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Images/drawings of architecture primarily act as documentation of structures to help the audience (architects or clients) understand how architecture functions: the sense of space, physical relationship with the context, and circulation through different programs. Nevertheless, architectural images that focus not on functionally determine spaces but rather on an idea or provocation, also play a significant role in the representation of architecture. The role of architecture in these kinds of images can be beyond a shelter or accommodation. It can set up a stage to deliver messages; discuss historical, social, economic or political issues; or to express emotion or desire. Architects/artist have been using architecture images with perplexing spatial qualities as provocative, topical responses to actuality throughout history. For example, in the 18th century, Étienne-Louis Boullée sought to overthrow traditions of architectural drawings and use the drawings to celebrate the greatness of picture, the greatness satisfies human's soul and eager to extend its joys in every. In the 60s, Superstudio used a series of architecture collages to fight against market-driven architecture, and establish their goal to produce a system of infinite multiplications divisions and dimensions. Later on, Lebbeus Woods used his prominent drawings to evoke people's awareness of the provocative characteristic of architecture oppose to its retrospective presentation or documentation purpose. As a knowledge of base, this thesis project would research why and how the architects/ artists make the images in certain way to accomplish their expected effect by comparing the chosen images particularly on architects/artists' decision making on the scale of architecture pieces, not functionally determined spaces, materiality and pictorial perspective of the images and how these decisions result in different effect or affect. This thesis proposal is to call on the audiences (architects and non-professionals) to consider architecture's alternative role in architecture image beyond retrospective presentation. Also, to engage the audiences in awareness and discussion of the topical communication with the architects/artists. Based on the knowledge to set up a framework for this thesis project. What framework should be set to avoid documentation potentials of architecture? What to resist and or embrace to avoid the architecture image become functionally determined? And eventually, use this framework to produce images with speculative architecture on a ruin with potentially healing necessity as a mean to deliver personal desire of hope and joy and evoke personal responses from the audiences.

Architecture Depends presents an original thesis that brings social theory, including that of Zygmunt Bauman and Bruno Latour, to bear on architectural theory and practice. Drawing on theories of critical pedagogy, contingency, and reflective practice, it presents a new paradigm for architectural thinking, recognised by the 2009 RIBA President's Award for Research (prize for outstanding university-based research). Reviews include Blueprint, Architects' Journal; the Times Higher Education Book of the Week; features on Nightwaves (BBC R3), Thinking Allowed (BBC R4). Publisher's text about the volume: Architecture depends — on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, purity, and control that architects like to make about their practice, architecture is buffeted by uncertainty and contingency. Circumstances invariably intervene to upset the architect's best-laid plans—at every stage in the process, from design through construction to occupancy. Architects, however, tend to deny this, fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection. With Architecture Depends, architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote, design, social theory, and personal experience, Till's writing is always accessible, moving freely between high and low registers, much like his suggestions for architecture itself. The everyday world is a disordered mess, from which architecture has retreated — and this retreat, says Till, is deluded. Architecture must engage with the inescapable reality of the world; in that engagement is the potential for a reformulation of architectural practice. Contingency should be understood as an opportunity rather than a threat. Elvis Costello said that his songs have to work when played through the cheapest transistor radio; for Till, architecture has to work (socially, spatially) by coping with the flux and vagaries of everyday life. Architecture, he proposes, must move from a reliance on the impulsive imagination of the lone genius to a confidence in the collaborative ethical imagination, from clinging to notions of total control to an intentional acceptance of letting go.

Chan Siu Kuen Peg. ; "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1999-2000, design report." ; PROBLEMS IDENTIFICATION ; Present & Past Habitat ; Living Elements ; Living Lives ; Collective Memories ; social Changes ; Change of Development Trend --- p.35 ; Living & Senses ; Merleau-Ponty - 'Touch' ; Juhani Pallasmaa - 'Eye' ; Lisa Heschong - 'Gesture' ; Lisa Heschong - 'Gesture' ; Herzog De Meuron - Materials ; Kanzuyo Sejima - isolation --- p.43 ; Local Residential Street Lives ; Street Elements- Richness ; Street Setting - Human --- p.46 ; Cityscape ; Identity ; Tourism --- p.49 ; PROGRAMMING ; Project Brief ; Synopsis ; Building Types ; Clients ; Project Potential ; Economic Concerns ; Users --- p.54 ; Site Analysis ; Site ; History ; Site Context ; Building Age ; Land Uses ; Density ; Building Height ; Govt. Development Phases ; Proposed Building Site ; Site Constraints ; Site Selection Intent --- p.74

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) long ago observed, "In the order of things it is found that one never seeks to avoid one inconvenience without running into another; but prudence consists in knowing how to recognize the qualities of inconveniences, and in picking the less bad as good." Given these complex conditions of engagement, it is critical that the relationship between architecture and health be revised. While perhaps partly responsible, architecture is not always capable of providing positive solutions for the environment or the "sick" body. Instead, a confused and anxious contemporary architecture struggles to produce new manifestations that avoid exalting the spectacle of capital of the last twenty years. While architecture is looking once again into the ambiguous political, cultural, moral, and, above all, social ideas of health and medicalization for both justification and a new mandate, it should seek to challenge – rather than pacify – the newly emerging neo-liberal agenda and question a medicalized vision and approach toward health issues.

