Places: Design Observer. Places is an interdisciplinary journal of contemporary architecture, landscape and urbanism, with a particular focus on the public realm as both physical place and social ideal. We publish essays, peer-reviewed scholarship, observations, reviews, visual portfolios, and occasionally poetry and fiction, with new articles appearing weekly. Whatever the format, we are dedicated to advancing public awareness of the expansive value of design research and practice, with the ultimate goal of promoting sustainable cities and healthy landscapes.
Places Journal is a 501(c)3 organization, published by the Places Journal Foundation in collaboration with the Design Observer Group. We are grateful for the support of a network of North American and European universities as well as organizational and individual sponsors. Prior to moving online in 2009, Places was a print journal founded in 1983 by faculty at MIT and Berkeley. Editor and Executive Director Nancy Levinson Associate Editor Josh Wallaert. Horizonte “Angst” - Call for Papers. In regard to the German word for “fear” in terms of etymology, a surprising conjunction is to be found: “Angst”, deriving from the Latin word “angustiae” also translates as “narrowness”, which not only refers to a spatial relation in general but also implicates confinement and hence, containment quite literally. Even the Old Testament already states that there had not yet been architecture in paradise and Cain had not built the first city for the fear of vengeance until the murder of his brother Abel.
Franz Kafka on the other hand describes a dialectical nature of the architectural terminology of fear in his late (and unfinished) tale “The Burrow”: Therein, the desire to build a fortress is directly situated in a fear of loss, which in turn appears to be the cause for perpetual concern through the diversity and omnipresence of fear. Similarly, a pleasure for the uncanny, sinister or frightening situations pervades a vast number of epochs, disciplines and genres.
MAGAZINE / LAST UPDATE: 30.07.2012. Bart Lootsma: Carmelo Baglivo's Pirated Drawings Together with Stefania Manna and Luca Galofaro, Carmelo Baglivo is one of the founding members of the internatinonally renowned Roman practice IaN+. Lately, he started posting collages and montages of contemporary architectural capriccio's on Facebook, thereby discovering new opportunities to provoke an architectural discourse. A selection of these Disegni Corsari (pirated drawings) is exhibited in the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome from November 12 to 22. Bart Lootsma, who has been following Carmelo Baglivo from the beginning, on the Internet replacing the street as the source of cultural renewal, the eternal city of Rome and the importance of planning the impossible. [more] Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal in Conversation with Mathieu Wellner "We feel it is our duty to start from scratch with each new project.
Bart Lootsma: Snøhetta's performative architecture Bart Lootsma: Michael Wallraff, Beyond Pragmatism. Environment and Urbanization -- Collected Resources : Climate change - adaptation and cities. Most Cited Cities Articles. The most cited articles published since 2009, extracted from Scopus. Ecosystem services and valuation of urban forests in China Volume 26, Issue 4, August 2009, Pages 187-194Jim, C.Y. | Chen, W.Y. Urban forests are integral components of urban ecosystems, which could generate significant ecosystem services, such as offsetting carbon emission, removing air pollutants, regulating the microclimate, and recreation.
These ecosystem services contribute to improving environmental quality, quality of life, and sustainable urban development. Despite a long history of inserting vegetation in human settlements in China, modern scientific study of this natural-cum-cultural resource did not start until the 1990s. Specifically, the identification and valuation of ecosystem services provided by urban forests are relatively new but fast growing research fields. Planning, competitiveness and sprawl in the Mediterranean city: The case of Athens City branding and the Olympic effect: A case study of Beijing. Development and Change. Development and Change © Institute of Social Studies Edited By: Ashwani Saith, Murat Arsel, Kees Biekart, Amrita Chhachhi, Bridget O'Laughlin and Servaas Storm Impact Factor: 1.56 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2012: 12/55 (Planning & Development) Online ISSN: 1467-7660 Recently Published Issues Current Issue:March 2014Volume 45, Issue 2January 2014Volume 45, Issue 1November 2013Volume 44, Issue 6Special Issue: Globalization with Chinese Characte...September 2013Volume 44, Issue 5July 2013Volume 44, Issue 4 Forum Issue 2013 FORUM Issue Special Issues Recent titles from the series include: Governing the Global Land Grab: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land Edited by Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M.
