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The Linz Café and the concept of "wholeness": Reclaiming the historical feeling of a long-gone building
The purpose of the paper is to discuss "The Linz Café," a building that ceased to exist in 1980. This project was conceived and constructed by Christopher Alexander for the summer exposition "Forum Design" in Linz, Austria. Despite its short-lived existenc ...
2024Anonymous Architecture: Silent Heritage in continuous and irreversible transformation
An impressive number of buildings on our planet were not designed by architects, and therefore can neither be included within the categories of art history, nor found in treaties and construction manuals. Their permanent character is not traceable in their ...
2024The Fifth Typology: A Symposium on Type and Architecture
A type is not a model or an image to be copied, but the deep structure of how things are put together. The Symposium revisits the concept of type by critically reading its previous definitions and by offering a new interpretation of this rather elusive, but ...
2023For the House Poor: The Fuggerei as an Early Example of Affordable Housing
Conference abstract: A type is not a model or an image to be copied, but the deep structure of how things are put together. The Symposium revisits the concept of type by critically reading its previous definitions and by offering a new interpretation of thi ...
2023Teaching Circular Architecture On-site
Nicolas Henry Pierre Louis Rogeau, Camille Lucie Elisabeth Fauvel
The Land of a Thousand Dances is an interdisciplinary one-week workshop for architecture, civil engineering, and environmental sciences students at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The course proposes to study design through maintenance, by ...
2023The Domestic Turn: Politics of Education from New College to The Palazzo Della Sapienza
Student accommodation became a problem only a century after the foundation of the first universities in Europe in the 12th century. At the very beginning students had to provide their own lodgings autonomously. In many university cities the situation prove ...
2023Metal Circus: Abstraction and Method in Aldo Rossi’s Early Work
The essay focuses on the early work of Aldo Rossi, for the most part produced in collaboration with Gianugo Polesello, Luca Meda and Giorgio Grassi. In the early 1960s Rossi attempted to define a design method in which the juxtaposition of a limited set of ...
2023Dynamics of CLIMP-63 S-acylation control ER morphology
Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Graham Knott, Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Laurence Gouzi Abrami, Luciano Andres Abriata, Béatrice Kunz, Sylvia Ho, Patrick Alain Sandoz, Catherine Maclachlan, Robin Alexander Denhardt-Eriksson, Gard Spreemann
A key player in the formation of endoplasmic reticulum sheets is CLIMP-63, but mechanistic details remained elusive. Here authors combined cellular experiments and mathematical modelling to show that S-acylation of CLIMP-63 regulates its function by mediat ...
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