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

" 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."

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

Catalog of an architectural exhibit, under the supervision of the Committee on Architecture and Industrial Art, Philip Goodwin, chairman. ; Illustration on cover. ; Mimeographed. ; Cover-title. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Thermal standards exert an ever-increasing impact on architecture. Recent building legislation has begun to limit the spectrum of possible solutions to the extent that thermal standards considerably govern the concept, structure and form of buildings. The imperative to insulate building envelopes with little regard to maintaining a diversity of microclimates in the interior is just one prominent example. These developments can be traced to how thermal standards have been triumphed as a silver bullet by Western societies on their path towards energy transition and sustainable architecture. "Green goes mainstream" (Raymond J. Clark / Peter Ellis) has in particular seen a proliferation of thermal standards, regulations and labels. Agencies like the US-American LEED, the British BREEAM, the German Passivhaus or the Swiss Minergie, 2000-Watt Society, and SNBS offer certifiable solutions for thermal comfort in combination with the promise of sustainability in architecture and for cities. These "green-mainstream" standards are successors to the passive rationale of the bioclimatic architecture of the 1970s, promoting "the use of architecture as a primary energy device" (American Institute of Architects, 1978). Today, worldwide comfort in buildings increasingly relies on the import and export of thermal standards. This has resulted in their global circulation and a competition between the various agencies promoting them. However, such standards emerge out of specific local cultural circumstances and architectural traditions.

Technology of the 21st century is changing rapidly in the postmodern world of consumerism. As we move from industrial toward information epoch, built environment become precisely augmented with the trends of commercialization. The breakout of modernism brings up the Postmodernism in late 1970`s where urban space and architecture were faced with signs and symbols once again. Consumerism society was become a debatable issue in the 21st century. Changing trends in world by the means of globalization shaped society and public territory with the improvements in media and technology. Brand new dimension has been brought into urban zones with commercialization. Commercialization began to develop in physical and computerized ways and have begun to contribute disorderly in the built environment. Expansion of working with media causes to have cyberspaces with the utilization of media elements, for example, advertisements, board. Technological developments, and improvement of media and visual arts cause change in the direction of contemporary architecture with the globalization and domination of capitalism. Facades gain new media integrated skin to its external skins of buildings; and society who are the main user of the public space gained a new way of interaction through the media integrated cutting edge technology. Channing technological trends shape the formation of building façade. The main motivation of this thesis is to investigate essential ideas behind the utilization of advanced media facade on buildings. Extraordinary emphasis on innovation and visual media, it is intended to see how architecture is influenced and its advancement in postmodernism. Theoretical section is supported with cases from developed countries where media architecture is popular trend, other case is "1001 Airport Mall" selected from Nicosia, North Cyprus which is from 3rd world country with too many political problems. After theoretical examination, end of the study will create understanding towards the integration of media and architecture through its evolution and how building form and spatial organization is affected in architectural scale. Finally, changing urban space with the media architecture will be discussed. Keywords: Postmodernism, Media Architecture, Consumer Society, Augmented Surface & Hybrid Space, Visual Media ; ÖZ : 21. yüzyılın teknolojisi, Postmodern tüketim dünyasında hızla değişiyor. Endüstriyel çağında bilgi çağına geçerken, ticarileştirme trendleri ile yapılı çevre alanı tamamen artırılmış yüzeylerle donatıldı. Modernismin çöküşü ile 1970li yıllarda Postodernisimi gündeme getirerek, kamusal alan ve mimari bir kez daha simge ve semboller ile donandı. Tüketici toplumu 21. yüzyılda tartışılması gereken konu haline geldi. Globalleşme ile dünyada değişen trendler, medya ve teknolojinin gelişmesi ile birlikte toplumu ve kamusal alanı şekillendirdi. Kentsel alanın ticarileşmesi ile, yepyeni bir boyut kazanıldı. Ticarileşme, fiziksel ve bilgisayarlı ortamlarda gelişmeye başladı ve yapılı çevreye düzensizce katkı koymaya başladı. Medya alanında çalışmaların gelişmesi reklam, panolar gibi medya elemanları ile sanal gerçekliğin oluşması yol açtı. Teknolojik gelişmeler ve medya ve görsel sanat alanında ilerlemeler, globalleşme ve kapitalizmin baskınlığı ile çağdaş mimarinin yönünü değiştirmiştir. Bina dış cephesine yeni bütünleşmiş medya yüzeyi kazandırıldı ve kamusal alanın ana kullanıcıları olan toplum, yeni entegre edilmiş son teknoloji ile yeni bir etkileşim kazandı. Değişen teknolojik trendler bina cephesini şekillendirdi. Bu tezin ana motivasyonu, bina cephesinde kullanılan medya cephesinin ardındaki önemli düşünceleri araştırmaktır. Yenilikler ve görsel medya vurgusu ile, postmodern zamanında nasıl etkilenmiş olduğunu görmeyi amaçlar. Teorik bölüm, medya mimarisinin popular olduğu gelişmiş ülkelerden örnekler ile desteklenirken, diğer örnek bina ise 3. Dünya ülkesi olan ve politik problem yaşanan Kuzey Kıbrıs, Lefkoşa ilinde bulunan "1001 Airport Mall" binasıdır. Teorik incelemeler sonrasında, çalışmanın sonunda, medya ve mimarinin entegrasyonu ve gelişimi ile ilgili kavrayış sağlanacak ve mimari ölçekde bina formu ve mekânsal organizasyonuna olan etkileri tartışılacaktır. Son olarak, medya mimarisi ile değişen kamusal mekan tartışılacaktır. Anahtar Kelimeler: Postmodernism, Medya Mimarisi, Tüketici Toplum, Artırılmış Yüzey & Mekânlar, Görsel Medya ; Master of Science in Architecture. Thesis (M.S.)--Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Architecture, Dept. of Architecture, 2016. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hıfsiye Pulhan.

