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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."

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 ...

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