that refer to a mood or feeling ascribed to London’s iconic architecture.1
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Salama, Ashraf M. "Interrogating the Practice of Image Making in a Budding Context." International Journal of Architectural Research: ArchNet-IJAR 8, no. 3 (November 30, 2014): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.26687/archnet-ijar.v8i3.549.
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Image making is a continuous worldwide practice of architects and designers whose concern is to create meaningful environments. Such a practice results in expressions that either reflect the regional context or mirror the wider global culture. This paper aims at interrogating image making practices in the city of Doha, which has experienced rapid urban transformations, associated with building large scale work and learning environments, mixed use developments, and cultural and sport facilities. Contextualizing current debate on Doha’s architecture and urbanism, a critical analysis of geo-cultural politics and on the notion of the ‘scapes of flows’ is undertaken. Based on contextual, critical, and perceptual approaches image-making practices in the city were discerned. Different types of efforts were categorized and critically analyzed underlying the contextual and critical approaches. The analysis reveals that efforts range from utilizing symbolism in contemporary imaging, to manifesting tradition-modernity in search for image identity, to addressing the global condition towards image making. The perceptual approach established empirical evidence by investigating users’ reactions to three notable office buildings that their design attempts to evoke a unique image. This was supported by statements made by CEOs of architectural firms and development companies that reflected a promise towards image making in the architecture of Doha. A concluding critique is introduced to elucidate that while there are incessant attempts at image making, the practice of ‘cutting and pasting’ dominates in the absence of critical consciousness. Such a critique calls for avoiding ‘case by case decision making’ the urban governance in the city still adopts while engaging effective place making strategies.
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O'Brien, David, Sandra Carrasco, and Kim Dovey. "Incremental housing: harnessing informality at Villa Verde." Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research 14, no. 3 (May 29, 2020): 345–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/arch-10-2019-0237.
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PurposeThis paper analyses the incremental housing process developed at Villa Verde, a housing project designed by the Chilean architecture firm Elemental, whose director Alejandro Aravena received the Pritzker Prize in 2016. This project is conceived within a social housing framework and designed as an affordable “half-house” to be incrementally extended by the owners.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is based on research undertaken in August 2017 with data obtained through site surveys, trace analysis, interviews with 32 residents and photographic surveys. The researchers mapped the modifications made by all households at Villa Verde in the four years after occupation.FindingsThe strategy of designing a formal framework for informal additions has generally been successful with most houses undergoing substantial expansion to a high standard of construction. The paper raises concerns regarding the settlement's urban design, response to local climate and the quality of shared open space. We also find evidence of over-development as informal additions extend across front and rear yards that are in some cases fully enclosed.Originality/valueThis project is critiqued within the context of a long series of architectural attempts to harness the productive capacities of self-help housing. Villa Verde engages the freedom to build in a self-organised manner within a formal framework. But what will stop these additions from escalating into a “slum”?
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Fadjar Maharika, Ilya, Achmad Irsan, Syarifah Ismailiyah Al Athas, Ariadi Susanto, Vendie Abma, and Yebi Yuriandala. "Building Information Modelling (BIM) Adoption Model for Architectural Education." Journal of Design and Built Environment 20, no. 3 (December 31, 2020): 22–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/jdbe.vol20no3.2.
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The purpose of this study is to design a Building Information Modelling (BIM) integration model for architectural education in adopting BIM culture. Most of the current models on BIM adoption are directed toward the realm of construction industries (consultant firms and contractors) and less on higher education institutions. The discourse on education is mostly concerning experimentation on curricular integration and the lack of general concepts of integration. The main research inquiry of this study is concentrated on which criteria are best suited to the education culture. Utilizing reflective discussion of past experiences and a semisystematic literature review, detailed criteria to capture the multidimensional facets of BIM adoption are proposed. The study proposes the model that offers six main integration criteria: (a) institution vision and priorities, (b) infrastructure, (c) curriculum integration, (d) human resources, (e) knowledge organization, and (f) change management. The application of the model may be limited to architectural schools which are still in the initial process of BIM adoption but the comprehensiveness of the model may possibly be developed as the basis for readiness assessment, roadmap development, and exchange terminologies between education and the wider context of architecture, engineering, construction, operation and management industries.
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Asciuto, Nicoletta. "Intimacy and Hedonism: The Aesthetics of the Terrazza in Italian Cinema." Space and Culture 23, no. 4 (February 24, 2019): 394–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331219830324.
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This article discusses the developments of the terrazza (“roof terrace”) as a cinematic space in post-war and contemporary Italian films. By taking a historical approach, I show how the terrazza has evolved, from the post-war years to the present, to become an architecture of intimacy and hedonism. In Italian film aesthetics, the terrazza replaces the piazza (“square”), the space normally assumed to represent quintessential Italian life. This article considers the cinematic and aesthetic development of elevated architectural space in five key films, ranging from the post-war classics Mario Monicelli’s I soliti ignoti ( Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958) and Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’avventura ( The Adventure, 1960), through Una giornata particolare ( A Special Day, 1977) and La terrazza ( The Terrace, 1980) by Ettore Scola, to Paolo Sorrentino’s very contemporary La grande bellezza ( The Great Beauty, 2013), a film clearly indebted to the aesthetics of its ground-breaking predecessors.
