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Green School, Designing For Comfort And Beyond…, Andrea S. Wheeler, Naghmeh Pak, Evan Jeanblanc
Green School, Designing For Comfort And Beyond…, Andrea S. Wheeler, Naghmeh Pak, Evan Jeanblanc
Andrea S. Wheeler
Comfort is defined through human senses; sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. Each sense can lead to a greater or lesser degree of comfort. However, children experience comfort differently than adults. They experience spaces differently and have different knowledge about the performance of a building than adult users; they can also have a perspective on design quality unlike that of the architect. School is a designed environment that a child lives in for over 6 hours a day; it is it is thus argued simply a matter of a child’s right to be consulted about his or her day-to-day environment. …
Rethinking The Dionysian Legacy In Medieval Architecture: East And West, Jelena Bogdanović
Rethinking The Dionysian Legacy In Medieval Architecture: East And West, Jelena Bogdanović
Jelena Bogdanović
Indeed, everyone who attempted to read the still controversial Corpus Areopagiticum either in the original Greek or in any translation, even if supplemented by abundant annotations, would have to acknowledge numerous interpretative questions these texts raise. Namely, the Corpus blends seemingly irreconcilable pagan and Christian thoughts. On the one hand, the Corpus stems from philosophical Neoplatonic writings attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite—an Athenian convert under Paul, the “first intellectual” Apostle who himself was concerned mostly with debatable questions about what it means to be Christian (Acts 17:16 34). other hand, the corpus includes numerous sixth-century and later theological Christian collations …
The Rhetoric Of Architecture And Memory Of The Holy Sepulchre In Byzantium, Jelena Bogdanović
The Rhetoric Of Architecture And Memory Of The Holy Sepulchre In Byzantium, Jelena Bogdanović
Jelena Bogdanović
The actual physical appearance of the Anastasis‐Golgotha complex in Jerusalem during Byzantine times is not documented archaeologically. The extent and significance of the Byzantine interventions between the seventh and eleventh centuries, after the destructions by the Persians, from earthquakes, and devastating fire set by the Caliph al‐Hākim in 1009, remain understudied. Presumably, after each destruction the first structure restored for veneration was the major locus sanctus, the Holy Sepulchre. Because it is doubtful that the Byzantines kept records on the architectural design of the Holy Sepulchre, their reconstructions were not based on a definite pictorial scheme, but rather on the …
Book Review—Alexei Lidov, Hierotopy: Spatial Icons And Images-Paradigms In Byzantine Culture., Jelena Bogdanović
Book Review—Alexei Lidov, Hierotopy: Spatial Icons And Images-Paradigms In Byzantine Culture., Jelena Bogdanović
Jelena Bogdanović
After founding the Research Centre for Eastern Christian Culture in Moscow in 1991, the historian and theoretician of art Alexei Lidov has embarked vigorously into pioneering multidisciplinary and phenomenological research of relics and miraculous icons that are, arguably, the most fascinating and controversial objects within Christianity.
The Performativity Of Shrines In A Byzantine Church: The Shrines Of St. Demetrios / Перформативность Усыпальниц В Византийской Церкви: Святилища И Реликварии Св. Димитрия, Jelena Bogdanović
The Performativity Of Shrines In A Byzantine Church: The Shrines Of St. Demetrios / Перформативность Усыпальниц В Византийской Церкви: Святилища И Реликварии Св. Димитрия, Jelena Bogdanović
Jelena Bogdanović
Within the Byzantine ecclesiastical tradition, shrines — architectural structures which both enclosed and revealed saints’ remains — defined human bodies within the church space in a remarkable way. Starting in the fourth century, it became customary to exhume and move entire bodies, to permit their fragmentation, and to expose them in architectural settings other than the altar table in the sanctuary space. This practice echoed popular and private piety, which included reporting of miracles of saintly relics that recalled Gospels’ miracles and the hope for corporeal salvation. -- В византийской церковной традиции усыпальницы представляли собой архитектурные конструкции, которые одновременно и …
Art And Architecture: Russia, Jelena Bogdanović
Art And Architecture: Russia, Jelena Bogdanović
Jelena Bogdanović
Receiving Christianity only in 988/9, the East Slavic Rus' expressly appropriated art and architecture based on Byzantine models and elaborated their own styles. *Kiev, *Novgorod, and *Vladimir (Suzdalia) define the major foci of Rus' accomplishments in the pre-Mongolian period, before the 1230s. Only after the battle at *Kulikovo (1380) did monumental arts revive. And only when Prince Ivan the Great (r. 1462–1505) commissioned architects Aristotele Fioravanti and Alevisio Novi to work in the *Kremlin did the Italian Renaissance significantly influence Russian architecture.
