Abstract: It is a fact - Death will find us, eventually. It is not a subject architects - or people in general - enjoy conversing about over dinner. Any slight consideration about death releases anxiety, confronting us to think - what’s life after death' Because of our fear of mortality, not much time is spent thinking about the subject, design of funereal architecture has not developed as much as other architectural typologies. Until we can clearly answer the cliché “Does it serve the dead or the living '” - we will only have marginal understanding of expertise. PubDate: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT
Abstract: A research project using a creative dialogue between clay as a material and technology as a driver of architectural design. By combining these traditional practices with novel digital fabrication techniques, this project seeks to discover new potentials for this fundamental building material. PubDate: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT
Abstract: An architect’s power lies primarily in the ordering of space and perception through means of representation. The most compelling images of architecture generate desire: a desire to keep looking and a desire to inhabit. Taken to an extreme, the most successful vision of architecture is a space that you would never want to leave. What happens when a representation of a building becomes more desirable than the building itself' What happens when an image is so hypnotic that you occupy it and it occupies you' PubDate: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT
Abstract: At the end of the Spring 2016 semester, Prof. Paul Groth retired from the Architecture and Geography Departments at Berkeley. To celebrate his career on campus, RM1000 asked Prof. Sarah Lopez of University of Texas, Austin to interview her former dissertation advisor and mentor. PubDate: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT
Abstract: An introduction to the documentary film Masons of Djenné by the film's director, Emeritus Prof. Trevor H.J. Marchand of Social Anthropology at the school of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. PubDate: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT
Abstract: A thought-piece from John Parmanm discussing Horst Rittel and UC Berkeley's history of evidence based design and its relationship to expertise. PubDate: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT
Abstract: Avigail Sachs, UT Knoxville professor and CED alumna, in conversation with RM1000 editor Jennifer Gaugler. PubDate: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT
Abstract: Images and a speculative essay on abastraction and allegory and a proposal for a morally directed smoking booth and an architecture of allegory or perhaps just an architecture which asks questions without providing clear answers. PubDate: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT
Abstract: This investigation uses additive manufacturing method of clay 3D printing to create series of bricks, ceramic tiles and self-supporting structural components as part of an ongoing research project. Using clay as a fundamental material for this research provides a way for architects to bridge the gap between digital fabrication and craft. Combinging clay properties and processes with recent advanes in fabrication technological has enables a series of inventive design solutions and intriguing new aesethics for the built environment. PubDate: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT
Abstract: Book Review of "The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, The Creative Class, and The Politics of Design" Peggy Geamer, Ed., (London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015) PubDate: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT
Abstract: Early modern physics of the 19th century postulated the existence of an aether, or space filling medium which allowed for the transmission of electromagnetic waves and gravitational forces. The aether permeated all space, the substance of nothingness by which immaterial phenomena could be explained through material properties. Architects rely on representational methods to depict space, the absence of matter, in ways that best serve our intentions to manipulate it. This project investigates architecture’s primary pursuit, to create void from solid, through the design of a row house in Philadelphia. PubDate: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT
Abstract: What is the role of expertise when architectural additions are ad hoc, opportunistic and predicated on what sits below' When development is piecemeal and reliant on the existing built environment for material and form' How do architects negotiate a newfound sense of nostalgia prompted by impending landscape change' PubDate: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT
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