Fab-Union: A Collective Online to Offline Robotic Design Platform

Official architectural education in China remains very traditional and has yet to engage with the digital age. To counter this, Shanghai-based Fab-Union was set up in 2014 to establish a cross-disciplinary community – now over 10,000 strong – that is driving the emergence of digital crafts in the country. Here, its founder Philip Yuan and lead designer Hao Meng describe Fab-Union's online design platform, its offline collective design space, and its robotic factory that functions as an open research facility and fabrication workshop.     

Prejudicial Narratives: Building Tomorrow's World Today

Film production requires world building: the power to visualise and bring to life narrative through a film's total environment. This is often entirely speculative, imagining alternative or future worlds. Here, Alex McDowell , acclaimed British production designer, producer and Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) describes his world-building, narrative approach to production design, which he consolidated in the Steven Spielberg film Minority Report (2002) that envisioned Washington DC in the year 2050. The possibilities of this storytelling technique are demonstrated by its transference into real-life projects, such as the immersive model that his production company, 5D GlobalStudio, developed for Al Baydha, a Bedouin village in Saudi Arabia.     

Miesian Grids and the Domain of Ink

What happens when you subvert the standardised repetition of the Modernist grid? In Building the Picture, a series of drawings that architect Elena Manferdini produced for an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago that ran during the spring and summer of 2015, visual effects and colour were applied to counteract Mies's highly uniform and modular mass-producible systems.     

当代ArtDeco建筑形式特征解读

在当代技术条件下,ArtDeco发展出了新的表达形式,本文分析了传统ArtDeco建筑的三大精髓,深入探讨了ArtDeco的装饰和符号象征的内容,从装饰和符号两个方面对当代的ArtDeco建筑形式特征进行解读。     

泉州南安桃源宫陀罗尼经幢的建筑特征及其宗教作用

回顾我国石经幢的起源,进而探究南安桃源宫陀罗尼经幢的建筑特征以及雕刻艺术的文化内涵,并把它与泉州及江南和中原地区的石经幢进行对比,探索其建筑样式演变的历程,分析其宗教作用。     

Colonial Irrigation: Myths of Emptiness

This paper examines the role of public art in urban redevelopment, focusing on the reconstruction of Coventry (UK) in the post-war years. Overseen by the city's Chief Architect, Donald Gibson, this redevelopment has often been described as resulting in a placeless and artless urban landscape indistinguishable from other redeveloped city centres in post-war Britain. To the contrary, here it is suggested that public art was an important feature of Coventry's new urban landscape, with the attempt to create a new civic identity manifest in a series of highly symbolic and distinctive public artworks. Analysing both the official symbolism of these artworks and their reception in the public sphere, it is concluded that, although just one aspect of the urban landscape, the production and consumption of public art encapsulated the tensions that existed between different visions of the city.     

解读Louis I.Kahn的孟加拉首都政府建筑群

通过分析孟加拉首都政府建筑群来诠释路易斯·康的设计哲学理念及他将物质要素的功能性与精神性完美结合的设计手法。     

论周国桢陶艺之东西合璧

周国桢的动物雕塑陶艺具有东西方文化融合的特质,在其艺术生涯的不同阶段有不同的表现,主要体现在早期西方雕塑手法与中国民间题材的融合,中期中国古代高温颜色釉与现代雕塑艺术抽象形式的结合,晚期东方大写意雕塑精神与西方写实主义雕塑功底之融合,以及中国书法艺术与泥条盘筑、泥片成型之技法的结合,从而不断创新现代陶艺语言。     

消失模工艺在艺术品铸造中的应用

阐述了消失模铸造艺术品工艺特点，并详细描述消失模铸造工艺品实例——铜钟整个消失模铸造工艺过程。展示了中大型工艺品采用消失模铸造的优越性。     

陶艺材质艺术语言表达探究

论述了陶艺作品的种类和属性，并从材质和手工艺的运用方面探究了陶艺制品的创造思维。