Content 2015
Vol.85,No.1,Profile No.233,Jan.-Feb. 2015
Editorial by Helen Castle 3
About the Guest Editors George Katodrytis and Kevin Mitchell 6
Introduction: The Gulf Urbanization by George Katodrytis and Kevin Mitchell 8
Museum Development in the Gulf Narrative and Architecture by Sarina Wakefield 20
Cultural Exchange and Urban Appropriation Spaces for Art in Sharjah's Historical Centre by Mona El Mousfy and Sharmeen Syed 28
Design for the Future Educational Institutions in the Gulf by Kevin Mitchell 38
A City for Education by Ameena Ahmadi 46
The Evolution of Tall Building in the Gulf From the Sensational to the Sensitive by Terri Meyer Boake 54
Drawing on Sand Cities in the Making by Steven Velegrinis and George Katodrytis 72
Inexhaustible Ambition Two Eras of Planning in Doha, Qatar by Kelly Hutzell, Rami el Samahy and Adam Himes 80
New Hearts for Two Gulf Cities by Varkki Pallathucheril 92
Future Flyovers Dubai in 1971 by Todd Reisz 100
Urban and architectural sustainability in the Gulf by Robert Cooke 106
Fast Forwards 10Years of Sustainable Initiatives in the Gulf Region by
Jeffrey Willis 114
Performative Urbanism An Emerging Model of the Gulf by George Katodrytis 120
The Struggle for Integrity Emerging Local Practices in the Gulf by
George Katodrytis and Kevin Mitchell 128
Counterpoint : a field of possibilities the post-Oil future of Baharin by Noura al Sayeh 136
Contributors 142
Vol.85,No.2,Profile No.234,Mar.-Apr. 2015
Editorial by Helen Castle 5
About the Guest-Editors Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen Cordua 6
Introduction Relating Perceptions of Constructions, Experimental and Local by Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen Cordua 8
Past and Present Trajectories of Experimental Architectures by Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen Cordua 16
Building In and Out of Place by David Leatherbarrow 24
The Bauhaus Case Study Experiment in Education by Barbara Elisabeth Ascher 30
The Open City and the e[ad] School of Architecture and Design by
Christian Hermansen Cordua, David Jolly Monge and Michael Hensel 34
Incarnations of a Design-and-Build Programme by Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen Cordua 40
Architecture by Latitude and Locality The Scarcity and Creativity Studio by
Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen Cordua 48
In Search of Context: Working with the Force of Erasure Koshirakura Landscape Workshop by Shin Egashira 58
Detoured Installations The Policies and Architecture of the Norwegian National Tourist Routes Project by Karl Otto Ellefsen 64
Conviction Into Tectonics The Work of Rintala Eggertsson by Christian Hermansen Cordua 76
Integrating On-Site Education and Practice TYIN tegnestue Architects by
Lisbet Harboe 82
Renzo Piano Poet ofTechnology by Peter Buchanan 88
The Practice of Making Studio Mumbai by Michael Hensel 94
The Builder's Name SHoP and the Ethics of Knowledge Transfer by Philip Nobel 102
Informed Non-Standard En Route to Non-Standard Performative Architectures by Soren S Sorensen 110
Auxiliary Architectures Augmenting Existing Architectures with Performative Capacities by Michael Hensel 116
Nested Catenaries A Developmental Route to Local Specificity by
Defne Sunguroglu Hensel and Guillem Baraut Bover 120
Smart Living Architecture -Solar Prototypes IAAC, Endesa Pavilion, Barcelona by Areti Markopoulou and Rodrigo Rubio 128
Outlook En Route to Intensely Local Architectures andTectonics by
Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen Cordua 132
Counterpoint Sustaining the Local An Alternative Approach to Sustainable Design by Terri Peters 134
