Professor Of Architecture Research Articles

All Visualisations Have Crooked Tales/Tails

AbstractThe breadth of architectural typologies is waning, or so Perry Kulper, Professor of Architecture at Taubman College, University of Michigan, tells us. Kulper's work has for decades focused on the development of dexterous, agile and creative methodologies for speculating about the possibilities of architecture(s) explored through notions of equivalence, remixing, reinterpreting and reimagining. Developed through seven spatial spectral strategies for an installation at the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial, familiar landmarks of the city are rescaled and combined to become other implements, adornments and spaces, bringing an uncanny familiarity to their propositions.

Machine Hands on Flaws to Machine: The Surprising Sources of Biases in Machine Learning Models

Machine Hands on Flaws to Machine: The Surprising Sources of Biases in Machine Learning Models

De-Coding the “Fire-Escape”: Safeguarding Health, Safety, and Welfare in Nineteenth-century America

May 01 2023 De-Coding the “Fire-Escape”: Safeguarding Health, Safety, and Welfare in Nineteenth-century America Iman Ansari Iman Ansari Iman Ansari is an architectural historian, designer, and educator. His research focuses on architecture's interactions with science, technology, and medicine in the modern era, looking at the history of building technologies, construction practices, and systems of environmental control. Ansari is a founding principal of AN. ONYMOUS and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Ohio State University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Iman Ansari Iman Ansari is an architectural historian, designer, and educator. His research focuses on architecture's interactions with science, technology, and medicine in the modern era, looking at the history of building technologies, construction practices, and systems of environmental control. Ansari is a founding principal of AN. ONYMOUS and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Ohio State University. Online ISSN: 2572-7338 Print ISSN: 1091-711X © 2023 Iman Ansari2023Iman Ansari Thresholds (2023) (51): 230–245. https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00784 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Iman Ansari; De-Coding the “Fire-Escape”: Safeguarding Health, Safety, and Welfare in Nineteenth-century America. Thresholds 2023; (51): 230–245. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00784 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsThresholds Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 2023 Iman Ansari2023Iman Ansari Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Architecture and mental health wellbeing versus architecture therapy for mental disorders

IntroductionArchitecture is a particular art as well as a transversal science that evolves according to multiple variables that call upon, aesthetics, sociology, political science, technology, history, cultures, economy, tourism, as well as the satisfaction of human needs and the physical/psychological health. It addresses the four senses of human and it humbly configures man’s environment, constitutes the set or the framework in which he evolves and in which he becomes an actor, both overwhelming and magical as Aldo Rossi says (1981).ObjectivesWe aim through this review to show how does architecture affect human mental health wellbeing and what can we do to create a therapeutic architecture.MethodsWe comprehensively review the scientific literature using Pubmed database and other search platforms such as Google scholar to state the relationship between architecture and human mental health wellbeing and to delineate the meaning of architecture therapy in the field of mental disorders.ResultsOur bibliographic research revealed that Architecture and mental health are directly linked and that the concept of therapeutic architecture or architectural therapy has been generated in 1984 by Roger Ulrich, Professor of Architecture at the Centre for Health Design in Sweden to designate the influence of the environment on the healing and recovery process of patients. In fact, Architecture has the ability to create meaningful spaces. Churches, mosques and cathedrals planned centuries ago are a testament to architectural wonders, as they evoke a sense of magnificence, royalty, glory, serenity and tranquility. The intriguing details of these spaces were meant to induce positive feelings and emotions and are considered architectural masterpieces to this day, as they continue to fascinate humans around the world. In the other hand, many studies showed the positive effect of nature (therapeutic horticulture) and exposure to the outdoors; towards distraction from stress and anxiety levels of patients in a Health care setup. Recent studies analyzed how Architecture and interior design (safety and security, noise and external stressors, space and interior layout, nature, lighting and atmosphere, art, community, etc…) are important not only for the well-being of patients in health care centers, but also for humans in general in their living environments.ConclusionsMental health is impacted by different aspects of architecture and design. Incorporating elements such as natural lighting, open floor plans, private and open community spaces, artwork, safety procedures, and nature/views of nature, provides a supportive environment for the mental well-being and the treatment of mental disorders.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared

California Burning: Architecture's Pyrocene Future

AbstractAs our planet gets hotter, California suffers the devastating effects of increasingly large annual wildfires. However, in honouring the wisdom of the trees, Berkeley architecture professor and writer Jill Stoner describes how, contrary to popular belief, such pyrotechnic events have many advantages for ecological diversity.