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Rapoport, Elizabeth, and Anna Hult. "The travelling business of sustainable urbanism: International consultants as norm-setters." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 49, no. 8 (January 9, 2017): 1779–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x16686069.
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This article examines the international travels of ideas about sustainable urban planning and design through a focus on private sector architecture, planning and engineering consultants. These consultants, who we refer to as the global intelligence corps (GIC), package up their expertise in urban sustainability as a marketable commodity, and apply it on projects around the world. In doing so, the global intelligence corps shape norms about what constitutes ‘good’ sustainable urban planning, and contribute to the development of an internationalised travelling model of sustainable urbanism. This article draws on a broad study of the industry (GIC) in sustainable urban planning and design, and two in-depth case studies of Swedish global intelligence corps firms working on Chinese Eco-city projects. Analysis of this material illustrates how the global intelligence corps’s work shapes a traveling model of sustainable urbanism, and how this in turn creates and reinforces particular norms in urban planning practice.
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Baccarani, Claudio, Fabio Cassia, Chiara Rossato, and Daniela Cavallo. "Territory, firms and value co-creation synergies." Journal of Place Management and Development 12, no. 2 (June 3, 2019): 197–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpmd-03-2018-0018.
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Purpose Recent literature on the implications of applying service-dominant (S-D) logic to conceptualise value-creation processes views territory only as an operand resource (a resource upon which an act is performed). This study aims to show that territory is both an operand and operant resource (a resource that acts on other resources) and to examine how this conceptualisation may extend knowledge about co-creation processes between a firm and its territory. Design/methodology/approach The study develops a conceptual contribution, drawing on previous research and combining managerial thinking with architectural–urban planning thinking, using illustrative examples. Findings This study shows that the territory actively participates in value co-creation through interactions with other actors (e.g. firms, inhabitants and tourists). The territory is not only an output of human actions but also a process through which its essence and traits emerge over time. It can infinitely inspire firms with ideas, provided they are able to listen to it and recognise its value co-creator nature. Research limitations/implications Contrary to the traditional firm location theory, this study highlights that a territory’s attractiveness is related to its potential, active contribution to value co-creation. The study’s arguments provide a contribution to the current debate about territorial servitisation but should be refined through empirical analyses. Practical implications The paper provides suggestions on platform-designing methods – supported by technologies – to enable the territory to engage in value co-creation. Originality/value While some studies have applied the S-D logic to territories, this study is the first to recognise that the territory has an active role in value co-creation.
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Grávalos Lacambra, Ignacio. "EL IMAGINARIO FÍLMICO SUBURBIAL DE LOS AÑOS SESENTA. EL FIN DE LAS UTOPÍAS MODERNAS." Proyecto, Progreso, Arquitectura, no. 27 (2022): 16–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/ppa.2022.i27.01.
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A partir de la segunda guerra mundial las ciudades experimentaron un acusado incremento de población, debiendo expandir sus límites y reconfigurando la relación centro-periferia. Aparecieron conjuntos suburbanos que, bajo los preceptos de la ciencia y las promesas del progreso, auspiciaban con gran optimismo un nuevo futuro. A mediados de los años sesenta la realidad era bien distinta. Estas actuaciones mostraron grandes niveles de conflictividad, situación que fue reflejada en la producción cinematográfica. El artículo indaga sobre la introducción de una crítica urbana en cierta filmografía de ese período a través de tres películas representativas de esta manera de relatar tanto los nuevos conjuntos suburbiales como las megaestructuras. En Dos o tres cosas que yo sé de ella (Godard, 1967), La naranja mecánica (Kubrick, 1971) o Vinieron de dentro de… (Cronenberg, 1975) las propuestas urbanas van a tener un protagonismo radical, relatándose los espacios del suburbio como los espacios de la soledad o de la violencia. Todas ellas contribuyeron en gran medida a la conformación de un imaginario urbano negativo que se iba a extender sobre el movimiento moderno, poniendo fin a las utopías que se habían formulado sobre la ciudad del futuro.
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Kacmaz Erk, Gul, and Christopher Wilson. "Framed Memories of Berlin: Film, Architecture and Remembrance." Architecture and Culture 6, no. 2 (May 4, 2018): 243–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2018.1478513.
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Smith, Constance, and Saffron Woodcraft. "Introduction." Focaal 2020, no. 86 (March 1, 2020): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2020.860101.
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AbstractThe high-rise tower block is an ambiguous construction: a much-maligned architectural form yet a persistent symbol of modernity and aspiration. It is also a fulcrum for discourses about urban failure, broken communities, widening urban inequality, and insecurity. Recent tower block disasters, from the Grenfell Tower fire in London to high-rise collapses in Nairobi, have intensified such debates. In this introduction to the theme section, we explore “tower block failure” as both event and discourse. Engaging with scholarship on global urbanism, verticality, and failure as a generative force, we highlight the particular discursive, social, political, and material constellations of “failure” as it manifests in relation to tower blocks. We propose that exploring what failure sets in motion—following what failure does, rather than what it means—can help inform our understanding of urban transformation.
