Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture

Hartoonian, Gevork

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“…New design and production techniques, together with the globalization of capital … have reduced architecture to a commodified object, its aesthetic qualities tapping into the current pervasive desire for the spectacular. [13] Following on from this critique, we argue that today's sustainable (and environmental) design thinking does not encompass comprehensive theoretical underpinnings that are able to oscillate between the positive facts of science and the meaningful dimensions of human culture. Hence, this essay offers a different approach to architectural sustainability.…”

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MetaPhysics of architecture: An integral theory framework for sustainability

Lavafpour¹,

Meraz²

2023

ARENA J ARCHIT RES

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This essay criticises prevalent current sustainable architecture and proposes a conceptual framework for sustainable design practice. It argues that sustainable building standards, have failed to capture a more multi-dimensional and inclusive worldview, and therefore many influential architects have neglected implementing such principles. An analysis of literature shows that a large body of research published in the field of sustainable architecture takes a positivistic perspective and that few published articles have looked at sustainable architecture from the standpoint of the critical humanities, allowing non-positivistic viewpoints. The proposed conceptual framework, adapted from Ken Wilber's integral theory and substantiated through the lens of Gumbrecht's identification of a culture of meaning and a culture of presence, provides an opportunity to oscillate between positivistic and non-positivistic ideologies and between subjective and objective values. The framework's usefulness is demonstrated through case studies of Glenn Murcutt's work. Architects are invited to practise sustainability through this integral framework: to entangle subjective and objective, individual and collective approaches, and to exercise the physics and metaphysics of sustainable design through consideration of the culture of meaning and the culture of presence. 1

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MetaPhysics of architecture: An integral theory framework for sustainability

Lavafpour¹,

Meraz²

2023

ARENA J ARCHIT RES

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Applying FABRIC as a Tool to Understanding Architectural and Landscape Icons in a Time of Travel Restrictions

McIntosh¹

2021

Architecture

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Iconic architecture and landscape architecture are most often understood through photographic media that mediates between the idea and the reality for those learning to design. The drastic lockdown responses to COVID-19 and the limitations on local and international travel highlighted the importance of the visual and the potential of the virtual. However, visual media can also be understood as systems that go far beyond a strict representation of an object. In this climate where publicity, politics, and perception play ever more crucial roles, representations of iconic architecture and landscapes increasingly blur the boundaries between the imaginary and the tangible. This paper examines the experience of iconic architecture and landscape in four iconic European cities (Paris, Barcelona, Seville, and Lisbon) as seen through the eyes of fifty postgraduate architecture, interior architecture, and landscape architecture students from New Zealand. It compares their understanding of a building or landscape from its photographic image before engaging with the physical reality. Students were asked to first identify iconic architecture and landscape, then closely analyze and document the essential qualities which established its pre-eminence. A subsequent visit to each of the places provided the opportunity for comparison and the testing of the realities and fictions of the icons themselves. Our research finds that today’s architecture students are savvy and sophisticated consumers of technology. It also presents FABRIC (finding, assimilating, being, reflecting, introspecting, and concluding), a conceptual framework that offers additional scaffolding for educating design students through experiential learning in a time of travel restrictions.

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Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture

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MetaPhysics of architecture: An integral theory framework for sustainability

MetaPhysics of architecture: An integral theory framework for sustainability

Applying FABRIC as a Tool to Understanding Architectural and Landscape Icons in a Time of Travel Restrictions

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