The Effect of Supportive Care Environment on the Treatment Process in Hospitals: A Qualitative Study

Objectives: According to the available evidence, changes in the design of medical centers, which can create a more comfortable, pleasant, and natural environment, have reduced the patient tensions and increased their satisfaction with the quality of treatment in the given centers. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of the architecture and design of a supportive care environment on the treatment process in hospitals adopting a qualitative study design. Materials and Methods: This qualitative study with a phenomenological approach was conducted to investigate the effect of an optimal supportive care environment in hospitals based on the experiences and opinions of experts, university professors of architecture, and doctors in hospitals. To this end, experts were interviewed qualitatively and, then, eight main themes as well as 22 sub-themes were classified by performing content analysis. Furthermore, the effect of the environment on the patients, treatment control length, blood pressure control, and subjective nature of the disease’s impact, as well as the effect of social relations on the vital signs, comprehensiveness and acceptability, place of using the supportive care model and a completely mechanical attitude towards humans in the modern period were all evaluated. Results: The effect of the optimal supportive care environment on the patients’ treatment processes was confirmed by qualitatively reviewing the experts’ viewpoints and collecting comprehensive information from other sources. Conclusions: In sum, it was recommended that that the heads of the hospitals should consider the concepts of optimal supportive care environment when designing and/or reconstructing hospitals.

Pertopia: Speculative Thinking in a Short‐Term World

AbstractIn the face of climate change and human equity, architects are still presenting pristine images of perfect urban plans stuck in the aspic of a bygone age that has precipitated the difficult global condition we find ourselves in. Here Justyna Karakiewicz – Professor of Architecture and Urban Design in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne – describes some of the conceptual and practical notions explored at her home university to ameliorate this.

A Black Carpet of Bitumen

January 01 2023 A Black Carpet of Bitumen Ateya Khorakiwala Ateya Khorakiwala Ateya Khorakiwala is an architectural historian and an Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. She researches India in the developmental decades, focusing on the aesthetics and materiality of its postcolonial infrastructure and ecological landscapes. Khorakiwala is coeditor of the recent publication Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South (Routledge, 2022). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Ateya Khorakiwala Ateya Khorakiwala is an architectural historian and an Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. She researches India in the developmental decades, focusing on the aesthetics and materiality of its postcolonial infrastructure and ecological landscapes. Khorakiwala is coeditor of the recent publication Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South (Routledge, 2022). Online ISSN: 1536-0105 Print ISSN: 1526-3819 © 2023 Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2023Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Grey Room (2023) (90): 68–93. https://doi.org/10.1162/grey_a_00359 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Ateya Khorakiwala; A Black Carpet of Bitumen. Grey Room 2023; (90): 68–93. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/grey_a_00359 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsGrey Room Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 2023 Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2023Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

African Studies Keyword:Okà

AbstractIn the pursuit of modernization, professors of architecture have adopted methods of teaching and professional practices which colonize building epistemes as exclusively European intellectual property, derived from scientific techniques. Students of architecture in the African academy are aware of this colonial bias, which encourages them to unlearn and to forget their African built environment heritage, and they are calling for inclusive reformed curriculums. Usingokà, an Èkpèyè multidimensional, organic, aesthetic, discursive approach to celebrations and to solving complex problems as an example, Elleh advocates for integrated curriculums that approach the discipline without the ordering/othering distinctions between indigenous and modern built environment knowledge.

A Band of Colours: Spectral Assemblies

AbstractSince scanners became a common tool in architecture schools around ten years ago, the tendency has been to record what is there in the built environment in an attempt to discover the interrelationships between spaces obscured by the materiality of building. However, architects are now starting to speculate using these new technologies. Founding member of architecture firms Brrum and servo stockholm, and Professor of Architecture at the KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm, Ulrika Karlsson investigates this through the work conducted by Michael Young, co‐founder of New York‐based practice Young & Ayata.

Shallow to Deep: Drawing as Close Encounter

AbstractTaking inspiration from a Frank Gehry sketch, Belgian architect Riet Eeckhout, through her process of ‘drawing out’, has produced a series of abstract works of considerable scale. Michael McGarry, Professor of Architecture at Queen's University Belfast, links her practice to the psycho‐geography of the Belgian landscape and the internal geometries of her house and street in Flanders.

