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prepared by Lie Ning Gung. ; "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1998-99, design report." ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Introduction ; Chapter Book I --- Hypothesis ; Chapter --- --- Genesis of Hanzi ; Chapter --- --- Esthetics of Hanzi ; Chapter --- --- A Living Being ; Chapter --- --- On Architecture ; Chapter Book II --- Concepts ; Chapter --- --- Dynamics ; Chapter --- --- Action ; Chapter --- --- Experience ; Chapter --- --- Program ; Chapter --- --- Site ; Chapter Book III --- Trials ; Chapter --- --- Conceptual Model ; Chapter --- --- Site ; Chapter --- --- Study Model ; Chapter --- --- Program ; Chapter --- --- The Project ; Chapter --- --- Epilogue ; Appendices ; Chapter I- --- Project Background ; Chapter --- --- Social & Political Context --- p.1-4 ; Chapter --- --- Historical & Cultural Context --- p.5-7 ; Chapter --- --- The Issue --- p.8-9 ; Chapter --- --- The Proposal --- p.10 ; Chapter --- --- Client Profile --- p.11 ; Chapter --- --- Mission --- p.12-13 ; Chapter II- --- Site ; Chapter --- --- History --- p.1-2 ; Chapter --- --- Land Use --- p.3 ; Chapter --- --- Circulation Studies --- p.4-8 ; Chapter --- --- Site Features --- p.9 ; Chapter --- --- Topology --- p.10 ; Chapter --- --- Site Constrains --- p.11 ; Chapter --- --- Potential & Cost --- p.12 ; Chapter --- --- Goals & PR --- p.13-18 ; Chapter III- --- Precedents studies ; Chapter IV- --- Interviews ; Acknowledgements ; Bibliography

In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors demonstrate how Europe and France in particular shaped their culture, architecture and planning until the United States began to play a part in the 1930s. The book provides a new perspective on international planning

" The pervasive proliferation of complex tracking systems such as GPS and simulation gaming environments such as Full Spectrum Warrior are transforming the built environment into an immersive 1:1 map where all flows and transactions are measured, monitored, and tracked. The gap between map and real experience disappears resulting in an immersive map. The spatial implications of this real time 1:1 immersive map creates an opportunity for architecture itself to monitor, track, and measure flows and transactions. This tracking and simulation agenda plays out specifically in the design of a surface that integrates military training, military artifacts, and civilian recreation into the MIL_CIV surface that modulates due to games, time of day, season, and participants acting on the site."

As we move further into the 21st century, architects, planners, landscape architects and the general public are increasingly concerned with climate change, environmental degradation, energy and water consumption and the role the built environment plays in contributing to or addressing these issues. Buildings consume almost 40% of the energy used in this country. The way we access buildings, the materials used to construct them, the demands of users within the building all require the earth's increasingly precious resources. So how did we get here? How did our built environment evolve to require so much energy, water and so many resources? It is easy to think that our environmental concerns regarding architecture's role in the environment are new to society. However, environmental worries are not new. This course explores the history of sustainable architecture with a look back to vernacular building styles and passive design strategies that addressed climatic factors. We will investigate the Industrial Revolution as it transformed buildings and transportation and study the varied responses to the degradation of the natural world through the Arts and Crafts Movement and writers and thinkers of the 19th century. We will contrast our study of early environmentalists and their ideas for the built environment with more mainstream efforts of architects and designers of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Frank Lloyd Wright and le Corbusier, to better understand the formation of architecture's historical cannon and the environmental outliers who critiqued the dangers of the 'Machine Age.' We will then explore more accelerated trends of the 1960s and '70s that paralleled the birth of modern environmentalism in the wake of exposés such as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Finally, the course will conclude with an examination of recent ideas surrounding 'green' buildings such as LEED certification and the Living Building Challenge. Understanding the history of the built environment offers a powerful lens for understanding our environmental future. Such history shows us our mistakes and successes and will help us move forward thinking critically about how we can live in the future. "History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be." John Henrik Clarke The course will include guest speakers, lectures on Mondays and Wednesdays, and discussions about readings on Fridays (in Dickinson 109). There will be a mid-term and final, and two written assignments: one a short, written response and the second, a longer research paper.