Contributors 142
Vol.85,No.3,Profile No.235,May-June 2015
Editorial by Helen Castle 5
About the Guest-EditorsLeon van Schaik and Fleur Watson 6
Introduction Pavilions, Pop-Ups and Parasols Are They Platforms for Change? By
Leon van Schaik 8
In the Pursuit of Pleasure : The Not So Fleeting Lit of the Pavilion and its by
Robert Sevan 16
A Sketchbook for the City to Come The Pop-Up as R&D by Dan Hill 32
Castles and Pavilions : Creating New Hybrid Places of Exchange by Tom Holbrook 26
10 Folly Variations : TheTime-Specific Architecture of Mass Studies by MInsuk Cho 40
Ring Dome, Yokohama Tri ennale. Japan, 2008
100Year City (Maribor) The Virtual Concourse Reframed by Fleur Watson 48
NotTo BeTaken Seriously Kiosks, Roadside Joys and OtherThingsThat are Beneath Architectural Contempt by Peter Cook 56
Barcelona Reset Circuit of Ephemeral Architecture by BenedettaTagliabue 64
Building Community by Andrea Kahn 72
Indeterminacy and Contingency The Seroussi Pavilion and Bloom Alisa Andrasek
By Alisa Andrasek 106
The Affirmative Qualities of a Temporal Archi¬tecture by Martyn Hook 118
Entrepreneur Makers : Digitally Grafted, Crowdfunded Pavilions by Arthur Mamou-Mani andToby Burgess 130
Global Village Media : ComingTogether in the Early 1970s at Whiz Bang Quick City
By Felicity D Scott 78
Urban Phenomenon Guerilla Architecture inTaipei by Roan Ching-Yueh 112
Lasting Impressions Pop-Up Culture by HWKN by Matthias Hollwich 124
When aTree House No Longer Says 'House', Are We Virtu ally There? By Akira Suzuki 86
Agents for Urban Food Education and Security by CJ Lim 92
Architecture of the Occasion by Pia Ednie-Brown 100
Counterpoint From the Subversive to the Serious Temporary Urbanism as a Positive Force by Peter Bishop 136
Contributors 142
Vol.85,No.4,Profile No.236,July-Aug.2015
Editorial by Helen castle 5
About the Gguest editor chris luebkeman 6
Introduction 2050 CanYou Imagine ... ? Chris Luebkeman 8
Designing a Graceful Ending A Conversation with Design Luminary Paola Antonelli by Chris Luebkeman 20
Prejudicial NarrativesBuilding Tomorrow's World Today by Alex McDowell 26
Design Is Our Answer An Interview with Leading DesignThinker Tim BrownChris Luebkeman 34
Welcome to the Third Industrial RevolutionThe Mass-Customisation of Architecture,Practice and Education by Thomas Fisher 40
After Architects A Vision of the Near Future from SHoP by Philip Nobel 46
Her, With the HammerA Mother's Letter to Her Daughter by Emily Pilloton 54
It's Not Where You're Form, it's Where You're At by Mark Watts 56
The Street As Platform how digital dynamics shape the physical city by Dan Hill 62
A Century of Ecologica Innovation by Mitchell Joachim 68
Sentient Futures the hydra trilogy by fucture cities lab by
Nataly Gattegno and Jasonn Kelly Johnson 74
Interdependence a munifesto for our urburn future, together by
Lisa Gansky 80
Healthy Humane Buliding by Kerin Lepasoon 84
Media Network three moment from the future post -manufacturing supply chain by Tim Maughan and Liam Young 88
Empowering Communities Through Desing by Francessca Galeazzi 94
Heaven on Earth by Roberta L Bondar 98
El Sur Global future resilient city by Alfredo Brillembourn and Hubert Klumpner With Alexis Kalagas 100
Captain Nemo's Dream by Enric Sala 106
Bricked house how code and law can lock you out by Molly Wright Steenson 110
Looking Back on a Radical Idea the buranest cooperative rural nwe town,amhara,Ethiopia by Franz Oswald 114
The Generous City by Janine Benyus 120
To a Curator of Beautiful and Healthy Lives a note to myself by Daewha Kang 122
Counterpoint the art of prediction by Charles Jencks 128
Contributors 134
