Model Operations: Morphogenesis and the Design Process

2021 ◽  
pp. 602-626
Author(s):  
Carolin Höfler
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Responsive Materials ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
Generative Algorithms ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Structural Architecture ◽  
Architecture And Design

Abstract Since the emergence of digital design techniques in combination with so-called responsive materials, the concept of organic forms in architecture seems to be gaining a new quality. The resemblance to an organism should no longer apply only superficially but be inscribed in the materiality as well as in the history of origin and functioning. This article addresses these new transformative effects between architecture and biology. They are presented primarily in relation to the structural architecture of the 1960s and the computational architectural systems since the 1990s. One focus of architecture is on dynamic forms that adapt themselves to their environment by means of flexible materials and generative algorithms. Here, architecture as technically animated matter no longer involuntarily competes with creative nature but is seen as part of a reciprocal relationship. This reciprocal relationship is specified by recourse to various architectural models. The models’ approaches suggest that organic-looking forms are generated by simulated biological processes. The article examines this claim of the models from the perspective of the history of architecture and design. It shows how, since the mid-twentieth century, a renewal of architectural design practice has been sought by reformulating morphological questions at the intersection of biological and cybernetic discourses.

The Role of Building Materials in Architectural Design

2014 ◽  
Vol 679 ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
Hafedh Abed Yahya ◽  
Muna Hanim Abdul Samad
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Core Element ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
The Way

The argumentation of previous studies demonstrated the historical evolution of the materials in architecture and the position of the materials in the design process. The purpose is to recognize the role of materials in architectural design, and the materials are a core element of the design process. This paper is about the way materials can be used to create personality and character of the design. The research finds two overlapping roles for materials which are providing technical functionality and building personality. Thus building materials were one of the major factors for new innovation forms through the history of architecture. Keywords: Building Materials, Architectural Design, Technical Functionality, Aesthetic Attributes.

Geometry in the Architectural Design of Rafael Moneo

2019 ◽  
pp. 334-363
Author(s):  
José Antonio Franco Taboada
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Architectural Style ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture

In the architectural work of Rafael Moneo, winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1996, geometry is a fundamental element, as he has confirmed through his writings and the very reality of his work. This chapter contains an analysis of the geometric component of his work, through his writings and interviews, but also through the drawings and models of his works that are most paradigmatic or most representative of his architectural style. Also analyzed are the possible influences from other architects and important works from the history of architecture. The conclusion is that the geometric component underlying his works has its roots in Platonic thought and that for Moneo, architectural ideas have an ontological nature, transcending the imperfection inherent in nature and approaching the perfection of Platonic order.

scholarly journals Architectural research and disciplinarity

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Rendell
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Research Assessment Exercise ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
Architectural Research

There are at present considerable concerns with how architectural research will be assessed in the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) of 2008. In RAE 2001, most architectural research was submitted to one of three Units of Assessment (UoA): 33 Built Environment, 60 History of Art, Architecture and Design, and 64 Art and Design. There were subtle, but important, differences in output definition and assessment criteria between UoA 33 and UoA 64 with respect to practice-led research. Most importantly, in UoA 33 practice-led outputs were accepted by the panel, but only as publications, whereas UoA 64 assessed practice-led research outputs accompanied by a 300-word statement that clarified the contributions of that particular research to the development of original knowledge in the field. The diversity of methods and complexity of output types, combined with the composition of UoA 33, led to results that many feel did not properly reflect the strengths of architectural design, particularly practice-led research. This methodology essentially disenfranchised a significant part of the community from the rae process to the detriment not only of the community, but to the credibility of the process itself.

The Impact of Roe on Prenatal Tort Litigation: On the Public Policy of Unexpected Children

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-160
Author(s):  
Luke Isaac Haqq
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
History Of ◽  
Annual Frequency ◽  
Tort Litigation ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis article provides a history of especial importance to abortion politics today, based on research involving a dataset of over 1,200 wrongful conception, wrongful birth, wrongful life, and standard torts for prenatal injuries. In documenting the rise of these torts over the twentieth century, I specifically focus on how this domain of litigation dramatically changed beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, with the recognition of the constitutional rights to contraception and abortion. I provide an exhaustive survey of an underappreciated yet robust arena of public policy at the intersection of reproductive rights and tort law, emphasizing the reciprocal relationship between these torts and reproductive rights. State courts and legislatures continue to debate into the present about whether to ban, permit, or restrict damages in these torts, debates that have been perennial since the early 1970s. Using several timelines created in Stata to plot the annual frequency of the above cases from the late 1800s into the present, as well as several maps providing a 50-state overview, I highlight a specific arena in which reproductive rights are forged, one revealing problematic aspects of a “post-Roe era” of public policy regarding the benefits and harms of unexpected children.

