Nordic Journal of Architectural Research / Nordisk Arkitekturforskning
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Housing Layout Design - Neighbourhood Morphology, Pedestrian Movement, and Strategic Choices
This article reports concisely a study of some Swedish and Chinese built neighbourhoods. Major issues explored include the description and comparison of neighbourhood spatial morphologies, the relation between spatial structures and patterns of pedestrian movement, and, the significance and possibility in turning spatial pattern per se into a well-defined problem of housing layout design
Tectonic vocabulary and materialization - Discourse on the future of tectonic architectural research in the Nordic countries
How to Read (Anything as) Art
Alberti defines beauty in architecture as a state of harmony in so much as that any change in the building would be for the worse. Yet, it is hard to believe that any physical object can ever become so perfect. Hence, Alberti seems to leave us with only two alternatives; either there can never be beauty in architecture, or else architectural masterpieces and other works of art are not material things at all, but rather belong to a world of Greek necessity, inhabited by gods and, if Freud is right, dreams as well. Through a discussion of architectural criticism, I try to show how works of art are constituted in interpretation as perfect artifacts in such a way that Alberti's vision isboth possible and inevitable (see note 1)