Vol.85,No.5,Profile No.237,Sep.-Oct.2015
Editorial by Helen Castel 5
About the Guest-Editor by Achim Menges 6
Introduction Fusing the computational and the physical towards a novel material culture by Achim Menges 8
The new materiality by Manuel DeLanda 16
The New Science of Form Searching by Mario Carpo 22
The New Cyber-Physical Making in Architecture Computational Construction by Achim Menges 28
Self-X Materials and Structures in Nature and Technology Bio-inspiration as a Driving Force forTechnica! Innovation by Thomas Speck, Jan Knippers and Olga Speck 34
Fibrous Tectonics Achim Menges and Jan Knippers 40
ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2012 Coreless Filament Winding Based on the Morphological Principles of an Arthropod Exoskeleton Jan Knippers, Riccardo La Magna, Achim Menges, Steffen Reichert,Tobias Schwinn, Frederic Waimer 48
ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2013-14 Modular Coreless Filament Winding Based on Beetle Elytra Moritz Doerstelmann, Jan Knippers, Achim Menges, Stefana Parascho, Marshall Prado,Tobias Schwinn 54
ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2014-15
Fibre Placement on a Pneumatic Body Based on a Water Spider Web
Moritz Doerstelmann, Jan Knippers, Valentin Koslowski, Achim Menges, Marshall Prado, Gundula Schieber, Lauren Vasey 60
Performative Wood Physically Programming the Responsive , Architecture of the HygroScope and Hygro Skin Projects by Achim Menges and Steffen Reichert 66
Structural Stone Surfaces New Compression Shells Inspired by the Past
By Philippe Block, Tom Van Mele and Matthias Rippmann 74
Membrane Morphologies Heterogeneous Forces and Articulated Material Form by Sean Ahlquist 80
Granular Morphologies Programming Material Behaviour with Designed Aggregates by Karola Dierichs and Achim Menges 86
Fabrication Agency Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall by Tobias Schwinn and Achim Menges 92
Templating Design for Biology and Biology for Design by Neri Oxman 100
Hacking Science : The ALivE Group's Material Design Methods for Interdisciplinary Enivornments by Martin Bechthold and Allen Sayegh 108
Computational Design and Automotive Material Gestalt Cross-disciplinary Design Research by the Mercedes-Benz Center of Advanced Design and the Institute for Computational Design (ICD), University of Stuttgart by
Bastian Baudy, Steffen Koehl, Achim Menges and Steffen Reichert 114
Macrofabrication with Digital Materials by Robotic Assembly Neil Gershenfeld, Matthew Carney, Benjamin Jenett, Sam Calisch and Spencer Wilson 122
Counterpoint Actualising (Overlooked) Material Capacities by Branko Kolarevic 128
Contributors 134
Neri Oxman/MIT Mediated Matter Group with Christoph Bader and Dominik Kolb, Mushtari - Wanderers: Wearables for Interplanetary Pilgrims, MIT Media Lab, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2014
Vol.85,No.6,Profile No.238,Nov.-Dec.2015
Editorial by Helen Castle 5
About the Guest-Editor Tom Verebes 6
Introduction : Cities andTheir Specificities Standards, Customs and the Making of 21st-century Urbanity by Tom Verebes 8
Mass Customisation and Standardisation An Urban Dialectic by Martin Bressani 18
Towards a Distinctive Urbanisrn An Interview with Kenneth Frampton 24
Miesian Grids and the Domain of Ink by Elena Manferdini 32
Standardising Heterogeneity Public Housing and the Absent(ed) Architect by Michael Bell 40
From Mass Customisation to Design 'Democratisation' by Branko Kolarevic 48
On Modelling Complexity and Urban Form by M Christine Boyer 54
Samsung Raemian Housing Masterplan, Haan River, Seoul, Korea: Contemporary Architecture Practice by Hina Jamelle and Ali Rahim 60