Art And Architecture: Serbian, Jelena Bogdanović
Art And Architecture: Serbian, Jelena Bogdanović
Jelena Bogdanović
From the 9th-century conversion to Christianity until the 11th century, the ecclesiastical art and architecture of the Serbs, both Orthodox and Roman Catholic, shared the concurrent accomplishments of the Croats, Latins, and Greeks. All of these groups cohabited the territories between the rivers Bojana and Cetina in Duklja (Zeta, Montenegro), Zahumlje (Herzegovina), and their littoral. Wall *paintings, donor *portraits, inscriptions in Greek and Latin, and architectural *sculpture on *windows, portals, capitals, *chancel screens, *ciboria, and baptismal fonts, reveal influences of pre-Romanesque, Romanesque, and Byzantine models. Instructive examples come from the 9th-century *rotunda of St. Triphon at Kotor (809?), replaced by …
Manufacturing A Socialist Modernity: The Architecture Of Industrialized Housing In Czechoslovakia, 1945–56, Kimberly E. Zarecor
Manufacturing A Socialist Modernity: The Architecture Of Industrialized Housing In Czechoslovakia, 1945–56, Kimberly E. Zarecor
Kimberly E. Zarecor
Although it is difficult to see the crumbling, gray facades of the former Eastern Bloc as great testaments to the potentials of modern architecture, these buildings did reflect a dedication to technological innovation, social equality, and formal clarity unrivaled in the twentieth century. Built in an era that the West has commonly portrayed as one of rupture, isolation, and deprivation, socialist architecture in Eastern Europe was in fact connected to contemporary experiments in the West and to the specific legacies of the region's interwar years. Focusing on the intersection of architects, housing design, and the state apparatus between 1945 and …
Forgotten Serbian Thinkers—Current Relevance: Preface To The Special Issue, Jelena Bogdanović
Forgotten Serbian Thinkers—Current Relevance: Preface To The Special Issue, Jelena Bogdanović
Jelena Bogdanović
The 2009 national convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies featured a panel on Forgotten Serbian Thinkers. Scholars who are working in the United States and abroad presented their research on the contributions of individuals representing various disciplines. The articles in this special issue of the Serbian Studies expand on these topics and bring forward contributions about forgotten Serbian intellectuals who have marked their respective professions in architecture, astronomy, literature, and philosophy, but who have been “forgotten” either in Serbia or outside Serbia. Paradoxically, most of these thinkers were forgotten exactly because they were living and …
On The Architecture Of The Konaks In Serbia (1804–1830s), Jelena Bogdanović
On The Architecture Of The Konaks In Serbia (1804–1830s), Jelena Bogdanović
Jelena Bogdanović
The First National Uprising of the Serbs against the Ottoman Turks in the Belgrade paşalik (Smederevo Sandjak, also known as the Morava administrative division of the Ottoman Empire) in 1804 was the major event in the political history of the Balkans. Led by Đorđe Petrović—Karađorđe (Black George) (1762–1817), the Uprising (1804–13) was the first autonomous attempt of the subjugated to set themselves free from Ottoman rule. Initially local in scope and aims, the Uprising ultimately enabled the development of modern Serbia as well as the national development of other countries in the Balkans. Judging by the scope and quality of …
Hybrid Practice: The Cross-Cultivation Of Art And Architecture, Peter P. Goché
Hybrid Practice: The Cross-Cultivation Of Art And Architecture, Peter P. Goché
Peter P. Goché
The RDG Dahlquist Art Studio finds renewed validity in an interdisciplinary effort.
