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African architecture is having a moment in European museums. Joining the crowd is AFRICA: Architecture, Culture, and Identity, an ambitious and contradictory exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Hummelbæk, Denmark, June 25, 2015–October 25, 2015. Divided into seven themes designed as points of entrée into the field of contemporary sub-Saharan Africa, the sprawling exhibition includes contributions by nearly eighty architects, writers, and artists either born in or working on the continent. With its kaleidoscope of images, Louisiana's AFRICA provides many answers to the hows and whys of contemporary African architecture, ultimately succeeding in its intention to supplant media-based stereotypes of the continent with alternative narratives. Juxtaposing architecture's two dominant global modes—that of the architect-designed structure with that of the user-built structure—AFRICA makes it clear that architectural modernity is an act of negotiation with no clear final outcome. Notwithstanding curatorial declarations that the exhibition would neither try to "pinpoint the specifically African" nor rely upon generalizations, too often the wall texts and labels rely on the tired tropes of the tribal and traditional to create fantastical pan-African architectural typologies, undermining genuine explorations of the local.

Wood is a historic building material used throughout the Baltic States. Latvia's forests cover 52% of the country and there are more than 30 producers of timber constructions materials, but during the last two decades the use wood in Latvian architecture has declined when compared to other countries in Europe. In particular – Latvian architects avoid the use of timber in public and multi-unit apartment buildings. Wood is a sustainable and technically appropriate building material for many types of buildings including complex construction, but in Latvian architecture it is used more in facades as a finishing material. This study analyses buildings built during the last few decades, conducted a number of interviews and found that the percentage of wooden buildings in the total building volume in Latvia is less than 5% in both apartment buildings and public sector buildings. Restrictive legislation and negative stereotypes were mentioned as reasons as to why architects avoid the use of wood. For the survey results seven Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art competition projects were analysed as well. Article in English. Medinių konstrukcijų panaudojimas šiuolaikinėje Latvijos architektūroje Santrauka Mediena yra tradicinė statybos medžiaga, naudojama visose Baltijos šalyse. 53 proc. Latvijos teritorijos dengia miškai, šalyje yra daugiau nei 30 medienos perdirbimo įmonių. Bet pastaraisiais dviem dešimtmečiais medienos panaudojimas Latvijos architektūroje sumažėjo, ypač lyginant su kitomis Europos šalimis. Latvijos architektai vengia naudoti medieną viešiesiems pastatams ir daugiabučiams namams. Mediena yra tvari ir techniškai tinkama statybos medžiaga skirtingiems pastatams, taip pat ir daugiafunkciams, tačiau Latvijos architektūroje ji dažniau naudojama fasadų apdailai. Šiame tyrime nagrinėjami per pastaruosius keletą dešimtmečių pastatyti statiniai, o atlikus daug apklausų nustatyta, kad mediniai pastatai tesudaro mažiau nei 5 proc. bendros viešųjų ir gyvenamųjų statinių statybų Latvijoje apimties. Ribojantys reglamentai ir neigiami stereotipai buvo paminėti kaip pagrindinės priežastys, dėl kurių architektai vengia naudoti medieną. Tyrimo rezultatai buvo gauti išanalizavus septynis Latvijos šiuolaikinio meno muziejaus rengto konkurso projektus. Reikšminiai žodžiai:architektūra,medis,mediena,Latvija,statybos, sprendimo priėmėjai.

"This book seeks to provide an alternative post-Western perspective to the history of contemporary architecture. It puts forward detailed critical analyses of various areas of the world, including Europe, Latin America, Africa, China, Australia, India and Japan, where particular movements of architecture have developed as active 'political acts'. The authors focus on a broad spectrum of countries, architectures and architects that have developed a design approach closely linked to the building context. The concept of context is broad and includes various economic, social, cultural, political and natural aspects. In all cases, the architects selected in this book have chosen to view context as an opportunity. However, each architect has considered certain specific aspects of context: some have been very attentive to the social context, others to material aspects or typological issues, and still others to aspects related to political visions or economic factors. The analysis critically highlights interesting, creative and respectful design approaches towards local conditions, such as sustainability in Nordic Europe, climate-conscious design in Africa, and the 'bottom-up' sensitivity of India. The book's main aim is to retrace, through both theoretical arguments and case studies, the debate that focuses on politics and the environment. Thanks to its valuable examples, this book strives to make a conscious contribution to establishing a bulwark against the current 'flattening-out' processes that architecture is experiencing. This book will be of relevance to researchers, teachers, and students interested in the history of architecture, architecture & planning, and postcolonial studies"--

