scholarly journals The challenge of preserving contemporary architecture. Experiences at the MAXXI museum in Rome

2021 ◽  
pp. 86-107
Author(s):  
Antonella Versaci ◽  
Alessio Cardaci
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Architecture

El destino de los edificios contemporáneos de hormigón se ha convertido en motivo de creciente preocupación debido al rápido envejecimiento de estas construcciones. Las actuaciones para su conservación material y estructural requieren varias disciplinas, dado que gran parte de ellos son resultado de experimentos pioneros y de desafíos singulares, tanto morfológicos como técnico-constructivos. No obstante, elegir cómo intervenir debe partir de un bagaje consolidado de conocimientos y de premisas operativas y teóricas, que lamentablemente apenas se aplican a la restauración del hormigón armado. Este artículo se centra sobre la experiencia de conservación del MAXXI, el Museo Nacional de las Artes del siglo XXI, realizado por Zaha Hadid (1950-2016) en Roma, envejecido prematuramente e intervenido recientemente con una importante actuación de conservación de sus superficies externas.

Picturesque comments on contemporary architecture

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-111
Author(s):  
Léon Krier
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Architecture

Provincia di Belluno. Tracce di contemporaneità / Province of Belluno. Traces of contemporaneity

ARCHALP ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 174-179
Author(s):  
Francesca Bogo
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Cultural Resistance ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Regulatory Constraints ◽  
Landscape Quality ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
And Diffusion

The Province of Belluno is home of great human and landscape quality and of the beautiful Dolomites, UNESCO World Heritage. How experiences of contemporary architecture fit and how are promoted in this context? It can be said that contemporary architecture does not attract a big audience. This is despite the constant efforts by various bodies and associations to promote its diffusion and development through competitions, conferences, workshops and case studies. In the Belluno region, apart from the extraordinary extant historical heritage, there are widespread examples of new architecture known as “false alpine models” or architecture that has erroneously become typical of the Province’s image. This is the reason why this new architecture with its range of peculiarities is widely reiterated, from north to south of the area. Even though buildings of this type lack any real ties with history or tradition, they find widespread approval by institutions and commissions. They are the result of repetitive practices deriving from constraints imposed by local regulations and a limited aptitude in the use of contemporary language of architecture. Even if the barometer of the vitality of contemporary architecture in the region of Belluno is rather lukewarm, dampened by cultural resistance and by regulatory constraints affecting its growth and diffusion, there is no lack of experiences, initiatives and achievements. The latter is evidence of the fact that where research and the use of contemporary languages are accompanied by the opinions of enlightened patrons, good architecture is born, which find space in the arena of national and international architectural debate. Examples of good architecture, even though limited in number, are distributed across the Province and constitute heritage and the focus for promoting and consolidating the growth and dissemination of contemporary architecture throughout the area.

Bauen nach dem Bauhaus

Architectura ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 154-183
Author(s):  
Andreas Schwarting
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Industrial Architecture ◽  
Construction Tasks ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Post War ◽  
Mies Van Der Rohe ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Second World

Abstract Hermann Blomeier is one of around 80 graduates from the Bau- und Ausbauabteilung, a comparatively small group among the more than 1200 students at the Bauhaus who have only recently come under the spotlight of research. The biographies of several graduates are known, such as Franz Ehrlich, Erich Consemüller, Howard Dearstyne, Selman Selmanagić, Herbert Hirche or Arieh Sharon; many more are lost, however. Although the Bauhaus was not a ›school‹ in the sense of a unified design approach and a binding canon of forms, it is instructive on an individual level to study the work of Blomeier, one of the Bauhaus graduates and students of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe who has so far received little attention. On the basis of three projects from the 1950s, the viability of the design approaches conveyed at the Bauhaus for the construction tasks of the post-war period are examined. First, the ferry ports connecting Konstanz and Meersburg will be considered as the first major project by Blomeier after the Second World War. The buildings for the Bodensee-Wasserversorgung – at times the largest construction site in West Germany of the 1950s – represent an outstanding example of industrial architecture and technical infrastructure in their fusion of art, technology and landscape. The smallest of the three projects, the building for the rowing club Neptun, located directly opposite the old town of Konstanz on the Seerhein, points with its innovative modular primary structure well beyond contemporary architecture and anticipates developments of the late 1960s, such as the Japanese Metabolists or the Plug-In-City of Archigram.

