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.     

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.     

潘天寿纪念馆陈列厅照明自动控制系统的研究

本文介绍了一种应用于美术馆、博物馆的天空光照明控制系统。该系统较好地解决了天空光照明的不稳定性、不均匀性、眩光等问题，取得了非常理想的照明效果。     

永恒与改建——武汉美术馆浅析

本文通过对武汉美术馆历史因素和地理状况、平面布局、立面造型、技术措施四个方面的分析,探讨了历史建筑在改扩建过程中如何平衡更新和保护之间的关系。     

疏干补偿法与渗渠（一）：开采储量释疑

井流和沟流的水,实际上是从水面以上,在其降落并扩大过程中排除的储存水,并沿垂直方向供应着,重力水从土壤颗粒间排除后减为薄膜水每需1—2天,垂直供水可以维持很久,潜流也决不会绝对稳定。除此,潜水降落漏斗的范围以及潜水储存量的类型也在此加以介绍。     

联接复合体——霍尔的马赛公寓

文章是基于现当代城市／建筑文化对斯蒂文霍尔在北京的联接复合体与勒柯布西耶的马赛公寓的对比分析,不是为了印证某种历史的巧合或进行某种类比,而是为了激发和揭示霍尔这个重要作品的某些尚未被发掘的特质。     

Raw,Medium, Well Done: A Typological Reading of Australian Eating Places

Taking their cue from the culinary criteria most often applied to the cooking of a beefsteak, Rachel Hurst and Jane Lawrence develop a taxonomy of design for eating establishments in Australia. They find examples of the ‘raw’ in Melbourne's buzzing Centre Place, the ‘medium’ in a chain of Italian restaurants in Adelaide, and the ‘well done’ at The Restaurant at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.     

Type? What Type? Further Reflections on the Extended Threshold

Michael Hensel draws a parallel between the present and a moment in the early 1990s when typology seemed poised to come to the fore. He highlights how despite a promising start this interest slipped away and was supplanted by an obsession with topography and highly complex surfaces, leading to a primacy of the individual built form over the urban.     

Contextual Counterpoint

In recent decades, conservationists and planners have co-opted contextualism, reducing it to a tool for enforcing urban conformity. Here Charles Jencks reclaims contextualism as a dynamic design strategy. He identifies four different contextual treatments that as well as ensuring continuity are potentially transformative. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.