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Process Innovation, Heath May
Process Innovation, Heath May
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If the late twentieth-century architectural canon was defined by its portrayal as a solo act, the early twenty-first is on a trajectory to usurp this representation. The processes by which architectural works are created are becoming increasingly innovative and diverse, reaching beyond the boundaries of the profession, eschewing the traditional client-practitioner-consultant team structure to include interdisciplinary researchers and academic specialists.
Table Of Contents And Prologue, Becka Liu, Derek Smith
Table Of Contents And Prologue, Becka Liu, Derek Smith
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Editorial board, table of contents, and a prologue from the editors
An Interview With Jeanne Gang, Corbin Keech, Jeanne Gang
An Interview With Jeanne Gang, Corbin Keech, Jeanne Gang
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Corbin Keech is an architect at Studio Gang and an alumnus of Kansas State University. Here, he questions the concept of innovation in architecture through the lens of the studio’s work, in conversation with founding principal Jeanne Gang.
Realizing Architecture’S Disruptive Potential, Shajay Bhooshan
Realizing Architecture’S Disruptive Potential, Shajay Bhooshan
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Digital technologies—computers and computer-controlled machines have pervaded all aspects of life, delivering sustained and accelerated rates of societal and economic evo - lution. Yet, in architecture, such an embrace of digital technologies and attendant intellectual disposition is not widely accepted. Whilst increasing numbers of progressive firms and research institutions are forging rapidly forward in such a technological upgrade, the larger populace of architects and the architecture produced thereof is decidedly averse to it.
Nimbus Series, Berndnaut Smilde
Nimbus Series, Berndnaut Smilde
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The Nimbus works present a transitory moment of presence in a specific location. They can be interpreted as a sign of loss or becoming, or simply as a fragment from a classical painting. People have always had a strong, metaphysical connection to clouds and through time have projected many ideas on them.
Empowering Design Through Flexible Personal Space, Alex Knezo
Empowering Design Through Flexible Personal Space, Alex Knezo
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An architecture focused on the specific interaction between users and their spaces, while employing a cohesive system of design paired with innovative technology, can personalize the design of architectural spaces. The customizable nature of systems allows the future of architecture to be linked to well-designed spaces that are tailored to the needs, wants, and attainability of almost anyone in the world. Current forces driving architectural and spatial design often fail to bring new and exciting design at a personal level to the majority of users. These forces focus on a large, detached element to satisfy the masses instead of focusing …
Contributors, Becka Liu, Derek Smith
Contributors, Becka Liu, Derek Smith
Oz
Biographical information on contributors to volume 38, and a list of benefactors and donors
Museum Of Contemporary Art And Planning Exhibition. Shenzhen, China (2007-2016), Wolf D. Prix
Museum Of Contemporary Art And Planning Exhibition. Shenzhen, China (2007-2016), Wolf D. Prix
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The Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition (MOCAPE) is part of the master plan for the Futian Cultural District, the new urban center of Shenzhen. The project combines two independent yet structurally unified institutions: The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and the Planning Exhibition(PE) as a cultural meeting point and a venue for architectural exhibitions. The lobby, multifunctional exhibition halls, auditorium, conference rooms and service areas will be used jointly.
Approaching Innovation, Stephen Kieran, James Timberlake
Approaching Innovation, Stephen Kieran, James Timberlake
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Are we living in an Age of Innovation? The news of the day would have us believe so. As an experiment, we tracked the instances we encountered of the word “innovation” being used during the course of an ordinary weekday morning: an advertisement for a private school promises not just an innovative curriculum, but the teaching of innovation itself as a subject. A radio journalist interviews the new Vice Chair of Business Innovations at General Electric about the company’s global innovation barometer.
The Future Is Now? Parametric Design And Technology In Design Process, Massimiliano Fuksas
The Future Is Now? Parametric Design And Technology In Design Process, Massimiliano Fuksas
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I did not want to be an architect, I wanted to be a painter. I’ve never seen myself as an architect in the strict sense of the word. The thought process beyond my work is more similar to that of a visual artist. For example, I’ve always said that when architecture is successful, it turns into sculpture.
Making Camp, Lola Sheppard
Making Camp, Lola Sheppard
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A foundational myth of North America is our collective relationship to our expansive, often rugged, and remote national landscapes. From Thoreau’s cabin in the woods, to nineteenth century cottages offering urbanites respite from the city in the summer seasons, the notion of retreat and the restorative role of immersive landscape experiences has formed part of the North American conscience.
Table Of Contents And Prologue, Jay Chenault, Lauren Harness
Table Of Contents And Prologue, Jay Chenault, Lauren Harness
Oz
Editorial board, table of contents, and a prologue from the editors
The Present Situation, David Buege, Marlon Blackwell
The Present Situation, David Buege, Marlon Blackwell
Oz
The best-known building in northwest Arkansas and the most highly and widely acclaimed is a modest chapel in the pleasant if somewhat prosaic setting of a scruffy, even more modest Ozark forest near Eureka Springs.
Contributors, Jay Chenault, Lauren Harness
Contributors, Jay Chenault, Lauren Harness
Oz
Biographical information on contributors to volume 37, and a list of benefactors and donors
Then And Now: The Context Of Continuity, Joseph Biondo, Dan Silberman
Then And Now: The Context Of Continuity, Joseph Biondo, Dan Silberman
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An admiration of a mundane material reality can develop from the recognition that things just are as they are. There is nothing metaphysical beyond the bricks and stones and, as Peter Zumthor suggests, we can admire a tree for its just being there.