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Auji, Hala. "On Ruins: The Art and Politics of Architectural Heritage." International Journal of Islamic Architecture 11, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 15–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijia_00062_7.
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The journal’s new Dialogues series brings together scholars and practitioners from across varied disciplines for a discussion of critical contemporary issues that interrogate the boundaries between architecture, art, anthropology, archaeology, and history. The inaugural instalment, held as a webinar hosted by IJIA Assistant Editor Hala Auji in January of 2021, brought together video artists and filmmakers Ali Cherri (Beirut/Paris) and Panos Aprahamian (Beirut). The conversation addressed the intersections between art, film, history, and heritage in the contemporary socio-political contexts of Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Armenia. The following is an edited excerpt from the original conversation.1
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Wilkinson, Nicholas. "Editorial." Open House International 40, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-01-2015-b0001.
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We continue our policy of theme issues and open issues twice a year. This particular open issue contains manuscripts on Community Participation, Real Estate Development, Housing Poverty, Dual Usage Sociability, Formal and Spatial Contemporary Transformation, Experimentation with Hanoks in Korean Housing, Infill Renovation and Post Ecological Architecture. These are based in a range of different countries from Hong Kong, Shanghai, Jordan, Turkey, Korea, to Japan. The inquiries are deep and thorough, maintaining a firm grip on subject matter and focus.
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Huber, Amy M., Jessica Wendorf Muhamad, and Arienne Ferchaud. "Design Firm Mentorship: Motives, Functions, and Factors." International Journal of Design Management and Professional Practice 16, no. 1 (2022): 37–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2325-162x/cgp/v16i01/37-59.
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Schaeverbeke, Robin, Hélène Aarts, and Ann Heylighen. "Drawing and Conceiving Space: How to Express Spatial Experience Through Drawing?" Open House International 40, no. 2 (June 1, 2015): 74–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-02-2015-b0010.
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Teaching drawing in architectural education raises questions regarding the representation of spatial experiences: to what extent can sensory experiences of space be intensified through observing and drawing and, perhaps equally important, what those drawings would look like? In the context of their drawing classes, the authors started to inquire the discrepancy between conceiving and perceiving space, and the aptitude of representing spatial concepts upon a two dimensional surface. Through observation and translating observation into drawings, students discover that conventionalised ways of drawing, such as linear perspective, only reveal part of the story. While linear perspective remains the dominant way of representing space, obviously visible in photography, film, 3D-imaging and architectural impressions, the authors started looking for ways of drawing which inquire possibilities of expressing spatial experiences. Drawing as an activity which is able to enhance spatial understanding, rather than as a tool to communicate virtual spaces. Next to drawing as a ‘skill’, which can be learnt, the drawing classes started to inquire non-visual aspects of space by analysing attributes of spatiality, which are difficult to convey through two dimensional drawings. Starting from a contextualisation of spatial drawing within architectural practice, the article examines the discrepancy between geometric space and lived space, in order to reveal the dubious role of linear perspective within (architectural) culture and history. After a brief return to how we imagined and represented space in our childhood, the article presents a series of practice based examples. Drawing on the authors’ teaching practice, it illustrates possibilities to expand our visual language by exploring space and spatiality through observing and drawing.
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Grigoryeva, Elena, and Konstantin Lidin. "urbanization trends." проект байкал, no. 69 (November 13, 2021): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.51461/projectbaikal.69.1844.
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Sometimes, people dream ofBlue cities,Which have no name.Song from the film “Two Sundays”, 1963What does the future hold for us? This question has always attracted attention and always eluded answering. Which of today’s trends will shape the appearance of tomorrow's cities? Irkutsk architects, continuing the theme of the Winter City, reflect on the development of underground urbanism. Novosibirsk citizens study the creative capital as the main resource for the growth of Siberian cities. The environmental approach to urban development and the ratio of the notion of environment with the borderline concepts of style, meaning and essence are studied by theorists of architecture. The issues of the theory are directly related to everyday practice of the post-covid world. Isolation of people from each other and fusion of residential spaces with the office ones, new functions and the role of public spaces need reflection right now. The triptych of philosophers from Voronezh, Latvia and Vologda is about it.
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Miller, Lee Norris, Rungnapha Khamung, Kongkidakarn Sakulsinlapakorn, Dissatat Prasertsakul, and Heather Lynnine Miller. "Mature Firm Innovation: Can Effectual Logic Be Emulated?" International Journal of Design Management and Professional Practice 16, no. 2 (2022): 23–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2325-162x/cgp/v16i02/23-33.
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Grant, Richard. "E-waste challenges in Cape Town: Opportunity for the green economy?" Urbani izziv Supplement, no. 30 (February 17, 2019): 5–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5379/urbani-izziv-en-2019-30-supplement-001.
