Runa Johannessen, Kirsten Marie Raahauge, Martin Søberg
{"title":"Spaces of Welfare: Editorial Introduction","authors":"Runa Johannessen, Kirsten Marie Raahauge, Martin Søberg","doi":"10.1080/20507828.2022.2050644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2022.2050644","url":null,"abstract":"To describe something as spaces of welfare immediately raises questions: What is welfare and what does it have to do with space? First, the noun welfare has a least two meanings. It can signify the state of a person’s or group’s physical and mental health and happiness, for instance in relation to safety and material goods. It also signifies the help given to people in need, for instance by the state or by organizations. There are various ways in which states might or might not provide such benefits. The Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) are for instance well-known for providing rather extensive services to their inhabitants based on high levels of taxation, a model which political scientist Gøsta Esping-Andersen has described as “a social democratic capitalist welfare state model.” In many other countries, the role of the state is less significant while organizations such as private health insurance companies might be of more importance. Second, welfare – as explicated above – comprises an abundance of elements including people, actions, things and feelings. All these elements interact somewhere, hence the notion of space: Welfare is always situated, for instance as services provided in purpose-built public welfare ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE","PeriodicalId":42146,"journal":{"name":"Architecture and Culture","volume":"10 1","pages":"7 - 20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44254078","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":"Annotation as Review: Graphic Thinking in Enric Miralles’ Ph.D. Thesis","authors":"Javier Fernández Contreras","doi":"10.1080/20507828.2021.1946746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2021.1946746","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Enric Miralles’ Ph.D. thesis was first presented in November 1987 at the Barcelona School of Architecture in two small volumes, the first one containing thirty-one pages of text and the second sixty-one illustrations. The thesis, entitled Cosas vistas a izquierda y derecha – sin gafas (“Things Seen to the Right and Left, Without Glasses”), focuses on the relationship between annotation and thought in the notebooks of Grand Tour travelers. Through it, Miralles sought a thought process that was inseparable from graphic expression; the text became more the construction of a personal reflection than a strictly academic discourse. This was why the dissertation was initially rejected. Two subsequent enlargements accounting for more than 200 pages, Miralles’ insistence and his evident erudition finally led to its acceptance. It proved to be the longest document that Miralles ever wrote, and an essential insight into his design method in subsequent years.","PeriodicalId":42146,"journal":{"name":"Architecture and Culture","volume":"10 1","pages":"272 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44882722","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":"Potential Space: Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Sigal Eden Almogi, Shelly Cohen","doi":"10.1080/20507828.2021.2003059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2021.2003059","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42146,"journal":{"name":"Architecture and Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"563 - 566"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45338966","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":"Mies van der Rohe’s Zeitwille: Baukunst between Universality and Individuality","authors":"Marianna Charitonidou","doi":"10.1080/20507828.2021.1945371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2021.1945371","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article explores the relationship between Baukunst and Zeitwille in the practice and pedagogy of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and the significance of the notions of civilization and culture for his philosophy of education and design practice. Focusing on the negation of metropolitan life and mise en scene of architectural space as its starting point, it examines how Georg Simmel’s notion of objectivity could be related to Mies’s understanding of civilization. Its key insight is to recognize that Mie’s practice and pedagogy was directed by the idea that architecture should capture the driving force of civilization. The paper also summarizes the foundational concepts of Mies’s curriculum in Chicago. It aims to highlight the importance of the notions of Zeitwille and impersonality in Mies van der Rohe’s thought and to tease apart the tension between the impersonality and the role of the autonomous individual during the modernist era.","PeriodicalId":42146,"journal":{"name":"Architecture and Culture","volume":"10 1","pages":"243 - 271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42276255","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":"Artisan to Automation: Value and Craft in the 21st Century","authors":"D. McMeel","doi":"10.1080/20507828.2021.1919854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2021.1919854","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article focuses on contemporary craft as a transactional phenomenon in the twenty-first century. It explores the influence of automation technology – such as laser-cutters and robotics – arguing that our approach to automation has gone unchanged since the Industrial Revolution. Practical implementations of automation reinforce a Marxist ideology that labor is placed under threat and individuals stripped of skill. By focusing on craft as a fundamentally transactional activity between individuals, the essay confronts preconceived ideas regarding automation. It steps through a series of theoretical frameworks including Wittgenstein, Arendt and Marx to unpack the relationship between labor, value and craft. Using two case-studies – one designing aided by a laser cutter, the other drawing portraiture with an industrial robot – the author offers a conceptual shift from considering production to be “from” machines to production “with” machines. I use this shift within the case-studies to offer a delineation of streams for approaching and ultimately reclaiming craft from machines.","PeriodicalId":42146,"journal":{"name":"Architecture and Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"674 - 689"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20507828.2021.1919854","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46523315","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 Skin of a Line: Surface Conditions in the Ceramic Skin of Art Nouveau","authors":"Arielle Marshall","doi":"10.1080/20507828.2021.1919855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2021.1919855","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper develops a material history of Art Nouveau with reference to the ceram ic façade of André Arfvidson’s block of artists’ studios at 31 rue Campagne-Première, Paris (1911). Tracking the constituent element of this façade (glazed tile), this paper narrativizes the exchanges between four contexts – industry, craft, architecture and art – that underscored the rise and fall of Art Nouveau in fin-de-siècle France. References are drawn widely from art and archaeology; treating materials as sources of knowledge, complicit in the processes of architectural history. Exploring the idea of Art Nouveau as a transitory movement, this paper fosters a novel reading of the ceramic skin of 31 rue Campagne-Première in material terms.","PeriodicalId":42146,"journal":{"name":"Architecture and Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"690 - 715"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20507828.2021.1919855","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42013628","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":"Archival Futures. Born Digital Architecture Media: Annet Dekker Interviewed by Federica Goffi","authors":"F. Goffi, A. Dekker","doi":"10.1080/20507828.2021.1915640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2021.1915640","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The interview by Federica Goffi with curator and researcher Annet Dekker focused on the archival futures of born digital media. Dekker discussed her 2014–2016 collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI), through the speculative project: New Archive Interpretations, which probed into the digital archive as a system of how processes and individuals influence what can and cannot be seen, accessed, distributed, and re-used. Dekker discussed topics such as the dynamic and stable nature of physical and digital archives; the interdependence between born digital media and software and its impact on conservation; the relation between co-production and authorship; and the vital curatorial questions regarding inclusion/exclusion, omission/promotion of materials. Dekker warns about dark archives and the complexity of technical infrastructures and metadata reflecting ideological constructs and socio-cultural views. The interview questioned whether living digital archives can blur the line between the projective dimension of materials and retrospective conservation.","PeriodicalId":42146,"journal":{"name":"Architecture and Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"545 - 562"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20507828.2021.1915640","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48287850","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 Lifetime of Collecting: Pietro M. Bardi and Lina Bo Bardi’s Archive","authors":"Sol Camacho","doi":"10.1080/20507828.2021.1907984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2021.1907984","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Thirty years after its creation, this article provides insights into the Instituto Bardi’s archive, responsible for over 40,000 items from Lina Bo and Pietro Maria Bardi’s collection. It discusses the Bardi couple’s intention of creating an archive within the space of their dwelling as part of a broader preservation plan of their design, which involved the foundation of a cultural institution and the historical listing of their residence, Casa de Vidro, in Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil, along with the furniture and artwork within it. Furthermore, this essay discusses the main challenges faced in the establishment and operation of an architectural archive in the Brazilian cultural, economic and political context, as well as the dynamics involved in the preservation of its items in parallel to the dissemination of Lina and Pietro’s oeuvre. In addition to discussing and examining matters specific to the Bardis’ archive collection, this essay raises questions of archival systematization that need to be addressed according to specific situations, such as accessibility of the contents, loan policies, and financial stability.","PeriodicalId":42146,"journal":{"name":"Architecture and Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"385 - 406"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46482498","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":"And Yet It Moves: Ethics, Power and Politics in the Stories of Collecting, Archiving and Displaying of Drawings and Models","authors":"F. Goffi","doi":"10.1080/20507828.2021.1938851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2021.1938851","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue of Architecture and Culture on the ethics, power and politics in the stories of collecting, archiving and displaying architecture media draws attention to curatorial responsibilities in finding the proper placement for architecture collections, and how accessibility, reproducibility and promotion impact the cultural, economic and socio-political role of architecture media. And Yet It Moves questions the relevance of translations from place to place when mobile architecture media moves between offices, buildings, archives, exhibition spaces and websites. How does mobile media generate a dynamic trans-mediated construction and construing, finding renewed significance over time? This is also the subject of the parallel publication to this journal, The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models: From Translating to Archiving, Collecting and Displaying by the same editor (forthcoming). Architect and historian Robin Evans (1944–1993) outlined the imaginative role of the translational gap between drawings and buildings. Yet, translation does not end when buildings are built, ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE","PeriodicalId":42146,"journal":{"name":"Architecture and Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"365 - 384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47329421","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}