Ethno Merit: Containing The Ritualistic Affairs Of A People, Peter P. Goché
Ethno Merit: Containing The Ritualistic Affairs Of A People, Peter P. Goché
Peter P. Goché
St. Paul Lutheran Church is the faith center for a rapidly expanding congregation made up of approximately 150 families. It is an evangelical structure for worship and prayer. Its mission: Every member a missionary.
Old Capitol: The Succession Of Commitment To Our Cultural Space, Peter P. Goché
Old Capitol: The Succession Of Commitment To Our Cultural Space, Peter P. Goché
Peter P. Goché
Our role as contemporaries in the lineage of American architecture is to preserve the historic fabric that links our environment to its people. The challenge of doing so is to at once maintain the authenticity of our vintage building stock while thoroughly embracing modern at- construction techniques. I believe it is an architect's greatest responsibility to resolve this inherent duality between human aspiration and lasting design integrity. Once complete, what remains and is contained are the indelible traces of repeated human celebration. The Old Capitol in Iowa City, then, is exemplary of such repetition. Its multiple preservation campaigns including the …
Jelisaveta Načić: The First Serbian Female Architect, Jelena Bogdanović
Jelisaveta Načić: The First Serbian Female Architect, Jelena Bogdanović
Jelena Bogdanović
In the entire history of architecture, few female architects are recognized by name. Jelisaveta Načić (1878–1955), the first woman architect in Serbia, is among these select few. Upon acquiring her degree in architecture from the Great School (Visoka Škola) in Belgrade in 1900, Načić worked on several municipal buildings in Belgrade and elsewhere, some of which have remained architectural landmarks in Serbia to the present day. Načić worked on the twentieth-century urban re-design for the so-called “Big Kalemegdan” in Belgrade and designed King Peter I Elementary School in Belgrade (1905–18). Jelisaveta Načić was also engaged in the design and execution …
Architect Nikola Dobrović—A Member Of The Heroic Generation, Jelena Bogdanović
Architect Nikola Dobrović—A Member Of The Heroic Generation, Jelena Bogdanović
Jelena Bogdanović
The modern movement in the 1920s and 1930s, called the "heroic period" of architecture, was considered a catalyst of the New World. The architectural manifest proclaimed in Vers une architecture by Le Corbusier (1923) asserted the techno-scientific industrial character of the age and announced social revolution as an experiment and epithet of modernism: a democracy where everything is relative, where the machine does the work, where science sets the course for society. Serbian architect Nikola Dobrovic (1897–1967) was educated in Prague and Budapest, and both cities were avant-garde centers at that time. As early as June 1930, in Hat Bouwbedrijf, …
Instituting Exclusiveness: Modern Lebanese Architects And Their Society, Marwan Ghandour
Instituting Exclusiveness: Modern Lebanese Architects And Their Society, Marwan Ghandour
Marwan Ghandour
No abstract provided.
The Proclamation Of The New Covenant: The Pre-Iconoclastic Altar Ciboria In Rome And Constantinople, Jelena Bogdanović
The Proclamation Of The New Covenant: The Pre-Iconoclastic Altar Ciboria In Rome And Constantinople, Jelena Bogdanović
Jelena Bogdanović
No abstract provided.
The Politics Of Traditional Contemporary Buildings, Marwan Ghandour
The Politics Of Traditional Contemporary Buildings, Marwan Ghandour
Marwan Ghandour
This paper surveys contemporary Buildings in Lebanon that incorporate traditional Elements, as a way to deconstruct possible meanings of this dominant practice in contemporary Lebanese Architecture. I will start by discussing what is meant by tradition in relationship to building activity in Lebanon and what issues do these buildings engage. Then I will move to discuss the production of the Traditional in architectural practice. I will conclude by looking at "traditional" Contemporary buildings as thlngs around which social relations are problematized.