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E-waste research on South Africa cities is modest compared to the much larger research output on other African cities (e.g., Accra, Ghana, and Lagos, Nigeria). Synthesizing gray reports, academic literature, and findings from 25 interviews with key Cape Town stakeholders (from informal and formal firms and industry, civil society, and governmental organizations), this paper assesses the current e-waste landscape in Cape Town, bifurcated between numerous informal individuals/firms and a handful of large formal operators. E-waste activities focus on collection (with little value added), dismantling, preprocessing, and refurbishment without final processing, the latter being performed in Johannesburg and overseas. After a decade of e-waste deliberation, government, businesses, industries, consultants, and civil society organizations are coalescing around approaching e-waste as a strategic green economic opportunity, a tilt coinciding with the designation of Africa’s first designated green special economic zone at Atlantis. The green economy tilt, however, is by no means guaranteed: deficiencies in data, e-waste infrastructure, capacity building, and major differences of opinion about the role of informal operators persist.
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Kušar, Domen, and Vojko Kilar. "Statistical assessment of fire safety in multi-residential buildings in Slovenia." Urbani izziv 20, no. 2 (2009): 115–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5379/urbani-izziv-en-2009-20-02-005.
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Kacmaz Erk, Gul, and Tevfik Balcioglu. "Tracing objects of a lost room in suburbia." Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research 14, no. 3 (November 5, 2020): 615–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/arch-09-2020-0198.
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PurposeBringing product design and architectural design together, this article looks into the extraordinary use of everyday objects in urban and suburban spaces in The Lost Room mini-television series (2006). The study questions the accepted meanings of products and spaces in relation to their physicality, perception and use. Through multi-layered analysis of the relationship between objects, (architectural and suburban/urban) spaces and their users, the article opens up a discussion about the purpose, meaning and influence of designed products and places.Design/methodology/approachIn this context, this qualitative research makes use of moving images (as representations of products and spaces) to propose a critique of contemporary design via (sub-)urban design practices.FindingsUsing irony and metaphor to question the habit of object possession, accumulation and fetishism, the series challenges blind loyalty to contemporary beliefs. The Lost Room is not concerned with new forms or new designs. Instead, it forces the audience to consider the meaning of both objects and spaces in relation to one another. By transforming our understanding of space, the series also reveals humans' spatial limitations. The Lost Room is a unique small screen “product” in which people's relationship to the designed world is interrogated by having mass-produced objects and the built environment constantly in the foreground.Originality/valueFilm analysis from a design perspective is not new; however, this is the first time The Lost Room is brought to the attention of architects and designers via scholarly work. Film theorists and cinemagoers may also benefit from the unique design perspective outlined in the article.
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Środa-Murawska, Stefania, and Daniela Szymańska. "The concentration of the creative sector firms as a potential basis for the formation of creative clusters in Poland." Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series 20, no. 20 (June 1, 2013): 85–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/bog-2013-0013.
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Abstract The study aims to present the structure and analyse the distribution of economic activities comprising the creative sector (covering 10 sections of PKD 2007 - the Polish Classification of Activities based on NACE rev. 2 - the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community) of the Polish economy in the context of the potential basis for the formation of creative clusters in Poland. The study concentrates on the numbers of creative firms based in all 3,076 Polish gminas (306 urban gminas, 1,576 rural gminas and 597 urban-rural gminas; in the latter, 597 urban areas and 597 rural areas are considered separately). As found, most of the firms are involved in architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis (M 71) and other professional, scientific and technical activities (M 74). It has also been established that some local incubators of the potential clusters of creative industries form eight distinct centres, the most prominent of which is the Warszawa centre. The identification of areas with higher concentrations of creative firms has demonstrated that in Poland, like in western countries, creative firms tend to locate in large cities (Warszawa, Kraków, Poznań, Wrocław and Tri-City) and in the regions around them.
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Kirjakka, Marjut. "The concept of the ideal city: the case of Finnish orthogonal towns." Urban Morphology 7, no. 2 (August 15, 2003): 87–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.51347/jum.v7i2.3906.
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Most old towns in Finland are characterized by their orthogonal structure. During a period of about 300 years the architectural principles of the Renaissance were followed. The concept of the ideal city was applied to an environment with a building tradition totally different from that of the countries in which the concept was created. The ideal grid structure could be transferred into this part of the periphery of Europe without difficulty, but the resulting townscape with its wooden buildings was far from Renaissance ideals. There was a constant dialogue between the goals of fire safety and stateliness of the townscape, on the one hand, and the actual urban environment on the other. The battle against fires was waged by restructur-ing towns and by developing new guidelines for building. Even when town plans were restructured, characteristics of Renaissance ideals were preserved. Rows of deciduous trees, which were introduced as a new structural component in the late-eighteenth century, eventually proved decisive in creating an ambience suitable for wooden towns. A specific type of grid plan characteristic of Finnish wooden towns was created. The new block was divided into plots with wide fire streets which were planted with deciduous trees. Finland was able to create its own concept of the ideal city.
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Khalil, Mohamed Hesham Madbouly Hussein, Heba Abdelghani Ismail Elsaay, and Ayman Ahmed Ezzat Othman. "TALENT MANAGEMENT: A NOVEL APPROACH FOR DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TOWARDS HERITAGE COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT." International Journal of Architectural Research: ArchNet-IJAR 11, no. 3 (November 22, 2017): 132. http://dx.doi.org/10.26687/archnet-ijar.v11i3.1400.