[ES] El presente artículo se enmarca dentro de la arquitectura contemporánea de Paraguay y tiene por objetivo aproximarnos a la utilización del dibujo a mano alzada como herramienta de transmisión de conocimiento técnico entre el arquitecto y el artesano, como parte del proceso constructivo de una obra arquitectónica. Este aspecto será analizado a partir de la lectura de casos, que consideran como base de datos las ilustraciones originales de tres edificios, como un testimonio vivo del proceso de obra. ; [EN] This article is framed within the contemporary architecture of Paraguay and aims to analyze freehand drawing as a tool to transmit technical knowledge between the architect and the craftsman during construction of an architectural work. This process will be analyzed by reading case studies and using the original illustrations from three different architectural projects as a living testimony of the work process. ; The research has been funded by the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage of the Government of Chile, under the Scholarships Chile CREA, Call 2019. ; Uribe Ortiz, JL. (2020). El dibujo a mano alzada como herramienta de resolución técnica: estudio de tres casos en la arquitectura contemporánea de Paraguay. EGA Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica. 25(39):86-97. https://doi.org/10.4995/ega.2020.13952 ; OJS ; 86 ; 97 ; 25 ; 39 ; BRESSON, R. "Bresson por Bresson. Entrevistas 1943 - 1983" ["Bresson, by Bresson: Interviews, 1943 to 1983"]. Editorial in El cuenco de plata [The Silver Plate], Buenos Aires, Argentina (2014). ; CORVALÁN, Javier. "Un fin del mundo. Fragmento de El libro negro" ["An End of the World: Fragment of the Black Book"] in RITA: Revista Indexada de Textos Académicos, año 1, N° 1. [Indexed Journal of Academic Texts, Year 1, Issue 1]. Madrid, Spain (2014). ; FORTY, Adrián. "La palabra y el concepto" ["The World and the Concept"] in Ediciones ARQ [Architectural Editions], Santiago, Chile (2018). ; GIURIA, Juan. "La arquitectura en el Paraguay" [Architecture in Paraguay], in Instituto de ...

After two decades which saw the construction industry flourish, has come a sudden period of instability, where architecture firms have been jettisoning employees at an unprecedented rate as building projects dry up. This edited volume brings together scholars, critics, and architects to discuss the present state of uncertainty in the practice and discipline of architecture. The chapters are organized into three main areas of inquiry: economics, practice, and technology. Within this larger framework, authors explore issues of security, ecological design, disaster architecture, the future of arc.

This book analyzes the shifting global economic architecture, indicating the decentralizing authority in global economic governance since the Cold War and, especially, following the 2008-09 global financial crisis. The author examines recent adjustments to the organizational framework, contestation of policy principles, norms, and practices, and destabilizing actor hierarchies, particularly in global macroeconomic, trade, and development governance. The study's "analytical eclecticism" includes a core constructivist IR approach, but also incorporates insights from several international relations theories as well as political and economic theory. The book develops a unique analytical "matrix", which analyzes effects of strategic, political, and cognitive authority in the organizational, policy, and actor contexts of the global economic architecture. It concludes that, despite concerns about potential fragmentation, decentralizing authority has increased the integration of leading developing states and new actors in contemporary global economic governance.

This book analyzes the shifting global economic architecture, indicating the decentralizing authority in global economic governance since the Cold War and, especially, following the 2008-09 global financial crisis. The author examines recent adjustments to the organizational framework, contestation of policy principles, norms, and practices, and destabilizing actor hierarchies, particularly in global macroeconomic, trade, and development governance. The study's 'analytical eclecticism' includes a core constructivist IR approach, but also incorporates insights from several international relations theories as well as political and economic theory. The book develops a unique 'analytical matrix', which analyzes effects of strategic, political, and cognitive authority in the organizational, policy, and actor contexts of the global economic architecture. It concludes that, despite concerns about potential fragmentation, decentralizing authority has increased the integration of leading developing states and new actors in contemporary global economic governance. Jonathan Luckhurst is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Center for North American Studies of the Pacific Studies Department, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

Changes over the course of time is a specific category of landscape architecture in their work in open spaces and with organic materials: sustainability, identity, the preservation and development of our natural environment and our built living environment are designed in and by time-based processes. The book will appear on the occasion of the German Landscape Architecture Prize Awards in the year of the 100th anniversary of the bdla. Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten bdla, Berlin.

The paper concerns the analysis of the building of Cricoteka in terms of theatricality, which is the role of architecture in the performance of city life. It discusses such aspects as the transfer of the idea of theatre onto architectural form, the dialogue with the viewer, the place of the building in the city and the influence of the object on the environment by generating tension between individual elements of composition solids. Theatrical dimension of architecture might be understood as a spectacle, invented and robust physiognomy, but also intriguing visual appeal. Through the versatile architectural costumes the architecture puts on, especially contemporary architecture, which stands out from the other buildings, tends to be incomprehensible to its recipients. Aiding the comprehension of the message, as well as its conscious shaping by the authors, is key to mutual understanding and establishing the dialogue. The detailed analysis of the building's interior, which is the key aim of a project of Cricoteka, remains out of scope of this work.

This research is based on the main principle that history repeats itself. Therefore, it can create interest in subjects that, at first sight, may look anachronistic. The authors recall the growing position towards architectural solutions, that take reference from the past, and retrace the studies perceived by the architects of the "Inquérito à Arquitectura Regional Portuguesa" (Survey on Regional Portuguese Architecture) of 1955/57. Since they were looking for a middle way between government impositions and the radicalism of the International Style, the results influenced not only their individual designs but also acquired a pioneer status, thus raising many new questions. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion