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Truan, Elena, project dir. El corral del Príncipe: Reconstrucción 3D realizada en Los Sims 4
No full textThis is a review of El corral del Príncipe: Reconstrucción 3D realizada en Los Sims 4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33137/rr.v47i2.43686
 
Guicciardi, Luigi Maria. Jazz and Exile: Mario Fragiacomo, That Tin Trumpet from Italy’s Eastern Border. Translated by Edoardo Leone. Edited and annotated by Konrad Eisenbichler
No full textScars: When They Can No Longer Feel The Pain
No full textWhen it was still fall in Toronto, I started a Research Practicum course. Unexpectedly, “A Ghost in the Throat” written by Doireann Ní Ghríofa was chosen as one of the primary texts: clearly not a conventional choice for a course focused on architectural research.
Following the author’s own narrative, the book pieces together how Ní Ghríofa, as a poetess and in her role as a mother and wife, struggled to carve out moments from her busy, bustling day-to-day life to research and translate the works of another talented but historically overshadowed poetess, Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, whose biographical details have been all but obscured. The narrative of the book is highly fragmented, filled with lists of daily routines, details of the actions of each household chore, as well as the meticulous care with which she weighs each word to decipher the poetry and uncover the context in which Ní Chonaill wrote her verses
Machine / Hands: Discovery Through Technical Drawings
No full textBefore entering the field of architecture, I worked in industrial facilities in Canada, the USA, and France. I became a licensed engineer, but decided I wanted to learn to be a better designer. I hoped to eventually help shape the architecture of the factories and chemical plants that I had worked in. I have tried to integrate processes of engineering into every major design studio since arriving at Daniels. This usually results in friction that has me questioning the limitations of technical precision, formal expression, and the importance of experiential considerations.
For my final year’s thesis research, I have been examining upcoming infrastructure expansions in Arizona that are aimed at alleviating the megadrought currently occurring in the region. Presently, the population of Phoenix is rapidly increasing while experiencing severe water stress conditions. My proposal, at one point, was to provide architectural support for massive infrastructure projects that would provide an increased water supply through water recycling.
 
Stories From The Everyday
No full textI am a third-year M.Arch student at the University of Toronto. I hold a Bachelor of Architectural Science from the British Columbia Institute of Technology (2020) and a Diploma of Architectural Technology from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (2018). I have developed a wide breadth of professional experience nationwide, working on projects from the scale of family homes to master planning initiatives. Most recently, I have worked at Giannone Petricone Architects. I have also assisted in research projects alongside Michael Piper and Samantha Eby, reHousing the Yellow Belt of Toronto, as well as Ted Kesik and Ross Beardsley Wood in association with the Mass Timber Institute, investigating the historic tall wood towers of Toronto
The White House and More Counternarratives
No full textThis visual essay traces a journey rooted in architectural drawing, moving from the scale of the personal and diasporic, to that of the collective and within my ‘homeland’—co-creating with new communities across the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The drawing series features my Dad’s ancestral home, built in 1934 and located in the province of Bulacan (north of the Philippine capital of Manila). At the onset, I was drawn to the image of the house as “one of the greatest powers of integration for the thoughts, memories, and dreams of mankind,” as Gaston Bachelard describes in his seminal book The Poetics of Space. I started by framing my father’s family history along the axis of a grand narrative (monumental, the colonizer) and counter-narrative (vernacular, the colonized). This binary was not always satisfying, and I often found myself looping back. I looked to drawing as a way to navigate these complexities, and to empower the stories of the everyday; particularly, of a family whose day-to-day lives were entwined with the multigenerational home
Between Drafting, Representation, and Completion: Time-Motion Studies of Structures in Progress
No full textMy approach to this piece of writing has changed three times since it began.
First, I started with a structured essay revolving around my most recent series of drawings. I did not know the works well enough to write a cohesive essay. Second, I revisited a series of drawings I completed last summer and attempted a structured essay revolving around them. But again, I was not satisfied. Writing for a publication based in an academic institution initially had me writing essays like I was back in university. But I’m not there and I don’t want to write “academically” anymore (or at least for the time being). So instead, for my third attempt, I have tried a more direct call and response. I have found that, in the end, I approached the prompts for this essay almost as exhibition texts, and my response became a personal reaction to their ideas around drafting and representation
Jailbreak the Tesla
No full textWhat are we to make of the encounters with the Tesla Cybertruck and its a-typical shape in our metropolitan wanderings? It has four wheels, it can honk, it’s only seen on the street or parked in car-designated spaces. It is presented as no cheat on a regular pick-up truck – it has the same width, length, and height. Tesla Cybertruck can be read as a car. But because it is not a body-on- frame design, and because it is an exoskeletal construction with a stressed metal skin where the body and the frame are one, the Tesla Cybertruck is unlike the other types of car-looking things around it. Its triangular shapes and sharp edges and pointy ends are a function of structure, like in the truss of a bridge. So, are we faced with the laws of matter, an example of form and construction becoming the same thing, a clever and surprising demonstration of the technical and economic conditions that produce it
Resisting Reduction: Spatial Perception and Occlusion
No full textA Google search for the definition of space will lend the following answers:
space [/spas/]
noun
1. “a continuous area or expanse which is free, available, or unoccupied”
2. “the dimensions of height, depth, and width within which all things exist and move.”
While these answers may seem self-evident, they reflect a view grounded in the cultural and historical context of the 21st century. They represent and favour a worldview based on the belief that reality is rational and quantifiable—a worldview that ultimately grounded our transition from premodernity to the modern era. The scientific revolution rendered many mysterious aspects of reality clear and predictable. Advancements in perspective drawing made visual perception measurable, making it possible to predict how large an object will appear based on the distance between the eye and the object. Today, three-dimensional modelling software integrate these mathematical methods of interpreting space, transforming how we view reality