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Heritage communities in Egypt have continuously developed to sustain a history of millenniums. Developments have been focused on sustaining the physical heritage such as buildings and cities, yet ignoring the intangible heritage such as stories, memories and traditions of people. The results are deterioration of the developed physical heritage as a natural response of ignorance. Architectural Design Firms (ADFs) are responsible for developing innovative solutions that translate intangible heritage into sustainable projects. Such solutions require talented architects who are in need of being treated in a talented manner. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the role of Talent Management (TM) as a novel approach for developing innovative solutions for Egyptian heritage communities’ development. In order to achieve this aim, a qualitative approach based on (1) literature review is used to investigate heritage development, creative industries, ADFs, motivation and TM and (2) a case study is collected and analysed to study the relationship between TM and intangible heritage preservation.
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Bagina, Elena. "Fire and home: A part of a happy life." проект байкал, no. 73 (October 21, 2022): 128–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.51461/pb.73.23.
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One of the former meanings of the Russian word “schastie” (“happiness”) was a portion, a share or a part, and it used to be pronounced as “so-chastie”. To be happy, it is not enough to have a warm house with candles lit on holidays or flames flickering in the fireplace. But such a house is a part of human existence, which constitutes brief moments of bliss. Fire has inhabited the human dwelling since time immemorial, but it has a dual nature. It can be good and evil. It illuminates, blesses and warms. The fire sparkling in fireworks creates an illusion of ascendency over the elements and evokes the mysteries of the cosmos. Torches, candles, lamps, cookers and fireplaces largely determine the architecture of a house. The form and structure of the things associated with fire is a subject of study for art historians and culturologists. Tamed fire is a “so-chastie” of being.
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Huggins, Robert, and Daniel Prokop. "Network structure and regional innovation: A study of university–industry ties." Urban Studies 54, no. 4 (July 20, 2016): 931–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098016630521.
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The emergence of the network paradigm has led to growing interest in understanding network structures relating to knowledge flows and patterns of regional innovation. This paper explores the structure of knowledge networks stemming from ties between universities and other actors, principally firms. Based upon a network analysis of empirical data for regions across the UK, it is found that the most innovative and economically developed regions are more likely to be the location for actors holding highly central and influential positions within knowledge network architectures. It is concluded that network structures, and resulting stocks of structural network capital, influence patterns of regional innovation and development.
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Andersen, Bengt, and Per Gunnar Røe. "The social context and politics of large scale urban architecture: Investigating the design of Barcode, Oslo." European Urban and Regional Studies 24, no. 3 (April 22, 2016): 304–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969776416643751.
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The well-known and much investigated rise of urban entrepreneurial policies has fuelled a transformation of urban spaces and landscapes, and has led to changes in the social composition of city centres. This is the case for Oslo, Norway’s capital, where increasingly urban policies are designed to attract transnational companies and those in the creative class. A key strategy to achieve this has been to transform the city’s waterfront through spectacular architecture and urban design, as has taken place in other European cities. Transnational and local architects have been commissioned to design the Barcode, one of the most striking waterfront projects. This article investigates the role of architecture and architects in this process, because architects can be seen as influential generators of urban spaces and agents for social change, and because there is remarkably little published empirical research on this specific role of architects. It is argued that although there was an overall planning goal that the projects along the waterfront of Oslo should contribute to social sustainability, with the implication that planners and architects possessed information about the local urban context and used this knowledge, in practice this was not the case. It is demonstrated that the architects paid little attention to the social, cultural and economic contexts in their design process. Rather, the architects emphasized the creation of an exciting urban space and, in particular, designed spectacular architecture that would contribute to the merits of the firms involved. It is further argued that because of this the Barcode project will not contribute to the making of a just city.
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Frank. "Industrial Networks and Urban Development: Kansas City's Film Row District and National Film Distribution." Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 27, no. 1 (2020): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/buildland.27.1.0046.
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Whitehand, J. W. R., and Christine M. H. Carr. "The creators of England's inter-war suburbs." Urban History 28, no. 2 (August 2001): 218–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926801002048.
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Despite the transformation of English cities by the growth of suburbs in the inter-war years, there is a dearth of reliable information about the processes, and especially the firms, that brought these suburbs into existence. Contrary to accepted wisdom – and paradoxically, in view of the scorn heaped upon suburbs by the architectural literati – architects are shown to have been heavily involved in the preparation of building applications for the construction of suburban houses. In spite of the unprecedented amount of house building in the inter-war period, the geographical spheres of influence of both builders and architects were highly localized. However, unlike in the nineteenth century, there is little evidence of speculative building having been undertaken by people whose livelihood was not primarily derived from house building or house selling.
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Liu, Catherine. "The Wall, the Window and the Alcove: Visualizing Privacy." Surveillance & Society 9, no. 1/2 (November 30, 2011): 203–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v9i1/2.4101.
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This papers is an investigation of metaphors and images of walls, most recently made of fire and of code. By extension, the interruption or disruption of the wall, whether as light-giving window or shelter-providing alcove give conceptual form and shape to the theoretical/historical cluster of concepts that support notions of security and autonomy have become indispensable to explorations of the value of privacy and private life. In presenting a series of imaginary spaces where private and public spheres were thought to converge and/or collide, I hope to show that transparency as a political value defended by liberal democracies functions on the basis of a powerful visual and fundamentally spatial metaphor: the window. Privacy is penetrated and protected on the other hand by the architectural construction of an alcove. Cultural relativism does not allow us to avoid the legal, political and social problems that individuals and lawmakers are confronting nations, societies and individuals in the wake of data gathering technologies (Humphreys 2011). The window and the alcove are simple, even primitive elements of built environments, but they are figures for porosity and protection upon which we might be able to construct analogical and theoretical relationships between different times and different cultures.
