Development of a Transdisciplinary Research-Based Framework for the Improvement of Thermal Comfort of Schools Through the Analysis of Shading System by Xabat Oregi, Aitor Goti, Heriberto Pérez-Acebo, Irantzu Álvarez, Maria-Isabel Eguia, Elisabete Alberdi

“…A user-friendly methodology for assessing sunlight and shading in schools is developed, utilizing a transdisciplinary research approach, with various stakeholders, including educators, architects, and environmental scientists. Through case studies conducted in Zornotza, Spain, the research warns about the detrimental effects of inadequate shading on student well-being and proposes design solutions for each of the cases. …”
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Le Bassin minier du Nord-Pas-de-Calais, un patrimoine évolutif et vivant. Entre conservation et évolution, enjeux et nouveau paradigme pour les projets d’architecture by Philippe Prost, Lucas Monsaingeon

“…Inscribed on the World Heritage Site list as an "evolving and living cultural landscape" in 2012, the recognition of this territory, considered a force of resilience for an ambitious transition, has raised the question of preservation and architecture - with more than 28,000 registered housings - on land rarely approached and on an unprecedented scale, raising many questions for architects and preservationists. We will first look at the challenges of this heritage recognition for existing architectural projects, then we will present the context and method of practice-led research commissioned by the Mining Basin Mission and conducted by the Atelier d’Architecture Philippe Prost between 2017 and 2019. …”
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Ensuring Mobility-Supporting Environments for an Aging Population: Critical Actors and Collaborations by Chris S. Kochtitzky, Amy L. Freeland, Irene H. Yen

“…It then examines the impacts of community design on individual mobility, delving into which traditional and nontraditional actors—including architects, urban planners, transportation engineers, occupational therapists, and housing authorities—play critical roles in ensuring that community environments serve as facilitators (rather than barriers) to mobility. …”
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Proust’s Ruskin: From Illustration to Illumination by Emily Eells

“…It borrows terms from Ruskin’s works to define their aesthetic relationship: that of ‘incrustation’, meaning both the way Venetian architects covered brick walls with marble and the way they decorated walls with precious stones, is applied here to define Ruskinian intertextuality in Proust’s text, as it involves both textual layering and the use of quotation as ornamentation. …”
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“I want to see more of this, where our stories are told”: Exploring iwi cultural landscapes through photovoice by Kimiora Raerino, Rau Hoskins, Kara Beckford, Aneta Cram

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Urban expansion indicators of cities "Case study for Arab cities by Nabil T. Ismael

“… Urban population growth requires an appropriate and suitable place for future population to cope with the expected urban expansion of major cities in developing countries, and to identify an indicator urban expansion to guide planners, architects and decision makers, and help them reduce negative effects of city expansion with improvement in the ability to live in cities.  …”
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Conjuguer singularité et conformité pour se positionner sur le marché international de l'urbain. Confluence et le renouvellement de l'image de Lyon by Matthieu Adam, Georges-Henry Laffont

“…By analyzing interviews with planners, developers, urbanists and architects from Confluence, we show that the image change and the images, which are based on the singularity/conformity pair, have consequences on the socio-spatial structure of both this new district and the surrounding area, Sainte-Blandine. …”
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Vienna’s Resistance to the “Neoliberal Turn" by Florian Urban

“…Examples for new residences that follow this strategy include the Car-free Model Estate (1996–99, Cornelia Schindler and Rudolf Szedenik), the women-led scheme Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky-Hof (1993–97, Liselotte Peretti, Gisela Podreka, Elsa Prochazka and Franziska Ullmann), and the residences on the former railway station Nordbahnhof (1992–2015, master plan by Boris Podrecca and Heinz Tesar, buildings by various architects). This article will present Vienna’s turn-of-the-twenty-first-century housing as a successful strategy to provide affordable residences that respond to current needs, and at the same time a way to harness innovative architecture for social policy goals. …”
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From History to Architectural Imagination: A physical ambiences laboratory to interpret past sensory experiences and speculate on future spaces by Claude MH Demers, André Potvin

