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Farmstay References Industrial Postwar Farm. Ujamaa agricultural villages. Tanzania (1967-79). Self-generating agricultural system, a lesson of failure. Libre commune (1970s’) New York’s New Amsterdam Market Pig City. MVRDV People: Nicolas le Camus de Mézières – architect Johann Heinrich von Thünen – economist Pierre Leroux – socialist. Known for his plan Circulus. Charles Fourier’s Phalanstère – […]
Chõng is a narrow bed, often made in bamboo. It is a multipurposed furniture in ancient rural vietnamese houses, especially in the Northern Delta, for resting, dining, or receiving guest. A “chong”‘s dimension is usually 0.8-1.2m by 1.4-1.8m. A bamboo “chong” is made of different pieces of bamboo: 4 legs of about 0.6m, with dowel […]
Patrik Schumacher is a principal at Zaha Hadid Architetcs and the author of ‘Patrik Schumacher.’ videos: Theory of Architecture #6 from Buckland Architects
Ellen Lupton is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City. TEDx talk on museum experience design
Social biographies of space. In ‘An ethical future for museum and gallery design, appearing in ‘The future of museum and gallery design,” Suzanne MacLeod raises the issue of museum built forms in relation with the social world. In particularly, she and her team assume that the built environment can be understood as “social and cultural […]
This essay appears in the AD reader series ‘The Diagrams of Architecture,’ edited by Mark Garcia. Perhaps, the interior diagrams began with the interest in analyzing the role of female in domestic space, especially in the works of Catherine Beecher, Harriet Beecher, or Dolores Hayden. In Mary Haweis’s writing, interior diagramming takes the place of […]
Landscape Architecture diagramming: Perhaps the most significant between architectural diagram and landscape architecture diagram is that the latter needs to incorporate time. In Diagrams in Landscape Architecture, Jacky Bowring and Simon Swaffield trace a genealogy of diagramming methods in the field, inlcuding major figures such as James Corner (with his thought on the dual function […]
Architectural parti. A French term for architectural conception.
In Chapter 10 – Definitions and trends, the author makes a distinction between traditional and modern conservation, while quoting Alois Riegl’s terms “Kunstwollen.” The former aims for intact message, while the latter aims for alternate concept of historicity. He first delineates the modern aspects of heritage and conservation Architecture and environment becomes essential in heritage […]