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Mohamed, Abdurrahman. "AESTHETIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF THE RESTORED HERITAGE." Journal of Islamic Architecture 7, no. 1 (June 28, 2022): 48–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.18860/jia.v7i1.13079.
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Kurkut mosque is one of the important historical buildings in Antalya Old Town, Kaleiçi. It represents a special landmark for its cultural and architectural identity. In 1896, a great fire destroyed the mosque, including the wooden 'külah' (spire) of its minaret. However, the lower parts of the minaret remained intact. Afterward, the mosque was called the 'Kesik Minare' Camii' (Cut Minaret Mosque). The Cut Minaret special form remained the identity of the old town for many decades. In 2017, a restoration project started to be prepared for the mosque and its minaret. Visual Impact Assessment is crucial in this regard in addition to Public Preference Analysis. This is to understand the restoration projects on public acceptance. This research used Aesthetic Impact Assessment (AIA) to assess public appreciation of the aesthetic quality of the newly restored minaret of the Cut Minaret Mosque. To achieve this goal, a set of aesthetic principles was developed. The aim was to provide insights into the cultural values of architectural conservation, restoration, and their role in shaping the identity of a continuously changing society. It has been found that the aesthetics of the minaret after restoration got around average public appreciation. It directs the attention of culture, religious authorities, and community organizations to give greater consideration to public involvement and participation in such projects.
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Morrissey, James, and Anna Taylor. "Fire Risk in Informal Settlements: A South African Case Study." Open House International 31, no. 1 (March 1, 2006): 98–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-01-2006-b0012.
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With the increased concentration of populations in urban areas and the consequent occupation of marginal land, largely by the poor, the need for effective means of understanding and managing urban risk is immense. This paper explores the existence and variability of fire risk in the informal settlement of “Imizamo Yethu”, an informal settlement situated in Cape Town, South Africa. The case study mainly analyses the factors influencing the conditions of risk. It highlights the need for a shift away from the hegemonic dialogue around so-called natural disasters and goes further to challenge the view of risk as an interaction between external, natural hazards and internally generated vulnerability. The paper explores how different factors affecting fire risk operate at different scales and the resulting importance of recognising and understanding intra-community and even intra-household variability of risk. In so doing, it becomes evident that for risk reduction strategies to be effective, focus cannot simply be placed on structural interventions, but must encompass elements of social development which are sensitive to current livelihood strategies.
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Yang, Jinke. "Safety Urban Planning and Design Based on Disaster Prevention, Crime Prevention and Psychological Safety." Open House International 44, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 84–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-03-2019-b0022.
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In order to ensure the public safety of residential areas, starting with the urban public safety of Xi'an, the construction environment of defense safety, fire safety and traffic safety, and the public safety environment of residential areas are investigated. According to the characteristics of housing in Xi'an planned economy era and market economy era, the existing situation is analyzed from the aspects of overall planning layout, road traffic space, building monomer, public activity space, greening space, and lighting facilities. Based on the analysis results, the principles of planning and design of public safety space environment in Xi'an residential areas are put forward. The planning and design methods of residential space environment are discussed and studied in detail from the aspects of residential defense safety, fire safety, and traffic safety, so as to provide reference for the planning and design of urban residential safety and to create a safe, healthy and harmonious living environment for residents.
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Lavrov, Leonid, and Fedor Perov. "THE PROBLEMS OF HIGH-RISE CONSTRUCTION IN ST. PETERSBURG." Journal of Architecture and Urbanism 40, no. 3 (September 25, 2016): 191–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/20297955.2016.1210053.
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St. Petersburg’s strict limit on building height existed until the 1960s. A small loosening of restrictions occurred only at the end of the 19th century, which formed the “horizontal” silhouette of the city with a few spire accents, domes and factory chimneys. In the USSR during the 1960s, a multi-storey building system began to develop. As this inclusive unification spread throughout Leningrad, 9-storey, 12-storey, 16-storey residential buildings became widespread. The population’s attitude to them was quite critical. When Russia became a market economy country, St. Petersburg began to actively feel the influence of globalization in the architectural and construction industries. A consequence of the development of new technologies has become the mass construction of residential buildings that are 22–25 floors in height (including buildings closely located to the historical center). Fire safety issues were discovered, and problems concerning soil conditions were uncovered. The high buildings’ influence on the protected center landscapes were very negatively received by citizens. In spite of the approved building regulations, there are many problematic situations; for example, the project of a 400-meter skyscraper next to the monument of Smolniy Cathedral provoked many debates in the city.
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Giusti, F. "ALESSANDRO ANTONELLI AND THE BAROQUE PRE-EXISTENCE: THE PROJECT FOR THE NATIONAL PARLIAMENT IN TURIN." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-5/W1 (May 17, 2017): 679–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-5-w1-679-2017.
