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2014 •
Göran Sonesson
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2014 •
Sante Simone, Mejrema Zatric
2016“Urban-Architecture as a Battleground of Socio-Cultural Struggle”, The Urban Gaze: Exploring Urbanity through Art, Architecture, Music, Fashion, Film and Media, (ed. L. Howard, S.Mazzucotelli) (e-book / ISBN 978-1-84888-453-3), Interdisciplinary.Net Press; Oxford, pp.129-140.
murat cetin
Architecture is closely yet paradoxically connected to the two basic and complementary human instincts; to construct and to destruct, in other words to live and to die. Therefore, architecture and urbanism can be considered as the spatial dimensions of an ideological war of different interest groups in cities. Such a war mainly manifests itself as the polarisation between corporate sector and public sector, global and local, modern and traditional. Planning acts as a means of capitalist control over the urban (public) space under a macro-orthodoxy approach despite the public reaction via manipulation of public space through; microurbanism in urban-leftovers and queer-spaces, reclamation of landfills, and ephemeral architecture. A large body of community seem to resist through guerrilla war tactics of architecture against the comprehensive strategic war plans, technoscientific artillery, and devoted and well-trained troops of neo-liberal corporate bodies. Who will survive in such a relentless spatial war depends largely on the development of counter-strategies and accurate calculations based on game theory. The chapter will address the issue of reconstruction and resilience of cities with particular reference to the case of Istanbul, her transformation zones and conservation areas. Hence, the study will focus on urban paradigm shift and complexity of Istanbul as a multi-cultural, multi-layered metropolitan city in a post-modern era. The article intends to develop alternative strategies towards reshaping urban environment via architecture primarily by analysing the morphology of new urban spaces and emergent forms of life. Consequently, architecture of cities is argued as a para-military instrument for the tactical deployment of conflicting ideologies into an ongoing state of socio-cultural battle between opposing parties of the city.
Theory of urban space and culture
Vane Nedev
Routledge
Unorthodox Ways to Think the City (Representations, Constructions, Dynamics)
2018 •
Teresa Stoppani
This book argues that architecture and the city and their processes can be better understood by drawing categories from disciplines that exceed the architectural and urban cultural context. It performs an open intellectual reading that traverses architecture and architectural theory, but also art theory and history, cartography, philosophy, literature and cultural studies, to unfold a series of ‘figures’ that are ambiguously placed between the representation and the construction of space in architecture and the city. The paradigm and philosophy, the island and the city, the map and representation, the model and making and the questioning of form performed by dust, are explored beyond their definition, as processes that differently make space between architecture and the city and are proposed as unorthodox analytic techniques to decipher contemporary spatial complexity. The book analyses how these ‘figures’ have been employed at different times and in different creative disciplines, beyond architecture and in relation to changing notions of space, and traces the role that they have played in the shift towards the dynamic that has taken place in contemporary theory and design research. What emerges is the idea of an ‘architecture of the city’ that is not only physical but is largely defined by the way in which its physical spaces are regulated, lived and perceived, but also imagined and projected. Contents 1. Introduction 2. Paradigm: Notes For a Definition of Architecture as Paradigm 3. Island: The Possibility of the City as an Island 4. Map: From Description to Making 5. Model: from object to process 6. Dust: From Form to Transformation
2019_On the Traces of the Disappeared City: The Study of the Marks as a Strategies for the Urban Design
Maria Grazia Cianci
WMCAUS 2018
On the Traces of the Disappeared City: The Study of the Marks as a Strategies for the Urban Design
2018 •
Maria Grazia Cianci
Abstract. The story of the covering of the Rio Darro, the river along whose shores arose the city of Granada in the VII century b. C., has provided the opportunity to make a research in order to recognise and studying the marks left in the existing urban fabric by some very important pre-existing historical elements. The river, indeed, was the subject of a long work of cover throughout the centuries, which was started back in the XVI century with the arrival of the Catholics Kings in Granada, and concluded only in the 30’s, and from which the study is started. The research was then extended to the analysis of the urban evolution of the city, which develops along the riverbed and turns as direct results of its covering, leaving in the two streets built on top of it the trace and the wound of this serious loss of its cultural and natural heritage. Alongside this mark, the research investigates other two systems whose traces are still visible in the urban fabric of the today city: the one of the ancient walls, mostly disappeared, at the point where they crossed the river, and the one of the bridges, now lost due of the cover of the river itself, in the correspondence of which we can now find streets that brings their names. The research wants to show how the study of this systems allows a clear interpretation of the current urban fabric, and at the same time provides the elements for a recovery project of the historic memory of the city, working with due regard to the contemporary public spaces. The philological study of traces and signs of historic derivation, and the strategic reuse of them, allow the coherent reconnection of the ancient public spaces arrived to the present day, while creating new ones, claiming how the recovery of the cultural heritage might be not just the purpose but the tool through which it is possible to project the modern city.
