Site/Non-Site: Extending the Parameters in Contemporary Landscape

As the world teeters on the verge of environmental collapse, landscape architecture has taken on a new significance offering a longed-for sanctuary for our increasingly urbanised lives. Here, in his introduction to the issue, guest-editor Michael Spens explains how by taking its impetus from land art, landscape architecture, as an expanded field, transcends the conventional confines of site. This renders it possible to read architecture ‘as landscape, or as non-landscape, as building becomes non-site’ and the ‘site indeed materialises as the work per se’. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Affects of Realism: Or the Estrangement of the Background

Affect is not just about mood and fantasy; at its best, it is an aesthetic provocation that can generate a profound questioning of the nature of reality. The 19th-century Realist writers and artists understood this – and its political implications – well. After examining the theme with reference to the writings of an international array of cultural critics, architect Michael Young – cofounder with Kutan Ayata of the New York-based studio Young & Ayata – presents a project by his firm that is subtly designed to trigger affective sensations of defamiliarisation.     

绘画与建筑——当建筑大师帕拉斯玛“相遇”绘画杰作

短文主人公帕拉斯玛是芬兰一位著作等身、实践及建筑活动都颇为丰富的著名建筑师。在他几乎倾其一生的思考创作中．绘画或其他艺术形式对建筑的影响都始终是其关注与探讨的话题。《相遇：尤哈尼·帕拉斯玛-建筑论文集》是大师用他的生活体验与人世“相遇”而引发的一系列有关建筑存在的思考。本文试图分析该书中帕拉斯玛在其身体现象学观念下,解读绘画中的建筑的独特方式,从而揭示他与艺术“相遇”的本质。     

北极圈内的建筑杰作--建筑大师帕拉斯玛对传统民居的现代诠释

该文对芬兰著名建筑师,建筑评论家尤哈尼·帕拉斯玛(JubanPallasmaa)的生平和学术、创作成就作了介绍;对帕拉斯玛的作品,特别是所作住于芬兰北部伊那瑞小城尤图河溪的展示遊牧民族、萨米人民俗文化为主旨的萨米(西达)博物馆的设计作详尽的介绍和评述.     

Developing a Sensitivity to Locale and ‘Human Experience’

Most of the architects featured in this issue, who are known for their sensitivity to place, studied abroad and continue to practise and teach internationally. Jayne Merkel explores how a broadening of personal experience through travel has helped hone their affinity to the particular and the local over the standard and the global.     

Finding Time

What has our sense of the acceleration of time got to bear on our experience of cities? How might it be consciously countered by architects ‘finding time’ through ‘thoughtful design and measured observation’. ‘A self-declared ‘cultural polymath’, Tim Makower is the founder of Makower Architects. A partner at Allies and Morrison for many years, he has significant experience in leading large-scale projects, ranging from the King's Cross Masterplan in London to the Old Doha Regeneration Framework, which he draws on here and in his book Touching the City: Thoughts on Urban Scale (Wiley, 2014).