Debates and Discourses on Ornament in Contemporary Architecture by Deniz Balık Lökçe

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Understanding the Role of Processes in Shaping the Compatibility of Contemporary Architecture in Historical Urban Environments by Jeongyoon Choi

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Identify and prioritize architectural and cultural indicators based on the application of technology in the age of globalization (Case Study: Tehran City) by Mino lafafchi, Mozian Dahashi Sharif, Iraj Etesam

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Architecture and Nature in Japan: Nishizawa, Kuma e Fujimoto by Salvator-John Liotta

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Exploring a model of cultural characteristics in contemporary office buildings in Tehran with regard to the Technology usage (Case study: Official buildings in Tehran before and af... by Minoo Lafaffchi, Mozayan Dehbashi Sharif, Iraj Etessam

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Deux regards sur l’œuvre de Jean-Pierre Péneau à travers ses archives by Diane Aymard, Daniel Siret

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The body of interactive architecture. Scenario-based and generative approaches by Bianca Andaloro

“…The complexity of reality, both physical and virtual, in which we are immersed requires a reflection on how to achieve integration between the digital world and contemporary architecture. In particular, the article intends to explore the way in which virtual information can become design material, also intervening on the spatial and formal characteristics of the built environment. …”
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Architecture and Landscape in the contemporary City by Adriana Sarro

“…The article examines some project proposals of the European sphere with critical reflections about the relationship between landscape and contemporary architecture.…”
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Trans-disciplinarity: The Singularities and Multiplicities of Architecture by Tahl Kaminer, Lukasz Stanek

“…With the concept of trans-disciplinarity, the negotiation between these two positions is investigated here as an engine of the ‘tradition of the present’ of contemporary architecture - the discourses and designs which emerged in the 1960s and defined orientation points for today’s architectural thought and practice.…”
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Trans-disciplinarity: The Singularities and Multiplicities of Architecture by Lukasz Stanek, Tahl Kaminer

“…With the concept of trans-disciplinarity, the negotiation between these two positions is investigated here as an engine of the ‘tradition of the present’ of contemporary architecture – the discourses and designs which emerged in the 1960s and defined orientation points for today’s architectural thought and practice.…”
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Urban green Landscapes: the Green as contemporary Cult by Oscar Eugenio Bellini, Martino Mocchi

“…Balconies, lodges, green roofs, solariums, etc. represent one of the fundamentals (according to the definition by Rem Koolhaas at Biennale di Venezia 2014) of contemporary architecture, that is triggering a new debate on the contemporary city and its landscape. …”
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Process, Project and Architecture by Paolo De Marco, Antonino Margagliotta, Fran Silvestre

“…These principles can be found in the theories and experiments that lead to contemporary architecture, such as seriality, standardization, modularity that transform the project into a process and determine a new aesthetic. …”
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An ecology of space. Architectural design for transboundary relationships by Hisham El-Hitami, Mona Mahall, Asli Serbest

“…By identifying the façade as the focal point for cross-border relationships linking interior and exterior spaces, an analysis of historical and contemporary architecture shows how architects have designed transitional spaces to promote these relationships. …”
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Introduction by Deborah Hauptmann, Lara Schrijver

“…In addition to the nine papers by PhD researchers, we have included a paper by Andrew Leach that we believe provides an overview of the general state of contemporary architecture research. Leach makes an appeal to refrain from making all research operational. …”
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Politicisation and the Rhetoric of Shanghai Urbanism by Non Arkaraprasertkul

“…Using the city as a primary source, this paper succinctly presents specific information derived from the observations needed to authenticate the research, i.e. to understand the existence of contemporary architecture as a means of urban iconography, which will contribute to the theory of how we conceive and experience the hybridized urban complexity in Asian cities in a practical manner from the perspectives of both the pedestrian and architect-planner critical to the awareness the far-reaching consequence of Shanghai’s urban environment.…”
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Open-Source Urbanism: Creating, Multiplying and Managing Urban Commons by Karin Bradley

“…Within contemporary architecture and urbanism there is marked interest in urban commons. …”
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La refondation architecturale de la Cour de justice européenne à Luxembourg by Lorenzo Diez, Dominique Perrault

“…Finally, it shines a light on the promising innovation introduced by its label as “Outstanding Contemporary Architecture”, namely the possibility, through the label’s sliding 100-year period, of superimposing the theories and practices of architectural creation and conservation.…”
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Macro phenomena vs micro responses. Multiscale approaches in the dynamic relationship between envelope and context by Maria Teresa Lucarelli, Martino Milardi, Mariateresa Mandaglio, Caterina Claudia Musarella

“…The contribution addresses the relationships between buildings and their contexts, assuming at the macro scale the stresses that phenomena, such as climate, ‘impose’ on the envelopes and, at the micro scale, the new qualitative and performance responses of envelope systems – innovative and not – that today characterize the panorama of contemporary architecture.…”
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Theatrical Tectonics: The Mediating Agent for a Contesting Practice by Gevork Hartoonian

“…In an attempt to log the thematic of a contested practice, this essay will re-map the recent history of contemporary architecture. Exploring New Brutalism’s criticism of the established ethos of International Style architecture, the first part of this paper will highlight the movement’s tendency towards replacing the painterly with the sculptural, and this in reference to the contemporary interest in monolithic architecture. …”
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Digitally-Driven Architecture by Henriette Bier, Terry Knight

“…This implies that, similar to the way that industrial design and fabrication with its concepts of standardisation and serial production influenced modernist architecture, digital design and fabrication influences contemporary architecture. While standardisation focused on processes of rationalisation of form, mass-customisation as a new paradigm that replaces mass-production, addresses non-standard, complex, and flexible designs. …”
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