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Base and Superstructure: A Vulgar Survey of Western Architecture

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Teaching Architecture - A dialogue

Inès Lamunière

What are the pressing questions in architecture – in teaching, research and practice? Based on their many years of experience, professors Inès Lamunière and Laurent Stalder come together in five meetings to search for answers. They describe an approach to ...

Birkhäuser2019

Mies Comes to Greece: A. James Speyer at NTUA

Vasileios Chanis

Between 1957 and 1960, A. James Speyer served as a Fulbright visiting professor at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in the Faculty of Architecture. The Fulbright program was established to foster mutual understanding across the world, and ...

2019

L'oeuvre de Leandro V. Locsin (1928-1994), architecte à la recherche de l'identité élusive de l'architecture philippine du second après-guerre

Jean-Claude Girard

Filipino architect Leandro Valencia Locsin (Silay1928 - Makati 1994) produced an architectural work that involved 250 projects, of which at least more than half were completed and mostly in his country of origin. A graduate in architecture of San Tomas de ...

EPFL2018

The real now, which has a duration of about 3 seconds, is the moment in which what happened glides in to the past and becomes already history, whereas the future did not yet arrive. The real now and architecture. ...

MANSLAB2018

Ambiguïtés de la « ville créative »

Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

Art and culture have a renewed role in the contemporary city. Theories relative to the creative class, the creative economy and the creative city are both descriptive and prescriptive; they focus on the role of culture in the urban production process and, ...

EPFL2017

QUANDO IL NORD INCONTRA LA «CHIAVE DI TUTTO». La Sicilia di Ragnar Östberg

Chiara Monterumisi

Travelling experiences along the cradle of European culture were, especially for Scandinavian architects, an outright voyage towards a contrasting cultural and geographical reality. However, assuming an unconditional fascination as natural reaction is redu ...

Letteraventidue2017

Implementing bikesharing systems in small cities: Evidence from the Swiss experience

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Ander Audikana Arriola, Virginie Andréa Baranger

Research on bikesharing has largely focused on systems operating in large cities. Based on the Swiss experience, this paper explores the challenges that small cities (

Elsevier2017

A Semantic Framework for Architecture Modelling

Eduard Baranov

Architectures are common means for organising coordination between components in order to build complex systems and to make them manageable. They allow thinking on a higher plane and avoiding low-level mistakes. Architectures provide means for ensuring cor ...

EPFL2017

Computer science is playing a driving role in transforming today's society through information technology. In this transformation we observe power shifts increasingly strengthening centralised organisations, which are negatively perceived by many people. W ...

Ieee Computer Soc2017

El camino no es el camino. Some reflexions on the Valparaiso School and its architectural teaching

Patricia Guaita, Cornelia Dominique Tapparelli Portilla Kawamura

The teaching of architecture at the School of Architecture and Design at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso (the Valparaiso School) has very often been described as ‘very unusual’. One of the most exceptional and most often remarked upon aspe ...

EPFL Press2015