Monday, May 31, 2010

Architectural Design (May/June 2010)

The latest issue of Architectural Design is now available for loan from the Learning Centre. This issue is called Territory: architecture beyond environment.

Contents:
  • Editorial / Helen Castle
  • About the guest-editor / David Gissen
  • INTRODUCTION -- Territory: Architecture Beyond Environment / David Gissen
  • Eat Me ... Drink Me ... / Sean Lally/WEATHERS
  • The Tree Canopy as Blueprint / Mitchell Schwarzer
  • The Ecological Facades of Patrick Blanc / Matthew Gandy -- Matthew Gandy reveals the transformative powers of Patrick Blanc's green walls, changing streets into ravines.
  • Bugs, Bats and Animal Estates: The Architectural Territories of 'Wild Beasts' / Ben Campkin
  • The Material Transformations of AMID (cero9) Social Oxygen Balloons / David Gissen
  • It's in Your Nature: I'm Lost in Paris / Javier Arbona
  • Toxic Territories / David Gissen
  • The Living: Surface Tensions / Jordan Geiger
  • Amphibious Territories / Ila Berman
  • The Aurora Project / Jason Kelley Johnson and Nataly Gattegno (Future Cities Lab)
  • The Perils of Historical Geography: On a Pretended Lost Map to a Legendary Sunken Forest / Edward Eigen
  • Local Code: Real Estates / Nicholas de Monchaux
  • What Has Happened to Territory? / Antoine Picon -- Antoine Picon looks back at the potent influence of an earlier notion of territory on art and cultural thought.
  • INTERIOR EYE -- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford / Howard Watson
  • BUILDING PROFILE -- Antwerp Central and Liège-Guillemins, Belguim / David Littlefield
  • PRACTICE PROFILE -- ecoLogicStudio / Terri Peters
  • SPILLER'S BITS -- Fiddling White the World Burns / Neil Spiller
  • UNIT FACTOR -- Emergence and the Forms of Cities / Michael Weinstock
  • USERSCAPE -- Relational Interactive Architecture / Valentina Croci
  • YEANG'S ECO-FILES -- Green Footstep: A Tool for Evaluating a Building's Life-Cycle Carbon Footprint and Informing Carbon Decisions During the Building Design Process / Michael Bendewald, Victor Olgyay (RMI) and Ken Yeang
  • MCLEAN'S NUGGETS / Will McLean
  • SITE LINES -- MAXXI, Rome: Zaha Hadid Architects / Mark Garcia

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