Editorial Summary The research of Hannah Knoop is methodologically based on political theory, extended by fundamental methods of art history and the humanities. The starting point of her work is the presumption that the work on the design, the architectural activity, also inherits an intellectual dimension and that both the architect as a person understands, and represents the challenge, expectation, and dimension of the so-called intellectuality, as well as that the public grants her this quality. She observes that the quantitative research method in political science is based on three principles: contextuality, processuality, and reflexivity; terms that are quite familiar within the discipline of architecture and which have corresponding connotations. In doing so, she stresses that a critical examination and constant review of this transfer from an established research science to the architectural research field is essential. [Ferdinand Ludwig]
{"title":"Architects as Public Intellectuals: How Far Beyond Can We Go?","authors":"H. Knoop","doi":"10.14361/dak-2021-0114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2021-0114","url":null,"abstract":"Editorial Summary The research of Hannah Knoop is methodologically based on political theory, extended by fundamental methods of art history and the humanities. The starting point of her work is the presumption that the work on the design, the architectural activity, also inherits an intellectual dimension and that both the architect as a person understands, and represents the challenge, expectation, and dimension of the so-called intellectuality, as well as that the public grants her this quality. She observes that the quantitative research method in political science is based on three principles: contextuality, processuality, and reflexivity; terms that are quite familiar within the discipline of architecture and which have corresponding connotations. In doing so, she stresses that a critical examination and constant review of this transfer from an established research science to the architectural research field is essential. [Ferdinand Ludwig]","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120994213","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 Dance projects exploring and interpreting architecture through choreography have become increasingly popular over the past two decades. This article takes a similar but theoretical approach, using the concept of choreography as a lens to look at the underlying scripts that shape the ways in which subjects move in, and are being moved by, architecture. Typically associated with the field of dance, choreography refers to spatial ordering principles, evoking highly political questions of authorship and authority, interpretation, improvisation, appropriation, accessibility, inclusion, and exclusion. Applying historical and comparative analysis, this article focuses on seminal examples from the fields of 20th-century Western dance and architecture. By mapping out evolving concepts and constellations of architecture and/as choreography, it aims to help create awareness of the spatial politics of architecture and their historical situatedness.
{"title":"Architecture and/as Choreography: Concepts of Movement and the Politics of Space","authors":"Lisa Beisswanger","doi":"10.14361/dak-2021-0204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2021-0204","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Dance projects exploring and interpreting architecture through choreography have become increasingly popular over the past two decades. This article takes a similar but theoretical approach, using the concept of choreography as a lens to look at the underlying scripts that shape the ways in which subjects move in, and are being moved by, architecture. Typically associated with the field of dance, choreography refers to spatial ordering principles, evoking highly political questions of authorship and authority, interpretation, improvisation, appropriation, accessibility, inclusion, and exclusion. Applying historical and comparative analysis, this article focuses on seminal examples from the fields of 20th-century Western dance and architecture. By mapping out evolving concepts and constellations of architecture and/as choreography, it aims to help create awareness of the spatial politics of architecture and their historical situatedness.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126750485","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 The research presented in this article is embedded in the context of the on-going doctoral thesis titled The Mantua-Peschiera Railway: A Case Study for the Historical Analysis and Design Methodology of a Regeneration Project. The research focuses on the decommissioned railway that once connected the city of Mantua to Peschiera del Garda in the north of Italy and questions its possible future. Nowadays, the railway is not perceived as it was, because, without any specific or recognizable appearence, its few remains, such as the passenger stations, are in ruins. The historical data helped to reshape the original project of the line and its deep interdependence with its environment showing peculiar and original characters as a branch line. The author’s research aims to create a possible scenario in which the former railway guarantees a continuous connection between the object and its territory within its new function as a Cultural Route.
