Prejudicial Narratives: Building Tomorrow's World Today

Film production requires world building: the power to visualise and bring to life narrative through a film's total environment. This is often entirely speculative, imagining alternative or future worlds. Here, Alex McDowell , acclaimed British production designer, producer and Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) describes his world-building, narrative approach to production design, which he consolidated in the Steven Spielberg film Minority Report (2002) that envisioned Washington DC in the year 2050. The possibilities of this storytelling technique are demonstrated by its transference into real-life projects, such as the immersive model that his production company, 5D GlobalStudio, developed for Al Baydha, a Bedouin village in Saudi Arabia.     

圣莫尼卡学派与建筑艺术包装

C．詹克斯于20世纪80年代曾把F．0．盖里在内的一批洛杉矶建筑师称为“洛杉机学派”,J．M狄克逊著文建议把这些建筑师称做“圣幕尼卡学派”,因为他们相对集中在圣幕尼卡地区,本文提出了不同的看法,并进一步对盖里和莫斯的作品,特别是其“建筑艺术包装”特征进行了分析。     

Let's Rock over Barock

Since the 17th century, Austria has been a stronghold of the Baroque. Here Wolf D Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au recognises the deep pull of this cultural tradition in contemporary Austrian architecture, as it continues to endow its designers with an aptitude for spatial sequence and a tendency to prefer to design complex spaces over simplified boxes. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

“求真”与“求善”的统一:阿什比科技人文主义教育思想评析

阿什比科技人文主义教育思想是继承传统与应对现实的产物,英国悠久的人文主义传统、科技滥觞滋生的负面效应、大学人文教育的边缘化窘境等因素较大地影响了这一思想的形成.阿什比提出,要融人文精神于科学教育,通过"核心辐射"的课程模式,培养文理皆通的"完人".阿什比科技人文主义教育思想遵循了大学发展的内部逻辑与外部逻辑,体现了"求真"与"求善"的统一.     

Eric Stice: Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.

Provides the biography of Eric Stice and announces that he has received the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology (2004) for his distinguished contributions to the understanding of adolescent psychopathology, including eating disorders, obesity, depression, and substance abuse. A selected bibliography is also provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

After BitTorrent: Darknets to Native Data

What are the implications of the inherent reflexivity of the Internet for the design professions? Anthony Burke argues that radically innovative and distributed forms of information exchange such as BitTorrent suggest a general shift away from the traditional conception of the architect as master builder to one more in line with the collaborative remixing and patching tactics of the hacker. BitTorrent is a communications protocol that allows massive information exchange across infinite users with minimum resources. Through its sheer force of collectively pooled imagination, it provides a potent example of the sorts of platforms of information exchange that foster the new forms of communal organisation that Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri term the ‘Multitude’, and which productively challenge conventional models of cultural invention and production. In this context, Burke raises questions about the implications of this broader shift for the design professions' business organisation, as well as their more general methodologies. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Crazy Quilt Queens

Spreading out over almost 120 square miles on the northwest corner of Long Island, across the East River from Manhattan, Queens is physically the largest borough in the City of New York, and the second most populous and most ethnically diverse county in the us. Its 2.2 million residents come from 81 different countries, and nearly half are foreign-born. Writer Jayne Merkel and photographer Julian Olivas describe the architectural diversity of Queens - a combination in which architectural and ethnic characteristics rarely coincide. Most of the borough's residents and institutions occupy structures built by those that came before them. Queens is in almost perpetual flux. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Persistence of the Pastoral

Architect, animator and educator Nic Clear challenges the contemporary notion of the pastoral to go beyond the simplistic binary opposites of the untainted rural idyll and the industrialised city. He explores how the narratives of the pastoral have provided a mainstay for science fiction and how this can be used to re-imagine nature itself with the aid of advanced biotechnologies to create new architectures for the 21st century.     

Some Key Figures in London's Regeneration

A number of powerful individuals have played a significant role promoting regeneration in London. Peter Murray describes some of those who make up this important network of politicians, civil servants, planners and developers. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.