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Contemporary Design in architecture refers to the current trends and practices that reflect modern aesthetics, technologies, and materials. It emphasizes innovation, sustainability, and functionality, often integrating environmental considerations and cultural contexts, while challenging traditional architectural forms and conventions.
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Contemporary Design in architecture refers to the current trends and practices that reflect modern aesthetics, technologies, and materials. It emphasizes innovation, sustainability, and functionality, often integrating environmental considerations and cultural contexts, while challenging traditional architectural forms and conventions.
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HISTORY OF THE NEW ARCHITECTURE OF COLONIAL MADRAS
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Balaji Gopalakrishnan
2026, Journal of Indian History and Culture
During the colonial period in India, a new architectural style was introduced. It was a mixture of various European styles that included the traditional Indian architecture styles. It evolved as an Indo – European architectural heritage...
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During the colonial period in India, a new architectural style was introduced.  It was a mixture of various European styles that included the traditional Indian architecture styles.  It evolved as an Indo – European architectural heritage in the late 18th to early 20th century CE and that amalgamation was popularly known as Indo-Saracenic architecture.  This is an attempt to trace the various architectural styles and movements that were to become the “new” architecture of Madras, under the colonial powers. Colonial buildings have varying styles, such as Palladian, colonial and Indo-Saracenic. The Madras terrace roofing, which was to become popular all over India also appeared at this time. The role of architects and native contractors is noteworthy.
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Evaluation of Gaziantep Old Government House in the Context of Critical Regionalism
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Mine Özovacı Kılıç
2026
Urban space and public building designs became a means through which the ruling power could demonstrate its ideology and power after the regime change with the proclamation of the Republic. Among these places, government houses, take the...
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Urban space and public building designs became a means through which the ruling power could demonstrate its
ideology and power after the regime change with the proclamation of the Republic. Among these places, government
houses, take the lead as the representation of the central authority in provincial and district center. It can be said that
there have been some changes in the architecture of these houses, which bridge the gap between the people and the
government along with certain thresholds and periods in the history of the Republic of Türkiye. Especially since the
beginning of the 20th century, while internationalization, universal culture and building creation, and regionalism
and later critical regionalism discourses and architectural practices in this context have been discussed in the world,
in Türkiye, while designing government houses that are concerned about representing the power of the government,
whether the suitability of the regions and culture where they will be built, from planning decisions to material
selections are taken into account or not is the main question of the study. In this context, in the study, the Gaziantep
Old Government House, which was designed and implemented by the Ministry of Public Works in Gaziantep in the
1950s and is now a registered building, was taken as an example and its architecture was evaluated from a critical
regionalism perspective. The harmony of the building with the "place", the concern to reflect the changing ideology,
and how active role of the region and local culture in the design are tried to be revealed in the text, based on Kenneth
Frampton's "Critical Regionalism" discourse. Architectural drawings of the government house, zoning plan of the
built area, photographs of the building, periodicals of that time and literature in the field of regionalism and critical
regionalism constitute the main material of the study. The text aims to contribute to the literature on reading the
design of government houses at the intersection of representation and critical regionalism.
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N. Navone (a cura di), BancaStato Swiss Architectural Award 2024, Silvana Editoriale-Mendrisio Academy Press, Cinisello Balsamo-Mendrisio 2025.
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Nicola Navone
2026
Il volume, in edizione bilingue italiana e inglese, raccoglie le opere dei 31 candidati alla nona edizione del premio, soffermandosi in particolare su quelle del vincitore, lo studio Al Borde di Quito (Ecuador).
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RACCONTAMI DEL VIVENTE
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Serena De Dominicis
2026
freddo che mi trasmetti Il caldo che mi divora Dove andremo quando tutto appassirà? Daniela Di Maro Legata alla Natura da un sentimento ancestrale e profondo, Daniela Di Maro è da sempre sensibile alle problematiche ambientali, attenta...
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freddo che mi trasmetti Il caldo che mi divora Dove andremo quando tutto appassirà? Daniela Di Maro Legata alla Natura da un sentimento ancestrale e profondo, Daniela Di Maro è da sempre sensibile alle problematiche ambientali, attenta all'integrità dell'ecosistema, alla bellezza ignorata dell'universo e al valore inestimabile di ciò che non vediamo o trascuriamo. In questa personale dal titolo Dentroterra, cinque scrigni per cinque regni, tre installazioni a parete e un disegno orchestrano un viaggio polisensoriale nel tessuto vivente del nostro pianeta, conducendo nel cuore della sua ricerca artistica. Nel 2018, sollecitata dal saggio di Elizabeth Kolbert "La sesta estinzione. Una storia innaturale", realizza Bury me alive!, raccolta di preziosi reperti naturali affidati a una scatola da seppellire nel caso si concretizzasse l'ipotesi di una nuova estinzione di massa. Un dono alla posterità, fatto di visioni evocative della vita sulla Terra ed elementi idealmente utili ad una rinascita del mondo
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Costruire attorno al vuoto. Le scene urbane di Alessandro Anselmi. ISSN 2612-3754
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Michele Beccu
2026, U + D. Urbanform and Design
A poco più di dieci anni dalla scomparsa, Valerio Palmieri pubblica il volume Costruire attorno al vuoto. Le scene urbane di Alessandro Anselmi, dove sistematizza le ricerche e i numerosi interventi svolti sull'architetto romano, cui lo...
