'Des Yeux Qui Ne Voient Pas...': The smartphones by Luca Di Lorenzo

“…The subject of the survey is the first BMW Guggenheim Lab, designed in 2010 by Atelier Bow-Wow. Described by the architects themselves as a ‘travel toolbox’ or ‘pop-up fly loft theatre in the city’, this compact architecture is the incarnation of three interesting formal qualities usually associated with smartphones: the clear division between the hardware and the ergonomic user interface; the possibility to operate different functions (or software) in the same space (or screen); and the real and virtual connection with different urban situations.…”
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Fécamp et l’architecture en Normandie by Lindy Grant

“…At all stages, the architecture has a distinctly conservative, even deliberately archaic quality, as if there is always a strong awareness of the past, the past of the Norman dukes, the past of the abbey, and the past of the abbey church itself. Nevertheless, the architects and masons were often very eclectic, so that the building plays a very important role in the introduction of new French gothic ideas and forms into the Norman repertoire. …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on construction project performance: challenges and strategic responses by Eda Selcuk

“…The research aims to determine the effects of these challenges on project and company performance using data obtained from survey conducted with 126 construction professionals including architects and construction engineers operating in seven different geographic locations. …”
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Benjamin’s Dialectical Image and the Textuality of the Built Landscape by Ross Lipton

“…This discussion will be further contextualised by discussing a cadre of German/Austrian planners and architects who attempted to translate architectural idioms between cultural identities in Kemalist Era Turkey. …”
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Mediating new individual-environment relations through experimentation on ambiance by Polina Chebotareva, Nina Rask

“…We present the hypothesis that, by bringing an existing atmosphere to users’ attention, architects can stimulate explorative behavior and the formation of new relations between individual and environment. …”
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Urban strategic foresight in European territories – Lessons from Geneva and Luxembourg by Panos Mantziaras

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Les meubles médiévaux aux xviiie et xixe siècles : entre dédain et vision romantique by Cécile Lagane

“…Decorated pieces have been favoured and put forward, deemed « charming » by the architects in charge of the conservation of the monuments in which they are often kept. …”
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Tectonic perspectives for urban ambiance? Towards a tectonic approach to urban design by Elias Melvin Christiansen, Lea Holst Laursen, Marie Frier Hvejsel

“…This requires us, as architects and urban designers, to refine our descriptions of ambiance as an integral part of the technical construction principles applied in the built environment, hereby considering it a continuous space, as suggested in theories of landscape urbanism. …”
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« Écrans de lumière » : l’art du vitrail dans l’architecture de Frank Lloyd Wright by Claude MASSU

“…This article will survey the use of glass as a modern industrial material in Wright’s architecture and more particularly the art of the stained glass which characterizes Wright among the modernist architects of the early 20th century. While the subject has not been much researched until recently, Wright’s art of the stained glass is an original and essential part of his architectural ideal. …”
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There and Back Again by Owen Hopkins

“…Meanwhile, the populist left argues for a return to the mass council house building of the post-war era, despite the recent success of small-scale, tactical council housing projects, such as those by Peter Barber Architects. The essay argues that the polarised and asymmetrical nature of this debate, conflating questions of aesthetics, typology and planning and tenure type, is typical of populist politics, ensuring a middle ground is by definition impossible. …”
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Du sol foncier au sol vivant by Atelier Georges, Thibault Barbier, Mathieu Delorme, Charles Rives

“…However, our activity as landscape architects and urban planners poses a real problem for the different actors in urban and regional planning in considering the soil as a fundamental issue. …”
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Rio de Janeiro y la Exposición del Centenario de la Independencia en 1922 by Niuxa Dias Drago, Marcia Furriel Ramos Gálvez

“…As examples, we can recognize the project of the National Historical Museum, the creation of the first associations of architects in Brazil and the government pact with representatives of the neocolonial, called to contribute with the construction of the first republican schools and the Brazilian pavilions in other exhibitions.…”
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L’architecture de paysage à Wageningue (Pays-Bas) by Martin van den Toorn

“…New design knowledge and work domains for a growing number of landscape architects have emerged over the last 50 years. The academic environment of Wageningen University has strengthened the position of landscape architecture in meeting the new challenges of climate change; the combination of knowledge of the landscape as a natural system and conceptual ways of thinking seems to be a unique and solid basis for the future.…”
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On Display by Nitzan Zilberman

“…In the Selfie Museum, subject and object aren’t the sole dichotomies that are conflated; physical space combines with the virtual image; the still moment merges in the temporal experience; and two-dimensional projections are overlaid onto three-dimensional structures. As a result, architects become ‘experience designers’, virtual reality is a mode of design practice, and an ‘instagrammable’ moment is a project deliverable. …”
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Tel-Aviv a cent ans ! 1909-2009 : un siècle de globalisation au Proche-Orient by Caroline Rozenholc

“…How did it turn into the global city it is today within a century, with the most prestigious architects, the “starchitects”, launching again Tel-Aviv as a complex mix of scales, places and moments. …”
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Biomimétisme en architecture. État, méthodes et outils by Natasha Chayaamor-Heil, François Guéna, Nazila Hannachi-Belkadi

“…The goal is to show how the use of biomimetic design methodologies could lead to innovations in architecture to meet current environmental challenges. However, architects do not yet have the means to access these biomimetic methodologies neither to use them effectively. …”
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Landscape architecture at Wageningen (Netherlands) by Martin van den Toorn

“…New design knowledge and work domains for a growing number of landscape architects have emerged over the last 50 years. The academic environment of Wageningen University has strengthened the position of landscape architecture in meeting the new challenges of climate change; the combination of knowledge of the landscape as a natural system and conceptual ways of thinking seems to be a unique and solid basis for the future.…”
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Climate Form Finding for Architectural Inhabitability by Louise Mazauric, Claude MH Demers, André Potvin

“…How can the design process inspire architects and designers to engage a more tactile and digital reflection with climatic fluxes, such as wind and light? …”
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Free Plan versus Free Rooms by Xavier Van Rooyen

“…Today, in the midst of health and climate crises, some architects are reconsidering the need for an evolving and adaptable architecture that encourages multiple uses. …”
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Explaining the Relationship between by Ghodrat Zare Andarian, Hossein Zabihi, saeid kardar

“…Municipal law is a set of laws, rules and regulations that govern the interconnection of citizens and city departments in local and urban affairs, and explain the duties of overseers of councils, municipalities, and other city institutions; And planners 'and architects' awareness of the rights of citizens is one of the influential components in the process of urban architecture planning which is discussed in this article. …”
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