{"title":"Rewriting the Journey of the Mantua-Peschiera Railway: A Moving Experience","authors":"Federico Marcolini","doi":"10.14361/dak-2021-0215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2021-0215","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The research presented in this article is embedded in the context of the on-going doctoral thesis titled The Mantua-Peschiera Railway: A Case Study for the Historical Analysis and Design Methodology of a Regeneration Project. The research focuses on the decommissioned railway that once connected the city of Mantua to Peschiera del Garda in the north of Italy and questions its possible future. Nowadays, the railway is not perceived as it was, because, without any specific or recognizable appearence, its few remains, such as the passenger stations, are in ruins. The historical data helped to reshape the original project of the line and its deep interdependence with its environment showing peculiar and original characters as a branch line. The author’s research aims to create a possible scenario in which the former railway guarantees a continuous connection between the object and its territory within its new function as a Cultural Route.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133795727","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}
Editorial Summary Professional drawing has always played an important role in the training of architects. Plan-drawings have already been sufficiently considered in established architectural research. The research of Peter Schmid presented in this text focuses on so far only scarcely examined architectural sketchbooks as well as various records used for architectural education, such as manuscripts for lectures or notes on perspective theory which belong to the »Munich School« - a tradition of teaching hand-drawing that developed over a period of 150 years through an on-going teacher-student relationship at the Technical University of Munich. He finds that the aim of »Munich School« was not only learning how to illustrate, but also to comprehend architecture through graphic analysis - thereby combining teaching and practice. Against the background that the interest in hand-drawings has significantly increased in recent years, the research helps to refine the role of hand-drawings today as a tool that sets »processes of cognition in motion«. [Ferdinand Ludwig]
{"title":"Architectural Drawings: Teaching and Understanding a Visual Discipline","authors":"P. Schmid","doi":"10.14361/dak-2021-0122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2021-0122","url":null,"abstract":"Editorial Summary Professional drawing has always played an important role in the training of architects. Plan-drawings have already been sufficiently considered in established architectural research. The research of Peter Schmid presented in this text focuses on so far only scarcely examined architectural sketchbooks as well as various records used for architectural education, such as manuscripts for lectures or notes on perspective theory which belong to the »Munich School« - a tradition of teaching hand-drawing that developed over a period of 150 years through an on-going teacher-student relationship at the Technical University of Munich. He finds that the aim of »Munich School« was not only learning how to illustrate, but also to comprehend architecture through graphic analysis - thereby combining teaching and practice. Against the background that the interest in hand-drawings has significantly increased in recent years, the research helps to refine the role of hand-drawings today as a tool that sets »processes of cognition in motion«. [Ferdinand Ludwig]","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132986329","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}
Editorial Summary In her contribution »Research / Design and Academia« Susanne Hauser discusses institutional developments and changes in academia since the 1990s, alongside which disciplinary frontiers and thematic as well as methodological approaches have been re-examined and reorganized. She highlights systemic differences in funding as well as uneven particularity in methodological attempts as fundamental reasons for the different recognition of e.g. practice- based and traditional types of academic research in architecture. Against the background of her personal academic foundation in cultural studies, she traces the genesis of the architect’s education as a generalist, responsible for design and conception, creation and making. Considering the specific potential of design, she argues for the recognition of designing as a specific approach to the generation of knowledge. [Katharina Voigt]
{"title":"Research / Design and Academia","authors":"S. Hauser","doi":"10.14361/dak-2021-0125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2021-0125","url":null,"abstract":"Editorial Summary In her contribution »Research / Design and Academia« Susanne Hauser discusses institutional developments and changes in academia since the 1990s, alongside which disciplinary frontiers and thematic as well as methodological approaches have been re-examined and reorganized. She highlights systemic differences in funding as well as uneven particularity in methodological attempts as fundamental reasons for the different recognition of e.g. practice- based and traditional types of academic research in architecture. Against the background of her personal academic foundation in cultural studies, she traces the genesis of the architect’s education as a generalist, responsible for design and conception, creation and making. Considering the specific potential of design, she argues for the recognition of designing as a specific approach to the generation of knowledge. [Katharina Voigt]","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128439271","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}