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A poco più di dieci anni dalla scomparsa, Valerio Palmieri pubblica il volume Costruire attorno al vuoto. Le scene urbane di Alessandro Anselmi, dove sistematizza le ricerche e i numerosi interventi svolti sull'architetto romano, cui lo ha legato un lungo sodalizio umano e professionale. Il libro ricostruisce in modo sistematico l'opera del maestro romano e del GRAU, il gruppo di architetti e urbanisti dalla forte impronta teorica che lui contribuì a formare, fin dal 1962, all'interno della scuola di Roma.
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TCC H Delarue Decodificando o Diagrama versão digital
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Henrique C Delarue
2026
A meus pais, Ricardo e Simone, que investiram em minha formação, me apoiaram e confiaram nas minhas escolhas. A minha orientadora Verônica e co-orientador Sena, por terem embarcado em uma proposta de trabalho desafiadora, aberta e sem um...
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A meus pais, Ricardo e Simone, que investiram em minha formação, me apoiaram e confiaram nas minhas escolhas. A minha orientadora Verônica e co-orientador Sena, por terem embarcado em uma proposta de trabalho desafiadora, aberta e sem um objetivo pré-determinado. Obrigado, também, por todos os ensinamentos e dedicação ao longo desses anos. Especialmente à Luana, que me acompanhou nesse processo e muitas vezes foi uma interlocutora incansável para trocas de ideias, e Ana Maria, que se fez disponível para contribuir desde o início até o final. Aos professores e professoras que me acompanharam nesse processo e que sempre me instigaram. À Fernanda, Anna Cecília, Rhaísa, Mariana e Letícia pelo companheirismo, suporte e por serem preciosas amizades ao longo dessa graduação. Ao Eduardo, com quem desenvolvi uma ideia embrionária e que me levou a este trabalho. À Stephanie, Camila, Rafael e todas as outras pessoas que me ajudaram e influenciaram nesse processo com conversas, trocas de ideias e auxílios pontuais. Não menos importante, à Eliete, que me acolheu tantas vezes quando eu precisava mudar de ambiente de trabalho. ÍNDICE INTRODUÇÃO REPRESENTAÇÃO A conformação do desenho como representação O papel da representação na produção de arquiteturas A ideia representada no processo de projeto Transições entre plano imaginário e material A limitação do desenho e diferentes maneiras de representar ideias Desenho como método na arquitetura A disseminação da concepção pelas projeções ortogonais A influência da geometria descritiva sobre a forma A fratura da formalidade do desenho O status do diagrama De gênero negligenciado a fenômeno Um ponto de inflexão na representação arquitetônica Especulações contemporâneas sobre o diagrama Uma compreensão preliminar ABSTRAÇÃO Da mimese à abstração O contexto do discurso sobre a abstração A mimese na arquitetura A transição da mimese à abstração A abstração formal Moderna Desdobramentos da abstração figurativa A abstração na maneira de pensar a arquitetura Novas concepções da abstração Abstração na representação O funcionamento da representação pela abstração Níveis de abstração na representação Abstração e affordance Explicando o mapa-gráfico Derivações do exercício da Casa Farnsworth CONCEITUAÇÃO Princípios básicos do diagrama em Peirce Signos e seus objetos O diagrama como ícone O diagrama como instrumento de concepção Princípios básicos do diagrama em Deleuze O conceito de diagrama aplicado à arquitetura Entre representação e abstração O diagrama e a ausência de significado A máquina abstrata na arquitetura Máquina abstrata, agenciamento e desterritorialização A máquina abstrata no Panóptico A máquina abstrata no processo conceptivo de Kahn POTENCIALIDADES A introdução do pensamento diagramático na arquitetura A abstração no pensamento diagramático Os diagramas funcionais na arquitetura A organização de funções no espaço A operatividade dos diagramas A distinção entre diagrama e desenho Diagrama como máquina topológica Definindo o diagrama como instrumento processual O diagrama no processo de projeto A ambiguidade do diagrama Multiplicando sentidos Aplicações do diagrama e uma prática diagramática Características abstratas operativas Conceitos relevantes em topologia para o diagrama Aplicando a máquina topológica Diagramas e tipologia Em busca de uma prática diagramática REFLEXÕES REFERÊNCIAS FONTES DAS ILUSTRAÇÕES indefinição. Esse cenário leva à questão e à resposta, parafraseando Santo Agostinho, o que é o diagrama? Se ninguém me pergunta, eu sei; porém, se quero explicá-lo a quem me pergunta, então não sei. O diagrama é comumente utilizado e incentivado no campo de ação do projeto, sendo muitas vezes visto como uma chave para explo- rações conceituais e intenções iniciais, ou, mais frequentemente, para que um entendimento do projeto, uma ideia ou grupo de dados seja comunicado de uma maneira mais fácil. Sua presença nas discussões de projeto, seja entre croquis inicias ou em pranchas de apresentação, se mostra desejável, mas sua reflexão, como instrumento de pensamento e produção, é geralmente deixada de lado em favor do seu produto. Embora tenha se tornado um tipo de representação amplamente utilizado (Somol 1999; Aureli 2013) 1 , o diagrama se deu como um fenômeno na arquitetura que parece ter sido absorvido sem uma visão crítica por muitas pessoas, especialmente ao que se diz respeito a sua aplicabilidade na prática conceptiva. Com isso, o diagrama como método projetual se faz pertinente como uma abertura para novas possibilidades, sendo nesta lacuna que este trabalho encontra seu campo de estudo. Por conseguinte, a pesquisa não inclui uma análise figurativa do diagrama, ou seja, não visa suas características simbólicas -seus elementos, estrutura e modos de correspondência significativa -, mas instrumentais. Robert Somol (1999, 7) identifica que, ao decorrer da segunda metade do século XX, a "técnica e procedimento fundamentais do conhecimento arquitetônico" sofreram com um movimento do desenho ao diagrama. Com tamanho enfoque, este se tornou "quase completamente a questão [ou matéria] da arquitetura," 2 uma ferramenta essencial dentro da "produção e discurso arquitetônico." No entanto, 1. Igualmente múltiplas podem ser as maneiras de analisar e categorizar este modo de representação. Para uma taxonomia preliminar de diagramas, ver Chaplin, Andrew, ed. 2014. The architecture of diagrams: A taxonomy of architectural diagrams. Acesso em 12 jun. 2019. ; Sperling e Rosado (2014); Montaner (2014); e Eisenman (2004). 2. A interpretação da palavra original que Somol usa, "matter," fica ambígua pelo seu significado em inglês, pois Somol parece querer dar destaque à importância do diagrama no discurso arquitetônico, sendo assim, a "questão" da arquitetura. Contudo, ao citar Somol, Vidler (2000, 5) coloca "the matter of architecture" em oposição à "representação," sugerindo um sentido de "matéria" constituinte da arquitetura.
