{"title":"The Collective Realms in the Chinese City: Towards an Alternative Framework for Public Space","authors":"Wenwen Sun","doi":"10.55588/ajar.362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55588/ajar.362","url":null,"abstract":"A western discourse of public space, originating in ancient Greece and Rome, has been widely used in architectural and urban research in China and is constantly contested in this geographical and cultural context. The contestation often stems from the cultural differences in understanding and operating the collective realms in Chinese and western cities, which is manifested through the distinctive features of their public spaces. This essay frames an alternative perspective on public space in the Chinese context by exploring the cultural, social, and spatial constructions of collective realms in the Chinese city.Starting from the conceptual origin of the ‘public’ in Chinese philosophy, this paper elaborates on three culturally grounded ideas related to collective patterns of space creation and practice – the relational circle, the realm of strangers, and the marketplace – and examines how these ideas are articulated by architectural and urban archetypes and in urban developments in Chinese cities.","PeriodicalId":147974,"journal":{"name":"ARENA Journal of Architectural Research","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139227244","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}
Martin Luce, Mieke Pfarr-Harfst, Judith Reeh, Jörg Schröder, Oliver Tessmann
{"title":"Evaluating research excellence in architecture: A view from German technical universities towards a European perspective","authors":"Martin Luce, Mieke Pfarr-Harfst, Judith Reeh, Jörg Schröder, Oliver Tessmann","doi":"10.55588/ajar.364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55588/ajar.364","url":null,"abstract":"From the perspective of the architecture departments in nine German technical universities, this essay argues that the positioning of architecture as a research discipline requires adapted evaluation standards to fulfil its promise of generating new knowledge. Evaluation processes depend on and also influence their funding context, plus they are strongly linked to a categorisation of research practices and topics. The essay argues for widespread recognition of discipline-specific research methods, as well as specific outputs and publication practices. It provides empirical evidence of new European standards for peer-reviewed assessment of architectural research in line with subject-specific approaches. Suggestions are made for opening up excellence funding lines to design-oriented and practice-based research. The essay thus calls to work together to improve evaluation and funding frameworks. Its conclusions support the goal of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (COARA) to maximise the excellence and impact of research by reforming assessment practices.","PeriodicalId":147974,"journal":{"name":"ARENA Journal of Architectural Research","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127489164","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":"Minor architectures, micro empires: women and the production of domestic space on the nineteenth-century Pacific 'Frontier'","authors":"Tijana Vujosevic","doi":"10.55588/ajar.380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55588/ajar.380","url":null,"abstract":"This essay looks at three portraits of women as homemakers on the Pacific Northeast following British Columbia's 1873 accession to the Dominion of Canada, when colonial relationships were buttressed by legal and administrative means, and ideas and practices of the home were central to the spread of Victorian moral norms on the Canadian ‘frontier’. Colonial spatial notions of interiority and exteriority, relationships to the site, and object-regimes were negotiated in this intimate microcosm.\u0000The work of space-making that ‘frontier’ women presented in minor pictorial and literary genres was in itself a ‘minor architecture’ about finished form, or objecthood, and the perpetual negotiation of contradictory and unstable imperial spatial relationships which required reworking, reproducing, and redefining. These minor architectures' histories on the ‘frontier’ reveal architecture's power to weave hegemonic values into the very fabric of existence, as well as the fundamental interconnectedness of the identity of settler women and their labour.","PeriodicalId":147974,"journal":{"name":"ARENA Journal of Architectural Research","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126610140","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":"Thinking and being otherwise: Liberatory environmental justice and the 'Black Metropolis'","authors":"Ellen Dineen Grimes","doi":"10.55588/ajar.377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55588/ajar.377","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147974,"journal":{"name":"ARENA Journal of Architectural Research","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122145483","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":"MetaPhysics of architecture: An integral theory framework for sustainability","authors":"Yahya Lavaf-Pour, F. Meraz","doi":"10.55588/ajar.374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55588/ajar.374","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147974,"journal":{"name":"ARENA Journal of Architectural Research","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132367345","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}
Matthew Jones, H. Vowles, Lorna Prescott, J. Orchard-Webb, H. Doron
{"title":"Educating radical practitioners: A case study of regenerative design on a UK High Street","authors":"Matthew Jones, H. Vowles, Lorna Prescott, J. Orchard-Webb, H. Doron","doi":"10.55588/ajar.375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55588/ajar.375","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147974,"journal":{"name":"ARENA Journal of Architectural Research","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121027442","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}
J. Mosley, Lita Crociani-Windland, S. Warren, N. Williams
{"title":"Architecture on the couch: A transdisciplinary exploration of buildings as psychological subjects","authors":"J. Mosley, Lita Crociani-Windland, S. Warren, N. Williams","doi":"10.55588/ajar.378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55588/ajar.378","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147974,"journal":{"name":"ARENA Journal of Architectural Research","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134308276","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}
Sonja Oliviera, Ana Betancour, Jonathan Mosley, Torsten Schröder
{"title":"Reconceptualising sustainability practice research in architecture: Radical ways of seeing and imagining","authors":"Sonja Oliviera, Ana Betancour, Jonathan Mosley, Torsten Schröder","doi":"10.55588/ajar.390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55588/ajar.390","url":null,"abstract":"In this introductory essay, which also frames the other contributions to this AJAR Special Collection that were selected from the papers given at the Radical Architecture Practice for Sustainability (RAPS) conference in 2021, we will – in our role as guest editors – explain our thinking behind that event. What we suggest here are new conceptual approaches to expand the study of sustainability within the architectural domain. Research into transformational architectural practices suited to a climate-changed future has already accelerated rapidly in Britain and elsewhere, and yet the proliferation of new targets, frameworks and policies is typically dominated by an empirical focus rather than by theoretical advances. Therefore, this essay elaborates upon Assemblage Theory and scientific studies of human imagination in order to expand the modes of research into architectural sustainability. By doing so, we are bringing an expanded conceptual understanding to the topic of sustainability in calling for new ‘ways of seeing’ and for new ‘ways of imagining’ architecture.","PeriodicalId":147974,"journal":{"name":"ARENA Journal of Architectural Research","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134951304","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":"What architects do with philosophy: Three case studies of the late-twentieth century","authors":"André Patrão","doi":"10.55588/ajar.309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55588/ajar.309","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147974,"journal":{"name":"ARENA Journal of Architectural Research","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124648056","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}