(In)formational Cities by Neil Leach 64
Growth Typologies, Localities and Defamiliarisation Experiments with Artificial Urbanisrn in Sichuan, Guangzhou and Beijing by Jeffrey Huang 70
Shanghai Lilong Tower Urbanism, Shanghai, China: Rocker-Lange Architects by Christian J Lange 76
Permanemce and change : an interview with Mark Burry by Donald Bates 80
The Repulse Bay Complex, Repulse Bay, Hong Kong: davidclovers by David Erdman and Clover Lee 86
Catalytic Urbanism : The Role of Customised Design Solutions in Delivering Transformational Urban Change by Elad Eisenstein 92
Second Development Zone, Umekita Area, Osaka, Japan: OCEAN CN Consultancy Network by Tom Verebes 100
Engineering Urban Complexity Bespoke Integrated Design by Rob May 104
Archi-Union Architects, City of Breeze, Shenzhen Bay, Shenzhen, China by
Philip F Yuan 110
Technological Transitions, Industrial Innovations and the Marching Chinese Urban Revolution : An Interview with Jerry Ku and Philip Vernon of E-Grow, Shanghai by Tom Verebes 114
Automated Diversity: Gramazio Kohler Research New Morphologies of Vertical Urbanism by Jan Willmann, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler 122
Counterpoint Cities on the Edge of Chaos by Colin Fournier 128
Contributors 134
Vol.86,No.1, Profile No.239,Jan.-Feb.2016
Editorial by Helen Castle 5
About the Guest-Editor by Karen A Franck 6
Introduction Designing with Time in Mind by Karen A Franck 8
The Nine Lives of Buildings by Jill Stoner 18
Built Conservation and the Unfinished Fabrics of Time by Federica Goffi 24
Juxtaposing the New and the Old by Eric Parry 34
Time Matters Transition and Transformation in Architecture by Mark Taylor 42
Inhabiting Time by Juhani Pallasmaa 50
Time as a Medium Early Work of Enric Miralles by Philip Speranza 60
Knowingly Unfinished Exploiting theTemporality of Landscapes by
SueAnne Ware 74
Matter Timed by Martina Decker 82
Drawing Time by Brian McGrath 88
Drawing in Time Processes of Design and Fabrication by Babak Bryan and Henry Grosman 98
Architecture Takes Time by Tobias Armborst, Daniel D'Oca and Georgeen Theodore 108
Ever Faster But Still Very Good by Jonathan Mallie 114
No more stopping by Richard Garber 120
Visiting Karsten Harries and Revisiting his 'Building and the Terror of Time by Karen A Franck 128
Counterpoint Finding Time by Tim Makower 136
Contributors 142
Vol.86,No.2,Profile No.240,March-April 2016
Editorial by Helen Castle 5
About the Guest-Editor by Patrik Schumacher 6
Introduction
Parametricism 2.0 Gearing Up to Impact the Global Built Environment by Patrik Schumacher 8
Parametric Computation History and Future by John Frazer 18
Parametric Notations The Birth of the Non-Standard by Mario Carpo 24
Antoni Gaudf and Frei Otto Essential Precursors to the Parametricism Manifesto by Mark Burry 30
Behavioural Complexity Constructing Frameworks for Human-Machine Ecologies by Theodore Spyropoulos 36
Upgrading Computational Design by Shajay Bhooshan 44
Behavioural Production Autonomous Swarm-Constructed Architecture by
Robert Stuart-Smith 54
The Art of the Prototypical by Marc Fornes 60
Parametricism's Structural Congeniality by Philippe Block 68
Guest-Edited by Patrik Schumacher
Computational Material Culture by Achim Menges 76
Relational Urban Models Parameters, Values and Tacit Forms of Algorithms by Enriqueta Llabres and Eduardo Rico 84
Parametric Regionalism by Philip Yuan 92
'Super-Natural' Parametricism in Product Design by Ross Lovegrove 100
Advancing Socia Functionality Via Agent-Based Parametric Semiology by
Patrik Schumacher 108
Hegemonic Parametricism Delivers a Market-Based Urban Order by Patrik Schumacher 114
