Built Conservation and the Unfinished Fabrics of Time

Differentiating between the static impulse to preserve and the more open-ended and imaginative process of conservation, Federica Goffi presents a building as ‘a fabric that, even when complete, is unfinished and open to change’. Associate Professor and Associate Director of Graduate Programs at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University in Ottawa, Goffi has written widely on the topic of time, particularly taking St Peter's in the Vatican by way of example.     

对原真性的另一种解读——《圣安东尼奥宣言》译介

原真性是定义、评估和监控文化遗产的基本要素之一。1994年发表的《关于原真性的奈良文件》并非原真性讨论的终结,而是全球大讨论的开始。在这场大讨论中,1996年在美国圣安东尼奥组织的”关于文化遗产保护和管理中的原真性的美洲研讨会”以及由此产生的《圣安东尼奥宣言》最为突出,讨论了有关原真性的方方面面,内容极为丰富并讨论了《奈良文件》的若干缺陷。     

Collective Intelligence in Design

In their introduction to this issue, Christopher Hight and Chris Perry define the idea of collective intelligence in its relationship to design practice and to broader technological and social formations. First they suggest a reformulation of practices around networked communication infrastructures as conduits for the new orchestrations of power that Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt detailed in their books Empire and Multitude. They then describe how such practices are often involved in the development of responsive sensing environments as new sites for manifesting the social organisations and communities made possible via telecommunications and the Internet. Lastly, they address how traditional boundaries of design disciplines and knowledge, from architecture to programming, are opening into complex co-minglings of their respective isolated ‘intelligences’ into collectives capable of engaging these new sites, new briefs and new sorts of projects. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Fearscapes: Caracas Postcards from a Violent City

Venezuelan architect, artist and educator Eduardo Kairuz reveals how beneath the stereotypical view of Caracas as the ‘Murder Capital of the World’ lies a history of savage imposition, dating back to its founding in the 16th century and its colonial past and manifested today in the stark social segregation between parts of the city. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Hungary: the organic and the rational traditions

The most memorable architectural images of the early 1990s were those of the organic architecture of Imre Makovecz. With their extraordinary, Expressionist timber forms, they encapsulated for the West the romantic possibilities of the architecture that lay behind the former Iron Curtain. Edwin Heathcote, who in 1997 wrote a monograph on Imre Makovecz for Academy Editions, here explains why ‘the organic’ counterpoised by ‘the rational’ has continued to provide such a rich dialogue for contemporary Hungarian architecture. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Hotel of Reflections

Howard Watson describes the derelict 19th-century alcohol factory on the Asian bank of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, which became a 30-year restoration and renovation project for architects Nedret and Mark Butler. On the hotel's completion, their daughter Yasha realised an ingenious treatment of the interiors that takes its cue from the buildings' waterside setting. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Designing Commonspaces: Riffing with Michael Hardt on the Multitude and Collective Intelligence

Michael Hardt has made an indispensable contribution to current understanding of the impact of globalisation on social, economic and political practice, especially in his two books, Empire and Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. In order to engage Hardt with many of the projects and ideas raised in this issue, guest-editors Christopher Hight and Chris Perry invited him to participate in a blog. The blog format enabled the resulting exchange between Christopher Hight and Hardt to be an open platform relating concepts like ‘empire’ and ‘multitude’ to contemporary design practice, and even raised challenges implicit in Hardt's own work. It also provided a productive alternative to the expropriation of a theorist's writings to legitimatise a particular design approach or methodology. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

旅顺口的旧官邸与新住宅,新旧建筑的并存与发展——谈旅顺开世嘉年小区规划设计

结合开世嘉年小区的规划设计,探讨了在历史地段的再生途径之一,即植入新居住职能,同时探讨了在规划设计中对于历史建筑保护的一种处理方式和态度,以及对于历史遗留原生态树木的保护及合理利用方式。同时结合度假类住宅的产品定位,建筑设计在对西班牙建筑风格的创作上进行了创新。     

浅析高迪设计思想对学前儿童室内环境创设的启示

学前儿童室内环境的创设对儿童的健康发展具有重要意义.本文主要分析了国内学前儿童室内环境设计的现状和特点,并通过剖析安东尼.高迪自然主义和人文主义的设计哲学,来为我国儿童室内环境创设提供新的思路和具有现实意义的启示.     

借石攻玉——浅谈盘龙江滨河空间的创造

水是城市中最具亲和力的因素之一，城市中有河流穿过会使此城市更具活力，因此，滨河空间的创造应该是城市设计的重要任务之一．盘龙江是昆明城中最主要的河流．本文试图借鉴美国圣安东尼河滨步道的开发经验，浅谈盘龙江滨河空间的创造问题．