Building Law: A Critical Reading Of The Lebanese Case, Marwan Ghandour
Building Law: A Critical Reading Of The Lebanese Case, Marwan Ghandour
Marwan Ghandour
No abstract provided.
Un Corps À Habiter: The Image Of The Body In The Œuvre Of Le Corbusier, Daniel J. Naegele
Un Corps À Habiter: The Image Of The Body In The Œuvre Of Le Corbusier, Daniel J. Naegele
Daniel J. Naegele
Of Le Corbusier's architecture-metaphors, the best known is surely that which likened a house to a machine, but he made many others. His early houses at La Chaux-de-Fonds alluded directly to the fir trees that grew beside them. His Armee du Salut building, particularly its upper storey as it meets the sky, assumes the profile of an ocean liner. In studies for Rio, Monte Video, Sao Paulo, and Algiers, his buildings are like bridges to be driven over; and in both visual and verbal writings, Le Corbusier variously likened his elephantine Unite d'Habitation at Marseilles to an ocean liner, a …
Object, Image, Aura: Le Corbusier And The Architecture Of Photography, Daniel J. Naegele
Object, Image, Aura: Le Corbusier And The Architecture Of Photography, Daniel J. Naegele
Daniel J. Naegele
Returning to his studio one evening at dusk, Wassily Kandinsky was enchanted by "an unexpected spectacle." He suddenly saw "an indescribably beautiful picture, pervaded by an inner glow," he wrote in his "Reminiscences" of 1913 . "At first, I stopped short and then quickly approached this mysterious picture, on which I could discern only forms and colors and whose content was incomprehensible. At once, I discovered the key to the puzzle: it was a picture I had painted, standing on its side against the wall." Kandinsky was deeply affected, and the next day attempted a re-creation of his impression of …
An Interview With Ezra Stoller, Daniel J. Naegele
An Interview With Ezra Stoller, Daniel J. Naegele
Daniel J. Naegele
Ezra Stoller's ‘first photograph that ever amounted to anything’ was of Alvar Aalto's Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Aalto was just forty-one years old at the time and soon he — like Gropius, Breuer, Mies, Mendelsohn and so many other German architects and artists — would escape the war in Europe by moving to America. Most of them stayed on, preaching their message in major universities, and finding in this ‘land of hyperreality’ fertile ground for the manifestation of their architectural beliefs. They and their followers —together with the immigrants Saarinen and Kahn and, most importandy, …
An Interview With Lucien Hervé, Daniel J. Naegele
An Interview With Lucien Hervé, Daniel J. Naegele
Daniel J. Naegele
The architect of the century, Le Corbusier built less than sixty buildings yet published more than fifty books. These books are both verbal and visual, relying heavily on an illustrative text composed largely of photographs. In the 1922 publicity brochure for his forthcoming Vers une architecture Le Corbusier boasted, "This book derives its eloquence from the new means; its magnificent illustrations hold next to the next a parallel discourse, and one of great power".
The Ready-Made: Duchamp's Thing, Daniel J. Naegele
The Ready-Made: Duchamp's Thing, Daniel J. Naegele
Daniel J. Naegele
Marcel Duchamp fully appreciated the twentieth century's proclivity for certainty and classification and this attitude became an essential component of his art. In this he was not unlike Freud or Einstein or, in his immediate artistic milieu of belle ipoque Paris, Stravinsky or Raymond Roussel. Of the playwright Roussel, Duchamp once noted with admiration that "starting with a sentence ... he made a word game with kinds of parentheses ... His word play had a hidden meaning ... It was an obscurity of another order. Roussel had economically undermined the totalizing tendency of word order, throwing all of its accepted …