Parametrising the Social by Manuel DeLanda 124
Counterpoint A Hospice for Parametricism by Mark Foster Gage 128
Contributors 134
Vol.86,No.3,Profile No.241,May-June 2016
Editorial by Helen Castle 5
About the Guest-Editor by Hattie Hartman 6
Fore-thoughts: Learning from Lerner by Jaime Lerner 8
Introduction Seeds of Change Urban Transformation in Brazil by Hattie Hartman 10
Where to for Brazil's Cities? Citizen Empowerment or Global Marketing? By Guilherme Wisnik 20
A City at Play Rio de Janeiro on the Eve of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games by Ana Luiza Nobre 28
Failing the Informal City How Rio de Janeiro's Mega Sporting Events Derailed the Legacy of Favela-Bairro by Justin McGuirk 40
Maps to Hack, Synchronise and Decipher Unseen Cartographies of Rio by Gabriel Duarte 48
Rethinking Minha Casa Minha Vida The Resurgence of i Public Space by Nanda Eskes and Andre Vieira 54
Dissatisfied Sao Paulo Francesco Perrotta-Bosch 60
Linking the Formal and Informal Favela Urbanisation and Social Housing in Sao Paulo by Fernando Serapiao 70
Alternative Visions of the Brazilian City In conversation with Herzog & de Meuron Senior Partner Ascan Mergenthaler by Hattie Hartman 80
Brasilia Life Beyond Utopia by Thomas Deckker 88
Recife The Popular Struggle for a Better City by Circe Monteiro and Luiz Carvalho 96
Salvador: The Struggle for Dialogue Within a Heritage City by Sergio ekerman 106
Curitiba Revisited Five Decades of Transformation by Maria do Rocio Rosario 112
Landscaping Brazil The Legacy of Roberto Burle Marx by Alexandre Hepner and Silvio Soares Macedo 118
Sustainability A Clarion Call for a Mew Approach by Joana Carla Soares Goncalves 126
Counterpoint Designing Inequality? By Ricky Burdett 136
Contributors 142
Vol.86,No.4,Profile No.242,July-Aug.2016
About the Guest-Editors Joshua Bolchover, John Lin and Christiane Lange 05
Introduction Where is the Rural in an Urban World? Joshua Bolchover, John Lin and Christiane Lange 06
Inventing the Rural A Brief History of Modern Architecture in the Countryside by Cole Roskam 14
Settling the Nomads Rural Urban Framework, an Incremental Urban Strategy for Ulaanbaatar, Mongoliag by Joshua Bolchover 20
Indefinitely Intermediate Processes of Ruralis in Chisinau, Moldova by Sandra Parvu 28
Cultivating the Field in the Global Hinterland Community Building for Mass Housing in the Amazon Region by Rainer Hehl 34
Palm Oil A New Ethics of Visibility for the Production Landscape by MilicaTopalovic 42
Notes on Villa as a Global Condition by David Grahame Shan 48
Reflecting on the Rural-Urban Mix inYilan,Taiwan by Sheng-Yuan Huang and Yu-Hsiang Hung 58
In the Hands of the People Harnessing the Collective Power of Village Life in India by Sandeep Virmani 66
Designing for an Uncertain Future Rural Urban Framework, Shichuang Village House Prototype, Guangdong Province, China by John Lin 72
The Hunstad Code Rules for the Planning of a Rural Town by
Anders Abraham and Christina Capetillo 78
The Villages, Florida Small-town Metropolitanism and the 'Middle of Nowhere' by Deane Simpson 86
New Territories Deconstructing and Constructing Countryside -The Great Divide of Rural and Urban in Hong Kong by Christiane Lange 92
TheToshka Project Colossal Water Infrastructures, Biopolitics andTerritory in Egypt by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes 98
Best of Both Worlds Lamenting Our Path to the Future by
Stephan Petermann 106
Durana, Albania A Field of Possibilities by Ambra Fabi and Giovanni Piovene 114
The Hinterland, Urbanised? By Neil Brenner 118
Counterpoint Don't Waste Your Time in the Countryside by
