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Sustainable urbanism and identity: A holistic perspective for future cities

In most contexts, sustainable urbanism is characterized by a focus on the natural environment and ecological sustainability. However, contemporary development practices not only consume extensive land...

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From Rosalind Krauss to Arata Isozaki: Drawing as the expression of architectural concepts

The article examines the drawings, prints, and installations of Arata Isozaki as critical expressions of architectural concepts. Building on Rosalind Krauss’s reading of Peter Eisenman’s work, it explores...

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Exhibition Review: Arata Isozaki: In Formation

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The materiality of architecture, between the rise of the Digital Age and the advent of the Anthropocene

This paper explores questions of materiality in contemporary architecture in light of emerging developments in the discipline, building on the author’s previous work on the subject. After presenting...

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Archives: In Process. Atelier Deshaus, Long Museum, Shanghai

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Taming the Rhinoceros: A brief history of a ubiquitous tool

At the turn of the millennium, architects and educators, propelled by the demise of critical theory, found a space to speculate about technology’s role in the future of architecture. As Michael Speaks...

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Mega (超大)

Mega is a fitting scale to address the most urgent, interconnected issues of our time: rapid urbanization, climate change and energy use, and the loss of biodiversity. The coordination across and among...

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From sign to inscription

This paper extends the author's work on inscriptions as a new theory of contemporary architecture. Using the concept of unary trait from Lacanian theory, the paper analyses two works of architecture....

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Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism

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Architectural history today: Where do we stand? Where do we go?

Originating from a keynote lecture for the EAHN 2022 Conference, this review aims at mapping the field of architectural history as it presents itself today, tracing recent evolutions and new directions....

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Perspectives in computational design: A brief assessment of today's socio-technical context, promises, and challenges

Overwhelming factual evidence proves that digital technologies are much better suited to fixing at least some of today's socio-technical problems than the obsolete mechanical technologies we inherited...

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Lin Huiyin, House Beautiful, and women’s place in architectural culture in the United States in the 1920s

Scholarly discussions of the experiences that Lin Huiyin would have had as a student in the United States between 1924 and 1928 have yet to include the experiences she might have had outside the classroom...

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