Monday, May 10, 2010

Architectural Design No. 204 (March/April 2010)

The latest issue of Architectural Design is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

Exuberance: New Virtuosity in Contemporary Architecture
  • Editorial / Helen Castle
  • About the Guest-Editor / Marjan Colletti
  • Introduction - Exuberance and Digital Virtuosity / Marjan Colletti
  • DigitAlia - the Other Digital Practice / Marjan Colletti
  • Interiorities / Ali Rahim -- "The exploration of internal logics of tectonic structures provides the key for Rahim to a nuanced aesthetic sensibility"
  • Diving into thye Depth-Scape: Exuberance and Personalities / Yael Reisner
  • Exuberant Couture / Judith Clark
  • Baroque Exuberance: Frivolity or Desire / Robert Harbison
  • Lets Rock over Barock / Wolf D. Prix -- "The co-founder of Coop Himmelb(l)au pays tribute to the continuity of the central European tradition of the Baroque."
  • The New Delfina / Peter Cook
  • OrnaMental POrnamentation: The Abstract and the Exuberant Body of Ornamentation / Marjan Colletti
  • Surrealistic Exuberance - Dark Matters / Neil SPiller
  • Exuberance, I Don't Know; Excess I Like / Hernan Diaz Alonso -- "Embracing the ugly and the horrific, Diaz Alonso makes clear that there is method in striving for excess."
  • Extreme Integration / Tom Wiscombe of EMERGENT
  • Relying on Interdependencies: Snøhetta in the Middle East / Kjetil Trædal Thorsen and Robert Greenwood, Snøhetta
  • Cultivating Smartcities / CJ Lim
  • Leading Lady: Monica Pidgeon, Editor of Architectural Design, 1946 to 1975 / Peter Murray
  • INTERIOR EYE Morphosis Architects' Cooper Union Academic Building, New York / Jayne Merkel
  • BUILDING PROFILE Winter Olympic Buildings, Vancouver 2010 / David Littlefield
  • PRACTICE PROFILE Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (FJMT) / Fleur Watson and Martyn Hook
  • UNIT FACTOR Emergence and the Forms of Metabolism / Michael Weinstock
  • YEANG'S ECO-FILES Biodiversity Targets as the Basis for Green Design / Mike Wells and Ken Yeang
  • SPILLER'S BITS Strategic Plots and Spatial Blooms / Neil Spiller
  • MCLEAN'S NUGGETS / Will McLean
  • USERSCAPE Urban Interactive / Valentina Croci

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