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- Miranda Carranza, Pablo, 1972-
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Program Matters : From Drawing to Code
- 2017
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Whether on paper, on site or mediating between both, means for reading and writing geometry have been central to architecture: the use of compasses and rulers, strings, pins, stakes or plumb-lines enabled the analysis and reproduction of congruent figures on different surfaces since antiquity, and from the renaissance onwards, the consistent planar representation of three-dimensional shapes by means of projective geometry. Tacitly through practice, or explicitly encoded in classical geometry, the operational syntaxes of drawing instruments, real or imaginary, have determined the geometric literacies regulating the production and instruction of architecture. But making marks on the surfaces of paper, stone or the ground has recently given way to the fundamentally different sequential operations of computers as the material basis of architectural inscription. Practices which have dominated architecture since antiquity make little sense in its current reading and writing systems. This thesis examines technologies of digital inscription in a search for literacies equivalent to those of drawn geometry. It particularly looks at programming as a form of notation in close correspondence with its material basis as a technology, and its effects on architecture. It includes prototypes and experiments, graphics, algorithms and software, together with their descriptions and theoretical analyses. While the artefacts and texts respond to the different forms, styles, interests and objectives specific to the fields and contexts in which they have originated, their fundamental purpose is always to critique and propose ways of writing and reading architecture through programming, the rationale of the research and practice they stem from.
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- Runberger, Jonas, 1969-
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Architectural Prototypes II : Reformations, Speculations and Strategies in the Digital Design Field
- 2012
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This doctoral thesis is situated within the digital design field of architecture, and is a continuation of the licentiate thesis Architectural Prototypes: Modes of Design Development and Architectural Practice, presented at the KTH School of Architecture in 2008. The doctoral thesis investigates the current status of the digital design field of architecture, and identifies a number of related discourses. Within this field, it identifies a period of formation, which in recent years has turned into a process of reformation. It contributes to this ongoing reformation by proposing two alternate areas of future practice and research within the field. A speculative approach is considered to be important for a continued mode of exploration within the field, and is suggested as away to bring new scope to the digital design field. A number of key terms from the field of science fiction studies have been investigated to support the construction of a speculative framework for further development. A strategic approach is regarded as crucial to the way new design potentials that have emerged within the digital design field to be implemented into general architectural practice, and to further inform the field itself. Key concepts have been imported from the field of strategic management in the formulation of a framework for digital design strategies. The notion of the prototype, as explored in the previous licentiate thesis, resurfaces as a prototypical approach, which could be equally employed in the speculative approach and the strategic approach. The doctoral thesis is also situated within the field of research-by-design, in the way architectural design projects have been facilitated as contextualized experiments, selected, documented and aligned in regard to terminology, and analyzed through a series of design project enquiries.
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- Wiklund, Jenny, 1975-
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Journal - rekonstruktion av kropp och minne
- 2017
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Artistic work (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Projektet har utvecklats i interdisciplinärt samarbete mellan Jenny Wiklund och KTH, Akademiska Sjukhuset i Uppsala, Uppsala Universitet, Karolinska Institutet, Kungl. Konsthögskolan, Aarhus Arkitektskole, och curator Jan Åman.Projektet har utvecklats skulpturalt vid Kungl. Konsthögskolan. Förstudier har genomförts vid Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset. I finalstudien kombineras studier vid Uppsala Akademiska Sjukhuset, Bild- och Funktionsmedicinskt centrum/Röntgen i tredimensionell visualisering av medicinsk bild med studier i klinisk anatomi vid Uppsala Universitet, för att förenas i skulptural gestaltning och iscensättning.R1 Reaktorhallen iscensätts som ett platsspecifikt monumentalverk. Den fysiska installationen i rummet bildar en temporal kappa om utställningskapitlen i avhandlingsutställningen som handlar om kropp och hjärna. Utställningen berättar om en specifik tidpunkt, utan minne och proprioception. Här finns ingen historia och ingen framtid.Genom utställningen skapas en förståelse för sambanden mellan teoretiskt tänkande och visuell gestaltning. Det är forskning genom konstnärlig och arkitektonisk precision med referenser till konst, arkitektur, medicin och medicinsk teknik. Referenserna är från verkliga objekt i verkliga rum, specifika verk från specifika konstnärer och genom auskultering vid flertalet expertpresentationer, där människor genom närvaro förmedlat sin kunskap.Arkitektur är spatial konstruktion av identitet, här i utställningsform som temporal visuell spatial-estetisk poetik. Formen på framläggningen av avhandlingen är vald efter det huvudsakliga ämnet som utreds, minnet, och dess temporala omskapande av rummet vid varje specifik tidpunkt det framkallas. Det visuella intrycket kommer före alla andra beskrivningar, i logik med den händelse som föregick doktorandprojektets ämne, en minnesförlust, där upplevelsen av rummet kom före språket, kroppen före hjärnan, intränade minnen i form av siffror före en självbiografi.