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Footprint :: issues. Submit Projects « World Landscape Architecture. World Landscape Architecture are looking for great conceptual and built projects from design studios, firms, freelancers, students from across the world that were designed or realised in recently. Projects can be landscape, urban design, lighting, art installation (a landscape architect/ landscape designer must have been involved with the project). We encourage all firms to submit projects of any scale, nothing is too small or too big and showcases the diversity of work of the landscape profession. How to submit your project? 1. Select your 5 to 10 best images with a minimum 800 pixels wide at 150dpi in jpg format. 2.
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En esta primera edición, el tema tratado es Intervenciones para la Emergencia, situando el escenario de la convocatoria en el continente Americano, afectado por sucesivas catástrofes, fenómenos naturales o antrópicos, acontecidos en los últimos dos años y aún pendientes de resolución. Emplazamientos a concurso y estrategias: Petrópolis. Estado de Río de Janeiro. Brasil.CÓMO CONSOLIDAR UN TEJIDO INFORMAL Y UN ENTORNO DE PROTECCIÓN AMBIENTAL EN MUTUA AMENAZA Puerto Saavedra. San Cristóbal. Chimalhuacán. Cercado de Lima. El resultado del mismo, constituirá a su vez, un archivo documental para minimizar riesgos futuros y acelerar la capacidad de reacción en protocolos y planes de actuación, prevención y emergencia. El concurso se estructura en dos etapas:Concurso.
Welcome - Space Syntax Symposium 8 Santiago Chile. This is the official website for the EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL SPACE SYNTAX SYMPOSIUM that will be held in Santiago de Chile at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile between Tuesday 3rd and Friday 6th of January 2012. The workshops and the opening session will be on Tuesday 3rd January 2012, the sessions between Wednesday 4th and Friday 6th. The venue is located on El Comendador 1916, Providencia, Santiago. BRACKET [at extremes]: Call for Submissions. Bracket 3 invites the submission of critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate the potentials when situations extend beyond norms – into the extremities.
We are conditioned, as designers of the built environment, towards the organization of people, programs and movement. Indeed the history of modern urbanism, architecture and building science has been predicated on an anti-entropic notion of programmatic and social order. But are there scenarios in which a state of extremity or imbalance is productive? Ulrick Beck, in “Risk Society’s Cosmopolitan Moment” suggests that being at risk is the human condition at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Bracket [at Extremes] will examine architecture, infrastructure and technology as they operate in conditions of imbalance, negotiate tipping points and test limit states.
Bracket 3 will be published by Actar and designed by Thumb. Submissions should be project-based, or article-based. Suburbia Transformed 2.0, One Garden at a Time. AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR BUILT AND VISIONARY (UNBUILT) RESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPES sponsored by the James Rose Center for Landscape Architectural Research and Design; co-sponsored by the American Society of Landscape Architects, New Jersey Chapter; and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. THE COMPETITION The goal of Suburbia Transformed 2.0 is to promote and celebrate residential designs that go beyond “green” by explicitly using sustainable strategies, tactics and technologies to enrich the aesthetic spatial experience of people.
ST 2.0 will assemble contemporary projects achieving this goal into an exhibition and catalogue. The emphasis is on how such sustainable landscapes can be beautiful, inspiring, perhaps profound; and serve as examples for transforming the suburban residential fabric, one garden at a time. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Submissions must be for two-acre or less residentially-zoned single-family properties. PLAT Journal 3.0_CollectiveDisruption_Call for Submissions. PLAT Journal. Anyone Corporation Log Journal for Architecture. Bracket— RUDI - Resource for Urban Design Information | Resource for Urban Design Information.