Data City: Urban Metabolic Decision Processes

Designer and computational specialist Daniel Segraves describes the decarbonisation tool that he has helped develop in collaboration with Chicago-based Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architects and the Argonne National Laboratory Computation Department. The creation of the multi-scale analytic model focusing on the embodied and expended carbon of urban systems allows for energy performance to be tracked across a wider region, encompassing multiple buildings and agents.     

Architecture (and the other 99%): Open-Source Architecture and Design Commons

Under the current commercial practice model, can architecture ever really be cutting-edge or egalitarian in its aims? If only 2 per cent of the world's buildings are designed by architects for 1 per cent of the richest clients, is it possible to design for a wide cross section of the population let alone be truly subversive? Alastair Parvin of architecture studio 00 (zero zero) and co-founder of the Wiki-House puts the case forward for a whole new model of open-source practice.     

All Night Long: The Architectural Jazz of the Texas Rangers

In the mid-1950s, a group of young faculty at the University of Texas School of Architecture in Austin - aka the Texas Rangers - entertained themselves with weekly sessions of a sophisticated, collective drawing game, ‘Dot-the-Dot’, in which there was an emphasis on inventive fluency in hand drawing as well as an innate knowledge of historic European city plans. What happened when Mark Morris , Visiting Associate Professor at Cornell University, decided in a design studio to ask present-day students to revive the game?     

再度审视建筑文化--结构肌理和地形学国际研讨会综述

基于对中国建筑学科发展的认识,和对快速大量的建筑营造带来的现象的反思,同时也应对建筑学术界关于"建构"概念的热烈讨论,南京大学建筑研究所特邀著名建筑理论家美国哥伦比亚大学建筑研究学院的教授肯尼斯·弗兰普顿(Kenneth Frampton)作为会议主席和组织者之一,主办了题为"结构,肌理和地形学"的国际学术研讨会.弗兰普顿先生邀请了来自日本、美国和欧洲的著名建筑师和建筑理论家以建筑的结构、表皮和形式三个相互关联的元素为研讨会的出发点,从十九世纪中叶德意志建筑理论对建构的最初思考到当今建筑、景观和城市的表现形式,进行广泛而深入的探讨.     

建筑师挥舞的利器--山本理显建筑设计的系统化探索

通过访谈的形式,针对建外SOHO,由山本理显亲自介绍该项目在设计过程中所着重考虑过的开放空间、新生活方式、正立方体模块空间排列、25°转角、建筑配色和"阈"空间等手法,强调了系统化建立在建筑设计过程与控制中的作用和意义.     

Construction of underground works and tunnels in ancient Egypt

The Ancient Egyptian has an important role in developing the use of the underground especially in the construction of: tombs, warehouses, water passages, and tunnels which were used as accesses to tombs, worshipping rooms and the warehouses. These tunnels were constructed through rock cutting. The underground construction by the Ancient Egyptians was based upon engineering principles represented by the construction angle treatment of the different levels, the required height declination angles and the construction method itself, either by rock digging or stone construction. The great interest and attention given by the Ancient Egyptian to the eternity of the life after death provided the utmost impact to encourage a strong interest in the tomb architecture and in the philosophy of underground construction.     

Type? What Type? Further Reflections on the Extended Threshold

Michael Hensel draws a parallel between the present and a moment in the early 1990s when typology seemed poised to come to the fore. He highlights how despite a promising start this interest slipped away and was supplanted by an obsession with topography and highly complex surfaces, leading to a primacy of the individual built form over the urban.     

中国营造学社的学术之路

回顾中国营造学社先辈学者们所开拓的中国建筑史与历史建筑保护的学术之路,指出中国营造学社不仅在已经开创的文献发掘与遗迹考察相结合、关注法式制度层面的深入上取得了长足的进展,而且在中国建筑史学的外延层面,如历史建筑保护、旧城保护、中国近代建筑史、中国现代建筑史,中国乡土建筑考察与研究等诸多方面也取得了丰硕成果。     

在革新与现代主义之间:夏昌世与德国(英文)

夏昌世,中国第一代建筑师,1920年代在德国卡尔斯鲁厄留学。1932年,他在图宾根完成了博士论文之后重返祖国。1940年代后期,他在广州成为教授,1973年与妻子一同重返德国,并在那里生活直至1996年逝世。他的设计方法不仅受到那个时代欧洲现代主义运动氛围的熏陶,还来自他对中国传统景观与建筑艺术历史的研究。他是引领岭南区域形成岭南学派建筑的主导力量之一。同时,作为一建筑学教授,他在广州培养了新一代青年建筑师。