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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.123
Number of Followers: 8  
 
  Hybrid Journal Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)
ISSN (Print) 1359-1355 - ISSN (Online) 1474-0516
Published by Cambridge University Press Homepage  [353 journals]
  • ARQ volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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      Pages: 1 - 4
      PubDate: 2023-07-13
      DOI: 10.1017/S135913552300012X
       
  • ARQ volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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      Pages: 1 - 2
      PubDate: 2023-07-13
      DOI: 10.1017/S1359135523000131
       
  • The guardians of houses

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      Pages: 3 - 3
      PubDate: 2023-07-13
      DOI: 10.1017/S1359135523000143
       
  • Cathedrals on the light of a butterfly’s wing: the momentary
           architecture of Virginia Woolf

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      Authors: Carr; Andrew
      Pages: 4 - 23
      Abstract: When discussing ‘How Should One Read a Book'’, Virginia Woolf describes the work of an author as ‘an attempt to make something as formed and controlled as a building‘, using architecture as an analogy for the structure of a literary work. The ‘formed and controlled‘ structures of Woolf‘s books are here explored through her 1927 novel To the Lighthouse, which she was writing around the same time as her essay on ‘How Should One Read a Book'‘ and for which she drew a diagram of its tripartite structure. While Woolf repeatedly uses imagery that juxtaposes transitory life with fixed buildings, her writing also suggests another more complex, fleeting architecture. This is revealed through an examination of the temporal structures of her novels and the momentary architecture that forms around its inhabitants. The decay and renewal of the house in the middle section of To the Lighthouse extends this further, revealing a precariousness that undermines the qualities of control, constancy, and permanence she had assumed for a building and, by analogy, her ‘formed and controlled‘ structures. Architecture, instead, becomes momentary and precarious. An assembly of architectural short stories reflect on this reversal as they are ‘read‘ by To the Lighthouse – developing the dialogue between the writing of architecture and building of literature, between architectural possibility and the world-making of words within a book. New College Library by Níall McLaughlin, Ursula Meier‘s film Home, the Marshall House by Dow Jones and the Snellman House by Erik Gunnar Asplund are discussed. The study combines a close reading of the text with a drawn analysis that maps To the Lighthouse and Woolf‘s novels while also reconstructing places she inhabited.
      PubDate: 2023-07-13
      DOI: 10.1017/S1359135523000088
       
  • Material nature or perversion: the case of aluminium

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      Authors: Emmons; Paul, Terim, Berrin
      Pages: 25 - 36
      Abstract: Building materials both derive from nature and human culture. Although this categorisation often assumes a binary opposition; it should be reminded that natural materials have always been utilised for architectural design through human faculty embedded in cultural knowledge. On the other hand, modern materials produced via destructive industrial means, credited to human culture, do reveal their inherent ‘nature’ in their various applications and in different climatic conditions. Acknowledging the inherent intertwining of nature and culture in building materials, this article discusses the reasoning and moral language embedded in architectural theories regarding material use in design, through the angle of perversion. Based on its various definitions, interpreted as unnatural, abnormal and contingent, the article approaches this multifaceted topic, through examining aluminium; an industrially produced modern material that is conceptually malleable. The transformation of aluminium’s use in architecture and its perception throughout its short history presents a fruitful case for understanding many-sided arguments regarding material applications to formal design approaches and thinking with/through material in order to design.
      PubDate: 2023-07-13
      DOI: 10.1017/S1359135523000040
       
  • Analogue structure: structural analogies in the context of evolving body
           concept

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      Authors: Wang; Shuaizhong
      Pages: 37 - 48
      Abstract: The changing concepts of the body have had a significant impact on architectural and structural design thinking. This article examines the influence of historical analogies with the body on structural design, highlighting the analogies’ bias against functionalist aesthetics and their scope limitations. By contrast, recent advances in cognitive neuroscience research on the body and perception enable us to gain a new perspective on the analogy between body and structure. While exposing the traditional analogy's static and one-sided limitations, the article proposes the perspective of incorporating bodily experience dimensions into structural design considerations based on neuroscience. The article also emphasises the importance of collaboration with all disciplines in the structural design process from a biological standpoint, with the goal of refining and enriching the analogy between structure and body, thus complementing and refining the artistic and human dimensions of structural design from a body perspective.
      PubDate: 2023-07-13
      DOI: 10.1017/S1359135523000076
       
