scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF GLOBAL STYLE IN ARCHITECTURAL DISCOURSE

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
Mykhailо Astanin
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Architectural Discourse ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Spatial Environment ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
Temporal Aspect

The article raises the problem of architectural stylistics. The origin and existence of the concept of global style is determined. Its unifying role in the diversity of style pluralism. Understanding of an architectural form cannot claim completeness if there is no information about the process of its formation - architectural formation. Khan-Magomedov suggested two scenarios for the development of their relationship. Or each of the Superstyles will occupy its niche in the subject-spatial environment and will function in parallel, without touching each other. Or Superstyle will replace each other and in turn will dominate. The history of architecture is an integral part of social history. Cycles in the temporal aspect are divided into: short-term (from one to several years), medium-term (quarter of a century), long-term (half a century), centuries-old (civilizational), millennial (supercycles). Synergetics is an interdisciplinary field of research, which aims to learn the general principles underlying the processes of self-organization of systems of various natures, which involve a spontaneous transition from chaos to order and back in open nonlinear environments. The starting points of synergetics, as well as the post-nonclassical scientific paradigm, are considered: interdisciplinarity; nonlinearity; coevolution; self-organization; ideas of global evolutionism, synchronicity and systematics. This allows you to change the nature of perception of the history of architecture - to translate it from the ascertaining level, to the explanatory level. The idea of Superstyle can serve to understand style in terms of democratic and global culture, as well as become a methodological tool for explaining and describing stylistic pluralism in architecture.

scholarly journals In the name of housing

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-29
Author(s):  
Sameep Padora
Keyword(s):  
Ordinary People ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Specific Manner ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
Collective Housing ◽  
The City ◽  
Architectural Unit

In his 1925 book Groszstadtbauten, Ludwig Hilberseimertalks about the relation of city form to that of the smallest single architectural unit; a room within a house. This commentary is validated by the fact that the residential fabric of any city comprises most of that city’s built form. For most people, this means the form of housing. This essay focuses on the history of architecture relating to housing in the city of Mumbai. The tie between Mumbai’s form and its inhabitation. Looking specifically at the architectural form of these projects, they become instructive both through the breadth of their variations, as well as the depth of their spatial and formal engagements. Building on the history of housing in Mumbai since the early-nineteenth century the essay presents a typology of housing inhabited by ordinary people and their immediate spatial ecologies which facilitate a specific manner of compressed living. These types are commentaries on technology, lifestyle, and culture are all situated within the particularities of their respective time. Nevertheless, these unique armatures still seem to gravitate around certain emergent commonalities that could provide an armature for the design of collective housing models in the future.

scholarly journals The Mausoleum of Giuseppe Tonietti on the Elba Island. From a masterpiece of Adolofo Coppedè to a compromising state of decay.

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 719-734
Author(s):  
Angela Mancuso ◽  
Andrea Pasquali ◽  
Giorgio Verdiani
Keyword(s):  
Work Conditions ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
Current Form ◽  
Total Absence ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
Elba Island ◽  
Architectural Research

The study shows the results of the digital and photographic surveys operated on an architectural work of great importance: it is the Mausoleum for Tonietti family, by Adolfo Coppedè, built on the Elba Island in Tuscany-Italy at the beginning of the 20th century. The current alarming conditions of the building invite to make some reflections on the unpleasant but common fate of many architectures of the Liberty and Eclectic period in Italy. With the evolution of rationalism of the architectural form and thus the gradual purifying of decorative plastic organisms from architectural objects, architectural research, and with it the observation and conservation of cultural heritage, has increasingly focused on new rational style, omitting many examples in floral style equally deserving of attention. The alarming state of preservation of Tonietti Mausoleum, combined with the total absence of projects by local authorities, set the conditions for the dissolution of the work and the consequent loss of the cultural and territorial connotation that it creates. The processing of the surveys and the gathering of documentation wants to create the basis for the comparison of work conditions in its original state and the current form, fixing the actual conditions of decay. There is the hope that this work can create a conservative practical input that restores the integrity of the cultural property designed by the youngest of Coppedè brothers, giving to it a proper and necessary value in the study of the history of architecture and the development of the evolutionary dialogue necessarily connected to the same historical evolution.

scholarly journals Teaching architecture in the training of civil engineering students at FEUP

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Brandao Alves ◽  
Barbara Rangel
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
Structural System ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
The Common

In recent years the discipline of Architecture in Master of Civil Engineering at FEUP, has been showing to future engineers the common territory of architecture and civil engineer. By building technologies, particularly structural systems, the pedagogic methodology shows this basilar triad, construction technology / structural system / architectural form, for the understanding of architectural grammar. In the lectures, with concrete cases in the history of architecture addresses the integrated design methodology. In practical classes, the analysis of specific projects, the preparation of drawings and even the preparation of models, shows the students the construction system in the studio and in the site, through the design tools. This article seeks to present the developed experience of the recent years in this course, in order to contribute to the increasingly urgent intersection of Architecture and Engineering.