Patrik Schumacher 128
Contributors 134
Vol.86,No.5,Profile No.243,Sep.-Oct.2016
About the Guest-Editors Wendy W Fok and Antoine Picon 5
Introduction The Ownership Revolution by Wendy W Fok and Antoine Picon 6
Serving, Own Authoring by David Ruy 16
Adaptive Knowledge in Architecture A Few Notes on the Nature of Transdisciplinarity by Aaron Sprecher and Chandler Ahrens 26
From Authorshi to Ownership A Historical Perspectiv by Antoine Picon 36
A/B Architecture publicly Augmented Design by Carlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel 42
Massive Re-Patterning of the Urban Landscape by Jose Sanchez 48
Fab-Union A collective online to office Robotic design platform by Philip Yuan and Hao Meng 52
Design Instruments of Service in the Era of Connection by Phillip G Bernstein 60
An Art of Connectivity by Tristan Gobin, Sebastian Andraos and Thibault Schwartz 68
Post-Digital Transdiscipli narity by Marjan Colletti 74
VULCAN Closing the Loop in 3D-Printed Architectural Design by Fenf Xu 82
Architectural Patents and Open-Source Architectures The Globalisation of Spatial Design Innovations (or Learning from 'E99') by Mark Garcia 92
When Matter Becomes Media How Our New Tools Are Reinventing Physicality by Francis A Bitonti 100
Design Signals The Role of Software Architecture and Paradigms in Design Thinking and Practice by Panagiotis Michalatos 108
Opening Up the Future of Open Source From Open Innovation to the Internet of Things for the Built Environment by Wendy W Fok 116
Counterpoint The Culture of the Copy by Neil Leach 126
Contributors 134
Vol.86,No.1, Profile No.239,Jan.-Feb.2016
Editorial by Helen Castle 5
About the Guest-Editor by Karen A Franck 6
Introduction Designing with Time in Mind by Karen A Franck 8
The Nine Lives of Buildings by Jill Stoner 18
Built Conservation and the Unfinished Fabrics of Time by Federica Goffi 24
Juxtaposing the New and the Old by Eric Parry 34
Time Matters Transition and Transformation in Architecture by Mark Taylor 42
Inhabiting Time by Juhani Pallasmaa 50
Time as a Medium Early Work of Enric Miralles by Philip Speranza 60
Knowingly Unfinished Exploiting theTemporality of Landscapes by
SueAnne Ware 74
Matter Timed by Martina Decker 82
Drawing Time by Brian McGrath 88
Drawing in Time Processes of Design and Fabrication by Babak Bryan and Henry Grosman 98
Architecture Takes Time by Tobias Armborst, Daniel D'Oca and Georgeen Theodore 108
Ever Faster But Still Very Good by Jonathan Mallie 114
No more stopping by Richard Garber 120
Visiting Karsten Harries and Revisiting his 'Building and the Terror of Time by Karen A Franck 128
Counterpoint Finding Time by Tim Makower 136
Contributors 142
Vol.86,No.2,Profile No.240,March-April 2016
Editorial by Helen Castle 5
About the Guest-Editor by Patrik Schumacher 6
Introduction
Parametricism 2.0 Gearing Up to Impact the Global Built Environment by Patrik Schumacher 8
Parametric Computation History and Future by John Frazer 18
Parametric Notations The Birth of the Non-Standard by Mario Carpo 24
Antoni Gaudf and Frei Otto Essential Precursors to the Parametricism Manifesto by Mark Burry 30
Behavioural Complexity Constructing Frameworks for Human-Machine Ecologies by Theodore Spyropoulos 36
Upgrading Computational Design by Shajay Bhooshan 44
Behavioural Production Autonomous Swarm-Constructed Architecture by
Robert Stuart-Smith 54
The Art of the Prototypical by Marc Fornes 60
Parametricism's Structural Congeniality by Philippe Block 68
Guest-Edited by Patrik Schumacher
Computational Material Culture by Achim Menges 76
Relational Urban Models Parameters, Values and Tacit Forms of Algorithms by Enriqueta Llabres and Eduardo Rico 84