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The contribution is focused on Alessandro Antonelli’s project for the seat of the new italian parliament in Turin. The project, unrealized, began back in 1860, when the annexation to the Piedmont of Tuscany and the Emilia asked for the building in the capital of a decent seat for the National Parliament. It had to be situated on the area of the ex Carignano garden, behind the homonym building and the “antonellian” Collegio delle Provincie, in the heart of the city, that comes to be as representative place of the absolutist and dynastic power, through the phases of XVIIIth century of amplification and architectural-urbanism new configuration. <br><br> To deepen therefore the knowledge of Antonelli’s project and to understand better the reasons that have brought to the choice to locate in Palazzo Carignano the Italian Parliament, is has been chosen to deepen the relationships between the building and the city, through a punctual iconografic and archivistic documentation that it has allowed to read the development of the building among XVIIth and XIXth century, also in relationship to the urban transformation, putting to comparison the various projects of the contest with the Baroque existence. Through the restitution of virtual images it has been possible to optimize the hypothesis, putting not only to fire the philosophy of the project, but above all Antonelli’s way to measure himself with such an incisive existence in the city as the “guariniano” Palazzo Carignano and to bring back the linguistic choice to the amplest circle of the works that the architect realized in the city of Turin.
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FAIRE, LUCY, and DENISE MCHUGH. "Twelve shades of grey: encountering urban colour in the street in British provincial towns, c. 1945–1970." Urban History 46, no. 2 (August 7, 2018): 288–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s096392681800038x.
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ABSTRACTThis article examines the neglected sensory experience of visual physical colour in the city/town centre or what is now referred to as the Central Business District. It focuses on the post-war period when reconstruction, town planning, new architecture, novel materials and technologies, and investment were all transforming British city centres. The research uses film, photographs, planning documents, oral history and social media reminiscences to research the users’ experience of colour in the city centre streets. It argues that, although new materials in construction opened up the possibilities of bright, ‘non-natural’ colours in the urban built environment, the visual experience of colour was found mainly in the ephemera of everyday life. Furthermore, it argues that colour was an important component in constructing people's sense of place and belonging in the city.
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Klein, Sascha. "“A Sealed Rectilinear Planet”: The Skyscraper as Vertical Heterot opia in J. G. Ballard’s High-Rise and Ben Wheatley’s Screen Adaptation." Space and Culture 23, no. 4 (January 9, 2019): 409–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331218822950.
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This article addresses the role of vertical detachment in J. G. Ballard’s novel High-Rise (1975/2006) and its recent screen adaptation by Ben Wheatley (2015) through the lens of Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia (1967/1984). In particular, it elucidates the specific pressures and possibilities of high-rise living by drawing on Foucault’s distinction between heterotopias of compensation and illusion as well as by assessing their roles in the residents’ gradual slide into tribal anarchy, as charted by the novel and the film. Throughout, my findings are embedded in the context of modern architecture and urban planning, most notably high-rise housing, in postwar Britain and its reflection in other influential cultural productions of the time. Finally, the idea of heterotopia is championed as central to Ballard’s continual engagement with a ‘dark logic’ inherent in modern architecture and technology. The article thus contributes to ongoing debates on verticality and height as factors in past and current urbanistic schemes and their social and psychological impact as reflected in professional discourses as well as in literary-artistic engagements (see “vertical turn” in Graham & Hewitt, 2013).
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García Pérez, Francisco Antonio. "CUANDO LA LÍNEA DE TIERRA ES UNA LÍNEA DE AGUA. VENECIA." Proyecto, Progreso, Arquitectura 23 (November 19, 2020): 142–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/ppa.2020.i23.09.
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Desde los orígenes la arquitectura está ligada al plano de tierra firme, estático, en el que se funda y sobre el que se soporta. Venecia, sin embargo, ha desarrollado elementos arquitectónicos y espacios habitables endémicos, distintivos, que se originan como respuesta a la continua variación topológica entre el plano de tierra y el plano de agua que sostiene su actividad urbana. Se acomete la descripción de los proyectos contemporáneos que con más solvencia han sabido integrar como parte de su estructura espacial la variabilidad de la cota cero que impone la oscilación de los niveles acuáticos a los que cotidianamente está sometida la ciudad.
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CERESA, Marco. "SHANGHAIED INTO THE FUTURE: THE ASIANIZATION OF THE FUTURE METROPOLIS IN POST-BLADE RUNNER CINEMA." JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 41, no. 2 (June 8, 2017): 129–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/20297955.2017.1327951.
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The cliched 1930–1950 Western cinematic images of Shanghai as a fascinating den of iniquity, and, in contrast, as a beacon of modernity, were merged in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. As a result, a new standard emerged in science fiction films for the representation of future urban conglomerates: the Asianized metropolis. The standard set by this film, of a dark dystopian city, populated by creatures of all races and genetic codes, will be adopted in most of the representations of future cities in non-Asian cinema. This article traces the representation of Shanghai in Western cinema from its earliest days (1932– Shanghai Express) through Blade Runner (1982) to the present (2013– Her). Shanghai, already in the early 1930s, sported extremely daring examples of modern architecture and, at the same time, in non-Asian cinema, was represented as a city of sin and depravity. This dualistic representation became the standard image of the future Asianized city, where its debauchery was often complemented by modernity; therefore, it is all the more seedy. Moreover, it is Asianized, the “Yellow Peril” incarnated in a new, much more subtle, much more dangerous way. As such, it is deserving of destruction, like Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Wamsler, Christine. "Editorial: Managing Urban Disasters." Open House International 31, no. 1 (March 1, 2006): 4–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-01-2006-b0001.