Constructing Indeterminacy: A Détournement of Didactic Models

AbstractDrawing happens across space and time, and is action orientated by pen/pencil, inkjet or paint. The substrate that is drawn/marked on is also important, whether mylar, paper or sculptural instruments. Penelope Haralambidou explores her fellow Bartlett School of Architecture professor and office room‐mate Nat Chard's Instrument 10, part of a longstanding iterative drawing and representation project.

Making Rainbows: Landscapes for Negotiation

AbstractIn recent years, Bartlett School of Architecture Professor CJ Lim has become interested in eco‐cities and social equity. His contemporary work, however, is not imbued with the lack of style and abundant hubris so often seen when architects attempt to tackle these bigger issues. His drawings still have the graphic vitality for which he has become internationally known. Johannesburg‐based Sarah de Villiers peruses and comments on his speculation for a ‘Rainbow Community’.

A Moving Grove: Our Climate Future and Its Branching Possibilities

AbstractMIT Professor and Head of Architecture there, Nicholas de Monchaux explores the recent forays of Bartlett School of Architecture professors Mark Smout and Laura Allen into forestry, regreening and ecology, for example their ‘Rescue Lines’ drawing/table project, conceived in conjunction with LA‐based critic Geoff Manaugh and presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021. De Monchaux's wide‐ranging exposition offers further thoughts on the nature of drawing relative to Smout Allen's work, with reference to the underwater forest made by the timber piles below Venice.

Творческая деятельность гражданского инженера Максимилиана Арнольда в Чите

Рассматриваются ранее неизвестные историко-архитектурной науке страницы творческой биографии русского архитектора, гражданского инженера, техника-строителя профессора архитектуры М. Ю. Арнольда. Приводятся краткие исторические сведения об основных этапах и результатах его профессиональной и научно-педагогической деятельности в центральной части страны. На основе архивных данных и материалов натурных обследований, полученных автором в 2021 году в ходе научной экспедиции по городам Дальнего Востока, Забайкалья и Якутии, представлена полная картина деятельности М. Ю. Арнольда в Чите в конце XIX века.

The built heritage as a resource for architectural education: documentation of the vernacular settlements and architecture in Oman

PurposeThrough a project of cooperation between the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism (MHT) and Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), a team including faculty members, technicians and students from the SQU department of civil and architectural engineering (CAE), was involved in the project of documentation, survey and the development of management plans of four (4) Omani Vernacular settlements (Harat). Such an experience was meant to initiate students from different levels in undergraduate programs of civil and architectural engineering to the fieldwork and professional practice in the field of built heritage studies. The present research aims to explore the effect of such an experience on the learning process and skills acquired by the involved students.Design/methodology/approachThe research was undertaken with students of CAE undergraduate programs at SQU. The documentation method has been implemented in 4 different settlements with the same students. A questionnaire has been administered to the participating students after their graduation to collect their feedback regarding the benefits of this experience on their education and skills development. The data was complemented by active observation and semi-directive interviews with some students randomly selected among the respondents to the questionnaire.FindingsThe outcome of each documentation campaign as well as the results of the questionnaires administered revealed that this experience has raised students' awareness about the importance of studying the built heritage and safeguarding it. The research has shown that important soft skills, such as team-working, leadership and communication, have been consolidated. It has also revealed that this experience was an opportunity for students to discover the variety of options within the profession of architecture and its intellectual and ethical responsibilities. Such aspects are hardly grasped when taught within a “classical” teaching/learning setting.Research limitations/implicationsThe main limitations of this research were the hard working conditions during the summer in Oman and the direct interaction of the students with the buildings. Even cautious, such interaction represents a risk for an already fragile heritage.Practical implicationsThe paper includes a detailed description of the architectural documentation tools and methods used in the case studies. These tools and methods can easily be applicable, with slight adaptations, in other architectural documentation projects involving undergraduate students. The documentation methodology and the generated corpus of 3D digital models can be used in other documentation projects and further studies such as architectural typologies, bioclimatic properties, natural ventilation patterns, daylight performance, etc.Originality/valueThis paper reports on the outcomes of the first experience of its kind in Oman and the Gulf region, where undergraduate students (predominantly females) were involved in an interdisciplinary project for the documentation of important vernacular settlements and their buildings. The added value of this research is that its methodology can be a reference for professors of Architecture and related specialties aiming to integrate research and field work with education.

