Publications related to La création d'une japonité moderne (1870-1940), ou Le regard des architectes européens sur le Japon : J. Conder, R. Mallet-Stevens, B. Taut et C. Perriand

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Is Green A Good Color For A House? Typological Transfer And The LOG ID Experiment

Tiago André Pratas Borges, Anja Fröhlich

Architecture is a prospective discipline. In other words, the practice of architecture traditionally explores design methods in which a particular solution is speculated upon, in order to answer a particular set of questions. These solutions tend to be org ...

2024

Facets of Urban Co-Creation

Roberto Sega

Participation in the context of urban planning is growing in the urban and architectural processes of democratic cities. Urban co-creation means working with communities by integrating their needs, giving them the opportunity to collaborate in the transfor ...

Univ Politecnica Catalunya2023

Patronage as Collaboration. Dante Bini’s Villas in Sardinia

Michela Bonomo

In 1970 on the rugged coast of Costa Paradiso on the Italian island of Sardinia, the encounter between one of the most renowned Italian film directors, Michelangelo Antonioni, and an architect with an engineering vision, Dante Bini, produced a holiday vill ...

2023

Digital twins of wooden shingle envelopes

Farzaneh Eskandari, Yves Weinand

Wooden shingles have long been used as a vernacular roofing technique in many well-wooded areas. Despite the fact that shingles, as local raw materials, are low in embodied energy, nowadays they are not much used in construction, as the specific craft know ...

2023

In the Quest for Meaning: Revisiting Modernism’s debate around non-pedigreed architecture

Vasileios Chanis

In architectural historiography, it is widely accepted that in the aftermath of WWII, Modern Architecture found itself in the trouble of redefining its quest, its meaning, and its purpose; a crisis of the Modern before the Post-Modern. Thus, in this partic ...

2022

(from) the repertoire : an architectural theory of operations. Oral and embodied knowledge in architectural and spatial practices

Julien Lafontaine Carboni

How can one construct spatial histories and architectural theories from gestures, words and voices, bodies and minor threads? This research delves into oral and embodied architectural and spatial knowledge as modes of producing buildings, spaces and spati ...

EPFL2022

Studies on Types: Dormitories

Tiago André Pratas Borges, Anja Fröhlich, Estelle Lépine, Vanessa Pointet

Concepts of type and typology are not specific to architecture. Rather they represent an interdisciplinary approach to ordering knowledge and gaining insight. In the field of architecture, the study of types and typology offers a didactic perspective that ...

EPFL Press2022

The New Brutalism, invenzione di uno stile

Silvia Groaz

The concept of New Brutalism has been the victim of a series of misunderstandings, myths and aporias. The initial intentions, devoid of any principle or dogma, have passed from hand to hand. The original definitionâ if only one can be identifiedâ has be ...

EPFL2021

A Large, Finite Permutation of Specific, Discrete Variants: Dan Graham's Children's Pavilion at Chambres d'Amis (1986)

Christophe van Gerrewey

In 1986, Dan Graham participated in Chambres d'Amis in Ghent, Belgium, curated by Jan Hoet as an art exhibition outside of the museum, in individual houses. With the help of a local architect, Graham constructed a glass and steel pavilion in a private gard ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2021

Inventory of Problems: The Genesis of the Rotterdam Kunsthal by OMA/Rem Koolhaas, 1987-1992

Tibor Bonaventura Pataky

The Kunsthal in Rotterdam is a key work in the oeuvre of OMA/Rem Koolhaas that marks the threshold between the firmâ s architectural production of the decades before and after 1990. This doctoral thesis aims at a deeper and comprehensive understanding of ...

EPFL2021

OASE 108. Ups & Downs. Reception Histories in Architecture

Christophe van Gerrewey

What is good, less good, or bad architecture? This issue of OASE examines how shifting appreciations, for very diverse reasons, can function as a productive misunderstanding, and as a lever to advance architectural criticism and pry thinking about architec ...

nai0102021

De la décoration par les ombres Traduction de méthodes picturales dans l'architecture française des XVIIIème et XIXème siècles

Laura Patricia Joannie Trazic

In the Vitruvian tradition, ornaments are classified into two categories: those that belong to the orders, and the others. If the former' s relief is merely indicated by Vitruvio and Alberti, the latter is simply ignored, thus opening the way to licentia. ...

EPFL2021

Transformations silencieuses : étude sur l'architecture alpine

Patrick Giromini

This thesis addresses the question of abandonment in architecture, not in its negative sense of desertion, but as a possibility offered to buildings which have lost their original purpose, which is to say those buildings from social and economic contexts w ...

EPFL2021

Architecture, environnement et artefact total : la ville selon Reyner Banham et Oswald Mathias Ungers

Thibaut Jean Bernard Pierron

When looking at the city and the land, current architectural practices face a double limitation. On the one hand, the discipline is asked to react to its own specter: the body of authoritarian spatial devices based on a questionable tradition of which the ...

EPFL2021

Energy renovation of the built heritage housing based on the living building challenge certification. Case study in Bresca (Spain)

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

In light of increasing sustainability requirements, one of the challenges related to the heritage building stock consists in finding a balance between preserving the existing architectural character and improving energy efficiency. The project presented in ...

2020

Koolhaas' Revision of Foucault's panopticon; or how architecture and philosophy just met

André Patrão Neves De Frias Martins

Architecture and philosophy have engaged with one other, directly, marginally, or just simply implicitly, in the works and discourse of academics, practitioners, and critics, most evidently in architectural modernism, postmodernism, and most intensively in ...

2020

Using immersive virtual reality to support designing skills in vocational education

Pierre Dillenbourg, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach, Kevin Gonyop Kim

Immersive virtual reality (IVR) offers possibilities of creating a learner‐centric environment that can provide more presence and engagement for students leading to an enhanced learning experience compared to conventional classroom practices. However, the ...

2020

Geometric landscapes for material discovery within energy–structure–function maps

Berend Smit, Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Henglu Xu

Porous molecular crystals are an emerging class of porous materials formed by crystallisation of molecules with weak intermolecular interactions, which distinguishes them from extended nanoporous materials like metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). To aid disco ...

2020