scholarly journals Architectural work of Aleksandar Deroko: Beauty of emotional creativity

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-42
Author(s):  
Irena Kuletin-Ćulafić
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture

This paper studies significant and forgotten, but not less important, built and unrealised designs by Serbian architect Aleksandar Deroko. It seeks to achieve a continuous view in dealing with Deroko`s architectural work versus the historical discontinuity of political, territorial-geographic and social circumstances. It is impossible to separate Deroko as an architect from Deroko as a scholar, researcher, historian of architecture and art, an academic professor, painter, artist, writer, chronicler of his time, protector, conservator and historiographer of Serbian cultural heritage. The main aim of this paper is to apply comprehensive research approach within which his work in the field of architectural design will be considered in a complementary and pluralistic way. Deroko's architectural projects examined in their details and altogether represent distillate of Deroko's erudite personality, which casts shadow on relevant questions of Serbian history of architecture placement: How to understand it, observe and examine it, from Yugoslav or Serbian perspective, from the position of continuity or discontinuity, through characteristics of general or particular?

Hanseatisch modern

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Public Building ◽  
Shipping Company ◽  
Country Houses ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
New Construction ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Public Architecture

Using the example of the civic city of Hamburg, the book focuses on the impulses from the privately initiated architecture of modernity. Because in addition to the well-regarded public architecture of the Hanseatic city, key architectures in the 20th century were often due to private impulses. Examples are villas and country houses, but also the new construction of the Hamburg State Opera, a public building that goes back to initiatives by the Hanseatic merchants. In addition to in-depth individual studies, for example on the building of the Hamburg Kunstverein from 1930, it is also about private-sector construction as an expression of a specific Hamburg identity, such as the architect Cäsar Pinnau sketched in the 1960s with the administration building of the shipping company Hamburg Süd that shaped the cityscape. The essays of the volume thus represent test bores for this little-noticed problem in the history of architecture in the 20th century.

Is a Global History of Architecture Displayable? A Historiographical Perspective on the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale and Louvre Abu Dhabi

ARTMargins ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-101
Author(s):  
Esra Akcan
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Global History ◽  
Design Practices ◽  
Museum Design ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
Ongoing Project

This article comparatively discusses the 14th International Architecture Biennale of Venice, directed by Rem Koolhaas, and the pilot exhibit and architectural design of Louvre Abu Dhabi undertaken by Jean Nouvel, in the context of recent big art events and world museums. Curatorial, historiographical, and installation strategies in these venues are differentiated in order to think through the question of displaying a global history of architecture. I make a distinction between the curatorial practices carried out in the Fundamentals and Absorbing Modernity sections of Venice's Central and National Pavilions as curator-as-author and curators-as-chorus, which I map onto recent historiographical and museum design practices, including the Louvre Abu Dhabi, to discuss the geopolitical implications of its installation strategies. I also argue that six methodological perspectives for displaying architectural history emerge from the curator-chorus of Absorbing Modernity, which can be identified as survey, nationalist history, case study, thematic history, archive metaphor, and deferment, all of which contribute to and raise questions about the ongoing project towards a global architectural history. After suggesting a difference between “world” and “global” history of architecture, I call for a more geopolitically conscious and cosmopolitan global history of architecture, by exposing the intactive bonds between the history of modernism and of colonization, as well as the continuing legacy of geopolitical and economic inequalities that operate in such venues.

Geometry in the Architectural Design of Rafael Moneo

2016 ◽  
pp. 694-722
Author(s):  
José Antonio Franco Taboada
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Architectural Style ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture

In the architectural work of Rafael Moneo, winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1996, geometry is a fundamental element, as he has confirmed through his writings and the very reality of his work. This chapter contains an analysis of the geometric component of his work, through his writings and interviews, but also through the drawings and models of his works that are most paradigmatic or most representative of his architectural style. Also analyzed are the possible influences from other architects and important works from the history of architecture. The conclusion is that the geometric component underlying his works has its roots in Platonic thought and that for Moneo, architectural ideas have an ontological nature, transcending the imperfection inherent in nature and approaching the perfection of Platonic order.

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