STUDIO PAPERS
INFLUENCES, SHIFTS OPINIONS, GENERATES CULTURAL TRENDS AND STIMULATES PARTICIPATION
“…In the wake of these changes, people may not require or request a permanente building, for reasons related to function, economics, or fashion. In order ro fully and properly discuss, design, direct and utilize ephemeral architecture, we first need to define it. Towards that end, I propose the followiong definition of Ephemeral Architecture: A class of building design to be distinguished by impermanence and its phusical departure from the site..”
This article was published on STUDIO Architecture and Urbanism Magazine #12 as “Ephemeral Architecture: towards a definition” by Brian Chappel.
“…The evolution from singular anomalous structures to rapid pop urban developments still hold the initial hope of gaining popularity for commercial ends. The correlation between early pop architecture and the current pop urbanism may not be that explicit at first, considering that its scale has grown from micro to macro. As its influence on society has radically expanded, it has even less control over its magnitude of impact. Furthermore, the velocity of development becomes a key factor of pop-urbanism…”
This article was published on STUDIO Architecture and Urbanism Magazine #15 as “Architecture (be)for(e) human” by Hannes Hulstaert.
“…The city now presents a juxaposition of its ancient and modern self at every twist and turn, with people trascending varied cultures and economic strata, who experience all attributes of the city life, including the fear it imposes. Although efforts are being made politically and judicially to bring down the figures, the psychological sense of security being restored in the citizens, is still in question. Nevertheless, good urban design can cater to this, if only the anatomy of urban fear could be unveiled. Fear, beign a highly intangible human emotion, couldn’t be tracked down individually but on a social scale, common in factors could be identified and set right..”
This article was published on STUDIO Architecture and Urbanism Magazine #11 as “Fear and Urban Realm” by Bhavatarini Kurmaravel.
“…The relevance of the avant-garde is demonstrated by the continuous avant-garde
mindset that collectives such as Assemble hold. These protagonists of the avant-garde are triggering the social change of today’s society. But for such change to actually happen, we should all collectively take a stand with these practices and the avant-garde mindset, actively redirect our society further as the avant-garde essentially aims. Go collective or go home!…”
This article was published on STUDIO Architecture and Urbanism Magazine #17 as “Go collective or Go home!” by Michele Rinaldi and Katarina Petrović.
“…Thinking about the bunch of objects that surround us, it’s possible to outline how human engineering, either consciously or not, applies a sort of social segregation in facilitating the use of certain objects depending by the body conformation. Consequently, the access to some kind of spaces or social roles is a gender privilege. It reinforces the mental construntion of gender-based partition while contributes to the consolidation of a gender dominance in the enviroment motivation conventionally abused by institutional policies to legitimize defensive choises in the urban fabric is the fragility of women and children, whom questionably are supposed to require special protection..”
This article was published on STUDIO Architecture and Urbanism Magazine #14 as “Design space in between bodies: politics of human unsuitability” by Elisa Tangheroni.
