棉纺织设备技术进步对提高生产效率的影响

介绍了幕尼黑2007ITMA及上海2008ITMA Asia and CITAME上展出的棉纺织设备情况.近年来,棉纺设备的技术进步快,主要表现在对生产效率的提高、产品质量控制、环保技术的发展、信息技术的发展,以及资源循环利用技术等6个方面.对棉纺织设备的技术进步及其对提高生产效率的影响进行了专门讨论.     

中国建材认证体系的现状及发展趋势

介绍了我国建材认证体系的现状,分析了中小建材企业的特点.阐述了影响我国建材市场秩序,阻碍环保节能建材产品在乡村发展应用的根源.VA2008认证体系的提出,不仅将规范管理具有乡村经济的中小型建材企业,同时也将促进我国环保节能型建材产品的快速发展.     

Psychodynamic doctoral dissertations completed in 2008.

Presents a list of psychodynamic doctoral dissertations completed in 2008. The list is arranged alphabetically by name of the educational institution. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Shape and the City

At a time when architecture's historical relationship to the city -founded on various formal and, more recently, informal homologies – has been rendered inoperative, how might a renewed architecture constructively inform the megalopolis? RE Somol flings all the formal and informal protocols offered to the city by architecture out of the pram and calls for a politics of shape, a potential trajectory tested with two projects by Zago Architecture.     

From Product to Process: Building on Urban-Think Tank’s Approach to the Informal City

Adriana Navarro-Sertich interviews a pioneer of the informal in architecture, co-founder and co-director of Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) Alfredo Brillembourg . Brillembourg explains how U-TT's work seeks to connect informal settlements with the formal city, enabling inhabitants to access services and infrastructure. U-TT is now taking the lessons it has learnt in working in Latin American cities, such as Caracas and São Paulo, elsewhere in the world with the aim of ‘working globally and acting locally’. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Driving an Ecological Agenda with Project-Led Research

Here Hugh Whitehead, Irene Gallou, Harsh Thapar, Giovanni Betti and Salmaan Craig of the Specialist Modelling Group (SMG) at Foster + Partners directly address the underlying premise behind the issue. They argue the case for the architect as generalist or ‘centralised controller’, coordinating an often specialised and diverse collaborative design team. As an in-house consultancy within Foster + Partners, SMS provides expertise in complex geometry, computer programming, parametric design and rapid prototyping and environmental simulation, aiming to provided directed specialist support whenever required. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A Well-Cultivated House

The project to design a villa in Mongolia in China provided Rafi Segal with an opportunity to rethink the relationship between the natural and the built, blurring the boundaries between the agricultural and the domestic. The house and rural landscape are unified through the main roof structure, a furrowed surface that resembles a ploughed field planted with crops and local flora. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Amphibious Territories

Since 2005, when Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans, our polarised perception of land and water has been irrevocably shifted by the failure of static levee flood-control systems. Ila Berman explains how a more fluid geographical approach to land and water, which places an emphasis on continuous mutable ecologies, is key to a more sustainable future. She describes four experimental projects that are ground-breaking in their treatment of the relationship between the aquatic and terra firma. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.