1 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010 PROFILE NO 208 GUEST-EDITED BY LYDIA KALLIPOLITI 2 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FORTHCOMING 2 TITLES JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011 — PROFILE NO 209 TYPOLOGICAL URBANISM: PROJECTIVE CITIES GUEST-EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER CM LEE AND SAM JACOBY How can architecture today be simultaneously relevant to its urban context and at the very forefront of design? For a decade or so, iconic architecture has been fuelled by the market economy and consumers’ insatiable appetite for the novel and the different. The relentless speed and scale of urbanisation, with its ruptured, decentralised and fast-changing context, though, demands a rethink of the role of the designer and the function of architecture. This title of 2 confronts and questions the profession’s and academia’s current inability to confi dently and comprehensively describe, conceptualise, theorise and ultimately project new ideas for architecture in relation to the city. In so doing, it provides a potent alternative for projective cities: Typological Urbanism. This pursues and develops the strategies of typological reasoning in order to re-engage architecture with the city in both a critical and speculative manner. Architecture and urbanism are no longer seen as separate domains, or subservient to each other, but as synthesising disciplines and processes that allow an integrating and controlling effect on both the city and its built environment. • Signifi cant contributions from architects and thinkers: Peter Carl, Michael Hensel, Marina Lathouri, Martino Tattara and Pier Vittorio Aureli. • Featured architects include: Ben van Berkel & Caroline Bos of UNStudio, DOGMA, Toyo Volume No Ito & Associates, l’AUC, OMA, SANAA and Serie Architects. ISBN MARCH/APRIL 2011 — PROFILE NO 210 PROTOCELL ARCHTECTURE GUEST-EDITED BY NEIL SPILLER AND RACHEL ARMSTRONG Throughout the ages, architects have attempted to capture the essence of living systems as design inspiration. However, practitioners of the built environment have had to deal with a fundamental split between the artifi cial urban landscape and nature owing to a technological ‘gap’ that means architects have been unable to make effective use of biological systems in urban environments. This issue of 2 shows for the fi rst time that contemporary architects can create and construct architectures that are bottom-up, synthetically biological, green and have no recourse to shallow biomimickry. Synthetic biology will have as much impact on architecture as cyberspace has had – and probably more. Key to these amazing architectural innovations is the protocell. • Contributors include: Martin Hanczyc, Lee Cronin and Mark Morris. • Architects include: Nic Clear, Evan Douglis, IwamotoScott, Paul Preissner, Omar Khan, Dan Slavinsky, Philip Beesley and Neri Oxman. • Topics include: new smart biological materials, surrealism, ruins, alchemy, emergence, carbon capture, urbanism and sustainability, architectural ecologies, ethics and politics. Volume No ISBN MAY/JUNE 2011 — PROFILE NO 211 LATIN AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS GUEST-EDITED BY MARIANA LEGUÍA The announcement of Rio de Janeiro as the 2016 Olympics host city has placed Latin America on the world’s stage. Latin America has not been the centre of international architectural attention and pilgrimage since the mid-20th century when economic growth triggered the development of Modernist urban design and architecture on an epic scale. Since then the centralised, utopian planned model has broken down. Mass migrations from the countryside and erection of informal settlements have left cities socially and spatially divided. Responding to uncontrolled and unplanned growth, resourceful governments and practices have developed innovative approaches to urban design and development. This title of 2 will explore the current urban issues faced by Latin American cities and the response of alternative local practitioners at different scales. Large-scale urban case studies, such as the revitalisation of Bogotá and Medellin, will be featured alongside architectural practices, research-based organisations and university studios working at a grass-roots level. • Contributors include: Saskia Sassen, Hernando de Soto, Ricky Burdett and Bogotá ex-mayor Enrique Peñalosa. • Featured achitects: Teddy Cruz, Caracas Think-Tank, Jorge Jauregui, Alejandro Echeverri, MMBB and Alejandro Aravena. Volume No ISBN 1 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN GUEST-EDITED BY LYDIA KALLIPOLITI ECOREDUX DESIGN REMEDIES FOR A N A I L I N G P L A N E T | ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN VOL 80, NO 6 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010 ISSN 0003-8504 PROFILE NO 208 ISBN 978-0470-746622 IN THIS ISSUE 1 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN GUEST-EDITED BY LYDIA KALLIPOLITI ECOREDUX: DESIGN REMEDIES FOR AN AILING PLANET EDITORIAL Helen Castle ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITOR Lydia Kallipoliti SPOTLIGHT Visual highlights of the issue INTRODUCTION No More Schisms Lydia Kallipoliti Whatever Happened to Ecology? John McHale and the Bucky Fuller Revival Anthony Vidler EDITORIAL BOARD Will Alsop Denise Bratton Paul Brislin Mark Burry The Soft Cosmos of André Chaszar Nigel Coates 2’s ‘Cosmorama’ in Peter Cook Teddy Cruz the and Max Fordham Massimiliano Fuksas Lydia Kallipoliti Edwin Heathcote Michael Hensel Guest-editor Lydia Kallipoliti Anthony Hunt 2 Charles Jencks revives the seminal Bob Maxwell Cosmorama section with a ‘soft Jayne Merkel Peter Murray cosmos’: a genealogy of ecological Mark Robbins material experimentation from the Deborah Saunt 1960s and 1970s. Leon van Schaik Patrik Schumacher Neil Spiller Michael Weinstock Ken Yeang Alejandro Zaera-Polo 2 (Ut)opiates: Rethinking Nature Fabiola López-Durán and Nikki Moore The Architecture of the Mouse Mark Wigley MEtreePOLIS – Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner (Science) Fiction, Ecosophical Go Brown: Apparatus and Skizoid Machines: Inner-Disciplinary Conjectures Animism, Vitalism and Machinism Alexandros Tsamis as a Way to Rearticulate the Need to Confront the Unknown Numerical Ecosystems in a Contradictory Manner Anna Pla Catalá François Roche Dystopian Farming Eric Vergne Dross City Lydia Kallipoliti A Well-Cultivated House Rafi Segal Intelligent Wood Assemblies: Incorporating Found Geometry and Natural Material Complexity Jonathan Enns Rapid Re(f)use: -D Fabricated Positive Waste Ecologies Mitchell Joachim COUNTERPOINT Comings and Goings Ecologies of Excess: Brian Carter An Excerpt from a nd-Century Architecture History Class Eva Franch i Gilabert Projecting herself into the 22nd century, Eva Franch i Gilabert asks what would happen if culture was predicated on ecologies of excess. 3 1 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010 PROFILE NO 208 Editorial Offi ces All Rights Reserved. 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Over the last decade or so, there has been a real danger that the widespread adoption of sustainable codes and government policies has become a straitjacket for designers – an imposition rather than a productive force. It has become a matter of ticking off boxes for green building validation rather than engaging with wider ecological thinking and solutions. The treatment of this theme