Drawing In Space, Anne Lindberg
Drawing In Space, Anne Lindberg
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Recently, I began studying the piano again after some 35–40 years. I have found that I am drawn to minor tones, modal form, and dissonant chords—sounds that cause you to pause and wonder where it originates culturally.
Local Code: Real Estates, Nicholas De Monchaux
Local Code: Real Estates, Nicholas De Monchaux
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Popular images of entropy—a breaking glass, the lowering heap of compost, even our own descent into dust, provide a familiar, but subtly inaccurate thermodynamic picture. Viewed through an informational as well as physical lens, entropy is not a consistent movement towards flatness and uniformity, but something else as well.
Context As Continuum, Adam Yarinsky
Context As Continuum, Adam Yarinsky
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Design, including architecture, is situated in a complex web of relationships that encompasses the full physical and social context for life on the planet. Acknowledging context as an ecology, it is also important to recognize that the boundaries between places, activities, and experiences have become blurred by the expanding virtual world and the shrinking planet.
Within And Among, Brad Cloepfil
Within And Among, Brad Cloepfil
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The existing forces embodied by a site are what we commonly refer to as context. An awareness of context implies a relative positioning of the self. I am here, among these buildings, or within this field, at this place in the history of ideas and technology. In acknowledging surroundings as specific, as forged or affected by particular physical or cultural forces, experiences or qualities, you have begun a conversation of context.
Sugar Hill Project: Harlem, New York, David Adjaye
Sugar Hill Project: Harlem, New York, David Adjaye
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Sugar Hill is a new mixed-use development in Harlem’s historic Sugar Hill district that features affordable housing, a children’s museum, preschool, non-profit offices, and underground parking. Initiated by non-profit developer of supportive housing, Broadway Housing Communities (BHC), and generated by a tight budget as well as the exacting parameters of the site, the concept challenges the traditional typology of low cost housing and reflects Adjaye Associates’ commitment to a wider urban and cultural responsibility.
The Deep Section: Karst Urbanism In Town Branch Commons, Kate Orff, Geni Wirth, Anne Weber
The Deep Section: Karst Urbanism In Town Branch Commons, Kate Orff, Geni Wirth, Anne Weber
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Nothing is without context. Every lawn, parking lot, skyscraper, or national park has been shaped by a myriad of factors natural and humanmade. As a research-driven practice, our work at SCAPE is empowered by the complex layers of systems that act upon a site: rates of urban development, economic shifts, ecological flows of plants and animals, hydrological systems, and circulation systems, to name just a few.
Honoring Place, Detail, And Intent: A Case Study, David Ericsson
Honoring Place, Detail, And Intent: A Case Study, David Ericsson
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York Mountain Winery, established in 1882, is the oldest winery in the California Central Coast region. Epoch Wines acquired the property in 2010—with ambitions to serve as patrons of the property and its iconic wine history, while adding their own layer to its ongoing use as a functioning winery.
Table Of Contents And Prologue, Wesley Gross, Elias Logan
Table Of Contents And Prologue, Wesley Gross, Elias Logan
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Editorial Board, table of contents, and a prologue from the editors
Current Dichotomies: Seven Reminders To Contemporary Architects, Marcelo Spina
Current Dichotomies: Seven Reminders To Contemporary Architects, Marcelo Spina
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Ever since Robert Venturi’s influential book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, the word complexity has been in the horizon of architecture as a form of imaginative progress and cultural relevance. In the mid 80s and under the influence of the post-structuralist work of Jacques Derrida, the deconstructive project in architecture aimed to create visual complexity through formal collision, fragmentation, and dislocation of existing canons.
Hypothesizing A New Case Study House Program: A Systems Approach, Genevieve Baudoin
Hypothesizing A New Case Study House Program: A Systems Approach, Genevieve Baudoin
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In 1945, Arts and Architecture announced that they would be publishing the designs of eight case study houses that envisioned the “house—post war.” These infamous Case Study Houses grew from an initial eight to thirty-six designs over twenty-two years—some built, some imagined.
Complexity In Architecture And Design, Nikos Salingaros
Complexity In Architecture And Design, Nikos Salingaros
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Architecture is successful by connecting visually, emotinally, and viscerally with the oberserver/user through its complexity. For this reason, complexity is a generative tool.
Reachiing For The Heavens, Edward Thompson
Reachiing For The Heavens, Edward Thompson
Oz
The Burj Khalifa, located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, was crowned by the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) as the tallest structure built by man. So striking was the achievement that the CTBUH, in their yearly awards ceremony, created a special category titled "Global Icon" to do justice for the achievement.
Embracing Complexity: Ecological Designs For Living Landscapes, Marta Brocki, Nina-Marie Lister
Embracing Complexity: Ecological Designs For Living Landscapes, Marta Brocki, Nina-Marie Lister
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We are in the age of New Ecology. A paradigm shift in ecological thinking has unfolded over the last 25 years, and with it, a slow recognition of the inherent and fundamental complexity that shapes and defines our living world.
Topological Phenomenology Of Space: Architecture As Roots Of Infinity, Peter Magyar
Topological Phenomenology Of Space: Architecture As Roots Of Infinity, Peter Magyar
Oz
Ideas mature, but interestingly enough, they never get old! It is also notable how are they born. In my case, two elements brought them forward: one question and an admirably unique surrounding.
Conflict Of Interpretations, Carlos Mar
Conflict Of Interpretations, Carlos Mar
Oz
Language is intellect and matter; one can act upon it. As in the assessment of historical evidence, it is possible to distance language from the regulations and the corresponding eagerness of orthodoxy.