scholarly journals THE ARCHITECTURE OF CONSTRUCTIVISM: THE CREATIVE TRANSFORMATION OF AESTHETIC CODES AND NARRATIVES

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larisa PISKUNOVA ◽  
Liudmila STAROSTOVA ◽  
Igor YANKOV
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Social History ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Space Planning ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
Modernist Project

Abstract The architecture of constructivism (functionalism) has a kind of symbolic meaning associated with the modernist project. The authors conducted a study of the architectural avant-garde of Sverdlovsk, Russia which showed that the weak perception of the historical and cultural importance of constructivist buildings and complexes is associated not only with the lack of the people awareness, but also with the underestimation of their aesthetic value. Meanwhile, the study of space-planning solutions for specific architectural projects reveals really conceptual aesthetics of the buildings. In addition, the study of the social history of constructivist architectural complexes, conducted by the authors, helped us to identify and articulate their cultural and historical significance and to highlight in a creative way the visual perception of these architectural reference markers in the space of the city. The authors also rely on their own experience of the exhibition, publication and sightseeing activities. The analysis of this experience allows the authors to draw some conclusions about the practice of developing and shifting the visual perception of constructivist monuments by the people. The originality of the presented approach to the study of architecture is an appeal to the social history of architecture which helps to enhance its aesthetic value.

Charles Beasley, Architect (1827-1913): Issues and Images

1980 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-207
Author(s):  
Karen J. Weitze
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Central California ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
Biographical Study

The biographical study of this central California builder-architect of the late 19th century presents an idiosyncratic slice of ethnic social history, focusing on an architect's reactions to the slavery issue, 1850-1865, and to the controversy of Chinese immigration in California, 1880-1900. The lengthy career-70 years-of an American builder-architect, contributes to our understanding of the profession's middle echelon during the 1845-1915 period. In this regard, James Fergusson's History of Architecture, London, 1873-1876, assumes importance as a pattern book employed by California designers. Beasley's Agricultural Pavilion of 1887 in Stockton pushes back the earliest known date of a "Chinese" design by 20 years. Knowledge of his career raises questions regarding the factual and interpretative history of San Francisco's Chinatown, 1906-1912. This article is based on a documents search, including census records, cemetery files, newspaper archives, photograph collections, and miscellaneous histories and pamphlets. These were supplemented by an interview with the Beasley heirs, written correspondence, work with the Pioneer Museum and Haggin Galleries, and participation in the Stockton Historic Buildings Survey.

Early Cinema in Scotland

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Early Cinema ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Production History ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Audience

This collection of essays, drawn from a three-year AHRC research project, provides a detailed context for the history of early cinema in Scotland from its inception in 1896 till the arrival of sound in the early 1930s. It details the movement from travelling fairground shows to the establishment of permanent cinemas, and from variety and live entertainment to the dominance of the feature film. It addresses the promotion of cinema as a socially ‘useful’ entertainment, and, distinctively, it considers the early development of cinema in small towns as well as in larger cities. Using local newspapers and other archive sources, it details the evolution and the diversity of the social experience of cinema, both for picture goers and for cinema staff. In production, it examines the early attempts to establish a feature film production sector, with a detailed production history of Rob Roy (United Films, 1911), and it records the importance, both for exhibition and for social history, of ‘local topicals’. It considers the popularity of Scotland as an imaginary location for European and American films, drawing their popularity from the international audience for writers such as Walter Scott and J.M. Barrie and the ubiquity of Scottish popular song. The book concludes with a consideration of the arrival of sound in Scittish cinemas. As an afterpiece, it offers an annotated filmography of Scottish-themed feature films from 1896 to 1927, drawing evidence from synopses and reviews in contemporary trade journals.

The perils and dangers of these knights (and undead peasants): Interpreting English and Scottish Extent Rolls of 1297–1305

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Donnelly
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Compte Rendu ◽  
History Of ◽  
Different Sources

Medieval Scottish economic and social history has held little interest for a unionist establishment but, just when a recovery of historic independence begins to seem possible, this paper tackles a (perhaps the) key pre-1424 source. It is compared with a Rutland text, in a context of foreign history, both English and continental. The Berwickshire text is not, as was suggested in 2014, a ‘compte rendu’ but rather an ‘extent’, intended to cross-check such accounts. Read alongside the Rutland roll, it is not even a single ‘compte’ but rather a palimpsest of different sources and times: a possibility beyond earlier editorial imaginings. With content falling (largely) within the time-frame of the PoMS project (although not actually included), when the economic history of Scotland in Europe is properly explored, the sources discussed here will be key and will offer an interesting challenge to interpretation. And some surprises about their nature and date.

Editor's Notes

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-7
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

In this opening issue of volume 31 we are presented with both nuanced and bold entry into several long enduring issues and topics stitching together the interdisciplinary fabric comprising ethnic studies. The authors of these articles bring to our attention social, cultural and economic issues shaping lively discourse in ethnic studies. They also bring to our attention interpretations of the meaning and significance of ethnic cultural contributions to the social history of this nation - past and present.

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