Parametric Regionalism by Philip Yuan 92
'Super-Natural' Parametricism in Product Design by Ross Lovegrove 100
Advancing Socia Functionality Via Agent-Based Parametric Semiology by
Patrik Schumacher 108
Hegemonic Parametricism Delivers a Market-Based Urban Order by Patrik Schumacher 114
Parametrising the Social by Manuel DeLanda 124
Counterpoint A Hospice for Parametricism by Mark Foster Gage 128
Contributors 134
Vol.86,No.3,Profile No.241,May-June 2016
Editorial by Helen Castle 5
About the Guest-Editor by Hattie Hartman 6
Fore-thoughts: Learning from Lerner by Jaime Lerner 8
Introduction Seeds of Change Urban Transformation in Brazil by Hattie Hartman 10
Where to for Brazil's Cities? Citizen Empowerment or Global Marketing? By Guilherme Wisnik 20
A City at Play Rio de Janeiro on the Eve of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games by Ana Luiza Nobre 28
Failing the Informal City How Rio de Janeiro's Mega Sporting Events Derailed the Legacy of Favela-Bairro by Justin McGuirk 40
Maps to Hack, Synchronise and Decipher Unseen Cartographies of Rio by Gabriel Duarte 48
Rethinking Minha Casa Minha Vida The Resurgence of i Public Space by Nanda Eskes and Andre Vieira 54
Dissatisfied Sao Paulo Francesco Perrotta-Bosch 60
Linking the Formal and Informal Favela Urbanisation and Social Housing in Sao Paulo by Fernando Serapiao 70
Alternative Visions of the Brazilian City In conversation with Herzog & de Meuron Senior Partner Ascan Mergenthaler by Hattie Hartman 80
Brasilia Life Beyond Utopia by Thomas Deckker 88
Recife The Popular Struggle for a Better City by Circe Monteiro and Luiz Carvalho 96
Salvador: The Struggle for Dialogue Within a Heritage City by Sergio ekerman 106
Curitiba Revisited Five Decades of Transformation by Maria do Rocio Rosario 112
Landscaping Brazil The Legacy of Roberto Burle Marx by Alexandre Hepner and Silvio Soares Macedo 118
Sustainability A Clarion Call for a Mew Approach by Joana Carla Soares Goncalves 126
Counterpoint Designing Inequality? By Ricky Burdett 136
Contributors 142
Vol.86,No.4,Profile No.242,July-Aug.2016
About the Guest-Editors Joshua Bolchover, John Lin and Christiane Lange 05
Introduction Where is the Rural in an Urban World? Joshua Bolchover, John Lin and Christiane Lange 06
Inventing the Rural A Brief History of Modern Architecture in the Countryside by Cole Roskam 14
Settling the Nomads Rural Urban Framework, an Incremental Urban Strategy for Ulaanbaatar, Mongoliag by Joshua Bolchover 20
Indefinitely Intermediate Processes of Ruralis in Chisinau, Moldova by Sandra Parvu 28
Cultivating the Field in the Global Hinterland Community Building for Mass Housing in the Amazon Region by Rainer Hehl 34
Palm Oil A New Ethics of Visibility for the Production Landscape by MilicaTopalovic 42
Notes on Villa as a Global Condition by David Grahame Shan 48
Reflecting on the Rural-Urban Mix inYilan,Taiwan by Sheng-Yuan Huang and Yu-Hsiang Hung 58
In the Hands of the People Harnessing the Collective Power of Village Life in India by Sandeep Virmani 66
Designing for an Uncertain Future Rural Urban Framework, Shichuang Village House Prototype, Guangdong Province, China by John Lin 72
The Hunstad Code Rules for the Planning of a Rural Town by
Anders Abraham and Christina Capetillo 78
The Villages, Florida Small-town Metropolitanism and the 'Middle of Nowhere' by Deane Simpson 86
New Territories Deconstructing and Constructing Countryside -The Great Divide of Rural and Urban in Hong Kong by Christiane Lange 92
TheToshka Project Colossal Water Infrastructures, Biopolitics andTerritory in Egypt by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes 98