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Imagine, for a moment, human settlements that are organised to overcome and withstand earthquakes or hurricanes, infrastructures that reinforce themselves and seal cracks of their own accord, or buildings that elevate themselves during flooding. Imagine settlements that provide information systems that warn when a tsunami is approaching, or when houses are overburdened and may be liable to imminent collapse due to landslides, fire or other hazards. Such human settlements would secure the livelihood of all their inhabitants, empowering them to cope and deal with natural threats. As with a living organism, these settlements would adjust their social, political and economic systems in such a rapid way that they can account for damage, effect repairs, learn from experience, and retire - urbanely - once they can no longer fulfil their protective and defensible function.
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Aydın, Mahmut Ferit, and Onder Erkarslan. "Analysis of Design-Driven Innovation Practices in Turkish and Swedish Furniture Firms: An Exploratory Approach." International Journal of Design Management and Professional Practice 13, no. 1 (2019): 29–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2325-162x/cgp/v13i01/29-56.
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Wajdi Akashah, Farid, Timothy Kurannen Baaki, Muhammad Firdaus Anuar, Nur Farhana Azmi, and Zahiriah Yahya. "Factors Affecting Adoption of Emergency Evacuation Strategies in High-Rise Office Buildings." Journal of Design and Built Environment 20, no. 3 (December 31, 2020): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/jdbe.vol20no3.1.
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This study examined the evacuation strategies employed in high-rise buildings as well as determined factors influencing decision making in employing evacuation strategies in four selected high-rise buildings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Through a case study evaluation involving interviews with facility/building managers, walk through observations of the case studies and analyses of evacuation exercise reports, the study found that total evacuation was the most practiced evacuation strategy with occasional phased evacuation at one of the case studies. The study identified reliable emergency response, building characteristics/fire safety features, and evacuation exercise as the most important factors influencing decision making in employing evacuation strategies. Occupant characteristics was found to be the least important factor. The argument is that, efficient emergency response, passive and active fire safety systems, and evacuation exercise routines mean that challenges posed by the characteristics of occupants could be overcome. This paper gives new insights on factors influencing decision making in employing suitable evacuation strategies. This would benefit stakeholders e.g. building owners, facility managers, health and safety managers when drafting business continuity plans.
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Eguchi, Toru, Robert Schmidt, Andrew Dainty, Simon Austin, and Alistair Gibb. "The Cultivation of Adaptability in Japan." Open House International 36, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 73–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-01-2011-b0009.
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This paper explores the adaptability of buildings in Japan from the perspective of three distinct practice typologies: large general contractors, large architectural design firms, and small design ateliers. The paper illustrates the cultivation of adaptability in Japan revealing a maturing of concepts into current innovations, trends, priorities, and obstacles in relation to adaptability in design. The paper contextualizes the situation by reviewing the evolution of residential development in support of building adaptability, and the ways in which these policies and concepts have shaped practice and transcended residential design. This evolution is then explored through non-residential case studies undertaken by the three practice types, and supported through a review of critical themes emerging from the interviews. The importance of particular physical characteristics are examined including storey height, location of services, planning modules and structural spacing/spans. The interviews expose the critical relationship between adaptability and different social variables - the state of the market, the role of planning regulations and other legal frameworks; as well as, the misconceptions and variations in the perceptions on the role and meaning adaptability has in practice. The paper is concluded by revealing the lessons learnt, including the unfolding of dependencies outside the ‘black box’ of adaptability (e.g. practice culture, material and, stakeholder mindsets) and the requirement of effective communication of concepts to allow an informed conversation between professionals and with clients and users. Like many other philosophical design concepts in complex processes, adaptability benefits from a mutual understanding, good relationships, communication, integration, and shared goals amongst team members.
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Carbň, Valverde Santiago. "Finance and Regional Development: A Survey for Hazardous Times." SCIENZE REGIONALI, no. 2 (July 2009): 5–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/scre2009-002001.
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- This article surveys the contributions to the literature on the relationship between finance and growth and pays especial attention to the regional perspective. The survey reveals that although the main cross-country studies confirm the existence of a causal link between finance and growth, this regional perspective offers more accurate and richer insights into these relationships, because institutional factors are better controlled at this level, and the market definition (regions vs. countries) seems more relevant in illustrating the interaction among households, firms and financial intermediaries. Among the main determinants of these finance/growth connections, the institutional and legal environment and the state of economic development have been shown to be of key importance. The article also considers the lessons to be drawn from that financial crisis and its implications for the relation ship between the financial architecture (at any territorial level) and economic growth.Keywords: Finance, growth, regions, crisis.Parole chiave: Finanza, sviluppo, regioni, crisi.JEL Classification: R11, G21