 Subjects -> ARCHITECTURE (Total: 219 journals)
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- Responses to UOU Questionnaires
Authors: Javier Sánchez Merina
Pages: 6 - 13
Abstract: Letter from the director
PubDate: 2024-06-12
- Editorial
Authors: Sarah Stevens, Charlotte Erckrath
Pages: 16 - 19
PubDate: 2024-06-12
- On Liminalities
Authors: Joaquín Alvado, Mike Devereux, Miguel Luengo Angulo, Maria Luna Nobile
Pages: 20 - 23
Abstract: A conversation between the Editorial Committee members
PubDate: 2024-06-12
- We must do our best to Listen...
Authors: Sarah Stevens, Charlotte Erckrath
Pages: 24 - 29
Abstract: One wonderful opportunity of deploying this editorship as an explorative tool was the opportunity to speak with people who have been emersed in researching these concerns throughout their careers. We were privileged to have the opportunity to speak with Alberto Pérez-Gómez whose work has been inspirational for both us and countless others. What follows is a transcript of that conversation. Our sincere thanks to Alberto for his time and enthusiasm.
PubDate: 2024-06-12
- Responding to what the World needs Now
Authors: Sarah Stevens, Charlotte Erckrath
Pages: 30 - 39
Abstract: Our exploration of Liminalities increasingly drew us towards Jane Rendell’s amazing work. Her evolution of Site-Writing has been such an inspiration for us as it has been for so many others. It was therefore a real privilege to have the opportunity to speak with Jane about her work. The transcript of our conversation is shared below. Our grateful thanks to Jane for all her time and care for this project.
PubDate: 2024-06-12
- Balancing Control and Indeterminacy in Deformation Casting
Authors: Frederik Petersen
Pages: 42 - 47
Abstract: The contribution is a visual essay with a short text component.
PubDate: 2024-06-12
- Dreaming with The Pantheon in Rome
Authors: Sebastian Andersson
Pages: 48 - 55
Abstract: Abstract (UK ENG) Dreaming with The Pantheon in Rome is a process-based speculative essay engaging in the questions of agency and responsivity in matter which depart from current research into the durability of ancient Roman concrete. This is mixed (pun intended) with material engagement theory, quantum field theory and the theory of formative causation to explore possibilities of entanglement between matter and mind in architectural practices. In the history of human architecture, The Pantheon in Rome is probably the best-preserved work of ancient Roman engineering. Significant for Roman engineering was its empirical base for knowledge production. When The Pantheon was built, there would have been thousands of people working in different locations across the empire, producing, and engaging in experiments with the material world for the purpose of architecture and construction. This, the immensity of the collective effort together with the massive amount of material engagement and holistic relational inquiries into the material world we argue is one reason that Roman engineering was so eminent. In this essay we will be exploring ancient Roman architecture and engineering by looking at material engagement, responsivity, and agency in/of matter.
PubDate: 2024-06-12
- A Dinner Story
Authors: Bahar Avanoğlu, İpek Avanoğlu
Pages: 56 - 61
Abstract: This story has emerged as an outcome of a hybrid workshop entitled “A Feast on Tableness and Visceral Hands”, conducted both online and face-to-face in a physical environment as a response to the Covid-19 precautions, between August 16th-27th, 2021 with fourteen participants. Rather than splitting the group into two distinct groups, we aimed to create a hybrid collaboration between the two seemingly separate realms through several projective montage techniques, with the hope to set a critical drawing practice in architecture. The workshop invited the participants to venture into a dream of consecutive feasts and its tables, exploring ‘a spatial viscerality’ through variegated experiments on obscure relations between eating, speaking and drawing. Commencing with challenging the dilemma between eating and speaking, which reflects the traditional opposition between the bodily realm of food and the intellectual realm of the ‘word’, the workshop critically suggested exploring the liberating modes of macaronic speaking: speaking while eating, misreading texts and transcribing the visceral sound of the mouth. As Manuela Antoniu (2017) draws our attention, that although macaronic languages - or more specifically macaronic Latin is closely related with kitchen Latin, ars macaronica could be interpreted as another quest for a “non-Latin Latin” (p.38). She (2017) writes, “exploiting the etymological proximity between Latin and Italian, macaronic Latin poured the former into the mold of the latter while also using words common to both languages, yet perverting them semantically, to comic effect.” (p.39) Thus, this “macaronic inventiveness”, plays with the fixed-form of a language and transforms it into a playful, unconfined narrative that encourages several delays in understanding the text. This ‘delayful’ act dissolves simultaneously authorial boundaries and opens a variety of interpretive acts of mis-reading and mis-writing. The feasts as gatherings became the spatiotemporal set for these inventive acts. As Jeanneret (1991) points out, “The symposiac ideal reconciles the angel and the beast in the human, and it renews the interdependence between the mouth that eats and the mouth that speaks.” (p.2) Extending the macaronic actions into the realm of architectural drawing, we open a playful exchange between the material