The Hybrid Practitioner

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Design ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Sociology Of Professions ◽  
Professional Environment ◽  
Scholarly Production ◽  
Reproductive Activities ◽  
Academic Interests ◽  
Opening Up

The practice of architecture manifests in myriad forms and engagements. Overcoming false divides, this volume frames the fertile relationship between the cultural and scholarly production of academia and the process of designing and building in the material world. It proposes the concept of the hybrid practitioner, who bridges the gap between academia and practice by considering how different aspects of architectural practice, theory, and history intersect, opening up a fascinating array of possibilities for an active engagement with the present. The book explores different, interrelated roles for practicing architects and researchers, from the reproductive activities of teaching, consulting and publishing, through the reflective activities of drawing and writing, to the practice of building. The notion of the hybrid practitioner will appeal strongly to students, teachers and architectural practitioners as part of a multifaceted professional environment. By connecting academic interests with those of the professional realm, The Hybrid Practitioner addresses a wider readership embracing landscape design, art theory and aesthetics, European history, and the history and sociology of professions.

scholarly journals Landscape Design of the University New Campuses Based on Regional Characteristics——Using Fengxian New Campus of East China University of Science and Technology as an Example

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 01018
Author(s):  
Lu Feng
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
East China ◽  
University Culture ◽  
Regional Characteristics ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Reform And Opening Up ◽  
Opening Up

In the past 40 years of reform and opening up, China's higher education and campus construction have made historic achievements. This paper reviews the history of this process in the 40 years, while summarises the characteristics and requirements of current new campus by comparing multiple new campuses in china. The paper uses East China University of Science and Technology as an example, to analysis the problems of neglecting the regional characteristics and far-fetched embodiment of university culture. This paper puts forward the concept of using regional characteristics to strengthen university culture, and unfolds in natural features, evolution process and farming habits within two specific plots.

scholarly journals Sociological Understanding of Professional and Institutional Ethics

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Roman Abramov ◽  
Andrey Bykov
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Sociology Of Professions ◽  
Institutional Ethics ◽  
Corporate Volunteering ◽  
Professional Environment ◽  
Sociology Of Morality ◽  
Moral Choices ◽  
Academic Professionals

The paper studies the issue of the importance of studying professional ethics with the help of theories and approaches of sociology of professions, sociology of morality and modern sociological theory. It raises the question of the ratio of individual moral standing to the requirements of professional ethics. The paper also outlines the key features of the conflicts arising in professional environment, such as in the situations provoking ethical dilemma conditioned by external institutional factors and the logic of managerialism. The authors focus on the ethical stress in the academia regarding the relationship between academic professionals and admini­strative staff. The paper raises the question of professional ethics in maturing communities, and describes the corporate volunteering practices. Prospects for studying professional ethics, including the need for empirical study of toxic moral choices in professional area and the manipulative risks of applying formal codes of ethics in order to gain power in professional environment, are outlined.

scholarly journals (Re)covered Memory: Memorialisation, Race, and Architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Max Wiles
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
History Of Place

<p>The tendency to record only built memory and significant events in architectural practice means that less tangible cultural memory is prone to erasure. This is prevalent in the memories of the other which often diverge from the majority, and so are not considered for preservation. In this context, cultural memory refers to the intangible qualities and experiences which define place, associated with a particular group. While initiatives such as heritage listings can preserve the physical history of place, little is done to preserve intangible history which has been lost through development and gentrification.  To investigate strategies for reasserting cultural memory in urban space, Haining Street in Wellington is engaged as a site. From approximately 1890 to 1960, Haining Street was Wellington’s Chinatown and home to the largest Chinese population in New Zealand. Despite a long, and often controversial history, this legacy has virtually been erased from the contemporary streetscape, creating an area of note only for a vanished past. This thesis proposes that the memory of Haining Street’s Chinese past can be reasserted through an artist in residence scheme, consisting of a gallery, workshop and accommodation.  Architectural intervention within spaces where history has been erased can reassert memory of the other, creating an identifiable place by: memorialising the intangible qualities of place, engaging with the legacy of race in the built environment, and creating a sensual experience of place. This research suggests that architecture has the potential to reconcile conflicted recollections of the past through an active engagement with the memory of place.</p>

scholarly journals Learning from the everyday world

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-233
Author(s):  
Shen Zhuang ◽  
Xiahong Hua
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
Spatial Redundancy ◽  
Opening Up

From phenomenal observation to value recognition, from design strategy to concrete methodology, the everyday world brings direct inspiration to Atelier Archmixing's architectural practice. Through participant observation of the urban and rural built environment, together with various design experiences from different projects, the practice defines the neutral spatial phenomenon of constant accumulation, change and adjustment as ‘Spatial Redundancy’; they respond with design strategies that flexibly apply various concepts, technologies and approaches without prejudice, describing their consequences as ‘Unrecognisable System’. Both concepts aim at opening up new possibilities for architecture drawn from the everyday world and rooted in China's rapid urbanisation.

scholarly journals Beyond Words: Aesthetic Knowledge and Knowing in Organizations

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 689-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Ewenstein ◽  
Jennifer Whyte
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Practice ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Detailed Observation ◽  
Time Out ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
The Look ◽  
Opening Up

