重新想象建筑,倾斜现实评BAU建筑与城市设计事务所的建筑与城市设计

文章关注的是BAU这家澳大利亚 中国的建筑、城市设计与景观设计公司的作品。这些作品反映了这家从事各种规模设计,关注不同环境因素的公司对研究的重视。4个刊登的项目显示了在现代城市环境中如何拓展建筑的语汇,建筑的复杂性反射出文化的多元交汇性;可持续的理念在功能与形式等各个层面的实践;以及对建筑设计流于形态设计机器的抵制。

Re-imagining Architecture,De-stabilising Realities A Review of the Architectural Works and Urban Design Projects of BAU International

This essay reviews the works of BAU International,an Australian-Chinese firm of architecture, urban design,planning and landscape practice which is based in Shanghai and Melboume.It reflects on the office's research-based design approach towards envisioning the different scales and aspects of the built environment Four projects are reviewed in this essay highlighting key issues which the office puts forward to the broader discourses of architecture and planning of contemporary urbanity: the quest for new architectural complexities that address the culture of congestion of our urbanized world,the formulation of environmentally sustainable design at the level of programmatic and spatial ordering of built form, and the urgent need to resist a formulation of architecture as an image-making machine.