Traditional Culture Expression and Innovation of Contemporary Architecture

2014 ◽  
Vol 638-640 ◽  
pp. 2290-2293
Author(s):  
Han Fang Liu ◽  
Xue Mei Jin ◽  
Jia Fu
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Power Source ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
National Character ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
Chinese Architecture ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Architectural Innovation ◽  
Regional Character ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

This paper analyzes the factors influencing the contemporary architectural innovation. It puts forward that the model of standardization and mass production contribute to similar “international” architectural form, which results in the disappearing of the “national character” and“regional character” of Chinese architecture. However, simplified traditional expressions make contemporary architectural innovation too superficial, leading to a “trap” of imitation. It also pointes out that the combination of the methods of symbol and metaphor , technology and materials of modern architecture, a further exploration of traditional culture symbols, cultural energy stimulating is the power source of contemporary architectural innovation, and make a argumentation through success and failure cases.

ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTIONS: A CASE STUDY OF HERITAGE ZONE IN KOTA BHARU, KELANTAN.

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-157
Author(s):  
Yasmin Mohd Fauzi ◽  
Juliza Mohamad
Keyword(s):  
Time Factors ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
The West ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Industrial Corridor ◽  
Architecture Style ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

AbstrakKelantan terletak dalam pengasingan dari koridor perindustrian di pantai barat dan jauh dari pengaruh KualaLumpur, Pulau Pinang dan Singapura. Adalah penting untuk menentukan daya-daya penentu pertumbuhanbandar di negeri ini kerana pusat-pusat bandar di Kelantan mempunyai gabungan unik antara potensidan kekangan. Walau bagaimanapun, sebagaimana proses globalisasi dan urbanisasi perbandaranyang berlaku di seluruh dunia, evolusi senibina di Kelantan tidak terkecuali dan pemeliharaan nilai-nilaisejarah yang unik perlu dilakukan. Warisan senibina Kelantan hari ini kurang dihargai oleh masyarakatkerana karaktornya yang terpencil dan kurang baik. Hal ini kerana proses pengekalan bangunan warisankurang diberi perhatian dan juga kurang mendapat penekanan daripada pihak berkuasa dan masyarakatsendiri. Terdapat banyak bangunan-bangunan bersejarah di Kota Bharu yang telah dirobohkan untuktujuan pembangunan bandar dan ada sebahagian bangunan diberi pengaruh gaya seni bina modendan kontemporari tanpa mengambil kira nilai sejarah yang sedia ada. Pertumbuhan intervensi senibinaadalah tidak dapat dielakkan atas permintaan untuk memenuhi keperluan perbandaran. Akibatnya, corakpersekitaran bandar dan warisan senibina ini mengalami perubahan sepanjang proses pembandaran.Selain itu, perubahan telah memberi kesan kepada suasana persekitaran iaitu bangunan (warisan alambina), serta perancangan jalan dan aktiviti. Abstract Kelantan is situated somewhat in isolation from the industrial corridor of the west coast and far from thesphere of influence of Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Singapore. It is important to determine the forces of thestate’s urban growth determinants because urban centers in Kelantan have their unique mix of potentialsand constraints. However, as far as globalization and urbanization that are taking place worldwide, thearchitectural evolution in Kelantan is not exempted and the preservation of any unique historical valueshould be done. The heritage architecture value of Kelantan today, has not been appreciated by localfolks and society because of its isolated and poor characters which has not been maintained and wellemphasized by the authority and society themselves. Hence, the remarkable heritage property has been‘invisible’ and demolished due to negligence and time factors. Moreover, there are many historical buildingsin Kota Bharu that had been demolished for urban development purposes and the influence of modernand contemporary architecture style without considering the existing and distinctive of historical value.The growth of architectural intervention is inevitably due to society and its demands to fulfill their urbanneeds nowadays. As a result, the pattern of urban setting and heritage property had changed throughoutthe years of urbanization. Moreover, the changes have affected the ambiance of surrounding i.e. buildings(built-heritage), and streets planning and activities.