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- Bonnevier, Katarina, 1970-
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Behind Straight Curtains : Towards a queer feminist theory of architecture
- 2007
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis presents theatrical queer feminist interpretations of architecture staged within a series of architectural scenes: architect Eileen Gray’s building E.1027 in the south of France (1926-29); author Natalie Barney’s literary salon at 20 rue Jacob, Paris (1909-1968); and author Selma Lagerlöf’s former home and memorial estate Mårbacka, situated in mid-west Sweden and transformed between 1919 and 1923. Interpreted as queer performative acts, or enactments of architecture, these cases bring into play the interconnectedness of material container, the setting, the deeds and the actors. A broad aim of the thesis is to explore the role played by architecture in the social and cultural constructions of bodies, in particular in relation to gender and sexuality. Architecture is investigated as one of the subjectivating norms that constitute gender performativity. The thesis is thus not only about but also operates through enactment. It masquerades as a series of lectures written in the form of scripted drama. The aim of this formal experiment is not only to explicate and critique from a detached perspective but also to represent architecture in the process of being enacted. Architecture is investigated not only as a theoretical metaphor but also as a concrete material practice always entangled with subject positions. With this exploration into the queerness and the theatricality of architecture, Behind Straight Curtains seeks to affect both the analysis and enactment of architecture and contribute to an architectural shift towards a built environment that does not simply repeat repressive structures but attempts to resist discrimination and dismantle hierarchies.
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- Ekelund, Björn
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Rumslig legitimitet : när hållbar utveckling medvetandegörs
- 2010
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The political ambition for sustainable development is dependent on new attitudes and behaviors, as well as new physical environments. Sustainable development has, therefore, become increasingly important to analyze and describe within the fields of planning, urban design, and architecture to contribute to a positive attitude and to gain democratic approval throughout society. Sustainable development was explored through three studies of sustainable energy facilities; looking at space, place, and architectural design.In the first study planning and energy systems (production and distribution facilities) was in focus. This study dealt with the current practice of energy decisions based purely on political will in comparison to the effects on physical environment. The study attempts to illustrate how truly sustainable energy systems are dependent upon ties to space and place within the planning process. This was studied empirically on six comprehensive municipal plans. In these examples large infrastructure policies are emphasized over place-based energy planning, leading to non-sustainable growth. A connection between planning and the spatial placement of future facilities seems to be central to sustainable development. The second study dealt with urban design and the specific placement of energy facilities in local communities. This study indicated that facility placement in the public realm affects public attitudes. Spatial analysis was empirically used to study the location, position, and visual presence of distribution and production facilities in three Swedish communities and all three communities had well-integrated and visible energy facilities. According to the space syntax analysis certain facilities had more potential than others to develop into positive sustainable development icons. This finding further emphasizes that the potential to create awareness for sustainable development is place specific. The third study dealt with the architectural design of specific energy facilities. A theoretical review of previous research showed that the perception of sustainable development does not coincide with the individual experience of a specific representation of sustainable energy. The perception of sustainable energy systems was more positive than the reality experienced in the physical environment. This dissonance suggests that architectural design must play an integral role in the development of energy systems in order for them to be truly sustainable. In an empirical study individuals experiences of an architecturally designed power line compared to their previous attitude towards power lines. The results highlighted the potential to reverse negative associations of energy facilities by aesthetic and place-specific architectural design. A positive perception of sustainable development might, therefore, correspond with a compelling experience and not necessarily with long held attitudes.The theoretical and empirical results presented can be described by the term spatial legitimacy. This term explains the ability of the planning, urban design, and architecture fields to rearticulate physical form and function within a specific cultural context, thus allowing actual experience to correspond with held preconceptions. How communities design affects how communities plan and vice versa. Spatial legitimacy underscores the central connection between placement and architectural design in personal experience. The fields of planning, urban design and architecture have the potential and responsibility to further the field of sustainable development by helping us understand that design is as important to individual response and collective perception as is technology.