“…The built environment offers an impressive corpus of spatial typologies on which architects and users may build their knowledge based of ambiences. …”
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Les bouches d’aération du métro algérois, une source d’énergie inexploitée et un potentiel architectural inexploré by Khaled Athamena

“…The aim being to sensitize the scientist community, and that of architects and urban planners about the benefits of these underground enclosures, and draw their attention to the risks they can engender on the user’s health as well as on the air quality of outdoor public spaces. …”
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Sérgio Ferro au prisme d’une histoire brésilienne,(re-)lire Dessin-chantier by Sandra Fiori

“…This path is the story of three young architects from Sao Paulo who graduated during the construction of Brasilia, whose architectural and theoretical contribution took place in Brazil during the 60’s; the story of a politically left intellectual and artistic vanguard, torn between modernity and under-development, social transformation prospect and opposition towards the military regime after 1964. …”
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Will decarbonising buildings be enough? Constrain and redistribute growth in floor area by David Ness

“…While such a transformative change may dramatically reduce carbon consumption, biodiversity loss and global inequity, it also poses major challenges and opportunities for architects, designers and other industry stakeholders.   …”
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Risque inondation dans le Grand Paris : la résilience est-elle un concept opératoire ? by Alexandre Brun, Frédéric Gache

“…They often reduced it to a technical problem. Architects are more aware than in the past, but they have difficulty to conciliate this issue with the priorities of building planners (housing, transport...), while many mutable properties are located in the Grand Paris's flood-risk areas.…”
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Keeping Warm in Subtropical Winter. When Everyday Life Disrupts the Concept of Hyper-Conditioned Environments in Chongqing (Southwest China) by Madlen Kobi

“…This paper aims to sensitize architects to conceptualizing buildings not as detached and controllable entities, but as part of urban climatic landscapes.…”
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Construction characteristics and reinforcement and maintenance technology of native earth buildings in Liling area by Yujia Fan, Chao Wang, Haiting Sun, Jun Mu

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Graphic Mimesis. Representation of the Landscape in Dimitris Pikionis’ Xenia Hotel and Alberto Ponis’ Casa Hartley by Ana Muñoz-López, Lara Redondo González

“…Notwithstanding the aforementioned general tendency, the figures of Dimitris Pikionis (Athens, 1887-1968) and Alberto Ponis (Genoa, 1933-) stand out as two architects who have distanced themselves from these conventional tendencies of representation by virtue of their faithful definition of the landscape. …”
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Vernacular Architecture as Self-Determination: Venturi, Scott Brown and the Controversy over Philadelphia's Crosstown Expressway, 1967-1973 by Sebastian Haumann

“…The South Street project offers a concrete occasion wherein the architects were forced to adopt a political position.…”
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Les paysages de Kronsberg à Hanovre : approches sonore et multisensorielle by Élise Geisler, Théa Manola

“…Actually, in the plentiful scientific production on the landscape question, but also in the speeches of the landscape architects, the multisensoriality of the landscape is considered as acquired. …”
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Le retable (1980-1982) de Charles Daudelin (1920-2001) de la chapelle Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur de la basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal by Marilie Labonté

“…Cet essai tend ici à retracer la manière dont les divers acteurs entourant l’objet (curés, employés, marguilliers de la Fabrique, architectes, médias, etc.) peuvent par leur discours devenir créateurs d’objets phares.…”
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Modulating Perception in Interior Architecture Through Décor: An Eye-Tracking Study of a Living Room Scene by Weronika Wlazły, Agata Bonenberg

“…The visual perception of interior architecture plays a crucial role in real estate marketing, influencing the decisions of buyers, interior architects, and real estate agents. These professionals rely on personal assessments of space, often drawing from their experience of using décor to influence how interiors are perceived. …”
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