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Sverre Fehn: l'arte nordica di spazializzare il tempo
No full textLa sceneggiatura delle scelte concrete è parte di una collana, "gli strumenti" , che vuole fornire riflessioni conoscitive e teoriche nei campi della scienza contemporanea, del pensiero, dell'arte, dell'urbanistica, dell'architettura e della produzione di oggetti. "La sceneggiatura delle scelte concrete" con prefazione di Antonino Saggio, a cura di Valerio Perna e Gabriele Stancato contiene gli scritti di dieci dottorandi, Matteo Baldissara, Giulia Cervini, MIcaela Di Domenicantonio, Massimiliano Modena, Valerio Perna, Giulia Perugi, Samuel Quagliotto, Elisa Romano, Gabriele Stancato ed Alessandro Zilio offre una panoramica sui metodi di composizione adoperati da differenti architetti scomponendone opere specifiche ed estraendone caratteri chiave reiterabili e reinterpretabili nel progetto di architettura
Lina Malfona, Ultra-residential. Architectural Explorations in the Roman Countryside, in Skënder Luarasi, Valerio Perna (eds.), Foreseeing Uncertainty: Design & Non-Normativity
No full textIn the eighties, the Californian writer Alvin Toffler envisioned the home as a place of residence, work and entertainment at the same time. Anticipating the digital revolution, he affirmed that new systems of production were beginning to take workers out of factories and offices, putting them back to the home or rather, toward “the electronic cottage,” a new idea of suburban living supported by teleworking. Even today, according to Rem Koolhaas, suburban space is where the most radical transformations are taking place. In recent years indeed, widespread drone use increases aerial transport, eliminating the need to live in the city center. A number of companies have begun to use unmanned aerial vehicles to produce shipments. Amazon uses drones to place large packages inside factories and to deliver mail to residences, Google is experimenting drones for medical aid, and Facebook wants to use them to spread Internet in the parts of the world that are not yet connected to the physical web.
Looking at these precedents, this paper investigates peripheral architectures which reaffirm the value of the countryside within a technological and digital society. In particular, this research reports a vision for an archipelago of single-family houses, designed and built in the countryside north of Rome from 2010 onwards. These buildings introduce an innovative ultra-residential house typology: a suburban villa which combines private and public realm, at a time when not just business but also collective life takes place at home, once again. This design implements a symbiotic relationship between architecture, engineering and digital technologies in order to create low-cost, energy-saving, and self-sufficient residencies, almost disconnected from any kind of public network, and equipped with devices that allow drones to land and to be encapsulated within the dwelling-place
Tirana Architecture Week 2020 - Conference Proceedings: Science and the City. In the Era of Paradigm Shifts
No full textn his famous book ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’ (1962), the American physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn, coined the notion of ‘paradigm shift’, intended as a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline. In opposition to the activity of ‘normal science’, a ‘shift’ occurs when the current predominant paradigm, under which scientific activities are conducted becomes incompatible due to new phenomena, facilitating the research – and adoption – of a new theory or paradigm.
We can also assume that, such a critical change is often driven by a ‘crisis’, a transitional moment where the appearance of new technologies, en- vironmental conditions (ex. climate change), or political situations (ex. migration phenomena), requires the a drastic rift from the past and opens the way to a reformulation of the notion of the so-called ‘Modernity’. Indeed, according to the words of the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard: «Modernity ... is what transforms crisis into a value, a contradictory moral, says Baudrillard, for it gives rise to an aesthetics of rupture».
The history of Architecture and Design itself, can be also interpreted as a consequential stream of changes following the research of a new para- digm. The Industrial Revolution deeply influenced the work of professionals during the whole XX Century, leading to the appearance of an architec- ture that could be a response to the industry preferring a free and functional arrangement of bodies rather than typological preset; transparency rather than opaqueness, points structures rather than tectonic configurations. [...
