Description
Book SynopsisThe current trend for constructing experimental structures is now an international phenomenon. It has been taken up worldwide by design professionals, researchers, educators and students alike. There exist, however, distinct and significant tendencies within this development that require further investigation. This issue of AD takes on this task by examining one of the most promising trajectories in this area, the rise of intensely local architectures. In his seminal essay of 1983, Kenneth Frampton redefined Critical Regionalism by calling for an intensely local approach to architectural design. Today, Frampton's legacy is regaining relevance for a specific body of work in practice and education focused on the construction of experimental structures. Could this ultimately provide the seeds for a compelling and alternative approach to sustainable design?
Contributors include: Barbara Ascher, Peter Buchanan, Karl Otto Ellefsen, David Jolly Monge, Lisbet Harboe, David Leatherbar
Table of Contents
Editorial 05
Helen Castle
About the Guest-Editors 06
Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen Cordua
Introduction Relating Perceptions of Constructions, Experimental and Local 08
Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen Cordua
Chapter 1 Past and Present Trajectories of Experimental Architectures 16
Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen Cordua
Chapter 2 Building In and Out of Place 24
David Leatherbarrow
Chapter 3 The Bauhaus: Case Study Experiments in Education 30
Barbara Elisabeth Ascher
Chapter 4 The Open City and the e[ad] School of Architecture and Design 34
Christian Hermansen Cordua, David Jolly Monge and Michael Hensel
Chapter 5 Incarnations of a Design-and-Build Programme: Rural Studio 40
Michael Hensel
Chapter 6 Architecture by Latitude and Locality: The Scarcity and Creativity Studio 48
Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen Cordua
Chapter 7 In Search of Context: Working with the Force of Erasure: Koshirakura Landscape Workshop 58
Shin Egashira
Chapter 8 Detoured Installations: The Policies and Architecture of the Norwegian National Tourist Routes Project 64
Karl Otto Ellefsen
Chapter 9 Conviction Into Tectonics: The Work of Rintala Eggertsson 76
Christian Hermansen Cordua
Chapter 10 Integrating On-Site Education and Practice: TYIN tegnestue Architects 82
Lisbet Harboe
Chapter 11 Renzo Piano: Poet of Technology 88
Peter Buchanan
Chapter 12 The Practice of Making: Studio Mumbai 94
Michael Hensel
Chapter 13 The Builder’s Name: SHoP and the Ethics of Knowledge Transfer 102
Philip Nobel
Chapter 14 Informed Non-Standard: En Route to Non-Standard Performative Architectures 110
Søren S Sørensen
Chapter 15 Auxiliary Architectures: Augmenting Existing Architectures with Performative Capacities 116
Chapter 16 Nested Catenaries: A Developmental Route to Local Specificity 120
Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel and Guillem Baraut Bover
Chapter 17 Smart Living Architecture – Solar Prototypes: IAAC, Endesa Pavilion, Barcelona 128
Areti Markopoulou and Rodrigo Rubio
Chapter 18 Outlook: En Route to Intensely Local Architectures and Tectonics 132
Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen Cordua
Chapter 19 Counterpoint Sustaining the Local: An Alternative Approach to Sustainable Design 136
Terri Peters
Contributors 142