Reprinted from the American architect, the Architectural record and other architectural magazines. ; Architecture and democracy. --Ornament from mathematics. --Harnessing the rainbow. --Louis Sullivan, prophet of democracy. --Color and ceramics. --Symbols and sacraments. --Self-education. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Faculty Seminar held on October 10, 2014 in Slocum Hall. Third in a series of three seminars. Presenters: Lori Brown and Yutaka Sho; Respondents: Elizabeth Kamell and Lawrence Chua

"What is prison architecture and how can it be studied? How are concepts such as humanism, dignity and solidarity translated into prison architecture? What kind of ideologies and ideas are expressed in various prison buildings from different eras and locations? What is the outside and the inside of a prison, and what is the significance of movement within the prison space? What does a lunch table have to do with prison architecture? How do prisoners experience materiality in serving a prison sentence? These questions are central to the texts presented in this anthology. Prison, Architecture and Humans is the result of a collaboration between researchers and architects from Italy, Norway and Sweden. It presents new approaches to prison architecture and penological research by focusing on prison design, prison artefacts, everyday prison life and imprisoned bodies. The book will be of interest to students, researchers, architects and politicians."

"Bioclimatic Architecture and Cyprus" sets out to demonstrate that bioclimatic architecture is a viable energy-saving concept which can be applied in the context of Cyprus through both research and hands on examples. A principal aim of the research revealed in this publication was to develop an understanding of the criteria needed for an appropriate bioclimatic architecture that is sensitive to both energy use and climatic conditions. For this purpose, the climatic conditions Cyprus, thermal comfort, passive solar systems, comparison of vernacular and contemporary buildings, energy uses, building and energy legislations, education in bioclimatic architecture and building examples (academic and professional) were studied, concluding that passive solar design may be successfully applied through the design of modern buildings in Cyprus. A crucial argument that transpires from this research is whether environmentally responsible architecture should be regarded as a specialisation within architectural education or whether the entire spectrum of architecture should be taught as a science and as an art that is equally accountable to man and to the environment. This begs the question: Shouldn't architecture always be ecologically responsible? This book brings local case studies to the forefront in an attempt to give a concrete understanding on bioclimatic architecture. It entails of a compilation of student design projects from the Department of Architecture of the University of Nicosia as well as built projects by the author which address bioclimatic design approaches. The goal of this book is to transcend knowledge without any monetary benefit. The book is available for free. View low resolution book: https://issuu.com/petroslapithis/docs/bioclimatic_architecture_and_cyprus Download high Resolution print: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JR-hL_D1ecHbD5QVCp2ns3nQ_QDBfoHw/view?usp=sharing Order the high resolution printed book here: ...

SFRH/BPD/75978/2011 UID/ANT/04038/2013 ; Within the history of Portuguese architecture, a survey conducted on vernacular dwellings in the mid-1950s has a significant place. This article examines how this survey has been remembered and enhanced, mobilised and updated ever since, playing a part in the empowerment of architecture as a discipline, as a profession, and as a matter of culture in Portugal. The main argument is that the collective and individual recollection of the survey has extolled the aesthetic and ethical lessons it provided for architects practice, activating the symbolic capital of an expression of culture long rooted in Portuguese discourses of national identity. This politics of memory has contributed to the recognition of Portuguese architects authority, autonomy and identity as a profession. ; authorsversion ; published