新城区建设的空间尺度问题与改进策略刍议

当前新城区建设普遍存在空间尺度过大和过度机动化的问题,导致功能使用不方便、土地利用不集约。其原因既有政府主导开发中的形式主义问题和机制缺陷,也有规划设计理念上的现代主义城市思维定势和不良设计倾向。本文从规划设计和政策机制两方面提出优化策略,即建立健康的规划导向和良好的设计方法,同时优化当前城市新区开发的体制机制。     

非识别体系的一种高度——杰弗里·巴瓦的建筑世界

斯里兰卡建筑师杰弗里·巴瓦的建筑成就,通常被视为南亚地区将现代性和地方性高度融合的典范.论文试图突破以现代主义为核心的主流建筑学价值体系与可识别标签,从非识别体系的角度来探讨巴瓦的建筑世界:其独特的图纸世界和生活世界,相对主义的立场、拿来主义的策略和实用主义的方法,糅杂的构筑体系以及世俗中的精神空间.同时认为,巴瓦所达到的建筑高度可以成为当代建筑师在寻找识别体系之外的建筑学拓展的一个重要参考.     

Sidney Carter and Alfred Stieglitz: The Canadian Pictorialist Exhibition (1907)

Abstract

On a late autumn afternoon in 1907, to the sweet strains of orchestral music, 500 of Montreal's cultural elite turned out for the opening of Canada's first international exhibition of pictorial photographs, in the galleries of the Art Association of Montreal, the oldest and most prestigious art museum in the dominion.¹ Sidney Carter (figure 1), a young Photo-Secessionist zealously determined to advance ‘the cause’, had single-handedly solicited the support of the Art Association, gathered the prints, written the catalogue and hung the show.     

Rationality, irrationality, and the ethical: On saving psychology from nihilism.

Notes that much debate in contemporary psychology has been centered on the nature and scope of rationality and rational discourse. This paper seeks to elucidate 2 philosophical approaches that have come to occupy a central position in this debate: modernism and postmodernism. It will be argued that, although proceeding from antithetical assumptions concerning the proper grounding for philosophical and psychological endeavor, both modernism and postmodernism ultimately fall prey to epistemological skepticism and moral nihilism. The work of the French phenomenologist E. Levinas is offered as a possible alternative to this problem, an alternative that seeks to ground rationality in ethical obligation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Your loving auntie & God mama,Julia Cameron

Abstract

Written almost immediately upon her return from her 10 years in India, and probably at her temporary residence, Ephrahim Common, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, this note is a typical example of Mrs Cameron's effusive, loving style. The letter dates from a time 15 years before Julia Margaret touched a camera, and it is to her niece Julia PrinsepJackson, who was then only two years old. She was a god-daughter to Mrs Cameron, and later her most frequent model. Indeed, Julia Jackson (1846–1895) became one of the most beautiful of 19th-century women. Her first husband, Herbert Duckworth, died in 1870, and eight years later she married Sir Leslie Stephen, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. Two of her children became famous: Vanessa Bell as a painter, Virginia Woolf as a writer. Julia eventually wrote the DNB entry (from ‘personal knowledge’) of her eccentric aunt, who was renowned for her taste in shawls, her generosity in giving them as presents, and for fixing the images of certain 19th-century great men for all time. The ‘two Hardinges’ refers at least in part to Julia Margaret's son Hardinge Hay Cameron, godson of Lord Hardinge, the recently-retired Governor-General of India     

现代科学思想与当代建筑思潮的反思

本文从自然科学观和人文科学观两方面对当代建筑思潮进行了分析,探讨了3代多元化建筑思潮出现的原因, 以及遵循自然辩证法促进科技与文化的共同发展的意义。     

美国现代小住宅演变

以美国现代小住宅发展过程为线索,通过对一些大师及典型建筑的反思,揭示了外来建筑文化种植于本土后可出现全新的建筑时代,进而形成独特的建筑体系,繁荣与发展本国的建筑文化.同时说明小住宅建筑是人类建筑文化的一个重要载体,它体现了建筑师的创作活动不是和简单的物的对话,而是和人类和有生命的自然的对话.     

浅析现代艺术与现代主义设计的关系

20世纪初,在欧洲和美国相继出现了全面的、革命性的和彻底的现代艺术运动和现代主义设计运动,在艺术设计发展史上有着巨大的影响。文章着重分析现代艺术与现代主义设计之间水乳交融、无法割裂的关系。     

浅谈空间设计的全球性,现代性,本土性

在建筑空间中,人们看到、听到、感觉到的色彩、光、声音和材料的质感,构成了客观的物质环境,空间的设计,不仅要满足人的物质功能要求,同时也要满足人的精神功能要求。     

西方建筑空间的文化观

各种特定的文化背景孕育着各个时代、地域、环境下独特的建筑空间文化.主导西方传统建筑的是拜占庭基督教建筑,因其精神内核是建筑成为主流的主因.现代建筑的流动空间深受古典建筑的影响却不如从前恢宏.后现代建筑因处于相对主义的状态而陷入混乱.永恒的"精神内核"是建筑存在的意义.不管经济如何发达,科技如何超前,永恒真理的力量总在与各种反真理的思潮抗争,以将建筑引上光明之路--现在正是需要人们静下心来思考的时候了.