Design Studio Vol. 3: Designs on History 2021
The Architect as Physical Historian
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-85946-972-9 (ISBN)
Description
Each architectural design is a new history.
To identify what is novel or innovative, we need to consider the present, past and future.
We expect historical narratives to be written in words, but they can also be delineated in drawing,
cast in concrete or seeded in soil.
The aim of this volume is to understand each design as a visible and physical history. Historical
understanding is investigated as a stimulus to the creative process, highlighting how architects learn from each other and other disciplines. This encourages us to consider the stories about history that architects fabricate.
An eminent set of international contributors reflect on the relevance of historical insight for
contemporary design, drawing on the rich visual output of innovative studios worldwide in practice and education.
Wide ranging and thought-provoking articles encompass fact, fiction, memory, time, etymology,
civilisation, racial segregation and more.
Features: Elizabeth Dow, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Terunobu Fujimori, Perry
Kulper, Lesley Lokko, Yeoryia Manolopoulou, Niall McLaughlin, Aisling O'Carroll,
Arinjoy Sen, Amin Taha and Sumayya Vally.
To identify what is novel or innovative, we need to consider the present, past and future.
We expect historical narratives to be written in words, but they can also be delineated in drawing,
cast in concrete or seeded in soil.
The aim of this volume is to understand each design as a visible and physical history. Historical
understanding is investigated as a stimulus to the creative process, highlighting how architects learn from each other and other disciplines. This encourages us to consider the stories about history that architects fabricate.
An eminent set of international contributors reflect on the relevance of historical insight for
contemporary design, drawing on the rich visual output of innovative studios worldwide in practice and education.
Wide ranging and thought-provoking articles encompass fact, fiction, memory, time, etymology,
civilisation, racial segregation and more.
Features: Elizabeth Dow, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Terunobu Fujimori, Perry
Kulper, Lesley Lokko, Yeoryia Manolopoulou, Niall McLaughlin, Aisling O'Carroll,
Arinjoy Sen, Amin Taha and Sumayya Vally.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 210 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85946-972-9 (9781859469729)
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Person
Jonathan Hill is Professor of Architecture and Visual Theory at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he directs the MPhil/PhD Architectural Design programme and tutors MArch Unit 12. Jonathan is the author of The Illegal Architect (1998), Actions of Architecture (2003), Immaterial Architecture (2006), Weather Architecture (2012), A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction (2016), and The Architecture of Ruins (2019); editor of Occupying Architecture (1998) and Architecture - the Subject is Matter (2001); and co-editor of Critical Architecture (2007).
Content
Editor's Introduction
by Jonathan Hill
Architects of Fact and Fiction
by Elizabeth Dow and Jonathan Hill
The Architectural History of Civilisation and My Design
by Terunobu Fujimori
Amateurs, Detectives, and Acupuncturists
by Perry Kulper
Apartheid's Architects
by Lesley Lokko
Drawing Together
by Niall McLaughlin and Yeoryia Manolopoulou
Learning from La Vedette: Reconstructing Viollet-le-Duc's Alpine Study in Lausanne
by Aisling O'Carroll
Soft Memory
by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Between the Borders of Utopia: Towards a Construction of Time
by Arinjoy Sen
Explore, Restore, Ignore-Etymology and Continuity in Design
by Amin Taha
A Monument is a Verb: Parallel Geographies, Choreographies, Atmospheres and Other Forms of
Monument
by Sumayya Vally
Final Word
by Jonathan Hill
Architects of Fact and Fiction
by Elizabeth Dow and Jonathan Hill
The Architectural History of Civilisation and My Design
by Terunobu Fujimori
Amateurs, Detectives, and Acupuncturists
by Perry Kulper
Apartheid's Architects
by Lesley Lokko
Drawing Together
by Niall McLaughlin and Yeoryia Manolopoulou
Learning from La Vedette: Reconstructing Viollet-le-Duc's Alpine Study in Lausanne
by Aisling O'Carroll
Soft Memory
by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Between the Borders of Utopia: Towards a Construction of Time
by Arinjoy Sen
Explore, Restore, Ignore-Etymology and Continuity in Design
by Amin Taha
A Monument is a Verb: Parallel Geographies, Choreographies, Atmospheres and Other Forms of
Monument
by Sumayya Vally
Final Word