Constructions
An Experimental Approach to Intensely Local Architectures
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Constructions
An Experimental Approach to Intensely Local Architectures
About this book
The 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 Leatherbarrow, Areti Markopoulou, Philip Nobel, Rodrigo Rubio, Søren S Sørensen, Defne Sunguroðlu Hensel.
Featured practices: Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Rintala Eggertsson, SHoP, Studio Mumbai, TYIN tegnestue.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright Page
- Editorial
- About the Guest-Editors
- Introduction: Relating Perceptions of Constructions, Experimental and Local
- Past and Present Trajectories of Experimental Architectures
- Building In and Out of Place
- The Bauhaus: Case Study Experiments in Education
- The Open City and the e[ad] School of Architecture and Design
- Incarnations of a Design-and-Build Programme: Rural Studio
- Architecture by Latitude and Locality: The Scarcity and Creativity Studio
- In Search of Context: Working with the Force of Erasure: Koshirakura Landscape Workshop
- Detoured Installations: The Policies and Architecture of the Norwegian National Tourist Routes Project
- Conviction Into Tectonics: The Work of Rintala Eggertsson
- Integrating On-Site Education and Practice: TYIN tegnestue Architects
- Renzo Piano: Poet of Technology
- The Practice of Making: Studio Mumbai
- The Builder’s Name: SHoP and the Ethics of Knowledge Transfer
- Informed Non-Standard: En Route to Non-Standard Performative Architectures
- Auxiliary Architectures: Augmenting Existing Architectures with Performative Capacities
- Nested Catenaries: A Developmental Route to Local Specificity
- Smart Living Architecture – Solar Prototypes: IAAC, Endesa Pavilion, Barcelona
- Outlook: En Route to Intensely Local Architectures and Tectonics
- Counterpoint: Sustaining the Local
- CONSTRUCTIONS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- EULA