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Architecture and the arts have long been on the forefront of socio-spatial struggles, in which equality, access, representation and expression are at stake in our cities, communities and everyday lives. Feminist spatial practices contribute substantially to new forms of activism, expanding dialogues, engaging materialisms, transforming pedagogies, and projec- ting alternatives. feminist futures of Spatial Practice traces practical tools and theoretical dimensions, as well as temporalities, emergence, histories, events, durations - and futures - of feminist practices.Authors include international practitioners, researchers, and educators, from architecture, the arts, art history, curating, cultural heritage stu- dies, environmental sciences, futures studies, lm, visual communication, design and design theory, queer, intersectional and gender studies, political sciences, sociology, and urban planning. Established as well as emerging voices write critically from within their institutions, professions, and their activist, political and personal practices.feminist futures of Spatial Practice deepens and broadens how we can understand and engage with different genders, bodies and peoples, diverse voices and forms of expression, alternative norms and ways of living together.

Xi Ye is an academic at the Faculty of Humanities and Arts at Macau University of Scienceand Technology. Her research focuses on architectural and cultural criticism. Her recentpublications include 'Reviving a sense of poetry: assessing Wang Shu's contemporarydesign practice' (Architectural Research Quarterly, 2022). Xi Ye holds a Master of Artsin Urban Design from Cardiff University, UK and a PhD in architecture from NewcastleUniversity, UK. Conceptual and Pragmatic explores the tension between architects' intellectual idealsand expressions and the everyday experience of architecture and its practice. The bookalternates between the subjectivity and sensory experiences of the user, including itsrelationship to popular culture, tectonics, and vernacular architecture. Reflecting on theprocesses of concept-making and the cultural meaning of architecture, and their impacton architectural design, Xi Ye evaluates the influence of Western architecture on Chinesearchitectural practice and the tension of the former with Chinese cultural traditions andsocial conditions.

Lord Robert Baden-Powell, Founder of World Scouting, was a genius inventor of imagination and impressive Symbols.With the Fleur-de-Lis he choose an identification sign for the worldwide Scout Movement - apart from the youth educational elements and many outdoor activities he introduced.With the phenomenon "JAMBOREE" he created an unique event, today worldwide known trademark and a forward oriented symbol of peace for world youth. Since 1920 twentyfour of such great international meetings took place.

This is the obituary written for a man who first had his concentration camp number removed and decades later had it tattooed back in - with apparently small but in terms of meaning huge change: insteed of the letter Z, which was burned into the four-year-old boy in the Auschwitz concentration camp, he had an artfully curved "J" engraved into his left forearm in January 2015.According to the orally transmitted family narrative, Peter¿s mother¿s grandmother was Jewish, a born "Levi". This was also reported by his siblings. Peter Höllenreiner had survived the concentration camps Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, Mauthausen and Bergen-Belsen. Having escaped hell, he returned to his native City Munich in 1945 at the age of six. His school years begin and the world meets him as if nothing had happened. "In the back, in the last pew!" was the school motto. The exclusion continued. Peter Höllenreiner and his family had been subjected to Nation Socialist persecution as so-called "Gypsies". Despite democracy, a new form of government and the declaration of human rights - the old prejudices remained. And Peter lived in the country of the former perpetrators, it is home.

We live in a time when 3D printing has matured from a hobbyist and prototyping tool to a technology withpotential to disrupt entire industries in and around the built environment. The developments in additivemanufacturing are transforming architecture and design no less than they impact engineering andconstruction. The book portrays the rapid advances in research and industrial processes that have pavedthe road for this upheaval.In five chapters that cover historical development, engineering aspects, the digital design process,interactions with other technologies and potential for functionalization through additive manufacturing, theeditors have curated a text that illustrates how a complex network of actors inspires and influences eachother to make this technological transformation possible.The book follows the trail of scientists who prove the technology's viability and documents designexplorations, prototypes and entire buildings that are demonstrating their readiness for the commercialmarket.

Architectural artefacts are negotiated as epistemic objects, an autonomous and innovative form of knowledge capable of inaugurating and institutionalising architectural research. The backbone of this publication is a dialogue between the architect Matthias Ballestrem and the philosopher and architectural theorist Lidia Gasperoni. In a vibrant discussion, they consider the epistemic value of the architectural artefact, the role of research practices in making this knowledge explicit and accessible, and the criteria for qualifying as design-based research. Alex Arteaga, Fabrizia Berlingieri, Peter Bertram, Helga Blocksdorf, Andelka Bnin-Bninski, Marta Fernández Guardado, Joerg Fingerhut, Anke Haarmann, Rolf Hughes, Rachel Hurst, Daniel Norell, Tomas Ooms, Claus Peder Pedersen, Tim Simon-Meyer, and Philip Ursprung have added short comments and images to enrich the arguments with criticism, extensions, associations, and references. An afterword by Marcelo Stamm provides a theoretical reflection on a possible taxonomy of epistemic artefacts.

How could a more just and sustainable living environment be like? This anthology seeks to shed new light on how the design of built living environments shapes the possibilities for everyday life to be sustainable. The centerpiece of the anthology is a selection of speculative design experiments, including e.g. Weather Wash, Biophilia, and Interstitial Interventions. Moving from an analysis of 'what is' to an exploration of 'what if', the design experiments seek to articulate the limitations of ecomodernist urban sustainability while also opening up for alternatives. The design experiments are complemented by a number of essays, expanding on frustrations and reflections, and providing insight into how a design-driven research process might be carried out, including methodological troubles. If you have an interest in planning and design for urban sustainability, futures studies and speculation, and/or design-driven research, then this book is definitely for you.

In 2003 Tel Aviv became a UNESCO WorldHeritage site. On this occasion Tel Aviv wasdescribed as a "synthetic representationof some of the most significant trends ofthe Modern Movement in architecture, as itdeveloped in Europe".Today the "White City" in Tel Aviv with itssome 4,000 buildings from the 1920s and1930s is renowned as the largest collectionof so-called Bauhaus buildings in the world.What does it mean that the architects ofthese projects arrived from all over Europe,and only six of them were Bauhaus alumni?Over recent decades the word Bauhaus hasbecome synonymous with modernity in art,design and architecture. Often disregardingthe original intentions of the School, foundedin 1919 and closed in 1933, it serves asa label for all kinds of merchandise. Amongthem architecture is the most prominent.But, what is Bauhaus? And, is there such athing as a specific Bauhaus architecture?In search of an answer to these crucialquestions, students from Germany, Israeland Austria studied the original Bauhausbuildings in Dessau, Germany, beforetraveling to Tel Aviv, Israel to undertakefurther research. For them, the questionremained: Bauhaus or not?

The Case Study House program ranks among the most influential and innovative projects in American architectural history of the post-war period and has lost none of its fascination even today. The experimental designs of renowned avant-garde architects such as Richard Neutra, Craig Ellwood, Raphael Soriano and Eero Saarinen succeeded in presenting unique houses that completely redefined the concept of modern living. The present publication interprets the Case Study Houses using the new digital tools that architects now have at their disposal and which make the projects accessible in a wholly different way. While traditional documentation provides floor plans, sections, elevations and perspectives, we are now achieving new insights into the concepts, structure, construction, design and spatial effects of the houses by using 3D models, BIM data and atmospheric visualization as well as advanced image processing. It is even possible to download 3D models of some of the houses and try out novel approaches to individual projects. Above all, the book will serve as an inspiration for new architectural ideas and promote the use of these technologies in the design, visualization and realization of such concepts in creative and innovative ways.