Venturing into the Age of AI: Insights and Perspectives
No full textIn recent times, the term “intelligence” has gained considerable popularity, permeating numerous spheres encompassing actions, practices, processes, and products. This pervasive presence within contemporary discourse can be attributed to two pivotal factors. Primarily, there has been a paradigmatic shift in our comprehension of intelligence, transcending the notion of it being exclusively confined to humans, but rather acknowledging its manifestation in diverse emerging properties and conditions present in both human and non-human entities. Secondly, intelligence is now perceived as a multifaceted nexus, interlinking a ‘brain’ (whether human or non-human), a corporeal form, and the complex environmental contexts in which this embodiment exists. Within architectural circles, there is an ongoing exploration of various “intelligent” tools, encompassing diverse AI languages, generative adversarial networks, and text-to-image tools. These endeavours seek to comprehend how non-human intelligence can be harnessed to address contemporary urban challenges and concerns. Simultaneously, careful consideration is being given to the potential benefits and risks that arise from the utilization of such tools in urban centers and cities. The field of architecture is undergoing rapid transformation due to the incorporation of cutting-edge digital technologies, particularly the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into various aspects of design, representation, and production
Relevance of Doctoral Research in Architecture
No full textThe proceedings of the international conference "Relevance and Doctoral Research in Architecture" (July 2023) congregates an eclectic mix of doctoral, and post-doctoral researchers, early-career scholars, and esteemed research supervisors from across the globe, all united by a common pursuit: to delve into the core of relevance within architectural researc
archiDOCT 21 | Relevance I
No full textUnlike introductions to other issues of our journal, and because this issue includes the first seven of our participants’ contributions to the conference on the relevance of doctoral studies in architecture, this introduction first discusses each paper’s key issues, methodologies deployed and contribution to knowledge. We are then looking at common themes, to finally conclude as to how the themes discussed and the research on architecture at doctoral level undertaken currently are of relevance to the contemporary world
FORUM A+P 23 - Science and the City. In The Era of Paradigm Shifts
No full textThe 23rd Issue of Forum A+P investigates and speculates on the relationship between the city and techno-science. The term ‘city’ is understood in two ways: first, in a discursive sense – as an object of study and a set of practices – episte- mological, aesthetic, architectural, political, economic, and social among others - that deal with such object; and sec- ond, as a reality that both delimits and challenges the very notion and possibility of representing and knowing it as an object. In its hyphenated form, techno-science is under- stood - in Bernard Stiegler’s words: “as a com-position of science and technology, meaning that science submits to the constraints involved in becoming the technology that for- mulates the systematic conditions of its evolution.” [...
Archi-DOCT 16 | Urbanities
No full textThe 16th issue of the ArchiDOCT e-journal welcomes papers that explore the theme of ‘urbanities’ in architecture and the built environment, considering the contemporary need to open up new discussions and critical reflections regarding the condition of the depressed spaces of our cities and the need for catalytic interventions headed towards their comprehension, reconsideration and future reactivation and mobilisation.
