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“You can slay a human with a flat as with an axe alike.”
Heinrich Zille (1858–1929)
High QUALITY ONLINE MAGAZINE FROM STUTTGART WITH main emphases: ARCHITECTURE, TECHNOLOGY, urbanism AND CITY PLANNING. Per WEEK 3 NEW CONTRIBUTIONS.
AMO + OMA EXAMINED, WITH STUDENTS OF GSD / HARVARD, THE SURVIVAL AND FUNCTIONALITY OF THE NIGERIAN MEGAPOLIS IN 1997. IN THE FINAL DOCUMENTATION “LAGOS WIDE & CLOSE” THE Viewer CAN EXERCISE THE CITY FROM VARIOUS PERSPECTIVES.
Radical experiments in teaching architecture since 1945
LINK TO A USEFUL DATABASE 3.
(related topic: Vergessene Schulen of Gribat/Misselwitz: Architectural education in germany around 1968)
IN ADDITION TO HASSAN FATHY’S QUOTE IN OCTOBER 2017, MOHAMMED ELSHAHED (CAIROOBSERVER) BILLS OFF With THE EGYPTIAN ARCHITECT to ENTMYSTIFy him in favour FOR A more DIFFERENTIATED CLASSIFICATION.
The webpage WHAT IS ARCHITECTURE HAS SUBMITTED THIS question AND MANY ARCHITECTS WERE RESPONSIBLE to answer to that question THROUGH SHORT VIDEO INTERVIEWS.
Out of the Manifesto of The Architecture Lobby:
We are precarious workers. These are our demands:
1. Enforce labor laws that prohibit unpaid internships, unpaid overtime; refuse unpaid competitions.
2. Reject fees based on percentage of construction or hourly fees and instead calculate value based on the money we save our clients or gain them.
3. Stop peddling a product–buildings–and focus on the unique value architects help realize through spatial services.
4. Enforce wage transparency across the discipline.
5. Establish a union for architects, designers, academics, and interns in architecture and design.
6. Demystify the architect as solo creative genius; no honors for architects who don’t acknowledge their staff.
7. Licensure upon completion of degree.
8. Change professional architecture organizations to advocate for the living conditions of architects.
9. Support research about labor rights in architecture.
10. Implement democratic alternatives to the free market system of development.
About Common Edge: “a non-profit organization dedicated to reconnecting architecture and design with the public that it’s meant to serve. To get there we will need more authentic public engagement and the rediscovery of some timeless design resources.”
“Detroit Resists is a coalition of activists, artists, architects, and community members working on behalf of an inclusive, equitable, and democratic city.”
NZZ.Bellevue: Das entweihte Liebesnest an der Côte d‘Azur (in German)
LE CORBUSIER’S individual RELATIONSHIP TOwards PRIVATE PROPERTY AND CLOTHING at the EXAMPLE of E-1027 BY EILEEN GRAY IN ROQUEBRUNE, France.
OUagadougou II
Taming the wild: The swiss pilot and photographer walter Mittelholzer with an aerial shot of Ouagadougou (nowadays capital of Burkina Faso), 1930/31. Probably under the rule of french Governor Édouard Hesling the wide ROADS got DESIGNED AS A PART OF AN AUTHORITArian TOWN PLANNING, WHose aim was SEGREGATION AND ECONOMICal prosperity OF THE REGION. WHEN THE PROJECT was considered FAILED, THE COLONY was split IN 1932.
The art of the title sequence – a comprehensive collection
LINK to a useful database 2.
history of graphicdesign. The webpage of the reference book.
LINK to a useful database 1.
(THE COLLECTION IS ESPECIALLY FOR mySELF TO REMind ME of useful LINKS.)
AMIR DJALALI DEVELOPS IN THIS WONDERFUL EXAMINATION OF THE CURRENT CONDITIONS IN ARCHITECTURE PRODUCTION A COMPREHENSIVE AND INTERESTING IMAGE OF A PROFESSION-IN-CHANGE. Especially THE DUTCH ARCHITECTURe-scene IS emblematic FOR A DEVELOPMENT, where “RESEARCH” became THE DECISIVE FACTOR. (published IN CONTOUR JOURNAL, A PROJECT OF postgraduates of EPFL/Lausanne)
recommendation for reading: Germany’s leading architectural theory magazine: ARCH+ 231: The Property Issue – about Ground & property
Vittorio Lampugnani about Swiss urban planning
“When an engineer designs a machine, a bridge, or a regulator, each line in his drawings is the result of a great accumulation of laws and principles from a dozen different mechanical sciences. He designs the machine to withstand a certain amount of strain and to do a particular job. In both these aspects he must consider and apply all that he has been taught in such fields as physics, dynamics, structural mechanics, and the resistance of materials, and must put into each line a whole library of expertise. Similarly, when an architect designs a town or a building, every line is determined by the application of the same complex set of mechanical laws, with the addition of a whole collection of other sciences whose provinces are less well defined: the sciences that concern man in his environment and society. These sciences-sociology, economics, climatology, theory of architecture, aesthetics, and the study of culture in general-are no less important to the architect than are the mechanical sciences, for they are directly concerned with man, and it is for man that architecture exists.“
Hassan Fathy about the complex requirements of the architect’s profession and their weighting within (in: Natural Energy and Vernacular Architecture)
“We shape our buildings, and afterwards, our buildings shape us.”