Digital Solipsisim and the Paradox of the Great ‘Forgetting’

Neil Spiller counters the main theme of this issue by questioning the dominant focus on production and new technologies in architectural culture, which places a premium on the generation of ‘ever more gratuitous complex surfaces and structures’. Could this inward-looking emphasis on process and obsessive love of new technologies be at the expense of the final product? Are we in danger of producing artefacts that lose sight of human expression and poetics in the competitive drive for greater complexity? Are we, in fact, heading towards a great ‘forgetting’ in which humanity is subtracted from the architectural product?     

Digital Cottage Industries

Mike Aling 's ProunStretcher project engages with the recent global revival of cottage industries, fuelled by the application of digital technologies, as a means to address ‘the manifold social issues present across our rural landscape-as-urban-extension’.     

阿尔伯托·坎波·巴埃萨的三座建筑

文章通过对建筑师阿尔伯托·坎波·巴埃萨的三个作品的描述,讨论了他的建筑作品中光与空间的精确剖面关系,以及散普尔所说的“切割”和“搭建”这两个概念如何在实践性操作中运用。     

SPAN——数字敏感性

本文介绍了马蒂亚斯·戴尔·坎普和他的事务所SPXN的主要设计思想,并通过访谈,详述了他的主要设计哲学和在参数化设计及建造领域的最新实践。     

Metrogramma

Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi describes how the two principals of Metrogramma, an emerging office in Milan, drew on their postgraduate experiences in New York and the Netherlands to inform the dynamic manner in which they practise. Building up their practice through strategic urban planning, they are now setting their sights on major architectural schemes. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Young Experimentalists

Experimental architecture in Italy began to take a new form in the 1990s when young architects, who were embracing new digital technologies, also began to go abroad to study and practise in greater numbers. Anna Baldini outlines a fecund strand in Italian architecture which, while no longer wholly new or youthful, retains its vitality. She highlights, in particular, the contributions of: Avatar Architettura, Gianluca Brini, Elastico spa+3, Exposure Architects, Giuliano Fausti, Luisa Fontana, Giorgio Goffi, ian+, Iotti+Pavarani Architetti, Fabrizio Leoni, ma0/emmeazero, Antonella Mari, Metrogramma, Open Building Research (OBR), RoccAtelier, studio.eu and Vulcanica Achitettura. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Open City and the e[ad] School of Architecture and Design

Located in Ritoque on central Chile's Pacific coast, Open City is a unique community established in the 1970s by faculty members from the nearby e[ad] school of architecture at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso. Here Professor David Jolly Monge , a founding member of the Open City, and Guest-Editors Christian Hermansen Cordua and Michael Hensel describe how the construction of structures on the site offer the collective community and students alike ongoing opportunities for ‘thinking, research and experimentation’.     

解读阿尔帕托·坎波·巴埃萨的空间设计手法

西班牙建筑师巴埃萨的建筑优雅而富有诗意,理性而不失浪漫,他的建筑大多以白色为主色调,在阳光下显得格外出众,或矗立在山涧,或静立在街道旁;在他的建筑空间表达中,常出现内向性空间;在他设计的住宅中,建筑位于院落中心位置,四周围以院落,院落的布置简洁,白色的大理石铺地,水池,零星几棵小树,白色围墙,围墙上没有洞窗,同外界隔离,在院落里仰望天空,沉寂在纯净的世界里冥想。