A Burst of Architectural Plots: The Diverging Lives of Whipsnade Zoo Estate Bungalows (1933–2020)

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Architecture and Culture Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI:10.1080/20507828.2021.1925845

Albert Brenchat-Aguilar

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Abstract

Abstract In 1933, the construction of two twin bungalows, designed by Berthold Lubetkin, began on a site adjacent to Whipsnade Zoo. From their inception, they have been differently appreciated by architects and historians for their formal, technical, functional, material and environmental conditions. This article reappraises these buildings from broader multiple contexts involving human and non-human actors that have been part of their ecology, prioritizing categories of human wellbeing, pleasure and entertainment, and animal and environmental welfare. Moving through the page and the terrain as spaces for critical analysis of the built environment, I consider the multiple plots – either a piece of ground, a site, a plan or the scheme of a written work – that constitute various valid frames for understanding Whipsnade bungalows. For this purpose, I reconstruct a methodological approximation to architectural criticism from feminist and cybernetic literature on “patterns” – conceived as flows of interconnection enabling associations and analogies.

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建筑地块的爆发:惠普斯纳德动物园庄园平房的不同生活(1933-2020)

摘要1933年，由Berthold Lubetkin设计的两栋双平房在惠普斯纳德动物园附近开始建造。从一开始，它们就因其形式、技术、功能、材料和环境条件而受到建筑师和历史学家的不同赞赏。这篇文章从涉及人类和非人类行为者的更广泛的多个背景中重新评估了这些建筑，这些行为者一直是其生态的一部分，优先考虑了人类福祉、娱乐和动物与环境福利的类别。通过将页面和地形作为对建筑环境进行批判性分析的空间，我认为多个地块——一块地、一个场地、一个平面图或一份书面作品的方案——构成了理解惠普斯纳德平房的各种有效框架。为此，我重构了女权主义和控制论文献中关于“模式”的建筑批评的方法论近似——被认为是使联想和类比成为可能的互联流。

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