Megastructure Reloaded: A New Technocratic Approach to Housing Development in Ekbatan, Tehran
ARENA Journal of Architectural Research, 2018 Under the USA’s free-market foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s, the Tehran Redevelopment Company (TRC) in collaboration with a New York firm, Starrett Housing Corporation, undertook one of the most extensive and innovative Middle Eastern public ...
Mohamad Sedighi
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Brutalism in Brazilian Architecture The Similarities and Differences between Brazilian and European Brutalism [PDF]
, 2014 This paper has the aim to analyze the Brutalist architecture in Brazil focused in the work of three great architects such as Vilanova Artigas, Lina Bo Bardi and Paulo Mendes da Rocha.
Shyti, Llazar, Çela, Ilgen
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Architekturen des «environment». Reyner Banham und das dritte Maschinenzeitalter
, 2015 Reyner Banhams Buch THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE WELL-TEMPERED ENVIRONMENT (1969) verbindet in seiner Konzentration auf die technische Hervorbringung von Umgebungen durch Energie- und Informationsströme zentrale Fragen der Medien- und der Architekturwissenschaft.
Sprenger, Florian, virtual::6511, -1
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The scale of sense : spatial extent and multimodal urban design [PDF]
, 2008 This paper is derived from the work of the UK AHRC/EPSRC 'Designing for the 21st Century' research project Multimodal Representation of Urban Space. This research group seeks to establish a new form of notation for urban design which pays attention to ...
Lucas, Raymond +2 more
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Quasi-Materials and the Making of Interior Atmospheres
Interiority, 2018 In The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment, Reyner Banham presents a parable in which, having come across an amount of wood, a nomadic tribe must decide how to use it to keep warm overnight: build a structure or build a fire (and burn the wood ...
John Stanislav Sadar
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Technological Innovation in Architecture: The Role of the Aberrant Practitioner [PDF]
, 2018 Technological innovation in architecture can often be attributed to the work or works of individual designers and their unique (tacit) working method. Through an analysis of my published work (articles, essays, edited, coauthored and authored books), I ...
Mclean, W., Mclean, W.
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City, Territory and Architecture, 2018 During the 1960s, different critical voices emerged with regard to the main gaps of technocratic planning (what Jacobs calls ‘modern, orthodox city planning’), voices highlighting the oversimplifying epistemological approaches that had been ...
Carolina Pacchi
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BRUTALIST ARCHITECTURE IN RUSSIAN AND FOREIGN ART HISTORY AFTER REYNER BANHAM
Articult, 2022 Brutalist architecture is of great interest to contemporary art historians, architecture lovers, designers and musicians. The first large work on brutalist architecture was Reyner Banham’s “The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic?”, initially published in the beginning of the 1970-s.
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Rules of Engagement: Architecture Theory and the Social Sciences in Frank Duffy’s 1974 Thesis on Office Planning [PDF]
This paper addresses the broad shift that took place in architectural theory and education in the 70s, where models of the discipline asserting the autonomy of architecture eclipsed models privileging architecture’s ties to other disciplines ...
Branden Hookway
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New Brutalist Image 1949–55: 'atlas to a new world' or, 'trying to look at things today'
British Art Studies, 2016 In November 2014 the display New Brutalist Image, 1949–55 opened at Tate Britain. Co-curated by the authors of this Look First feature, the display centred on a reconsideration of two key icons of the New Brutalism: Hunstanton School, completed in ...
Victoria Walsh, Claire Zimmerman
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