The Tree Canopy as Blueprint

As the opportunities for new territories become more limited, the only way is up. Mitchell Schwarzer explores the dizzying heights of the ‘last biotic frontier’ of arboreal architecture with its high platforms, walkways and canopy craft. Challenging in construction and engineering terms, the tree canopy also requires engaging with a different atmospheric and climatic range to those conditions encountered at ground level. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A new land: Deleuze and Guattari and planning

This article argues that planning would benefit from greater engagement with the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. It pays particular attention to their normative political vision, which is a revolutionary agenda that aims at a condition of radical freedom for humans beyond the state and capitalism. The planning literature has only just begun to examine Deleuze and Guattari's work, and so far it has avoided discussion of their normative political vision. I argue that when we confront this vision head-on, it opens up productive existential and normative questions about what planning is and if it should exist at all.     

德勒兹平滑空间论视阈下的“界域”建筑创作思想阐释

本文通过对德勒兹平滑空间论的核心内容"空间界域性"的研究,构建体现时代特点、适应建筑与空间环境关系发展需求的"界域"建筑思想。"界域"建筑思想是对建筑与环境的差异性元素之间各种力量的协调与重组,是赋予当代建筑与环境之间增值的创造性逻辑的思想体现。从界域的视角看待建筑,实际上就是将建筑放置在城市的整体大环境中,或者说是一个大的景观环境中,界域建筑通过与城市环境物质与非物质各要素的相互关联而生成。     

德勒兹平滑空间论视阈下的“界域”建筑创作思想阐释

本文通过对德勒兹平滑空间论的核心内容“空间界域性”的研究．构建体现时代特点、适应建筑与空间环境关系发展需求的“界域”建筑思想。”界域”建筑思想是对建筑与环境的差异性元素之间各种力量的协调与重组,是赋予当代建筑与环境之间增值的创造性逻辑的思想体现。从界域的视角看待建筑．实际上就是将建筑放置在城市的整体大环境中．或者说是一个大的景观环境中．界域建筑通过与城市环境物质与非物质各要素的相互关联而生成。     

Indefinitely Intermediate: Processes of Ruralisation in Chisinau,Moldova

For a capital city, Chisinau displays an unusual proliferation of vernacular architecture – conceived in relation to the natural rather than political landscape. Architect, writer and educator Sandra Parvu examines how the Moldovan government's limited resources to impose urban order have allowed urban rurality to flourish, leading to a harmonious balance between the metropolitan and the pastoral.     

A Hospice for Parametricism

Could Parametricism 2.0 prove the final resting place for Parametricism1.0? Architect and Assistant Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, Mark Foster Gage questions the underlying currency and influence of Parametricism, condemning it as a ‘true red herring’ of a style.     

Saucier + Perrotte Architectes

Brian Carter describes the very distinct architecture of the French-Canadian practice Saucier + Perrotte. He explains how a string of small, well-conceived Québécoise arts centres in the 1990s provided a formative route to designing major institutional buildings in Montreal and beyond. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

解读格雷戈·林恩

格雷戈·林恩是近些年涌现出的一位年轻有为的数字建筑师。通过对于他本人及他的数字设计内容的研究,本文探讨了其在构建数字技术的哲学和文化内涵上所做出的努力,及其在设计方法上的突破。