Hungary: the organic and the rational traditions

The most memorable architectural images of the early 1990s were those of the organic architecture of Imre Makovecz. With their extraordinary, Expressionist timber forms, they encapsulated for the West the romantic possibilities of the architecture that lay behind the former Iron Curtain. Edwin Heathcote, who in 1997 wrote a monograph on Imre Makovecz for Academy Editions, here explains why ‘the organic’ counterpoised by ‘the rational’ has continued to provide such a rich dialogue for contemporary Hungarian architecture. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

论标志的视觉力结构

通过对标志的形式与意义的关系描述,引出了视觉力结构理论,结合实例,阐述了如何运用阿恩海姆美学思想解读视觉力结构,对标志的认识从形意相结合提升到形式即意义的层面,并解读了好的现代标志的形式特征。同时,分析了标志的视觉力结构与形式意蕴的区别,得出了标志视觉力结构理论给现代标志设计的启示。     

论标志形式的一般性质

分析阿恩海姆关于标志形式的一般性质的理论,阐述了标志形式一般性与独特性的关系,以及如何吸收这个理论提升标志设计的思维层次。     

Continuous body emotion recognition system during theater performances

Understanding emotional human behavior in its multimodal and continuous aspect is necessary for studying human machine interaction and creating constituent social agents. As a first step, we propose a system for continuous emotional behavior recognition expressed by people during communication based on their gesture and their whole body dynamical motion. The features used to classify the motion are inspired by the Laban Movement Analysis entities 11 and are mapped onto the well‐known Russell Circumplex Model 4 . We choose a specific case study that corresponds to an ideal case of multimodal behavior that emphasizes the body motion expression: theater performance. Using a trained neural network and annotated data, our system is able to describe the motion behavior as trajectories on the Russell Circumplex Model diagram during theater performances over time. This work contributes to the understanding of human behavior and expression and is a first step through a complete continuous emotion recognition system whose next step will be adding facial expressions. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A New Overground Line and the Sense of Place

Robert Harbison describes how the upgrading and extension of the old East London Line, which connects the city east and south, enables new explorations and insights. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.