Academia did San Luca later served model for the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture founded in France in 1648, and which later became the Académie des beaux-arts brought revolutionary development of the European architecture which lead to the development of philosophical schools over the world. The Industrial Revolution was a one of the pivoting points in human history and cultural. Idea of a professional architect with formal training and academic qualifications is a product of the 19th century, when architectural courses were instituted for the first time at the Ecole Des Beaux-Arts in Paris and later at the Architectural Association in London in 1847. Developing academic qualification result in new trends of architectural theory that differentiates between a building and "a piece of architecture", which was about aesthetics and experience of architecture movement and impact of philosophical and intellectual basis for architecture education. The ever growing socio, economic and political interest among the intellectuals at the turn of the 19th century and the ever growing number of artists and architect embracing had resulted in new architectural trends away from wealthy clients. These trends were introducing an architecture that was meant to address working class and develop economical architecture that copes with them. These movements included: Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and the Bauhaus. In the United States of America, the Bauhaus principles revolutionized art education, previously dominated by the Beaux-Arts method. Bauhaus influence in education and in practice, the modernist movement flourished. The Bauhaus movement became responsible for the modern face of architecture in many of the American cities such as Chicago and New York. Chicago has been described as "row upon row of Mies vander Rohe buildings" By means of discussing the development of the different philosophical schools and relating them to different architectural movements and the architects who embraced these philosophical ideas ...

The paper focuses on the actual state of architecture and planning practices in Lithuania and Latvia stating the common features and differences as well as identifying a number of challenges and possible solutions and their impacts on academic research carried out by junior fellows of the universities. The transition from a planned socialist economy to a free market and the following change in the structure of social order has objectively caused radical changes in the need and the offer of professional services where the largest market share is held by relatively small or very small architectural companies. Limited resources lead to dominance of the fulfillment of primary functional and aesthetical needs of the customer while the broader dialogue with public is usually delayed or missing. This often leads to public dissatisfaction of the results of implementation of development projects. The authors of the paper stress that the enhanced dialogue between architect and urban community supported by local governments and citizens could radically improve the situation and simultaneously contribute to the quality of architectural solutions. The share of responsibility for the future quality of built environmental goes to an academic education and especially to research systems. Multi-professional collaboration and integrated cross-border research practices should be encouraged as more beneficial for accumulating the experience of different cultures and to achieving optimal qualities in the future urban environment. Article in English. Architektūros tyrimų suaktyvinimas skatinant visuomenės dalyvavimo ir tyrėjų tarptautinio bendradarbiavimo veiksnius Santrauka.Straipsnyje nagrinėjami architektūros mokslo tyrimų tobulinimo klausimai. Į pirmą planą iškeliamas jaunųjų tyrėjų pradedamų darbų tematikos aktualizavimas, kurį lemia tyrėjo, mokslo padalinio ir visos institucijos pasirengimas vykdyti tam tikrų sričių tyrimus, pasirenkamos strateginės mokslo darbų plėtotės kryptys. Teritorinių miesto bendruomenių įtraukimas į mokslo tyrimus sudaro prielaidas aktualizuoti atliekamų darbų temas, gauti tinkamą pradinę informaciją, patikrinti, kiek realiai veiksmingos yra tyrimo išvados ir rekomendacijos. Vykdomų mokslo darbų kokybę gerina ir glaudesnių bendradarbiavimo ryšių plėtotė tarp pačių tyrėjų ir tarp institucijų. Žurnale pateikiamų straipsnių pavyzdžiais iliustruojamas minėtų veiksnių naudojimas jaunųjų mokslininkų tyrimuose. Raktiniai žodžiai: architektūra, miesto planavimas, miesto bendruomenė, mokslo tyrimai, tarptautinis bendradarbiavimas.

ABSTRACT:This article considers how the imagination and expectation of future air raids impacted upon the perception of the built environment, and asks how the boundaries between peace and war, and thus military and civilian, began to be dissolved in this context. It examines the interactions between architects, planners and government officials about how the design of cities and buildings might change in an age of air power. By looking at changes and continuities either side of the 1938 Munich crisis, it examines how the civilian space of cities was recast in anticipation of war.

In his work State of Exception, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has recently studied the consequences of the exception becoming the rule. He explains a situation where the law requires the partial exclusion of the legal order so as to preserve its legitimate character. It forms the basis of the so-called "spaces in suspension", where the rule is the exception in the form of the suspension of the legal order, the anomie. In those spaces the act of government is located in a threshold area of ambiguity between general and particular spheres. The transference of Agamben's concept into architecture is possible. There are physical scenarios where the norm is not a security shield since it is accomplished and questioned at the same time. What type of architecture is responding to those spaces in suspension? Is there a critical attitude boosted by those kinds of architectural practices? The paper approaches the topic through a theoretical contextualization of the idea of the state of exception in architecture. This approach is based on the analysis of some case studies, which are considered as disruptive practices since they are proposing new ways of practising architecture. They utilize strategies such as new interpretations of the law (urban prosthesis, occupation of public spaces), the replacement of the authorities' duties (occupation of public buildings and empty plots) or the proposal of new teaching practices. Their analysis let the authors define a specific context in architectural practice, which reflects a new paradigm called "architecture in suspension". ; Peer reviewed