Digital Cottage Industries

Mike Aling 's ProunStretcher project engages with the recent global revival of cottage industries, fuelled by the application of digital technologies, as a means to address ‘the manifold social issues present across our rural landscape-as-urban-extension’.     

Charles Marville and the Landscapes of the Carrières d’Amérique

Charles Marville’s photographs of Paris preserve the look of streets slated for demolition under Georges-Eugène Haussmann. This article examines his photographs of the Carrières d’Amérique, or America Quarries – gypsum quarries in the outlying Parisian neighbourhood of Belleville. At a time when the rezoning of districts that were formerly extra muros was still controversial, Belleville was seen as a crime-ridden area. Marville’s photographs become documents that refute contemporary narratives of criminality. Borrowing Walter Benjamin’s view that the city ‘opens up’ to the flâneur ‘as a landscape’, the article analyses Marville’s landscapes of the Carrières d’Amérique as images that juxtapose the city, the work site, and the no-man’s land or terrains vagues at Paris’s outer limits.     

亨利·巴瓦(Henri Bava)在中法园林文化论坛上的报告

亨利·巴瓦先生通过介绍其承担的6个项目（瑞士日内瓦扬特基金会花园、法国尼姆市中学校园庭院设计、混合停车场设计、魔水花园、绿色都市、巴黎市中心集市改造工程），向人们阐述了他的设计观念，他认为土壤是进行设计工作的基质和源泉，园林设计不仅要考虑土壤本身的含义，更要由表及里去考虑各个时期中自然、历史、文化对土壤的影响所形成的地貌物的整体。他通过实例告诉风景园林师要深入挖掘发现设计区域内一些未知的、看不见的东西，从而在整体上把握我们的设计。     

City as Political Form: Four Archetypes of Urban Transformation

Pier Vittorio Aureli focuses on the category of archetype as an alternative to the idea of type. Four examples – the axial streets of Renaissance Rome, the 17th-century Parisian place, the 19th-century independent block in Berlin and the 20th-century Viennese superblock – are explored here to describe the emergence of modern urban forms that explicitly embody power relations.     

Invisible Agency

Jeremy Till and Tatjana Schneider call for a redefinition of the architect away from the professional who is ostensibly involved in adding ‘more stuff to the world’. Looking beyond the business of matter or managing the impact of that matter on the environment, they explore ways that designers can use their intelligence and creativity to shift existing habits of consumption and patterns of behaviour. They highlight the work for four practices who are already operating in this field: 2012Architecten, 00/:, Arif Hasan and Morar de Outras Maneiras (MOM).     

Illuminating Embodiment: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Relational Architectures

Art and architecture have a strong tradition of humanism in which man and the human body are the centre and measure of all things. Maria Fernández describes the work of artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer whose work transgresses and challenges these preconceptions through performance, seeking to expose the body and society's receptivity to instability, fluctuation and re-imagining. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Croatia

Abstract

When we speak about early photography in Yugoslavia, we must bear in mind the geographical and political situation of the country at the time when photography appeared. In the 19th century, Croatia, today one of the six Yugoslav federal republics, was a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. So was Slovenia and, in the latter part of the century, Bosnia and Hercegovina, while Serbia and Montenegro had emerged from the disintegration of the Ottoman empire as small independent states. In this survey we shall consider the beginnings of photography in Croatia, not just because that aspect has been studied the most, but because Croatia's special position within the boundaries of Austria-Hungary led to a correspondingly rapid development of photography in this area, as compared with other Slav lands in the south.     

Club Cinemetrics: New Post-Perspectival Design Methodologies

Cinemetrics is a post-perspectival, cinematically inspired drawing system that encourages a way of working that is multilayered and multiscalar, responding to the complexities of contemporary life and the city. Here Brian McGrath , in collaboration with Hsueh , Cheng Leun , Paul CHU Hoi Shan , José De Jesús Zamora and Victoria Marshall , demonstrates how in field work in the US, Thailand and Taiwan, Cinemetrics enabled them to adopt an interdisciplinary process addressing transdisciplinary issues. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.