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Strategic Spatial Design: Translating Chess into Architecture
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lavanya Hari Shankar
2026, International Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology, 13(4), ISSN: 2348-4098,
This research explores a unique cross-disciplinary design methodology that draws parallels between the strategic dynamics of chess and the generation of architectural form. By decoding the positional logic, movement patterns, and...
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This research explores a unique cross-disciplinary design methodology that draws parallels between the strategic dynamics of chess and the generation of architectural form. By decoding the positional logic, movement patterns, and hierarchy of chess pieces within selected game sequences—particularly from endgame and middle-game scenarios—this approach establishes a set of spatial transformation rules. These rules govern block creation, vertical hierarchy, landscape articulation, and connective paths. The result is an architecture that is not only responsive to logical progression and layered complexity but also narrative rich, evolving through movement, transformation, and spatial tension. This proposal aims to construct a new design language that bridges gameplay mechanics with formal architectural strategy
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ÇAĞIMIZDA CAMİ MİMARİSİNDE ARAYIŞLAR ULUSLARARASI SEMPOZYUMU
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Hüsne Hilal ŞAHİN
2026
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Tensions On Display at the Costa Rican Architecture Biennale Interplays
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José Daniel Picado-García
2026
In 2022, the Costa Rican Museum of Contemporary Arts and Design (MADC) inaugurated the exhibition "A Project of Trends: 30 Years of Architecture Biennales in Costa Rica." Using the MADC's retrospective as a starting point, this paper...
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In 2022, the Costa Rican Museum of Contemporary Arts and Design (MADC) inaugurated the exhibition "A Project of Trends: 30 Years of Architecture Biennales in Costa Rica." Using the MADC's retrospective as a starting point, this paper studies the dynamics of architectural exhibitions in Costa Rica, specifically exploring the context and tensions surrounding the establishment of the Costa Rican Architecture Biennale (BACR). By analyzing the history of the BACR's foundation, internal organization and awarding patterns, the article examines the conflicting forces emerging from encounters between architecture's intellectual sphere, late modernization processes, and the creation of regulatory frameworks, classification systems, and organizational codes that inevitably stem from
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DaNS 89 Miljana Zekovic editorijal
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Miljana Zekovic
2026, DaNS
SRP/ENG Editorijal 89. broja časopisa DaNS – Časopis za arhitekturu i urbanizam sa tematom “17. Bijenale arhitekture u Veneciji 2021.” – uvodnik: Kako ćemo živeti zajedno…sutra ujutru? / How Will We Live Together…Tomorrow Morning?...
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Editorijal 89. broja časopisa DaNS – Časopis za arhitekturu i urbanizam sa tematom “17. Bijenale arhitekture u Veneciji 2021.” – uvodnik: Kako ćemo živeti zajedno…sutra ujutru? / How Will We Live Together…Tomorrow Morning?
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Društvo arhitekata Novog Sada/ Association of Novi Sad Architects
ISSN 0351-9775
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Rethinking Third Places: Contemporary Design With Technology
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Roberto Calderon
2026, The Journal of Community Informatics
Oldenburg’s properties of third places were established almost three decades ago. In order to understand if these properties still hold and if and how ICTs changed the concept of third places, we looked at affordances and practices in...
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Oldenburg’s properties of third places were established almost three decades ago. In order to understand if these properties still hold and if and how ICTs changed the concept of third places, we looked at affordances and practices in nine third places in Paris. Our findings point out that most of the properties have changed and also three new ones have emerged mixing the physical and the virtual. We also provide implications for ICTs that aim at stimulating and supporting properties of third places.
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“The most beautiful metro in the world”. Le Stazioni dell’Arte di Napoli tra servizio pubblico e turistificazione
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Francesca Santamaria
2026
Presentazione al XII CONGRESSO AISU, 10-13 SETTEMBRE 2025, PALERMO La nuova metropolitana di Napoli, progettata a partire dalla metà degli anni Novanta, non costituisce solo la parte cruciale di un intervento di riqualificazione urbana,...
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Presentazione al XII CONGRESSO AISU, 10-13 SETTEMBRE 2025, PALERMO
La nuova metropolitana di Napoli, progettata a partire dalla metà degli anni Novanta, non costituisce solo la parte cruciale di un intervento di riqualificazione urbana, ma è stata interpretata come “un manifesto politico in difesa della democrazia” (Detheridge 2007) nell’ambito del cosiddetto ‘Rinascimento bassoliniano’. Rigettato il modello delle stazioni standardizzate, gli architetti e gli artisti coinvolti hanno progettato luoghi unici “creati come una sorta di orchestrazione visiva” (Bonito Oliva in Detheridge 2000), in cui “si compie il processo di connessione con il tessuto urbano che la linea incontra” (Camerlingo in La metropolitana di Napoli 2000). Il risultato è un peculiare esempio di arte pubblica, per definire il quale sono state coniate espressioni come “museo obbligatorio” (Bonito Oliva in Gravagnuolo - Mendini 2006) e “passeggiate d’arte” (Mendini in La metropolitana di Napoli 2002).
