The New Structuralism.pdf

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

JULY/AUGUST 2010

PROFILE NO 206

GUEST-EDITED BY RIVKA OXMAN

AND ROBERT OXMAN

STRUCTURALISM

THE NEW

2 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

FORTHCOMING 2 TITLES

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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2010

PROFILE NO 207

POST-TRAUMATIC URBANISM

GUEST-EDITED BY ANTHONY BURKE, ADRIAN LAHOUD AND CHARLES RICE

Urban trauma describes a condition where conﬂ ict or catastrophe has disrupted and damaged not only

the physical environment and infrastructure of a city, but also the social and cultural networks. Cities

experiencing trauma dominate the daily news. Images of blasted buildings, or events such as Cyclone

Katrina exemplify the sense of ‘immediate impact’. But how is this trauma to be understood in its

aftermath, and in urban terms? What is the response of the discipline to the post-traumatic condition?

On the one hand, one can try to restore and recover everything that has passed, or otherwise see the

post-traumatic city as a resilient space poised on the cusp of new potentialities. While repair and

reconstruction are automatic reﬂ exes, the knowledge and practices of the disciplines need to be imbued

with a deeper understanding of the effect of trauma on cities and their contingent realities. This issue will

pursue this latter approach, using examples of post-traumatic urban conditions to rethink the agency of

architecture and urbanism in the contemporary world. Post-traumatic urbanism demands of architects the

mobilisation of skills, criticality and creativity in contexts with which they are not familiar. The post-

traumatic is no longer the exception; it is the global condition.

• Contributors include: Andrew Benjamin, Ole Bouman, Tony Chakar, Mark Fisher, Christopher Hight,

Brian Massumi, Todd Reisz, Eyal Weizman and Slavoj iek.

• Featured cities: Beirut, Shenzhen, Berlin, Baghdad, Kabul and Caracas.

• Encompasses: urban conﬂ ict, reconstruction, infrastructure, development, climate change, public

relations, population growth and ﬁ lm.

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010

PROFILE NO 208

ECOREDUX: DESIGN REMEDIES FOR AN AILING PLANET

GUEST-EDITED BY LYDIA KALLIPOLITI

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This issue of 2 explores the remarkable resurgence of ecological strategies in architectural imagination.

As a symptom of a new sociopolitical reality inundated with environmental catastrophes, sudden climatic

changes, garbage-packed metropolises and para-economies of non-recyclable e-waste, environmental

consciousness and the image of the earth re-emerges, after the 1960s, as an inevitable cultural armature

for architects; now faced with the urgency to heal an ill-managed planet that is headed towards

evolutionary bankruptcy. At present though, in a world that has suffered severe loss of resources, the

new wave of ecological architecture is not solely directed to the ethics of the world’s salvation, yet rather

upraises as a psycho-spatial or mental position, fuelling a reality of change, motion and action. Coined as

‘EcoRedux’, this position differs from utopia in that it does not explicitly seek to be right; it recognises

pollution and waste as generative potentials for design. In this sense, projects that may appear at ﬁ rst sight

as science-ﬁ ctional are not part of a foreign sphere, unassociated with the real, but an extrusion of our own

realms and operations.

• Contributors include: Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner ( HWKN ), David Turnbull and Jane

Harrison ( ATOPIA ), Anthony Vidler and Mark Wigley.

• Featured architects: Anna Pla Catalá, Eva Franch-Gilabert. Mitchell Joachim (Terreform One),

François Roche (R&Sie(n)), Raﬁ Segal, Alexandros Tsamis and Eric Vergne.

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011

PROFILE NO 209

TYPOLOGICAL URBANISM: PROJECTIVE CITIES

GUEST-EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER CM LEE AND SAM JACOBY

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How can architecture today be simultaneously relevant to its urban context and at the very

forefront of design? For a decade or so, iconic architecture has been fuelled by the market

economy and consumers’ insatiable appetite for the novel and the different. The relentless speed

and scale of urbanisation, with its ruptured, decentralised and fast-changing context, though,

demands a rethink of the role of the designer and the function of architecture. This title of

2 confronts and questions the profession’s and academia’s current inability to conﬁ dently

and comprehensively describe, conceptualise, theorise and ultimately project new ideas for

architecture in relation to the city. In so doing, it provides a potent alternative for projective

cities: Typological Urbanism. This pursues and develops the strategies of typological reasoning

in order to re-engage architecture with the city in both a critical and speculative manner.

Architecture and urbanism are no longer seen as separate domains, or subservient to each other,

but as synthesising disciplines and processes that allow an integrating and controlling effect on

both the city and its built environment.

• Signiﬁ cant contributions from architects and thinkers: Lawrence Barth, Peter Carl, Michael

Hensel, Marina Lathouri, Martino Tattara and Pier Vittorio Aureli.

• Featured architects include: Ben van Berkel & Caroline Bos of UNStudio, DOGMA, Toyo

Ito & Associates, l’AUC, OMA, SANAA and Serie Architects.

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

GUEST-EDITED BY

RIVKA OXMAN AND

ROBERT OXMAN

THE NEW STRUCTURALISM

DESIGN, ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGIES

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

VOL 80, NO 4

JULY/AUGUST 2010

ISSN 0003-8504

PROFILE NO 206

ISBN 978-0470-742273

IN THIS ISSUE

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

GUEST-EDITED BY

RIVKA OXMAN AND

ROBERT OXMAN

THE NEW STRUCTURALISM

DESIGN, ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGIES

EDITORIAL

Helen Castle

ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITORS

Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman

SPOTLIGHT

Visual highlights of the issue

INTRODUCTION

The New Structuralism:

Design, Engineering and

Architectural Technologies

Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman

EDITORIAL BOARD

Will Alsop

Denise Bratton

Paul Brislin

Mark Burry

André Chaszar

Nigel Coates

Peter Cook

Teddy Cruz

Max Fordham

Massimiliano Fuksas

Edwin Heathcote

Michael Hensel

Anthony Hunt

Charles Jencks

Bob Maxwell

Jayne Merkel

Mark Robbins

Deborah Saunt

Leon van Schaik

Patrik Schumacher

Neil Spiller

Michael Weinstock

Ken Yeang

Alejandro Zaera-Polo

Radical Sources of

Design Engineering

Werner Sobek

The renowned proponent of ultra-

lightweight structures charts how his

consultancy has developed a far-reaching

approach to practice.

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