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Retracing and Reframing the Legacy of Modern Movement
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Industrialization: Processes and Products
No full textGreen Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Heritage & Architectur
MoMove Modern Movement and Industrial Heritage: Contributions to the Docomomo virtual exhibition - momove
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100 Years Bauhaus. What Interest Do We Take In Modern Movement Today?: Selected Papers from 16th Docomomo Germamy 3rd RMB Conference 1st March 2019, Berlin
No full textThe Bauhaus had a pioneering influence on design worldwide which still endures today. Through education, experimentation and materialization, a revolution took place in the use of space, combining clarity, fluidity, functionality and beauty. The Weimar/Dessau school is remembered – from Gropius’ Weimar office to the Dessau masters’ houses, interiors and furniture – for its avant-garde approach to architecture, urbanism, and design for mass production and commercialization. While the objects it produced are its material legacy, the human body (or Oskar Schlemer’s “Human being”) was definitively at the centre of this experimental work. The unity between spirit and body spurred a quest into health, movement, hygiene, comfort, and rationality. The aim here is to demonstrate how this concept was achieved within a new use of space through innovative interior design. Materials and forms, as well as reinvigorated bodily awareness contributed to this transformation. The question is, how did Bauhaus’ “bodies” and “minds” challenge traditional ideas about daily life shaping the connection between physical and mental harmony. Using Gideon’s writings, namely “Mechanization takes command” and interior design case studies acquired in Japan, the goal of this paper is a threefold analysis: to explore the way the Bauhaus has inspired modern movement architecture up to the present day, to transform firstly space, and secondly, its use. Finally, the concept of the body: how Bauhaus ideas have migrated around the world to simultaneously promote a clear and hygienic aesthetic, connecting function and abstraction; to demonstrate, beyond das neue sachlichkeit, how one may realize the truth of Novalis’ metaphor: “the more poetic, the more truthful.”Heritage & Technolog
MoMove Modern Movement and Infrastructure: Contributions to the Docomomo virtual exhibition - momove
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Post Syrian-war material recovery, reuse and transformation in the Old City of Aleppo
No full textPurpose: Eight years of civil war in Syria severely impacted the historic core of Aleppo, with about 30 percent of its buildings completely destroyed and huge amounts of debris generated. This paper proposes recovery strategies for some of the most badly damaged sites in the city through material reuse and transformation, one of the goals of which is to ensure the continuity of the city’s urban cultural heritage. The purpose of this paper is to presents not only risks but also opportunities with respect to the integration of technologies to support recovery and reconstruction. Design/methodology/approach: The paper analyzes the current situation in the Old City of Aleppo by identifying the most seriously damaged sites, namely those that have sustained damage to between 80 and 100 percent of the site. It reviews comparable international post-disaster examples and investigates appropriate options for dealing with the damage caused by the war and the management of debris, with consideration given to minimal intervention, the retention of structural integrity, technology and the integration of historic materials within new components and buildings. The methodology has relied on research through field work, including interviews with stakeholders in Aleppo. Findings: The paper proposes two strategies to guide post-war rebuilding and conservation efforts in the Old City of Aleppo through: the creation of new multi-purpose, public open spaces and the use of debris in the repair of buildings and construction of new components and buildings, including infrastructure for solar panels within the new public spaces. Originality/value: This paper contributes to the development of a post-civil war sustainable material recovery approach for the Old City of Aleppo and for Syria more generally, where a disaster waste management strategy is still in development.Accepted Author ManuscriptHeritage & Technolog
Avant-garde installations. Mies and Bacon for the plant systems of Villa Tugendhat in Brno
No full textStarting from the second half of the 19th century, the mechanization processes manifestation developed in many fields: from agriculture to the invention of new objects of technical use, as well as in the house functional units, mainly kitchens and bathrooms. Among the innovations which helped make life easier and more comfortable, the air-conditioning – a technically and culturally American invention started in 1902 thanks to the ingenuity of Willis Haviland Carrier – is certainly noteworthy. Less than thirty years later, engineer J.L. Bacon designed the central heating unit and ventilation system of Villa Tugendhat in Brno, iconic architecture of the 20th century by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The architect considered the plant systems of this house as a part of the building’s design. In relation to this, Mies adopted an avant-garde approach in the management of the coexistence of architecture and installation of sophisticated systems. Especially, this building represents a valuable proof of the highly significant aspect of the dialogue between architect and plant engineer: it points out an approach not always practiced by many architects of the Modern Movement. Nevertheless, the key role of Bacon as heating engineer in Villa Tugendhat results neglected and almost never properly
emphasized, despite the numerous monographs dedicated to this building and its author. This paper highlights the correlation between Bacon’s graphic works – drawn between 1929 and 1930 – and the solutions actually adopted in Villa Tugendhat, which show an integration between plant and construction that makes explicit the dialogue between Mies and Bacon for the building’s design. Starting from this, the paper aims to analyse the air-conditioning solutions adopted in this architecture with reference to those proposed and employed in that period, allowing to understand if and how much the air-conditioning solutions applied in Villa Tugendhat were avant-garde for that time
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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