Nel corso dei decennali cantieri, la percezione nazionale e internazionale di Napoli è molto cambiata divenendo, da grumo di malavita e degrado, una delle mete più visitate del turismo di massa e assurgendo a simbolo della creatività e autenticità italiane. Nei trent’anni della sua realizzazione, il progetto delle stazioni si è espanso passando da strumento di decoro pubblico e riqualificazione urbana a spazio di autorappresentazione della città, trasformandosi in una sorta di programma iconografico che molto rivela del posizionamento di Napoli tra locale e globale. Realizzate su iniziativa del committente pubblico, supervisionate da un unico curatore, le Stazioni nel loro insieme hanno agito come sistema di filtraggio dei simboli della geografia e dell'identità napoletane, con un bagaglio di contraddizioni aggravato dalla turistificazione e dalla mercificazione del suo immaginario. Tale immaginario non solo è costituito dalle opere site specific, ma alimenta inediti crossover identitari, come dimostra, a titolo di esempio, la campagna fotografica della Società Calcio Napoli realizzata nella Stazione Chiaia.
L’intervento, attraverso l’analisi dell’apparato visivo di alcune delle Stazioni dell’Arte della Metro di Napoli, intende illustrare l’evoluzione di un complesso iconografico nato per parlare all’utenza locale e che prova oggi a intercettare quella turistica, nel contesto di un’infrastruttura di mobilità che basa la sua fama sull’estetica ben più che sull’efficienza.
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The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays by Colin Rowe, London and Cambridge: MIT Press, 1976
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Daniel Naegele
2026
A review of Colin Rowe's The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays (London and Cambridge: MIT Press, 1976). Disciplines Architecture Comments This review is from Harvard Design Magazine 16 (2002): 81–84. Posted with...
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A review of Colin Rowe's The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays (London and Cambridge: MIT Press, 1976). Disciplines Architecture Comments This review is from Harvard Design Magazine 16 (2002): 81–84. Posted with permission. This book review is available at Iowa State University Digital Repository:
Reviewed by Daniel Naegele The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays by Colin Rowe London and Cambridge: MIT Press, 1976 1. "BUT JUST ONE THING: aesthetic nerve or aesthetic verve? But Ym different implications. And don't you just turn a letter upside down to make the point?" Unmistakably Colin Rowe, regarding "exactly what happened in the Mumford article way back," his explanation by interrogative continues: "My text, which said nerve, was sent for my correction as verve; and I wrote a special letter back to insist on n rather than y,_ However, no matter, it still came out as y,_ And, in this ...
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Rappresentare il non rappresentabile. Il volto della shoah
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Giorgia Calò
2026, Controluce. Cunterlight, Gegenlicht. Arte e museologia della shoah, nuovi contributi A cura di Paolo Coen Eum Edizioni Università di Macerata
Il testo analizza il ruolo dell’arte come strumento fondamentale di memoria della Shoah nell’età contemporanea, epoca segnata dall’urgenza etica del ricordare di fronte al negazionismo crescente e alla progressiva scomparsa dei testimoni...
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Il testo analizza il ruolo dell’arte come strumento fondamentale di memoria della Shoah nell’età contemporanea, epoca segnata dall’urgenza etica del ricordare di fronte al negazionismo crescente e alla progressiva scomparsa dei testimoni diretti. A partire dal concetto ebraico di Zachor (ricorda), la memoria viene intesa come pratica attiva e trasmissione intergenerazionale, capace di trasformare il ricordo in responsabilità culturale e civile. L’arte si configura come veicolo privilegiato di questa memoria, in grado di tradurre l’orrore in forme visive, simboliche e narrative.
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Причини поширення тіньової економіки в Україні та засоби усунення державою позаринкових форм впливу на підприємницький сектор
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Тетяна Володимирівна Швед
2026
National university of the food industry В данній статті розглядаються проблеми впливу тіньової економіки на підприємницький сектор України. Означена ситуація обумовлена недостатньо ефективною діяльністю держави та економічною інерцією...
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National university of the food industry В данній статті розглядаються проблеми впливу тіньової економіки на підприємницький сектор України. Означена ситуація обумовлена недостатньо ефективною діяльністю держави та економічною інерцією державної політики, а також неправомірною та корумпованою діяльністю представників державних органів влади. У звязку з цим, спрямування державного регулювання на усунення негативних форм впливу на підприємництво видається незаперечним. This article is about the negative influence of shadow economy to the enterprise activity. The author assigns the main reasons of this phenomenon in ukrainian economy. In this connection the role of the state regulation increase. Ключові слова: тіньова економіка, державне регулювання, криміналізація суспільства, підприємницький сектор.
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Phenomenologies of the City. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture (Routledge, 2015) co-edited with Henriette Steiner
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Max Sternberg
2026, Routledge
Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture brings architecture and urbanism into dialogue with phenomenology. Phenomenology has informed debate about the city from social sciences to cultural...