The impact of technology on architecture in Iran with focus on saving in energy consumption

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (SE) ◽  
pp. 97-103
Author(s):  
Allah Bakhsh Kavoosi ◽  
Shahin Heidari ◽  
Hamed Mazaherian
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Demand Prediction ◽  
Interior Spaces ◽  
Heating And Cooling ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Given

Growth and development of technology caused enormous transformation and change in the world after Industrial Revolution. The contemporary human has prepared the platform for their realization in many activities that the humans were unable to do it in the past time and struck the dream of their realization in their mind so that today doing many of those activities have been apparently practical by human. This accelerating growth accompanied with consuming a lot of energy where with respect to restriction of the given existing resources, it created energy crises. On the other hand, along with growth in industry and requirement for manpower and immigration from village to city and basic architectural changes in houses, which have emerged due to change in social structure it has led to change in lifestyle and type and quantity of consuming energy in contemporary architecture. Inter alia, with increase in human’s capability, cooling and heating and acoustic and lighting technologies were also changed in architecture and using mechanical system was replaced by traditional systems. Application of modern systems, which resulted from growth of industry and development of technology and it unfortunately, caused further manipulation in nature and destruction of it by human in addition to improving capability and potential of human’s creativity. With respect to growth of population and further need for housing and tendency to the dependent heating and cooling systems to them in this article we may notice that the housing is assumed as the greatest consumer of energy to create balance among the exterior and interior spaces in line with creating welfare conditions for heating and cooling and lighting. The tables of energy demand prediction in Iran show that these costs and energy consumption will be dubbed with energy control smart management in architecture.

DEVELOPMENT OF SHUCHOV’S IDEAS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Н.А. Коновалова
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Resistance ◽  
The World ◽  
Japanese Architecture ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Supporting Structures

Идеи В.Г. Шухова в свое время стали настоящей революцией в архитектуре. Спустя десятилетия они не только не потеряли своей актуальности, но и нашли применение во многих странах мира, в том числе в Японии. Японцы первыми оценили перспективность изобретений великого русского инженера и стали использовать сетчатые оболочки и несущие конструкции на их основе в архитектуре. Главными причинами использования сетчатых оболочек Шухова в архитектуре Новейшего времени является повышение сейсмостойкости зданий и возможность получения новых, более сложных форм перекрытий. В современной японской архитектуре можно встретить ряд ярких примеров, раскрывающих влияние на нее идей инженера В.Г. Шухова и развитие идей русского инженера местными мастерами. Ideas of V.G. Shuchov were revolutionary for his times. Decades passed but these ideas haven’t lost their relevence and found applications in many countries all over the world, including Japan. Japanese were the first ones who acknowledged the perspectivity of great russian engineer’s inventions and started using retinas and supporting structures based on them in architecture. Main reasons of using Shuchov’s retinas in contemporary architecture are increase of seismic resistance in structures and possibility to gain new, more complicated forms of overlays. In contemporary architecture of Japan there are numerous examples, that reveal the influence on it created by V.G. Shuchov and development of russian engineer’s ideas by local masters.

CoPS - Cooperative Provenance System with ZKP using Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contracts

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Navya Gouru ◽  
NagaLakshmi Vadlamani
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Storage ◽  
Distributed Database ◽  
Data Provenance ◽  
Smart Contracts ◽  
Zero Knowledge ◽  
Provenance Management ◽  
Monetary Compensation ◽  
Provenance Data ◽  
Secured Data ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

The redesign of cloud storage with the amalgamation of cooperative cloud and an immutable and unhackable distributed database blockchain thrives towards a strong CIA triad and secured data provenance. The conspiracy ideology associated with the traditional cloud has economized with cooperative cloud storage like Storj and Sia, decentralized storage, which allows renting the unused hard drive space and getting monetary compensation in an exchange with cryptocurrency. In this article, the authors explain how confidentiality, integrity and availability can be progressed with cooperative cloud storage along with tamper-proof data provenance management with ethereum smart contracts using zero-knowledge proof (ZKP). A contemporary architecture is proposed with regards to storing data on the cooperative cloud and collecting and verifying the provenance data from the cloud and publishing the provenance data into blockchain network as transactions.

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