  • Structural reality and architectural editing: the four invisible columns
           of the Sydney Opera House

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      Authors: Tombesi; Paolo, Stracchi, Paolo, Cardellicchio, Luciano
      Pages: 49 - 60
      Abstract: In modern architectural debate, buildings are made by their description in the literature as much as they are defined by the reality of their construction. On this point, a relatively small glitch in the celebratory narrative of the roof of the Sydney Opera House – four columns that do not appear in the descriptions of the building – offers the opportunity to reflect on the generation of architecture’s canons and perhaps the perceived need to elevate the subject matter by abstracting the engineering of its construction. While questioning the reasons for the absence of the columns from the biographies of the building, the article articulates the value of embracing even the smaller details in projects' histories.
      PubDate: 2023-07-13
      DOI: 10.1017/S1359135523000052
       
  • The Changi-Marina Bay Corridor: green strategies for Singapore’s
           soft power

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      Authors: Micheli; Silvia, Brugman, Johanna
      Pages: 61 - 71
      Abstract: Singapore’s city-making strategies are seen by many Asia Pacific cities as a model to achieve today’s desired ‘world-class city’ status. They represent a source of innovation to design alternative configurations and rethink established norms of urban and social standards. This article looks at the urban landscape of the city of Singapore through infrastructural systems instead of individual design masterpieces, focusing on the urban corridor defined by the connection of Changi Airport, East Coast Parkway (ECP), and Marina Bay as a single urban entity, unified by a visual and experiential choreography. At a time of intense global competition in the aviation industry, Changi has deployed new strategies to sustain its reputation as an innovative transportation hub. The leg between Changi Airport and Marina Bay is an integral part of Singapore, experienced by the majority of its annual visitors arriving in the city-state. The 19-kilometre route, a major infrastructural project begun in the 1970s and still in progress, is a highly landscaped and scenic artery of the island, through which the airport has injected its hyper-urbanism into the city. While conveying the history of the developments of the Corridor, we consider the soft power strategies used by the city state to develop a form of transnational elite urbanism based on leisure and recreation, where urban planning, design, and green infrastructure play a key role. We reflect on the global and local dimension of Singapore, discussing how the ECP corridor reveals only one side of the city’s double character.On the one hand, this article critically analyses the rhetorical use of landscaping ingrained in the Corridor to attract foreign investment and tourism, where the artificialisation of green interventions has overwritten the presence of the native vegetation and morphology. On the other hand, we reflect on the less evident but nonetheless split that the Corridor has generated between the city’s southern residential areas and foreshore. While cutting through the urban tissue of part of the island seamlessly and without interruption, the Corridor does in fact separate out substantial residential areas, turning Singapore successful green strategies into a form of urban injustice. The twofold nature of the corridor – at the same time, that of the ‘connector’ and ‘divider’ – thus reflects Singapore’s intrinsic ambiguity: its manifestation of global ambitions set against its local realities. This article unpacks the planning mechanisms used to design this development, including the land reclamation powers of the state and the government land sales programme. It also discusses the strategies and choices underpinning the urban sequence of the ECP’s infrastructural nodes, from the Jewel (2019) to the Conservatories (2012). Drawing on official documentation from Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), field research, and using a multidisciplinary lens, this article interpolates architectural and planning studies with insights gleaned by onsite investigation.
      PubDate: 2023-07-13
      DOI: 10.1017/S1359135522000598
       
  • Sofia Singler on the elusive yet perfusive presence of Elissa Aalto -
           Arkkitehti Elissa Aalto / Architect Elissa Aalto BOOK Mia Hipeli (ed.),
           trans. by Gareth Griffiths and Kristina Kölhi Helsinki: Alvar Aalto
           Foundation, 2022 126 pp. ISBN 978-952-5498-77-6 Price £30

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      Authors: Singler; Sofia
      Pages: 73 - 78
      PubDate: 2023-07-13
      DOI: 10.1017/S1359135523000064
       
  • The problem is not runaway climate change. The problem is us.

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      Authors: Abel; Chris
      Pages: 79 - 84
      PubDate: 2023-07-13
      DOI: 10.1017/S135913552300009X
       
 
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