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Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture brings architecture and urbanism into dialogue with phenomenology. Phenomenology has informed debate about the city from social sciences to cultural studies. Within architecture, however, phenomenological inquiry has been neglecting the question of the city. Addressing this lacuna, this book suggests that the city presents not only the richest, but also the politically most urgent horizon of reference for philosophical reflection on the cultural and ethical dimensions of architecture. The contributors to this volume are architects and scholars of urbanism. Some have backgrounds in literature, history, religious studies, and art history. The book features 16 chapters by younger scholars as well as established thinkers including Peter Carl, David Leatherbarrow, Alberto Pérez-Gomez, Wendy Pullan and Dalibor Vesely. Rather than developing a single theoretical statement, the book addresses architecture’s relationship with the city in a wide range of historical and contemporary contexts. The chapters trace hidden genealogies, and explore the ruptures as much as the persistence of recurrent cultural motifs. Together, these interconnected phenomenologies of the city raise simple but fundamental questions: What is the city for, how is it ordered, and how can it be understood? The book does not advocate a return to a naive sense of ’unity’ or ’order’. Rather, it investigates how architecture can generate meaning and forge as well as contest social and cultural representations.
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Symposium on the West Wusutu Village Community Center
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Esra Şahin Burat
2026, Architectural Journal
Report on the symposium devoted to the West Wusutu Village Community Center, designed by Zhang Pengju, held in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China on April 19, 2025. The event was jointly organized by the Inner Mongolia University of Technology...
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Report on the symposium devoted to the West Wusutu Village Community Center, designed by Zhang Pengju, held in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China on April 19, 2025. The event was jointly organized by the Inner Mongolia University of Technology and the Architectural Journal. The symposium was chaired by Shi Yonggao and presided over by the architect Zhang Pengju. Invited participants included David Leatherbarrow, Pia Simmendinger, Esra Şahin Burat, Zhuang Shen, He Jianxiang, and Wang Bin. The report was published by the editors of the Architectural Journal, in issue 678, July 2025. The West Wusutu Village Community Center subsequently received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in September 2025.
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LE SCENE E I COSTUMI DI ANSELM KIEFER PER L'ELETTRA \ THE SCENES AND COSTUMES BY ANSELM KIEFER FOR ELEKTRA (Scroll down for English Text)
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Fabrizio Tramontano
2026, Casabella
Review of artist Anselm Kiefer staging and costume designing of the opera at the San Carlo opera House in Naples in 2004. The editor participated as the artist's assistant during rehearsals and collaborated with the set design and costume...
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Review of artist Anselm Kiefer staging and costume designing of the opera at the San Carlo opera House in Naples in 2004. The editor participated as the artist's assistant during rehearsals and collaborated with the set design and costume departments.
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Reading Mosques: Meaning and Architecture in Islam
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Tia M Hamdan
2026
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The Cross-Pollination from the Arts into Architecture-an Approach for Newer Expression in Architecture
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Fredinel Banaag
2026
Function is not always spatially based so that "forms" without spatial objectivity could be possible. Hence, these "follies" could also belong to art since the 'forms' are not obedient to function. It can also be argued that there is a...
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Function is not always spatially based so that "forms" without spatial objectivity could be possible. Hence, these "follies" could also belong to art since the 'forms' are not obedient to function. It can also be argued that there is a transparent area common between architectural forms that possess sculpture-like properties and large-scale "enterable" sculptural works, which simulate architecture. For this reason, Frank Gehry's architectural form emulates the poetry of sculpture in the same way as Richard Serra's sculpture imbibes and captures the fluid architectural spaces. The paper will present the transparent area between architecture and the arts and the various methods that the arts can be employed to generate non-traditional architectural forms that may in turn result into hybrid architecture. Case studies on the fusion of arts into architecture will be presented as well as creative speculations in the production of newer expressions in architecture.
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Ombrelloni Art Space
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Davide Silvioli
2025
Contributo critico incluso nel catalogo della mostra Materia Nova, a cura di Massimo Mininni. Manfredi edizioni, Imola (Bo), 2022.  ISBN 9791280049414
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Sosiologi Perkotaan : Interaksi Sosial Masyarakat Urban Di Era Digital
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Nahdiyah Rahma Aisyi
2025
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Zygmunt Bauman Modernita e Olocausto
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Marco D'Amico
2025
Traduzione di Massimo Baldini. È vietata la riproduzione, anche parziale, con qualsiasi mezzo effettuata, compresa la fotocopia, anche ad uso interno o didattico, non autorizzata. Nello scrivere questo libro ci sono stati di grande aiuto...
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Traduzione di Massimo Baldini. È vietata la riproduzione, anche parziale, con qualsiasi mezzo effettuata, compresa la fotocopia, anche ad uso interno o didattico, non autorizzata. Nello scrivere questo libro ci sono stati di grande aiuto le critiche e i consigli di Bryan Cheyette, Shmuel Eisenstadt, Ferenc Fehèr, Agnes Heller, Lukasz Hirszowicz e Victor Zaslavsky. Vogliamo sperare che in queste pagine essi trovino una traccia non marginale delle loro idee e della loro ispirazione. Siamo particolarmente in debito nei confronti di Anthony Giddens per la sua attenta lettura delle varie versioni del libro, per le sue meditate critiche e i suoi preziosissimi suggerimenti. A David Roberts va la nostra gratitudine per il suo contributo editoriale e la sua pazienza.
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La complicità con Israele come ragion di Stato. I tedeschi, l’Olocausto e il genocidio
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Alessandro Somma
2025
Perché è lo strumento di chi si ribella all' oppressione. Di chi non può contare su grandi risorse materiali né gode di protettorati mainstream, ma mira dritto perché ha il coraggio delle idee. La forza dell'irriverenza, che fa analizzare...
