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Ludwig Hilberseimer and Metropolisarchitecture: The Analogue, the Blasé Attitude, the Multitude
Get PDFThis article close-reads Modernist architect Ludwig Hilberseimer’s early architectural projects, which employed a language of uniform fenestration, repetition and geometrically reduced typical forms, as embodying Georg Simmel’s blasé attitude in analogical form, and places this reading in relation to Aldo Rossi’s concept of the analogical city and the political theorist Paolo Virno’s notion of the multitude. The first part outlines the discourse around Simmel, Hilberseimer and Rossi to note salient connections between these figures, their thought and the process of modernization. The second part discusses Simmel’s and Hilberseimer’s readings of the metropolis and interprets Hilberseimer’s formal language as embodying the blasé attitude. The third part places Hilberseimer in dialogue with Rossi and interprets Rossi’s analogical city as inhabited by another of Simmel’s figures, the stranger. The article concludes by tracing a line from Simmel’s figures of the blasé and the stranger via Hilberseimer’s metropolis architecture and Rossi’s analogical city toward the contemporary multitude, a collective linguistic subject. In doing so Hilberseimer’s and Rossi’s grammar of the metropolis can be rethought in relation to contemporary subject positions as a critical project toward an architectural theory of the multitude pushing back against the increasingly individualised city and market urbanism prevalent today
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Get PDFAccounts is a record of an extended conversation that took place among the members and invited guests of the AE Foundation in the first five years of its activity. It includes lectures, discussions and interviews with prominent figures, emerging architects and educators. Beginning with discussions on themes including Doubt, Authorship, Architecture, City, Buildings, History and Resistance, the conversation continued to explore the many and varied schools of thought that occupy the discipline. This book is the result of the spontaneous enthusiasm that erupts when sincere individuals meet to discuss their favourite subject seriously.
Contributors: Pier Vittorio Aureli, Micha Bandini, Mario Carpo, Francois Charbonnet, Beat Consoni, Irina Davidovici, Mike Davies, Andrea Deplazes, Angela Deuber, Sérgio Fernandez, Jorge Figueira, Pascal Flammer, Adrian Forty, Christoph Gantenbein, Neil Gillespie, John Haldane, Rolf Jenni and Tom Weiss, Jan Kinsbergen, David Kohn, Penny Lewis, Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan, Rowan Mackinnon-Pryde, Peter Märkli, Gabriele Mastrigli, Cameron McEwan, Marcel Meili, Samuel Penn, Emmanuel Petit, Kester Rattenbury, Daniel Serafimovski, Jonathan Sergison, Bruno Silvestre, Álvaro Siza, Luigi Snozzi, Laurent Stalder, Martino Tattara, Dirk van den Heuvel, Marie-José Van Hee, Adrien Verschuere, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Andrea Zanderigo, Raphael Zuber
The following is an edited documentation of the book, published as an AE Foundation project. The Foundation for Architecture and Education (AE Foundation) began in 2011 to examine the challenges facing architectural education and contemporary practice
Introduction: We Construct Collective Life By Constructing Our Environment
Get PDFEditors introduction to special double issue of Architecture and Culture on Architecture and Collective Life.
Architecture & Collective Life is committed to the proposition that we use architecture to construct collective life. Collective life is not the default condition of the many. It is a construct of human agency. It is indirect: we do it by doing other things. We construct collective life by constructing our environment: a continuous and incremental process of constructing housing, places of assembly, accidental stopping places, whether intentionally or not, as expressions of power or as acts of resistance to power. If it is true to say that much of our environment is not constructed by architects, it is nevertheless architecture where we understand it and theorise it. The city is not only our single largest cultural artefact, but it is – or has been until recently – our single largest interactive environment. And at risk of overreaching our case, we assert that there is nothing outside collective life. All individuals are connected, even their alienation from others is articulated with respect to others. The life of humans is collective or it is not life. If it is not collective, it is simply biological. Like the city, it is everywhere where there is an individual. There is no outside of the city. The city is everywhere. There is no outside to the artefactual world of human creation. And not simply because we have entered the Anthropocene Epoch, the final human stage of geological time, it has always been so
Assessing the Performance of Brushtail Possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) on the Mechner Counting Procedure DATA
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The City is a Thinking Machine: Patrick Geddes and <i>Cities in Evolution</i>:Volume 3: The Geddes Institute
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No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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