{"title":"Pacific patterns: Hoa in binary relationships, repetition, symmetry, kupesi, and mana","authors":"Tēvita O. Ka'ili","doi":"10.24135/IJARA.V0I0.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/IJARA.V0I0.11","url":null,"abstract":"2017 Interstices Under Construction Symposium: Pattern / Surface a pursuit of material narratives. 2nd - 4th June, Auckland University of Technology.","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129215403","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":"From ritual efficacy to iconic efficiency: ritual encoding and the transformation of Samoan religiosity","authors":"S. Galliot","doi":"10.24135/ijara.v0i0.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/ijara.v0i0.6","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past thirty years or so, the iconographic corpus of ethnic tattoo designs has increasingly been used as an efficient, non-discursive way of expressing indigeneity, commitment, belonging, strength, etc. While they are detached from their original destination (the human skin) and due to their primal connection with the body, tattoo designs have an iconic power which rests on a process of naturalization. Their evocative strength together with their high portability tends to an exploitation of their power through a multitude of media. In this paper I will rely on the Samoan tattooed images to address the process of iconicity by downplaying their discursive meaning. To the extent that Samoan tattooing combines a high standardization of patterns’ assemblage, and a socially separated body of techniques with relatively low symbolic emphasis on individual designs, I will try to re-evaluate its visual saliency by looking at its changing semiotic status.","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126019249","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":"Practiceopolis: Journeys through the contemporary architectural profession","authors":"Yasser Megahed, A. Sharr, G. Farmer","doi":"10.24135/IJARA.V0I0.507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/IJARA.V0I0.507","url":null,"abstract":"Supervisors: Adam Sharr, Graham Farmer \u0000The contemporary architectural profession is dominated by a technical-rational culture of practice. The term refers to commercially-driven practices that are often associated with the production of buildings by or for multinational corporations and tend to echo their values. This research interrogates the imperatives of this domination on the original values of the architectural profession. It builds upon two premises: firstly; mapping different cultures of practice constituting the contemporary understanding of the profession; secondly, questioning the increasing closeness between the values of the architectural profession and the instrumentalist values of other actors in the building industry. To do so, the research introduces the imaginary city of Practiceopolis as a methodological device that allows the modelling of contemporary cultures of practice and dramatises their dialogues. The research ends with propositions regarding the particular values of the architectural profession and proposes a critical-instrumental mindset to explore how these values could be defined, communicated, and marketed.","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123807822","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":"Book Review The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class and the Politics of Design by Peggy Deamer","authors":"Michael Davis","doi":"10.24135/ijara.v0i0.511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/ijara.v0i0.511","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127192972","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":"The rua whetu joint: Detail as origin","authors":"J. Treadwell","doi":"10.24135/IJARA.V0I0.501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/IJARA.V0I0.501","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines a key structural junction of the 19 th century Māori wharenui, or meeting house. The joint is considered as a complex cultural and technical element of the house which contributed to both its structural and social coherence. The functional development of the waha paepae and the rua whetu junctions as compression joints will be examined in relation to their participation in the evolving structural system of the 19 th century whare, particularly in respect to their increasing size and subsequent structural loads. Equally invested in the structural and geometrical implications of this junction is a set of cosmological relationships that were essential for the wider stability of the house. This paper will therefore consider the joint within the complexity of its origins, development and forms.","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"147 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134291627","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":"Vertical living: The Architectural Centre and the Remaking of Wellington by Julia Gatley and Paul Walker BOOK REVIEW","authors":"M. Southcombe","doi":"10.24135/ijara.v0i0.508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/ijara.v0i0.508","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"62 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128686193","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":"On the origin of the architect: Architects and xenía in the ancient Greek theatre","authors":"Simon Weir","doi":"10.24135/IJARA.V0I0.498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/IJARA.V0I0.498","url":null,"abstract":"Ubiquitous in ancient Greek culture, the ethical principle of xenia may broadly translate as hospitality to strangers, doing so through taking interpersonal, political, and architectural form. Since xenia includes the accommodation of foreign guests, some evidence of xenia in architecture is logically found in houses and hostels, but surprisingly more evidence surrounds Athens’ Theatre of Dionysus, on stage in Aristophanes’ Peace and Euripides’ Cyclops, and off stage through the architects elected to look after the sanctuary of the theatre. \u0000This paper reveals the principle of xenia permeating the professional work of the architect to such a degree that Vitruvius and Demosthenes would reproach even slight digressions from the principle, and Vitruvius would call the education of xenia the most valuable thing to outlast a shipwreck.","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129570103","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":"Resurfacing memories: Mnemonic and tactile representations of family history in the making of new heirlooms","authors":"Penelope Forlano, Dianne Smith","doi":"10.24135/IJARA.V0I0.505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/IJARA.V0I0.505","url":null,"abstract":"By taking a design anthropology approach in my PhD studies, I have critically examined post-acquisition behaviour of custodians and their inalienable objects to inform a new framework for the design of enduring, or ‘heirloom’, objects. Specifically, this creative project demonstrates an alternative view to mainstream design discourse and instead suggests that the intangible, that is an individual’s personal memory and experience, can be tangibly embedded into the object by the designer in a textural and visually representative way. The physically mnemonic characteristic of the creative work; therefore increases its potential to become an inalienable heirloom.","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121624319","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":"Wetland square, market Pier: Designing for heritage in the New Zealand regional landscape","authors":"R. Murray, S. Kebbell, M. Bryant","doi":"10.24135/ijara.v0i0.504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/ijara.v0i0.504","url":null,"abstract":"Supervisors: Sam Kebbell, Martin Bryant \u0000This design-led research project addresses the rapid environmental degradation and socioeconomic decline to which many of New Zealand's low-lying swampland regions have succumbed. The research critiques existing settlement patterns, investigating innovative urban forms that work dually to reactivate the wetland environments while increasing population density to levels required for public systems to function sustainably and vitally. The design project identifies a squared-off urban conservation wetland, transforming it into a new Wetland Square: a civic heart of the region’s natural and cultural heritage. A Market Pier is also proposed, extending from the urban edge of the town square towards the central wetland lagoon. The research rethinks traditional land conservation practice in New Zealand’s settled regional landscapes, stressing architecture’s responsibility to reconcile urban, ecological and cultural heritage systems to ensure environmental and community resilience in the regional landscape.","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"245 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120991185","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":"A new agora: A project(ion) on the sub-centre","authors":"Grace Helen Salisbury Mills, S. Kebbell","doi":"10.24135/ijara.v0i0.506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/ijara.v0i0.506","url":null,"abstract":"Carried out in the aftermath of the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake, this design-research project probes at architecture’s capacity to affect and embody an emergent polycentric urban condition: one ushered in by the effective elimination of the city’s CBD, overnight. The experimental design-research methodology deploys typology, contextuality, and self-consciously ‘urban’ programming to explore the socio-spatial and tectonic opportunities of polycentrism within the selected Christchurch suburb of Sumner (herein considered an emergent sub-centre ). On the one hand, A New Agora is a radical and catalytic urban intervention, addressing the sub-centre as architecture’s project at a moment when Christchurch’s future was veiled in uncertainty. On the other, the project is a consideration and commentary on architecture’s multi-faceted, critical relationship with the city : ultimately arguing that the two must be treated as fundamentally intertwined, not least in the face of vast structural urban transformation.","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121103592","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}