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Perché è lo strumento di chi si ribella all' oppressione. Di chi non può contare su grandi risorse materiali né gode di protettorati mainstream, ma mira dritto perché ha il coraggio delle idee. La forza dell'irriverenza, che fa analizzare in contropelo i luoghi comuni. La passione intellettuale e politica di chi non aderisce alle idee ricevute, ma sottopone tutte le tesi a una verifica attenta. L' ostinazione ragionata di chi non ha paura di smentire la propaganda, squarciando il velo della post-verità del sistema neoliberista. La lucida coerenza di non negare i fatti, o edulcorarli, per approfondire e cercare di capire di più, senza fermarsi di fronte alle convenienze, alle interpretazioni di comodo. «La fionda» è uno spazio pluralista e libero di elaborazione culturale e politica, promosso da una comunità di persone che condivide alcune precise idee -statualiste, autenticamente democratiche e antiliberiste -, senza compromessi contraddittori né opacità furbesche. Ma che ha l' autentico desiderio di confrontarsi, di dare luogo a un dibattito vero, fecondo, senza tabù. Questo deve essere il tempo della nitidezza e dello spirito critico che non arretra di fronte a nulla. Solo così sarà possibile ripartire non gattopardescamente, ma cambiando paradigma.
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Practical Urban Design The Kimaya Portfolio
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Kiran S A T Y A B O D H Kalamdani
2025, Practical Urban Design The Kimaya Portfolio
Considering the need for compilation of case studies on built examples of urban design in India the Institute of Urban Designers India (I U D I) has appealed to its members and other practitioners of urban design to contribute to the...
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Considering the need for compilation of case studies on built examples of urban design in India the Institute of Urban Designers India (I U D I) has appealed to its members and other practitioners of urban design to contribute to the cause of illustrating actually built examples. These will help decision makers and young practitioners to have a reference manual of public works that would trigger future ideas. Given the fact that every situation or city or settlement offers a unique set of potential and problems and that several allied disciplines such as conservation landscape architecture interior design and experts from the same are needed to make the solutions workable and successful. The document shows what is possible and how. We welcome comments critiques suggestions and questions on the same so that the case studies are not only understood but help in taking forward the cause and commentary on urban design to the next level.
Considering the need for compilation of case studies on built examples of urban design in India the Institute of Urban Designers India (I U D I) has appealed to its members and other practitioners of urban design to contribute to the cause of illustrating actually built examples. These will help decision makers and young practitioners to have a reference manual of public works that would trigger future ideas. Given the fact that every situation or city or settlement offers a unique set of potential and problems and that several allied disciplines such as conservation landscape architecture interior design and experts from the same are needed to make the solutions workable and successful. The document shows what is possible and how. We welcome comments critiques suggestions and questions on the same so that the case studies are not only understood but help in taking forward the cause and commentary on urban design to the next level.
Anjali & Kiran Kalamdani September 2024
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Saperi e sapori Otto architetti per Bari Alto
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Francesco Moschini
2025, Sorprendente Novecento Onofrio Mangini, architetto
Critico di architettura, nato nel 1958, collabora con «La Repubblica» e ha lavorato per «Paese Sera» e «L'Ora». Capocronista vicario a «La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno» dove ha tenuto per 16 anni la rubrica settimanale di critica...
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Critico di architettura, nato nel 1958, collabora con «La Repubblica» e ha lavorato per «Paese Sera» e «L'Ora». Capocronista vicario a «La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno» dove ha tenuto per 16 anni la rubrica settimanale di critica dell'architettura e dell'urbanistica Piazza Grande. Saggista, ha pubblicato tra l'altro: Occhi sulla città. Architetti e architetture a Bari (Laterza 2004), Atlante '900 per la tutela dell'architettura contemporanea a Bari (Laterza, 2009), Diario Rossani (CaratteriMobili, 2014), Goodbye Murat. La tradizione del Moderno nella Bari di Giuseppe Gimma (Pagina, 2018), Concreto. Paesaggi, materie, architetture (Adda, 2024). Per il Museo Civico di Bari ha curato le mostre La città del disincanto (2019) e La forma della Memoria (2023). D. Danilo Stefanelli Architetto, nato a Bari nel 1974. Si è occupato di pianificazione territoriale ed è attualmente impegnato nel coordinamento di procedure complesse nel Dipartimento Ambiente, Paesaggio e Qualità urbana della Regione Puglia. Ha partecipato alla fondazione della rivista Osservatorio sull'Architettura (2004); segretario della sezione pugliese dell'In/Arch (2014-2020), segretario dell'Ordine degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori della Provincia di Bari (2020-2024). È membro del Consiglio Direttivo della sezione Puglia-Basilicata del DoCoMoMo e referente della donazione degli Archivi degli architetti Marino Lopopolo (1905-1980) ed Elena Guaccero (1924-2006) all'OAPPC.
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“MAHASTHANGARH ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM” REVIVING THE LAGACY OF MAHASTHANGARH, A GATEWAY TO THE PAST
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Shakir Ahmed
2025
This thesis investigates the early archaeological activities in Bangladesh, specifically focusing on the "early historic" and "early medieval" period remains of Hindu-Buddhist archaeological sites. Mahasthan is one of these locations that...
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This thesis investigates the early archaeological activities in Bangladesh, specifically focusing on the "early historic" and "early medieval" period remains of Hindu-Buddhist archaeological sites. Mahasthan is one of these locations that is especially significant, as it not only represents a city site amidst predominantly religious sites in Bangladesh but also boasts a rich history stretching back to the distant past, dating back to the 3rd - 2nd century BC. This city site is contemporaneous with the early historic cities of the Gangetic valley, including Vaishali, Pataliputra, and Kaushambi, to name a few.
