El Sur Global: Future Resilient City

Shifting the focus from futuristic visions, Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner with Alexis Kalagas of interdisciplinary design practice Urban-Think Tank urge us to ‘forget about utopia’, for in the most part the urban environment of 2050 is already built. Architects’ sights need to be set on the sometimes grim and unfolding reality of favelas and the world's informal cities.     

建造故事 山姆·瑞吉威对马可·弗拉斯卡里的访谈

文章记录了作者与意大利建筑师、建筑理论学家马可.弗拉斯卡里的访谈。在这场以"建造"为主题的长篇访谈中论述了包括材料、物质性、技艺在内的多个主题,并且以帕拉第奥、斯卡帕等人的多个作品为例,深入浅出地阐释不同历史语境下由建造产生的建筑表达与意义上的丰富性。这与现代建筑、现代建筑教育中视中性的空间与材料为理想观点形成鲜明的反差,也因此构成对"建构"话语独树一帜的讨论与补充。     

隐含的界限—古典与现代之间

该文通过对帕拉蒂奥语系进行分析和深化,揭示了由符号化体系对建筑空间体系进行分析的可能性,由此形成对古典建筑以及现代建筑概念的再认识的可能,形成一种新的理解方式。     

Weaverbird: Topological Mesh Editing for Architects

Design and computation consultant Giulio Piacentino is the developer of WeaverBird. Here he describes how the plug-in ‘gives architects more geometric control and allows them to create complex surface structures that join in orderly ways, yet in arbitrary configurations’.     

Practices @ Home: Assimilating the Past and the Present for a Visionary Architecture

Guest-Editor Mehran Gharleghi describes the work of four Iranian practices - Fluid Motion Architects (FMA), Pouya Khazaeli Parsa, Arsh Design Studio and Kourosh Rafiey/Asar Consultant Engineers' Co) - that are worthy of international attention. Over the last decade, all have distinguished themselves by developing a body of work ‘that is not only globally informed but also conscious and proud of its local, regional and national identity’.     

Radical Italian Architecture Yesterday and Today

In Italy there is a revival of the spirit of 1960s Radicalism. Fresh from university, young architects ‘pick up a rock band name, enrol in an architectural competition or just invent their own research and project installations’. William Menking, who co-curated the 2003 exhibition at London's Design Museum on Superstudio - the supergroup of Italian radicali - and Olympia Kazi bring the new generation of young protagonists under scrutiny. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Resisting system and failure modes of masonry domes

The research synthesized in this paper focused on ultimate strength, structural safety assessment, and collapse of masonry domes. Activity was directed at analyzing the relationships between safety factor and geometry, and carrying out research targeted at reducing the incidence and severity of structural failures in cultural buildings. This paper shows that the resisting system of a masonry dome is not the two-dimensional shell, but a one-dimensional mechanism that derives from the splitting of the shell and drum. The resisting system, whose geometry depends on the dome shape and brick or stone pattern, may include the lantern and/or the masonry constructions around the drum.Well-known domes taken from architectural cultural heritage are used to exemplify the pivotal role of geometry and construction techniques in providing ultimate strength. These examples also show the importance of considering the architectural design of the time, in structural analyses.The results found in the paper suggest how to provide masonry domes with adequate safety, using the minimal level of structural intervention; in particular, without altering the way the building reacts to applied loads. Hence, the paper helps understand how to reduce the amount of structural work, which, in turn, guarantees conservation and restoration, as well as safeguarding.The conclusions are devoted to analyzing which observations are valid for seismic assessment and how the other observations have to be modified for seismic actions.     

Serving,Owning, Authoring

Service provider or creative – which is the architect's primary role? And what legal, economic and ethical implications does each aspect carry? Architect and theorist David Ruy examines evolving business models in the architectural profession, from forays into property management to a focus on intellectual property rights, and considers the complexities of copyright law in the digital era.     

人文主义的哲学再思与帕拉第奥的建筑理想

本文试图借由对人文主义思想发展脉络的考察,对人文主义的由来、文艺复兴时期的时代精神,以及人文主义建筑师帕拉第奥在建筑中对自己宇宙理想的实践等问题进行研究,从而理清帕拉第奥与哲学先贤的思想传承关系,探究其建筑作品背后潜藏的建筑哲学与宇宙理想。