Global Village Media: Coming Together in the Early 1970s at Whiz Bang Quick City

Felicity D Scott , Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), describes here the instant city events of the early 1970s. These foreshadowed current global village media practices in what now seems a quaintly material manner: communication between sites involved the physical mailing of videotapes and ‘wire photos’ through the postal service. The sites themselves – in the US and elsewhere – were transformed into ‘instant cities’ through the erection of physical geodesic domes, teepees and inflatables in seas of mud. The true antecedents of today's instant networking, these pioneers embraced the newest technology available at the time and the most innovative forms of temporary architecture.     

Fabrication Agency: Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall

Advances in computation challenge established design approaches in architecture through a much deeper integration of form generation and materialisation. Tobias Schwinn , Research Associate at the Institute for Computational Design (ICD), University of Stuttgart, and Guest-Editor Achim Menges , Director of the ICD, introduce how the potentials and constraints of robotic fabrication can now be explored as generative drivers in agent-based design. This enables architectural innovation in unison with fabricability, structural capacity and spatial performance, as demonstrated by the Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall in Schwäbisch Gmu"nd, Germany, the world's first building with a robotically fabricated segmented timber shell as its primary structure.     

To a Curator of Beautiful and Healthy Lives: A Note to Myself

How might architectural thinking and processes shift over the next 35 years? How might the architect's role be redefined with shifting ethical values? Could the architect be viewed as less of a design professional and more of a curator engaged in the development of healthy holistic environments, catering for all of society's needs? DaeWha Kang , an architect from 2050, writes to his earlier self, critiquing the work that he undertook in independent practice and as a design director at Zaha Hadid Architects in the mid-2010s. He describes how his design methodologies have evolved in the intervening years.     

In the Pursuit of Pleasure: The Not so Fleeting Life of the Pavilion and its Ilk

Author and architecture critic for the London Evening Standard, Robert Bevan reflects on the enduring appeal of the temporary structure, speaking ‘to a latent desire for freedom and movement’ as a hangover of our nomadic past in a sedentary ‘civilised’ society. He highlights the type's historical apex in Henry VIII's palatial pop-up on the Field of the Cloth of Gold, questioning the purpose and purposelessness of more recent examples.     

TYIN tegnestue Architects. Integrating On-Site Education and Practice

Founded by Andreas Grøntvedt Gjertsen and Yashar Hanstad, TYIN tegnestue Architects grew out of an initiative to provide sleeping accommodation for an orphanage in Thailand when the principals were only third-year architecture students. Norwegian architect Lisbet Harboe explains how the student-architects built up a practice while in schools by refocusing their studies and those of their peers on learning through their own experiences of construction.     

从师承关系的角度研究日本当代建筑设计的主流特征

日本有着完整的现代建筑发展史,日本建筑师凭借着其一代代的传承与创新在世界范围内取得了广泛的影响力。同时,在每一代建筑师的努力下,日本每个时期的建筑都呈现出鲜明的特点。对比现代主义时期,日本当代建筑已经呈现出完全不同的风格。本文将结合日本建筑师的代际关系与时代背景,纵向解读日本现代建筑的发展演变并剖析日本当代建筑设计倾向转变的原因,同时,以师承关系为主要线索,通过对日本当代几位重要建筑师的创作手法及其创作观念的分析,总结出日本当代建筑设计的主流特征。     

浅谈建设项目设计阶段投资控制

建设项目设计阶段投资控制的现状仍然令人堪忧．主要表现为,相关人员对设计阶段的投资控制把握还不够准确,对建设项目设计阶段投资控制的重点还不是很明确。基于此,本文在对当前投资控制现状进行深刻分析的基础上。提出了一些切实可行的建议．并引入包钢新体系工程设计方案优化的实例,进一步论证了建设项目设计阶段投资控制的重要性。     

观察法在英国医疗建筑设计研究与教学中的应用

在推动英国医疗建筑设计理性发展的诸多研究方法中,观察法因其简单有效而被广泛采用。为此,英国医疗建筑研究所(MARU)在研究生课程中特别设置了针对性的观察法练习。本文介绍观察法在英国医疗建筑设计研究与教学中的应用,希望对中国医疗建筑实践的理性发展有所助益。     

参数化和生成式风景园林设计 以清华建筑学院研究生设计课程作业为例

复杂系统和非线性科学将世界看作是由大量个体相互联系组成的动态系统。基于计算机技术的参数化和生成式设计方法在这种新的科学体系和世界观的影响下产生。风景园林作为自然生态系统的一部分,具备了复杂系统的特征,因此,在设计中运用参数化和生成式设计方法具有其独特的合理性和意义。针对这一议题进行了分析,并以研究生设计课的学生作品为例,展示了在参数化和生成式风景园林设计理念和方法上的最新的教学成果。     

厅堂声学缩尺模型试验综述

本文对厅堂声学缩尺模型试验的发展历程、理论基础和模型试验技术的应用等方面进行了文献综述,全面系统地介绍了剧场缩尺模型试验,可为厅堂声学设计提供参考。