The primary objective of this research is to design an Archaeological Museum for Mahasthangarh, and this design proposal aims to showcase the cultural and historical significance of Mahasthan as well as display artifacts and relics excavated from the site. By integrating traditional architectural elements and design sensibilities with modern techniques and futuristic concepts, the museum seeks to create a harmonious blend of the old and the new.
This design proposal tries to highlights the importance of honoring and conserving Mahasthangarh's rich legacy while also gives visitors an engaging and immersive experience. The museum's layout and spatial programs are carefully designed to display artifacts in a way that enhances the power of their stories and provides a meaningful connection to world history.
Overall, this thesis seeks to contribute to the understanding and preservation of Mahasthangarh's archaeological heritage by proposing a well-conceptualized and thoughtfully designed Archaeological Museum that pays homage to the site's history while embracing the possibilities of contemporary and future architectural trend.
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Completed Temple works Kimaya
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Kiran S A T Y A B O D H Kalamdani
2025, Completed Temple works Kimaya
The temple works are of varying scales in terms of project size and engagement of the practice. While some works have carried on for decades, some have been of short visits limited to a few hours. Some have stopped at the approach paper...
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The temple works are of varying scales in terms of project size and engagement of the practice. While some works have carried on for decades, some have been of short visits limited to a few hours. Some have stopped at the approach paper stage while some have stopped at the
proposal stage. Some have had the privilege of being able to support analysis of paints and mortars, iconography and paintings while others have had to rely on conjecture considering the needs of the religious establishments that would like to present a complete picture instead of an
archaeologically accurate and faithful one. Our journey in the case of this building type has been varied and with mixed degrees of success or completion.
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Spaces for Women in Mosques: Past, Present and Future
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Bernard O'Kane
2025, Journal of Islamic Art and Architecture
Until the middle of the twentieth century it was usual for architects to design mosques that did not contain spaces marked apart for women. Shortly afterwards it became the norm to include gender separated areas within mosques. The paper...
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Until the middle of the twentieth century it was usual for architects to design mosques that did not contain spaces marked apart for women. Shortly afterwards it became the norm to include gender separated areas within mosques. The paper explores first the historical debates around the presence of women in mosques, and the extent, if any, to which these have been reflected in mosque design, past and present. The period since the middle of the last century is examined in detail. What were the societal impulses that led to gender separation? What forms did these separated areas take? What are the architectural consequences of this separation? What discussion around this issue has arisen in both Muslim majority and Muslim minority countries? What are the possibilities for greater gender inclusivity in the mosque? This paper discusses these issues with references to mosques around the world, in both Muslim minority and Muslim majority countries.
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Scepticism and Progress in Architecture
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Raymond Quek
2025
Erwin Schrödinger once wrote of modern science and its increasing irrelevance to modern society at large that progressive modern science might not make much common sense to man, it remained largely meaningless to common expression not...
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Erwin Schrödinger once wrote of modern science and its increasing irrelevance to modern society at large that progressive modern science might not make much common sense to man, it remained largely meaningless to common expression not much as an illogical triangular circle, but more so as a winged lion. This critique might as well be made of much of the recent writing or debates on architectural theory, often deemed to be the avant garde of architectural discourse. The idea of progress in architectural discourse presumes much however unlike science, the progressive shifts do not invalidate previously valid ideas. In architecture, an outmoded approach might still allow the creation habitable shelter and contain some kind of spatial ordering. The notion of progress in architecture is inextricably linked to belief in ideals and any shift occurs through scepticism of such ideals. This paper discusses the role of scepticism in modern architectural thought,  and its pivotal role in the consideration of progress in architectural discourse in XVI Italy and the latter day parallel in late 20c.
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FUTUNOW 2025
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Peter Tajkov
2025
Predkladaný katalóg je ďalším pokračovaním každoročného súborného prehľadu najvýraznejších prác študentov a študentiek košickej Fakulty umení v konkrétnom školskom roku. Jedná sa prevažne o absolventské práce vo všetkých stupňoch...
