Professor Geoffrey Petts (1953–2018): An outstanding interdisciplinary river scientist

This paper provides an introduction and an editorial to this special issue of River Research and Applications by documenting the contributions made by Professor Geoffrey Petts to our interdisciplinary understanding of the functioning of rivers and their floodplains and their sustainable management. We outline Geoff's career, which framed not only his research but its communication through his inspirational teaching but also included very high level and innovative contributions to the management and development of several UK universities. We then explain how and why Geoff was an outstanding interdisciplinary river scientist and how he communicated his science through both integrative books and book chapters and also research papers that developed eight complementary research themes. Lastly, we introduce the papers in this special issue and show how they provide inputs to Geoff's areas of research interest.     

The Pathology of Cryptology—A Current Survey

Abstract

“The Pathology of Cryptology” is the title of a chapter in David Kahn's book The Codebreakers. This chapter mainly deals with hidden messages, which amateur scientists claim to have discovered in the works of William Shakespeare and in other literary works. The present article picks up this subject and provides it with a theoretic framework under the name of “para-steganography.” Moreover, further case studies are added to those given by Kahn, including many examples that only became known after the publication of The Codebreakers. These considerations show that a hidden code can be found almost anywhere, provided that one looks for it in a suitable manner.     

乡土之路--杰佛里·巴瓦的风景园林设计探索之路解析

斯里兰卡著名建筑师与风景园林师杰佛里·巴瓦勇于探索建筑设计与风景园林设计的关系,其风景园林设计作品在国际风景园林界产生了很好的影响,有人称赞他为建筑与风景园林设计的结合,走出了成功的一步。他在经济并不发达、政治与民族关系纷繁复杂的斯里兰卡,默默无闻地执著工作,并最终获得成功,同时也得到世人的认可。巴瓦的才华是有目共睹的,他执著的精神和强烈的责任感,更加值得世人敬佩和学习。通过探讨他的设计理念和设计方法,试图从中找到其成功答案——如何走上乡土之路。     

英国景观大师杰弗里．杰利科

杰弗里．杰利科（1900－1996）是英国现代景观设计理论及实践的代表人物,他对英国乃至世界的现代景观设计作出了杰出的贡献,至今景观界的同行们仍对他满怀崇敬,他的设计理论及作品被视为景观专业学生必须研习的重点内容,他最著名的著作是《人类的景观》,具有代表性的作品有“肯尼迪纪念碑”和“水之园”,从他的设计理论和实践中,可以间接了解英国现代景观设计行业的发展过程以及英国现代景观设计领域的理论重心。     

Appreciating Cumbernauld

Built between 1961 and 1969, Cumbernauld town centre was intended by the town's newly established architects' department to be the centrepiece of a Modernist ‘utopia’ that would absorb Glasgow's overspill. It initially attracted architectural honours, but coverage then became damning. Reyner Banham said of it: ‘It shaped its times, and was shaped by them, most notably and depressingly in the use of raw off-the-form concrete … a weeping, sweeping, drip-stained brown.’ As a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde, Gordon Murray has worked with the head of the school, Steven Spier, to focus all final-year projects on Cumbernauld. This has resulted in a reappraisal and reappreciation of the much-maligned megastructure.     

以现代结构回应本土：杰弗里·巴瓦早期设计实践的适应性转变

以杰弗里·巴瓦早期作品中的结构设计为切入点,发掘其深层次的历史信息与现代特征,通过梳理结构设计的 演化线索,厘清巴瓦与乌尔里克·普莱斯纳的合作关系,并辨析二人结构策略的异同;进一步探讨他们如何使用现代 结构来回应本土,从中归纳出其结构设计的4点特征,充实巴瓦从“西方”语境转变到“本土”语境创作的具体内容。     

桃花源与生存的艺术:我的治愈地球之旅

On October 8, the 2020 Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) was awarded to Yu Kongjian, professor of School of Architecture and Landscape of Peking University. This highest honor for landscape architects and scholars recognizes their outstanding lifelong achievements. This article is a record of his speech given in the award ceremony that summarized his academic and professional careers. Looking back, Yu held that his village landscape experiences, melded with modern concepts of landscape and urbanism, sustainability and aesthetics, enables him to deal with the common challenges faced by the landscape architecture industry today. At the moment, the global COVID-19 pandemic is a powerful reminder that this is an incredibly sobering time to contemplate the relationship between humans and the nature. He also believed that the pandemic—together with other crises such as climate change—is highlighting the importance of landscape architecture that can not only heal bodies and minds, but also the planet itself.     

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.     

How Can Code be Used to Address Spatiality in Architecture?

Is code entirely incompatible with an intuitive exploration of space? Leon van Schaik, Professor of Architecture (Innovation Chair) at RMIT University thinks so. He contests the usefulness of the data-crunching capacity of the computer to truthfully model human flows. Moreover, he flags up a concern that an overemphasis on computation could lead architects to neglect an awareness of the place of their own spatial histories in the world, causing them to impose their own subconscious preferences on their clients.     

Hooke Park As a New AA Initiative in Education

Architectural education is passing another milestone. Whilst the reverberation of the 20th-century avant-garde can still be registered, a barrage of questions and choices is facing the next generation of graduates and their educators. Mark Prizeman argues a case to nourish designing by making as a passionate, cultural, intellectual and human activity. Through making, he concludes, three stages of building a confident architecture are found. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.