Aesthetic knowledge comes from practitioners understanding the look, feel, smell, taste and sound of things. It is vital to work in many organizational contexts. In this paper, we explore aesthetic knowledge and knowing in organizations through detailed observation of design work in the architectural practice Edward Cullinan Architects. Through our research, we explore aesthetic knowledge in the context of architectural work, we unpack what it is, how it is generated, and how it is applied in design projects, shared between practitioners and developed at the level of the organization. Our analysis suggests that aesthetic knowledge plays an important part in organizational practice, not only as the symbolic context for work, but as an integral part of the work that people do. It suggests that aesthetic reflexivity, which involves an opening up and questioning of what is known, is experienced as part of practice as well as a `time out' from practice.

scholarly journals Implications of Vattimo's 'Verwindung' of modernism in architectural theory

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-172
Author(s):  
Vladimir Stevanović
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Architectural Discourse ◽  
Philosophical Concept ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Textual Production ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
Architectural Styles

In the postmodern era, besides new approaches to architectural practice, substantial changes happen in architectural textual production owed to the inflow of the postmodern transdisciplinary theory in architectural discourse. Theorists, critics and historians of architecture gladly use the contribution from philosophy, political sciences, sociology, art theory and literary criticism to categorize and explain postmodern architectural styles or tendencies, no longer unifying them exclusively by means of formalistic aspects dating from the same period. Now, topics and paradigms from various postmodern theories are being implemented and thus created the phenomenon of the translation of a theory into an instrument of architectural purpose. In most cases, theoretical outlooks serve as a cover which the theorists of architecture use to formulate the poetics of architects, proclaim desirable models of reception, and develop the stance on the disciplinary and socio-historical contexts. However, it becomes interesting when the same architectural works of a single or several architects are differently interpreted by different theorists of architecture. The paper examines these premises on a specific example, which is: 1) demonstrated in practice by Catalan architecture of the 1980s; 2) the point of convergence between de Solà-Morales, Rossi and Frampton; 3) underlain by Vattimo's philosophical concept of Verwindung of modernism.

scholarly journals Productive Friction between Practice and the Academy: Why Can’t We Be Friends?

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 468
Author(s):  
SueAnne Ware
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Philosophical Framework ◽  
Opening Up

This essay examines the various machinations and relationships between landscape architectural practice and landscape architectural academia. Through the lens of productive friction and the philosophical framework of radical hope; I unpack various examples of disruptors and innovation with the aim of opening up a discussion around our urgent need for transformation.

scholarly journals Spaces of Architectural Overcoming

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
1969 ◽  
pp. 51-59
Author(s):  
Cathy Smith
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Opening Up

This paper reflects an interest in how interior and landscape sites are connectedin their capacity to exceed or ‘overcome’ architecture and practice conventions of designing, making and use. In professional architectural practice, these conventions are generally treated as distinct and hierarchical steps. This reflects a view of life that is ordered, controlled and deterministic. Referring to ideas that affirm the unpredictable and evolutionary nature of life, I argue for more experimental, improvised spatial practices. I have drawn from Elizabeth Grosz’s writings about space and time to show how we can use change and spontaneous making in everyday life as designing. This has helped me to question how spaces are produced, and the singular design ‘authority’ of the architect or building designer. I have found that working in interior and landscape sites provides more opportunities for unplanned construction connected to the lives of those who inhabit space: opening up architecture and architectural practice to unpredictable forces repressed in professional practice. This paper, part of my doctoral research, explores the conceptual and practical dimensions of experimental interior projects.

scholarly journals (Re)covered Memory: Memorialisation, Race, and Architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Max Wiles
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
History Of Place

<p>The tendency to record only built memory and significant events in architectural practice means that less tangible cultural memory is prone to erasure. This is prevalent in the memories of the other which often diverge from the majority, and so are not considered for preservation. In this context, cultural memory refers to the intangible qualities and experiences which define place, associated with a particular group. While initiatives such as heritage listings can preserve the physical history of place, little is done to preserve intangible history which has been lost through development and gentrification.  To investigate strategies for reasserting cultural memory in urban space, Haining Street in Wellington is engaged as a site. From approximately 1890 to 1960, Haining Street was Wellington’s Chinatown and home to the largest Chinese population in New Zealand. Despite a long, and often controversial history, this legacy has virtually been erased from the contemporary streetscape, creating an area of note only for a vanished past. This thesis proposes that the memory of Haining Street’s Chinese past can be reasserted through an artist in residence scheme, consisting of a gallery, workshop and accommodation.  Architectural intervention within spaces where history has been erased can reassert memory of the other, creating an identifiable place by: memorialising the intangible qualities of place, engaging with the legacy of race in the built environment, and creating a sensual experience of place. This research suggests that architecture has the potential to reconcile conflicted recollections of the past through an active engagement with the memory of place.</p>

Seeking to uncover biology's chemical roots

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 435-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Addy Pross
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
The Road ◽  
Physical Chemical ◽  
Systems Chemistry ◽  
Biological World ◽  
Inanimate Matter ◽  
The Origin Of Life ◽  
Opening Up

Despite the considerable advances in molecular biology over the past several decades, the nature of the physical–chemical process by which inanimate matter become transformed into simplest life remains elusive. In this review, we describe recent advances in a relatively new area of chemistry, systems chemistry, which attempts to uncover the physical–chemical principles underlying that remarkable transformation. A significant development has been the discovery that within the space of chemical potentiality there exists a largely unexplored kinetic domain which could be termed dynamic kinetic chemistry. Our analysis suggests that all biological systems and associated sub-systems belong to this distinct domain, thereby facilitating the placement of biological systems within a coherent physical/chemical framework. That discovery offers new insights into the origin of life process, as well as opening the door toward the preparation of active materials able to self-heal, adapt to environmental changes, even communicate, mimicking what transpires routinely in the biological world. The road to simplest proto-life appears to be opening up.

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