Painterly, Misfit and Redundant: Challenging Precision and Optimisation with Scavenging

AbstractFaysal Tabbarah is Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Architecture at the American University of Sharjah and co‐founder of design studio Architecture + Other Things (A+OT). Here he explores alternative forms through the painterly, the natural environment and the architectonic with the aim of developing new and original ways of constructing material that can be used for building.

Rebellious Architecture: Bayou Reconstructed

AbstractThrough redefined notions of collaboration, V Mitch McEwen and Kristina Kay Robinson intertwined their respective critical and creative works into the project R:R, exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in 2021. McEwen, an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, and Robinson, a New Orleans‐based writer, artist and curator, question given truths in the architectural, the cultural and the systemic, while envisioning alternative conditions of Black life in America.

A. Poleshchuk: Creative Biography of the Russian-Estonian Architect and a Retrospective Direction in Russian Church Architecture of the Early 20th Century

This article is devoted to the creative biography of the largest Russian-Estonian architect at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries A. Poleshchuk and retrospectivism in Russian church architecture at the beginning of the twentieth century, which was his main creative method. The works and biography of the great master are still poorly studied, scientific publications are practically not devoted to him. At the same time, being a pupil of the St Petersburg Academy of Arts, the architect was awarded the title of architecture academic, the position of professor, proved himself in the capital as the author of such monumental structures as the Geological Committee and the Church of St Isidor with the house of the St Petersburg Orthodox Estonian brotherhood. He owns the project of the most monumental Orthodox church in the Baltics of the twentieth century — the Assumption Cathedral of the Pyukhtitsa Monastery, where he worked from his student years under the guidance of his teacher prof. M. Preobrazhensky. A native of Estonia and an Estonian himself on the maternal side, the architect made an invaluable contribution to the formation of a professional architectural school in the country. He was the chairman of the Estland Engineering Society and the Estland Technical Society in Petrograd, then was actively involved in teaching in Tallinn as professor of architecture at Tallinn Polytechnic College and chief architect and educational adviser to the Construction Board. A. Poleshchuk is known as an architectural theorist, a specialist in the theory of vaults, the author of the fundamental courses “Lectures on the art of building” in 10 volumes, and a two-volume guide to bridge construction. The article examines in detail the main milestones in the creative path of A. Poleshchuk in the context of the history of architecture at the beginning of the 20th century, mainly, church retrospectivism. The features of his work, diverse in typology and stylistics (Russian style, neoclassicism, neo-Renaissance, neo-baroque), are analyzed. In conclusion, a stylistic classification of the retrospective directions of church architecture of the late 19th — early 20th centuries with examples of relevant monuments is proposed. The article is based both on little-known published materials and, mainly, on newly discovered archival documents from the depositories of St Petersburg, Tartu, Tallinn.

Thresholds Revisited: Building Dwelling Not Thinking

April 01 2022 Thresholds Revisited: Building Dwelling Not Thinking Lucia Allais Lucia Allais Lucia Allais is Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University GSAPP, an editor of Grey Room, a member of Aggregate, and director of the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. Her first book was Designs of Destruction (Chicago: 2018); most recently, she co-authored, with Forrest Meggers, “Concrete Is One Hundred Years Old: The Carbonation Equation and Narratives of Anthropogenic Change” in Writing Architectural History (Pittsburgh: 2021). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Lucia Allais Lucia Allais is Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University GSAPP, an editor of Grey Room, a member of Aggregate, and director of the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. Her first book was Designs of Destruction (Chicago: 2018); most recently, she co-authored, with Forrest Meggers, “Concrete Is One Hundred Years Old: The Carbonation Equation and Narratives of Anthropogenic Change” in Writing Architectural History (Pittsburgh: 2021). Online Issn: 2572-7338 Print Issn: 1091-711X © 2022 Lucia Allais2022Lucia Allais Thresholds (2022) (50): 161–170. https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00745 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share MailTo Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Lucia Allais; Thresholds Revisited: Building Dwelling Not Thinking. Thresholds 2022; (50): 161–170. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00745 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsThresholds Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 2022 Lucia Allais2022Lucia Allais Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.