and the immaterial through hands-on speculations on the viscerality of drawings, hands, tables and table talks. With these intentions, foods, mouths, texts, drawings, tablecloths, fridges, hands and bellies are blended together. Thus, as we proceed with each feast, all these aforementioned ingredients appear in the hybrid workshop-studio sometimes as sites, sometimes as tools and sometimes as materials to bear visceral explorations of the macaronic speaking with regard to architectural drawing. The question of visceral hands is posed in an allegorical skillset in ambition to challenge our modes of making and drawing in architectural design practice. Acquiring a simultaneity of multiple meanings (Haralambidou, 2007) and playing with the construction of text (Bloomer, 1993), allegory calls for an indecisive multiplication, a re-narration and mis-construction in its critical nature. Following personal explorations in macaronic experience, the participants looked for a multiplication of possible authors, readers and texts of a drawing by re-narrating their macaronic personas embodying the mis-constructed double of their hands through a macaronically-skilled tool. Exploring the possibilities of macaronic inventiveness also through the projective audio-visual, haptic juxtapositions of online and face-to-face participation, the set transforms into a spatiotemporal act that welcomes polyphony with no systematic order: moving cameras, moving projectors, delayed network connections critically challenge the boundaries of drawing, hand, body and table. Thereby the feasts become a venture for a ‘non-Table Table’ that breaks the fixed-form of architectural drawing set into a playful, delayful dinner story. Entailing a dinner story as a magical mis-construction that “escapes the possibility of narration” (Cixous, 2013), the feasts open space for possibilities of a non-Table and call for a critical drawing practice.
PubDate: 2024-06-12
- Interloper: Activating the Possible
Authors: Samantha Lynch
Pages: 64 - 71
Abstract: This article seeks to open a dialogue on encouraging creative possibility in architectural education, with particular focus on the architecture studio. Although discussed through the practice of design, I present experimental methods that are adaptable across creative and speculative disciplines. Rooted in the conceptual difference between possible and probable thinking as identified by philosophers Didier Debaise and Isabelle Stengers, this article positions the role of the architect as being interstitially located in multiple temporalities (as well as occupying the liminal space between the real and the imagined) in such a way that this difference between possible and probable is seen to be potentially critical to the future of the built environment. Focusing on non-linear time (investigated through temporal mapping), situating the imagined architecture in the dynamic conditions of site (site studies/development of architecture), and through the introduction of an interloper (chance/event), this article acts as a framework for examining potential methods for nurturing and sustaining possibility in the space of the architecture studio.
PubDate: 2024-06-12
- In-between Frame and Gallery
Authors: duygu dogan taupitz
Pages: 72 - 83
Abstract: In my personal involvement in exhibition and museum projects, I have been part of collaborative processes as an architect navigating the liminal space between art and architecture. The study aims to examine the architect's position in exhibition production processes, emphasizing the dynamic relationship with people, institutions, materials, and spaces. As part of the physical and intellectual processes of creating exhibitions, the architect's nuanced position is revealed in the constant transformation of relationships with individuals, institutions, materials, and spaces. The study aims to establish a foundation for understanding exhibitions as alternative architectural practices. The primary motivation is to examine how the architect's engagement in the field of exhibitions contributes to collective production and shapes the transformative potential of architectural and artistic production. The text centers on two simultaneous exhibitions within the same museum, showcasing contrasting approaches where the architect actively withdraws in one instance and takes on a proactive role in architectural design in the other. The study introduces “framing” and “installing” as the architect's main modes of action, and analyzes the architectural designs of these exhibitions.
PubDate: 2024-06-12
- Community, Public Space and Digital Data
Authors: Martina D'Alessandro, Giorgio Dall'Osso
Pages: 84 - 95
Abstract: Through the manifestation of digital traces, the research demonstrates how it is possible to value to behaviors and actions present in space at a certain moment, recalling them as echoes in subsequent temporalities within space. The contribution fits into the problematic of the contemporary city – the applied context being the Quadrilatero Malvasia and the Barca neighborhood in Bologna – where spaces are layered day after day with digital data produced by the space itself and the people who pass through it. Design expressions related to product design that delve into the urban dimension, exploring the relationship between digital data, space, and user behavior, show a limited variety of methodologies and actual case studies. The experimentation carried out by the working group fits into this context and provides some original design directions for designers who venture to imagine new urban objects.