Editorial Summary In »These Are Only Hints and Guesses« Francesca Torzo explores experience, conscience, and culture as territories to reflect on architecture. Tracing back the narratives and stories from the past as a basic foundation of knowledge, she unravels the resonance of history and knowledge within contemporary experience and design in architecture. Based upon what has been, the thinking and making of architecture is always embedded in the stream of memory and tradition, referring to what was there before. Proceeding from this basis, the personal archive of memories fuels the processes of association and imagination. Any idea is integral to a cultural context, while culture is considered to be this stream of consciousness, forming the background to recent lived experience and its projection into future conception and design. [Uta Graff]
{"title":"These Are Only Hints and Guesses","authors":"Francesca Torzo","doi":"10.14361/dak-2021-0117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2021-0117","url":null,"abstract":"Editorial Summary In »These Are Only Hints and Guesses« Francesca Torzo explores experience, conscience, and culture as territories to reflect on architecture. Tracing back the narratives and stories from the past as a basic foundation of knowledge, she unravels the resonance of history and knowledge within contemporary experience and design in architecture. Based upon what has been, the thinking and making of architecture is always embedded in the stream of memory and tradition, referring to what was there before. Proceeding from this basis, the personal archive of memories fuels the processes of association and imagination. Any idea is integral to a cultural context, while culture is considered to be this stream of consciousness, forming the background to recent lived experience and its projection into future conception and design. [Uta Graff]","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125965764","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}
Editorial Summary With »Reflexions on the Plurality of Research Methodology in Architecture«, Oya Atalay Franck explores the plurality of methods in architecture, unfolding the broad variety of working fields in the discipline. She highlights the specificity of the design tasks, resulting in a unique challenge for each task with correspondingly individual answers and results, thereby framing designing as an adaptive creational process that corresponds to the distinct demands of the project. Although the design process here is outlined as interactive and feedback-dependent, including the interwoven use of different media and working methods, this contribution questions whether the discipline of architecture can actually be investigated according to proven procedures of research practice. [Katharina Voigt]
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A ref lection on the contributions in this issue requires a recollection of the 2019 summer conference »Research Perspectives in Architecture«, as well as a consideration of the themes discussed there. It is important to examine and explore which approaches, ways of thinking, and potentials will unfold on this basis for future research in the discipline of architecture. The initial questions mentioned in the editorial introduction to this volume – Where do we come from? Where are we now? Where are we going? – address the dimensions of past, present, and future, inquiring into the history, current state, and future of the research of architecture. In this regard, we need to ref lect on recent developments and changes in architectural research. Bold terms, such as the »research turn« (cf. Archis 2016) – implying the academicization of the architecture discipline, the scientific character of research or the integrity of genuine methodologies of architecture – seek further framing and definition. Although the aim of this ref lection is not to fathom these overarching terminologies, they have been consolidated more specifically through a discussion of the contributions in this ref lection.
{"title":"Reflection","authors":"F. Ludwig, K. Voigt","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1b74243.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1b74243.46","url":null,"abstract":"A ref lection on the contributions in this issue requires a recollection of the 2019 summer conference »Research Perspectives in Architecture«, as well as a consideration of the themes discussed there. It is important to examine and explore which approaches, ways of thinking, and potentials will unfold on this basis for future research in the discipline of architecture. The initial questions mentioned in the editorial introduction to this volume – Where do we come from? Where are we now? Where are we going? – address the dimensions of past, present, and future, inquiring into the history, current state, and future of the research of architecture. In this regard, we need to ref lect on recent developments and changes in architectural research. Bold terms, such as the »research turn« (cf. Archis 2016) – implying the academicization of the architecture discipline, the scientific character of research or the integrity of genuine methodologies of architecture – seek further framing and definition. Although the aim of this ref lection is not to fathom these overarching terminologies, they have been consolidated more specifically through a discussion of the contributions in this ref lection.","PeriodicalId":366028,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134124965","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}
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