Best of Both Worlds Lamenting Our Path to the Future by
Stephan Petermann 106
Durana, Albania A Field of Possibilities by Ambra Fabi and Giovanni Piovene 114
The Hinterland, Urbanised? By Neil Brenner 118
Counterpoint Don't Waste Your Time in the Countryside by
Patrik Schumacher 128
Contributors 134
Vol.86,No.5,Profile No.243,Sep.-Oct.2016
About the Guest-Editors Wendy W Fok and Antoine Picon 5
Introduction The Ownership Revolution by Wendy W Fok and Antoine Picon 6
Serving, Own Authoring by David Ruy 16
Adaptive Knowledge in Architecture A Few Notes on the Nature of Transdisciplinarity by Aaron Sprecher and Chandler Ahrens 26
From Authorshi to Ownership A Historical Perspectiv by Antoine Picon 36
A/B Architecture publicly Augmented Design by Carlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel 42
Massive Re-Patterning of the Urban Landscape by Jose Sanchez 48
Fab-Union A collective online to office Robotic design platform by Philip Yuan and Hao Meng 52
Design Instruments of Service in the Era of Connection by Phillip G Bernstein 60
An Art of Connectivity by Tristan Gobin, Sebastian Andraos and Thibault Schwartz 68
Post-Digital Transdiscipli narity by Marjan Colletti 74
VULCAN Closing the Loop in 3D-Printed Architectural Design by Fenf Xu 82
Architectural Patents and Open-Source Architectures The Globalisation of Spatial Design Innovations (or Learning from 'E99') by Mark Garcia 92
When Matter Becomes Media How Our New Tools Are Reinventing Physicality by Francis A Bitonti 100
Design Signals The Role of Software Architecture and Paradigms in Design Thinking and Practice by Panagiotis Michalatos 108
Opening Up the Future of Open Source From Open Innovation to the Internet of Things for the Built Environment by Wendy W Fok 116
Counterpoint The Culture of the Copy by Neil Leach 126
Contributors 134
Vol.86,No.6,Profile No.244,Nov.-Dec.2016
About the Guest-Editor Matias Del Campo 5
Introduction Moods and Other Ontological Catastrophes by Matias del Campo 6
Mood Swings Architectural Affective Disorder by John McMorrough 14
Intimacy Eragatory's Experiments in Materiality, DeepTexture and Mood by Isaie Bloch 20
Aesthetics a Politics The KhaleesiTower o West 57th Street, by Mark Foster Gage 26
Figuring Mood The Role of Stimmung in the Formal Approach of Heinrich Wolfflin and Alois Riegl by Andrew Saunders 34
Low Albedo The Mathilde Project by Jason Payne 42
Oh, Vienna! An Interview with Wolf D Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au by Matias del Campo 46
Moody Objects Ore Fashion Stores and Blocks by Matias del Campo 54
The Affects of Realism Or the Estrangement of the Background by Michael Young 58
Parrhesia-stases (The Preamble) Frangois Roche with Camille Lacadee 66
Affects of Intricate Mass The Strange Characteristics of the RMIT Mace and NGV Pavilion by Roland Snooks 72
Excessive Resolution From Digital Streamlining to Computational Complexity by Mario Carpo 78
Something Else, Something Raw From ProtoHouse to BlokhutThe Aesthetics of Computational Assemblage By Gilles Retsin 84
Xeno Cells In the mood for the unseen by Alisa Andrasek 90
Bad Mood On Design and 'Empathy' by Benjamin H Bratton 96
Emanating Objects The Atmospheric Ecosystems Generated by Gelatinous Orb and Buru Buru by Michael Loverich 102
Mood, Posture and Rhythmic Feedback MONAD Studio's Sonic Experiments with 3D-Printed Musical Instruments by Eric Goldemberg 108
The Awesome and Capricious Language of Past, Present and Future Digital Moods by Marjan Colletti 118
Counterpoint The Sixth Sense The Meaning of Atmosphere and Mood by Juhani Pallasmaa 126
Contributors 134