PubDate: 2024-06-12
- Phenomenological Narratives
Authors: Yue Xin
Pages: 98 - 109
Abstract: This article focuses on the intersections of urban liminality and phenomenological narratives within fiction and provides a nuanced perspective on the thresholds of space and identity. By utilizing direct observation and phenomenological inquiry, it draws on the insights of urban scholars Jane Jacobs, William H. Whyte, and Kevin Lynch, as well as the philosophical underpinnings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, to unpack the complex interrelations between individuals and their urban environments. Through the analysis of selected novels, this study illuminates the dynamic interactions between characters and their surroundings, underscoring the importance of physical and metaphorical thresholds within cities as venues for transformation, reflection, and identity shaping. The movements through these liminal spaces serve as a conduit for a phenomenological exploration of urban life, highlighting the nuanced and often ineffable aspects of urban existence. The examination reveals how fictional stories articulate the essence of urban liminality, capturing the mobility of urban spaces and the lived experiences of their inhabitants. By dissecting the journeys of characters across various urban thresholds, the research emphasises the importance of individual narratives and emotional engagements in enriching our understanding of urban landscapes. Through fictional narratives, urban liminalities are not merely understood, but perceived, encouraging a revaluation of our engagement with and narratives about the spaces we inhabit. The study posits that fictional narratives, especially novels, are powerful mediums for exploring urban thresholds, offering profound insights into the changing dynamics of space, identity, and belonging in urban settings.
PubDate: 2024-06-12
- Relocating Subjectivities
Authors: Ayse Hilal Menlioglu, Aslihan Senel
Pages: 110 - 119
Abstract: This article explores intersection of filmic space, embodied subjectivities, and relocation within the context of the 2019 South Korean film "Moving On". Through conceptual drawings and a post-structuralist feminist lens, the study examines how the cinematic experience intertwines with the mental and physical spaces of its characters, director, and audience. The creative analysis seeks to unfold the complexities of spatial subjectivities by adopting the perspective of both spectator and researcher. Drawing inspiration from feminist thinkers like Elizabeth Gròzs and Rosi Braidotti, the research explores virtuality not solely as a technological concept but as a realm of imaginative and creative activity. Braidotti's notion of nomadic subjectivity, characterized by fluidity, creativity, and resistance to fixation, serves as a guiding framework for understanding the dynamic spatial experiences perceived through the film. The article challenges normative assumptions in architectural theory, suggesting a reframing through the lens of nomadic subjectivity. By considering filmic space as a virtual construct influenced by the subjective perceptions of individuals, the study aims to provoke new questions about the nature of spatial experience and its relationship to identity and perception. Through an interdisciplinary approach drawing from feminist film theory and architectural research, this article offers a nuanced exploration of the interplay between physical and mental spaces within the context of relocation. It concludes with a spatial reconstruction of select sequences from "Moving On," illuminating the peculiar ways in which filmic narratives shape and reflect subjective understandings of space.
PubDate: 2024-06-12
- Performative Autotopography as Creative Recording
Authors: Mert Zafer Kara, Bihter Almaç, Meltem Aksoy
Pages: 120 - 133
Abstract: This research discusses three subsequential architectural essay films within their context of making. These films are performative autotopographical practices that attempt rather uncanny narratives of the home through drawings, filming, and model-making both as collective and individual. We claim that the performative making of architecture essay films is liminal, as it interweaves multiple forms of recording and many states of subjective encounter to build a spatial narrative. And, the liminalities that we magnify trace the multitudes of creative and imaginative mistranslations of monologues, dialogues, and polylogues that shapeshift into architectures, blurring the definite and established threshold of the home.
PubDate: 2024-06-12
- Liminalities Atlas
Authors: Sarah Stevens, Charlotte Erckrath
Pages: 136 - 153
Abstract: The Liminalities Atlas shares the work of the wonderful students who have collaborated with us on an exploration of liminalities over the past few years. We have had the pleasure of working with our University of Universities (UoU) community through a sequence of workshops, as well as with MA students at our home institutions, the University of Brighton (UoB) and the Bergen School of Architecture (BAS). The pages that follow share the questions asked and the speculative proposals offered.
PubDate: 2024-06-12
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