New Malacovia

In his 2009 award-winning design thesis project for the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), Pascal Bronner evokes the imaginary land of New Malacovia. Using an existing text as a catalyst, and graphite as the sole medium, Bronner transforms the inventions and urban ideas of an original fictionalised city afresh into a speculative environmental programme: a potato-fuelled miniature city is laid out on foundations of bottle corks.     

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。     

Growth Typologies,Localities and Defamiliarisation: Experiments with Artificial Urbanism in Sichuan,Guangzhou and Beijing

For the last 8 years, the Media × Design Lab at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has been engaged on research into ‘Artificial Urbanism’. Jeffrey Huang , Director of the lab, describes how generative computer codes and algorithms are employed in pursuit of an accelerated design process; with the aim of not only meeting the demands of rapid urbanisation, but also being responsive to the ecological and contextual conditions of a particular locality.     

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.     

Futuristic Retail Spaces

Valentina Croci finds the entries to a competition organised by the Benetton Group, displayed at the 2009 Milan Triennale, a rich source for emerging retail design trends. Not only do the various schemes express new relationships between shops and the city, they also highlight the importance of interactivity and experience for the physical shopping environment. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Art of Drawing

Today, architecture is inextricably linked with drawing. Drawing and representation are generally regarded as the core skills of the professional architect. Architectural theorist and historian Mario Carpo challenges the notion that architecture has to necessarily be an art of drawing. He reminds us that the architect, as a maker of drawings, is in fact a fairly recent cultural and technical phenomenon - only emerging in early 15th-century Italy. Could, then, the digital revolution of the last 20 years be starting to challenge the drawing's hegemony?     

The Sixth Sense: The Meaning of Atmosphere and Mood

Through its blinkered emphasis on visual form and function, has modernity divorced us from our sense of belonging to the cosmos? What, then, is the secret of creating architecture that envelops and inspires us? As scientific research increasingly favours the point of view that our unconscious – as opposed to detailed – perception has higher existential value, Helsinki-based architect and professor emeritus Juhani Pallasmaa argues that peripheral vision is key. Only through engagement with this can architects trigger what could be described as our sixth sense – the atmospheric.