With the term ‘urbanities’ we anticipate a possible constellation of projects that symbiotically operate to define the future urban environment and to respond to multiple crises associated with intertwined issues such as climate change, flooding, land consumption, but also inequality, gender issues, production processes and geopolitics. At a smaller scale, they own their specific boundaries and peculiarities while, through a progressive blurring of lines of demarcation, at a bigger scale they act as a network of meaningful fragments that creeps into the city and composes infrastructural webs to reactivate our urban fabric. Indeed, these ‘urbanities’ don’t convey only a functional quality to the city, but they also carry within themselves a whole set of social, political, and human values, as well as the nonhuman presence in the form of gaia, nature and data sets that reinforce the sense of citizenship of the dwellers of these places. As a reflection of the IT era, they often inherit the multifunctionality at the core of the digital technologies that allow them to be open to phenomena of people’s appropriation (Dix 2007) and re-semantization, which consequently lead to the rise of new aesthetics. In a city similar to a motherboard, ‘urbanities’ are small strings of codes that, as specific plug-ins, connect to the urban environment and become meaningful narrations. They contribute to creating proper infrastructural networks of information which are incremental (it keeps growing and evolving from the original DNA) and not top-down oriented; they have the capacity to fit within the tangles of the consolidated city and re-active the forgotten and neglected areas generated by the urban sprawl phenomena; they are enriched by injection of information that could foster alternative dynamics of participation and civic engagement and can deliver new values that can give rise to a revised sense of citizenship and, indeed, bottom-up urbanity. With these premises, the 16th issue of ArchiDOCT invites academics, researchers, and PhD students, that can relate their doctoral thesis as solo authors, with their supervisor(s) or with fellow doctoral students or doctoral holders to deliver an essay focusing on any field related to the entanglement within architecture and urban design in the contemporary city. The aim is to explore the theme of ‘urbanities’ in the design process through both a theoretical or practice-based approach and highlight the breadth and scope of the results their possible implementation can bring about. For this reason, and considering the breadth of possibilities contained in the topic itself, we are interested in contributions pervaded by a design’n’built philosophy that could directly illustrate their resonance within the real world.
Independently from the scale of the ‘urbanities’ proposed, we invite discussion concerning tangible examples of the implications within architecture, IT, and urban reactivation, and the possible connection within theory and praxis
archiDOCT 19 | Temporalities-ii
No full textAs announced in the editorial of the previous issue, the 19th issue of ArchiDOCT presents a second collection of papers that explore the theme of ‘temporality’ in architecture and the built environment from a theoretical or an applied standpoint. Once more, a variety of approaches, insights, and opportunities for research that arise from considering time in its heterogeneous dimensions and manifestations such as time, speed, rhythm, sequence or horizon have been handled.
The concept of temporality is, undoubtedly, an inexhaustible source of suggestive lines of research ranging from the more theoretical to the more applied and linked to contemporary problems. [...
The Ideological Function of (Post-)Modern Architecture in the Context of (Techno-)Science
No full textOur understanding of an architectural phenomenon is interrelated with political, economic, cultural, scientific or technological developments. As F. Jameson would put it, architecture, ideology, politics, economics, culture, technology, science, etc., are structurally connected instances (Jameson, 1991). In this context, we will focus on the relation of architecture – as ideology – and (techno-)science, in order to analyze and understand the ideological operation of architecture, through its formal, technical and aesthetical modalities. The paper is a theoretical elaboration of architecture’s ideological and (techno-)scientific contexts, following the theories of Althusser, Marx and Tafuri. It presents an intersection of the history of architecture and history of science, interpreted through Tafuri’s ‘Ideology of the Plan’ and the National Library of Kosovo, in Prishtina. The aim is to interpret how architectural space – i.e., its form, and its technical and aesthetical aspects – impacted by the developments in (techno-) science, (re)creates and determines the social, political and cultural events occurring there. We are to deal with the ideological character of architecture (architecture as a representation of reality) and the fact that the techno-aesthetic and techno-artistic modalities of architecture typically hide this character (Šuvakovic, 2014). By re-thinking the practice of ‘hiding’ (in principle, an ideological practice), we will understand architecture as a language between ideology, morphology, aesthetics and technology. Furthermore, this paper will interpret the practice of ‘hiding’ in the context of architecture’s relation with (techno-)science; their political and economic as- sociation with capitalism, and cultural association with postmodernism. Differently put, how architecture – as ideology – positions itself in relation to (techno-)science? The present work will discuss the architectural and urban form as a product of the combination of architecture and (techno-)science, within a (post-)modern condition, by interpreting what this form represents. By arguing that architectural form – the building and the plan for the city – operates ideologically, this paper will question how architecture, by using its technical and aesthetic qualities, through the practice of ‘hiding’, returns to an essential character – that of enclosing
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