{"title":"Mind the Gaps","authors":"C. Engle","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0414","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123961162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Montages in Mind","authors":"Julian Franke","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0412","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122609871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artistic Practice as Preservation Process","authors":"Katrine Majlund Jensen","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0410","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132929141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Montage of Memories","authors":"Stefana Dilova","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125346391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transmission of Knowledge","authors":"Ulrike Kuch","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0404","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129786197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract What if we imagined a mirror that reflects the city’s reality to itself? What if the city’s components identified themselves and defined meaning in their own reflections? This article aims to explore the critical dimensions of the contemporary reality of a place from multiple and unexpected points of view. It explains the theoretical framework of a project which is being conducted as part of wider research that focuses on the informal behaviors and interventions in the urban morphology that is made by the inhabitants of the urban cluster around Damascus.
{"title":"POLYPHONIC MORPHOLOGY. Unseen Acts – The City as Reflection","authors":"Yara Al Heswani","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0313","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract What if we imagined a mirror that reflects the city’s reality to itself? What if the city’s components identified themselves and defined meaning in their own reflections? This article aims to explore the critical dimensions of the contemporary reality of a place from multiple and unexpected points of view. It explains the theoretical framework of a project which is being conducted as part of wider research that focuses on the informal behaviors and interventions in the urban morphology that is made by the inhabitants of the urban cluster around Damascus.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122844956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article draws from ongoing research situated between architecture and film. It focuses on introducing film and its narrative formats into architectural design pedagogy at the Wits School of Architecture in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the aim of establishing a more inclusive and collaborative design studio environment. Techniques such as screenwriting and storyboards are discussed as part of a methodology for designing and representing buildings through characters’ lived experiences, something I call »character-led architecture«. In this article, which is accompanied by a script that explores my own affective experience as I grappled with creating and introducing this methodology during a moment of social transformation in South Africa, character-led architecture becomes a tool for self-reflection. My research is situated in the field of narratives in the design process to contribute new knowledge to architectural pedagogy and design theory.
{"title":"STORYBOARD. Character-Led Architecture in Architectural Pedagogy","authors":"Anita Szentesi","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0320","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article draws from ongoing research situated between architecture and film. It focuses on introducing film and its narrative formats into architectural design pedagogy at the Wits School of Architecture in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the aim of establishing a more inclusive and collaborative design studio environment. Techniques such as screenwriting and storyboards are discussed as part of a methodology for designing and representing buildings through characters’ lived experiences, something I call »character-led architecture«. In this article, which is accompanied by a script that explores my own affective experience as I grappled with creating and introducing this methodology during a moment of social transformation in South Africa, character-led architecture becomes a tool for self-reflection. My research is situated in the field of narratives in the design process to contribute new knowledge to architectural pedagogy and design theory.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121439500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Between the 1920s and the 1970s in France, the teaching of construction in architecture schools has undergone major modifications in relation to its social, intellectual, and professional context. The present article aims to understand the role played by the teaching of construction in the architects’ relationship to building techniques and to engineers. The study of a set of textbooks, considered as pedagogical devices and professional guides, and used in 1921 by Edouard Arnaud to teach construction at the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, and at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, tackles the role of teaching construction in architecture and engineering curricula and its influence on the profession. This study relies on a comprehensive analysis of the set of textbooks, considering its materiality and its written and visual content, combined with relevant elements from its author’s biography, publications, and pedagogical production.
{"title":"TEXTBOOK. A Guide to the Teaching of Construction","authors":"Gabriel Bernard Guelle","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0321","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Between the 1920s and the 1970s in France, the teaching of construction in architecture schools has undergone major modifications in relation to its social, intellectual, and professional context. The present article aims to understand the role played by the teaching of construction in the architects’ relationship to building techniques and to engineers. The study of a set of textbooks, considered as pedagogical devices and professional guides, and used in 1921 by Edouard Arnaud to teach construction at the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, and at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, tackles the role of teaching construction in architecture and engineering curricula and its influence on the profession. This study relies on a comprehensive analysis of the set of textbooks, considering its materiality and its written and visual content, combined with relevant elements from its author’s biography, publications, and pedagogical production.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128321731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Revisiting my research project from 19 years ago, which deals with notions of integrity in architectural creative processes, this article reflects upon the underlying techniques of forms of spatial writing, as part of my ongoing doctoral thesis work. I approach writing now as a process of ordering references and thoughts for inspection, in relation to the textile-like patterns that I created in the previous project and concluded with a licentiate thesis or halfway doctorate. To understand more about the differences between such textile writing versus the gathering of individual threads into the format of a book, I turn to, and use as my method, the medieval arts of memory, ars memoria, specifically with regard to books, textual systems such as catena and glosses, and illustrations, or bas-de-page. I use these formats as both an instruction for making and as a tool for a speculative evaluation of the result. In the center of this article is the question of how to create a book.
{"title":"CATENA AND GLOSSES. Textualization through Spatial Writing and Materiality","authors":"Anna Odlinge","doi":"10.14361/dak-2022-0305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0305","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Revisiting my research project from 19 years ago, which deals with notions of integrity in architectural creative processes, this article reflects upon the underlying techniques of forms of spatial writing, as part of my ongoing doctoral thesis work. I approach writing now as a process of ordering references and thoughts for inspection, in relation to the textile-like patterns that I created in the previous project and concluded with a licentiate thesis or halfway doctorate. To understand more about the differences between such textile writing versus the gathering of individual threads into the format of a book, I turn to, and use as my method, the medieval arts of memory, ars memoria, specifically with regard to books, textual systems such as catena and glosses, and illustrations, or bas-de-page. I use these formats as both an instruction for making and as a tool for a speculative evaluation of the result. In the center of this article is the question of how to create a book.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131542603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}