arq linking practice and research volume 17 . number 1 . 2013

Building in relation Holl and Mackintosh , and Havana

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obituary 9 Oscar Niemeyer: 1907–2012 Styliane Philippou report 15 The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON Tijana Stevanovi´c perspective 19 Can the new cosmology, cosmogenesis, serve as a basis for a shared value system in architecture? On Charles Jencks Pekka Passinmäki criticism 24 Putting Holl and Mackintosh in multi-perspective: the new building at Glasgow School of Art Johnny Rodger history 37 New tenements and the image of the past: the Crown Street development in Glasgow’s New Gorbals Florian Urban 49 Philip Bell: a champion of the Modern Movement in Northern Ireland Paul Larmour 63 Le pan de verre scientifique: Le Corbusier and the Saint-Gobain glass laboratory experiments (1931–32) Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez 73 Vanity Modern: happy days in the tourist playgrounds of Miami and Havana Styliane Philippou

arq reviews 89 Aalto and America reviewed by Harry Charrington insight 92 The casual buttress Andrew Clancy

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cover leader 3 Building in relation Hotel Riviera, Igor B. Polevitzky for letters 5 Education on the edge. Shifts in technical knowledge Polevitzky, Johnson & Associates (with obituary 9 Oscar Niemeyer: 1907–2012 Styliane Philippou looks back on Niemeyer’s associate Manuel life and career Carrerá), 1957, El Vedado, Havana. See pp 73–88 report 15 The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON Tijana Stevanovi´c reviews an exhibition in London and Derry/Londonderry which responds to Dolores Hayden’s 1983 book Grand Domestic Revolution perspective 19 Can the new cosmology, cosmogenesis, serve as a basis for a shared value system in architecture? On Charles Jencks Pekka Passinmäki challenges Jencks’ idea of cosmogenesis, a conception of the world dealing in self-organising relations, preferring instead meaning in human relations criticism 24 Putting Holl and Mackintosh in multi-perspective: the new building at Glasgow School of Art Johnny Rodger examines Steven Holl’s building for the Glasgow School of Art, currently on site, in relation to the adjacent building by Charles Rennie Mackintosh history 37 New tenements and the image of the past: the Crown Street development in Glasgow’s New Gorbals In Glasgow again, Florian Urban reflects on a neo- traditional housing project on a contested site previously occupied by the Gorbals tenements and the high-rise Hutchesontown flats 49 Philip Bell: a champion of the Modern Movement in Northern Ireland Paul Larmour recounts the work of one of Northern Ireland’s first Modern architects who has now slipped into obscurity 63 Le pan de verre scientifique: Le Corbusier and the Saint-Gobain glass laboratory experiments (1931–32) Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez tests Le Corbusier’s idea of the mur neutralisant, born as part of a challenging environmental theory for buildings 73 Vanity Modern: happy days in the tourist playgrounds of Miami and Havana Styliane Philippou recalls vanity projects constructed in the pre-revolutionary Havana of the 1950s, built for Americans to party and gamble in the shadow of the Cold War

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