Excessive Resolution: From Digital Streamlining to Computational Complexity

Is the term ‘ornament’ set to become redundant in architecture? With the sinuous lines produced by CNC milling machines giving way to the ever more weirdly figural products of algorithmically controlled 3D printing, decoration is increasingly an integral part of form, rather than supplementary to it. Mario Carpo – Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural Theory and History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London – investigates this voxellisation, and how it drives architecture beyond human comprehension.     

GECO™: Architectural Design Through Environmental Feedback

In recent years there has been a disconnect between the early stages of design and the power of evolving analysis tools. Thomas Grabner and Ursula Frick , the founding directors of design research and development consultancy [uto], explain how their plug-in GECO™ creates essential connections between modelling and analysis software, providing the opportunity to restructure conceptual design.     

Stalker/ON

How might we ‘reboot’ architecture and ‘regain the critical’? American architectural critic and professor Peter Lang finds in Stalker's interactive field study of a Romany community around Rome a trigger for a re-energised way of thinking that questions how we might effectively live communally and economically. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Young Sensualists

Pino Scaglione perceives a new sensuality at play in Italy. He takes us on a tour that takes in the elegant and sober forms of +Arch's new headquarters for Dolce & Gabbana in Milan and the highly original new soccer stadium in Siena by Iotti + Pavarani. Heading south he highlights some remarkable new architecture in Naples, Sardinia and Sicily injected with a rare poetic sensibility. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Investigating Culture Through the Senses

Preserved for many centuries by volcanic rubble, the Roman sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum, in Southern Italy, most effectively evoke how the ancients lived. Valentina Croci reveals how MAV, the world's first virtual archaeology museum in Herculaneum, now enriches the visitor's experience and understanding of archaeological culture. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Surrealistic Exuberance – Dark Matters

For Neil Spiller, there is a current vacuum in much of contemporary parametric design. It is devoid of embodied cultural experience and character. Much can be learnt by rediscovering the dark matter of Baroque and Surrealistic art and architecture, which through repressed eroticism optimised on the simultaneous presence of the secular and the profane - the heaving physicality of the everyday world and the repressed strictures of the Catholic church. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

格拉纳达安达卢西亚纪念博物馆

西班牙格拉纳达市安达卢西亚纪念博物馆的诞生,揭示了建筑师阿尔伯托·坎波·巴埃萨设计它时所持有的对古城、历史、皇宫、已有建筑及城市整体格局的维系与尊重,赋予了这座建筑巨石板状的简约和推理般的内部空间场所构成,以及对城市空间和视觉环境的吸纳,为这座城市打造出了＂最美的建筑＂名片。     

本色建筑——阿尔伯托·坎波·巴埃萨的三个作品解读

通过解读阿尔伯托·坎波·巴埃萨自2007年以来具有代表性的三个作品,深刻剖析了其以永恒性为导向、以精确性为核心、以光与重力为武器、以环境协同为立足点的“本色建筑”理念,以及他在实践中贯彻这一理念的具体策略,并由此归纳出其“以不变应万变,以变应变”的创作宗旨,以资中国当代建筑创作借鉴.