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Predkladaný katalóg je ďalším pokračovaním každoročného súborného prehľadu najvýraznejších prác študentov a študentiek košickej Fakulty umení v konkrétnom školskom roku. Jedná sa prevažne o absolventské práce vo všetkých stupňoch vysokoškolského štúdia. V katalógu sa však objavujú aj semestrálne práce, ktoré napríklad zarezonovali na študentských výstavách či súťažiach. Ide o prierez tvorbou ateliérov troch katedier, ktoré uskutočňujú výuku v troch študijných programoch: architektúra a urbanizmus, dizajn a voľné výtvarné umenie. Z povahy tejto školskej tvorby vyplýva, že by mala byť vnímaná ako výraz spojenia empírie pedagóga a invencie študenta, alebo študentky. K samotnému výberu prác je potrebné poznamenať, že sa jedná o editorskú selekciu, ktorej meradlom neboli len školské hodnotenia. V plnej miere to platí o dielach z Katedry výtvarných umení a intermédií, v menšej miere to platí pre dizajnérske a architektonické práce, kde o ich kvalite nerozhodujú len umelecké kritériá. Pre predstavu o akú vzorku študentskej produkcie sa jedná, možno uviesť, že v školskom roku 2024 / 25 na fakulte študovalo 285 študentov a študentiek v troch stupňoch štúdia a v katalógu predkladáme práce 46 z nich. Študenti a študentky sú zoradení za sebou v abecednom poradí, so stručným popisom diel a katedry, resp. ateliéru v ktorom boli vytvorené. Katalóg obsahuje aj stručné anotácie diel a ich autormi sú rovnako študenti a študentky. Vznikol tak elementárny, ale zároveň ucelený a žánrovo pestrý obraz o stave súčasnej výtvarnej produkcie Fakulty umení Technickej univerzity v Košiciach. This catalogue presents an overview of the most exceptional artworks pro duced by the students of the Košice School of the Arts in this academic year. The great majority of these works were submitted as graduate projects and theses by students at all degree levels. The catalogue also includes term projects that resonated either at student exhibitions or in student contests, and, overall, provides a look at the artistic production of ateliers at three departments that offer instruction in three study programs: Architecture and Urbanism, Design, and the Fine Arts. The works should thus be per ceived as an articulation of the marriage of pedagogical empiricality and student inventiveness. As regards the selection of the works, it deserves mention that it was made with editorial intent and therefore was not based primarily on of the Department of Fine Arts and Intermedia, which the author of this editorial viewed from the perspective of an arts theorist and curator. To a lesser extent, it applies also to works of architecture and design, where the quality is not decided solely on artistic merits. To get a better idea as to what sample of student work this catalogue represents, it should suffice to say that in the year 2024 / 25, the Faculty had 285 students. This catalogue features the works of 46 of them. The students are arranged alphabetically and each profile is accompanied by a brief description of the works and the department or atelier at which they were produced. The catalog also contains brief annotations of works and their authors are also students. Thus emerged an elementary but rich and representative picture of the state of the current production of the Faculty of Arts at the Technical University of Košice.
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Representation Restricted Reality (RRR). Marianna Charitonidou on Architectural Drawings
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Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa
2025, The Plan Magazine
Marianna Charitonidou's book Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices (2023) presents a survey and key insights into the recent history of representation in architecture. Marianna's focus is through architects that challenged the...
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Marianna Charitonidou's book Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices (2023) presents a survey and key insights into the recent history of representation in architecture. Marianna's focus is through architects that challenged the discipline through key revolutionary drawings. With examples ranging from Le Corbusier's DomIno diagram to Mies' collages, the book investigates insights into the Modern Movement.
The review essay by Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa discusses problems the value of the diagram and its limitations in visual semiotics and systems of representation within a novel concept defined as Representation Restricted Reality.
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Review of my book Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices (2023) by Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa
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Marianna Charitonidou
2025
Marianna Charitonidou’s book Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices (2023) presents a survey and key insights into the recent history of representation in architecture. Marianna’s focus is through architects that challenged the...
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Marianna Charitonidou’s book Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices (2023) presents a survey and key insights into the recent history of representation in architecture. Marianna’s focus is through architects that challenged the discipline through key revolutionary drawings. With examples ranging from Le Corbusier’s Dom-Ino diagram to Mies’ collages, the book investigates insights into the Modern Movement. But it also includes certain tensions that make it relevant and interesting, for instance, John Hejduk’s axonometric projections experiments and Peter Eisenman’s formal axonometric diagrams are placed in contrast to Tschumi’s axonometrics. While Hejduk and Eisenman are presented as representational and formal, Tschumi’s drawings are rather political acts based on the semantics of the architecture program.
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Desfuncional
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gabriel pedrosa
2025
gabriel pedrosa . desfuncional . são paulo, 2010 fauusp . dissertação de mestrado projeto, espaço e cultura . orientador: giorgio giorgi jr agradeço aos amigos e familiares pelos constantes apoio e incentivo; aos professores luis antonio...
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gabriel pedrosa . desfuncional . são paulo, 2010 fauusp . dissertação de mestrado projeto, espaço e cultura . orientador: giorgio giorgi jr agradeço aos amigos e familiares pelos constantes apoio e incentivo; aos professores luis antonio jorge, agnaldo farias, carlos egídio alonso e luiz américo munari pelas conversas ao longo da pesquisa; aos professores lucrécia ferrara e luis antonio jorge, pela inestimável contribuição dada ao trabalho em minha banca de qualificação; ao meu amigo giorgio giorgi jr, pela orientação sempre solícita, atenta e generosa, decisiva para o desenvolvimento desta dissertação (e não se impute a ele os desvarios e descabimentos que seguirão. ele bem que me avisou), também pelos cafés, pelos discos, pela boa conversa; à letícia, por tudo. dedico este trabalho aos meus sobrinhos, matheus, lucas, ana carolina, gabriel e ana clara, que me ensinam o jogo; e à memória de martinho marcos de freitas, que me ensinava a poesia. autorizo a reprodução e divulgação total ou parcial deste trabalho, por qualquer meio convencional ou eletrônico, para fins de estudo e pesquisa, desde que citada a fonte.
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Drawing as language in design project: a course of analysis via Vesely and Perez-Gomez
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Federico Alberto Brunetti
2025
We propose drawing as design project process, regarded both as project’s instrumental utility (technology) and condition for disciplinary reflection (art), considering drawing as language whose operability enables innovation in design. At...
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We propose drawing as design project process, regarded both as project’s instrumental utility (technology) and condition for disciplinary reflection (art), considering drawing as language whose operability enables innovation in design. At the production level (drawing), two cornerstone conditions are implied: 1. the instrumental ability (technology) and 2. its critical (semantical) evaluation. As subject for analysis we present project drawings from widely recognized contemporary Portuguese designers. We interpret design object as the project’s overall communication exchange, questioning how drawing, as mediator for projectual practice in design, limits the object’s creation and hence its existence as design language? Our answer considers drawing: 1. mediator for representation (through technical expression), 2. classifying function (through program) and 3. interpretative mark of imagination (through authorship).
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