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- Erixon Aalto, Hanna, 1975-
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Projecting Urban Natures : Investigating integrative approaches to urban development and nature conservation
- 2017
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Projecting Urban Natures is a compilation thesis in critical studies in architecture. It comprises three journal articles and four design proposals in which I have taken an active part. The point of departure for this thesis is the renewed emphasis on social-ecological interaction and resilience that is currently taking place within ecological systems science, and the opportunities that these paradigmatic insights in turn have opened up within urbanism and design. The thesis argues that although they are promising, these emerging integrative frameworks are seldom brought into mainstream planning and urban design practice. Instead, the structuring of “nature” and “city” into a dualistic balance relationship still permeates not only the general planning discourse, but also makes its way into planning documents, notably influencing distinctions between professions. In response, this thesis sets out to rethink and explore more integrated approaches to human/nature relationships, through the utilization of design-based and transdisciplinary research methods. While this core aim of the thesis remains the same throughout the work, the task is approached from different perspectives: through different constellations of collaborative work as well as through parallel case-based explorations that emphasize the relational, anti-essentialist and situated articulation of values of urban natures and how these forces come into play. The work has been propelled through workshop-based, site-specific, and experimental design processes with professionals and researchers from the fields of e.g. systems ecology, natural resource management, political ecology, urban design, architecture, and landscape design, as well as planners, developers, local interest groups, and NGOs. Specifically, projects performed within this thesis include: Nature as an Infrastructural Potential – An Urban Strategy for Järvafältet; Kymlinge UrbanNatur together with NOD, Wingårdhs, MUST and Storylab; Årsta Urban Natures with James Corner Field Operations and Buro Happold; and Albano Resilient Campus — a collaboration between Stockholm Resilience Centre, KTH and KIT.
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- Gabrielsson, Catharina, 1964-
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Att göra skillnad : det offentliga rummet som medium för konst, arkitektur och politiska föreställningar
- 2006
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Transgressing the borders between politics and aesthetics, imaginary and physical forms, this dissertation pursues a broad interdisciplinary exploration of the construction of public space. In order to confront the dual character of public space – a physical realm with unclear borders, as well as an evasive concept, imbued with ideas of freedom, critique and democracy – the dissertation addresses public space as a ”medium”, that is, as a material for aesthetic practice and in terms of communication, as a “projective screen” of society. Using the refurbishment of Stortorget in Kalmar as its generative case, the dissertation examines the conditions for making and thinking such a space, whereby the hidden assumptions of public space are brought to the fore. Due to the hybrid character and complexity of the Stortorget project, carried out as a seamless collaboration between art and architecture, it in addition raises issues that are highly significative for the identity and legitimacy of the respective disciplines. Focussing on the concept of “place”, and tracing its role within art and architecture theory and practice since the paradigmatic shift between late modernity and postmodernity, the dissertation examines the conflictual relationship between art and architecture in order to gain an understanding of them as different, yet intimately connected, ways of producing new forms of reality. The claim made throughout the dissertation is that public space cannot be “reconstructed” on the basis of historical forms and ideals – rather it must be continuously reinvented in accordance with a critical understanding of democracy. Ultimately, the dissertation is an examination of how, and why, public space can be defended as an indispensible form of society and of the complex coalition of its aesthetical and political effects.
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- Hagelqvist, Stina, 1969-
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Arkitekttävlingen som föreställning : Den svenska arkitekttävlingens ideologiska, institutionella och professionella villkor under 1900-talets första hälft
- 2010
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The dissertation explores the Swedish architectural competition as defined in the professional discourse of the architectural corps from the first half of the twentieth century. The purpose is to analyze what norms that defined, regulated and supported the use of the competition and the competition practice from ideological, institutional and professional point of view. In using Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory, the competition is positioned in the interface between organizer and the architectural corps. This illuminates the competition as both object and instrument of the negotiations of a field of architecture. The competition’s position makes clear the need of a common ideological foundation and the necessity of legitimizing not only the competition instrument but also the architectural corps’ definition of how to implement it. In departing from the concept of discourse, defined by Michel Foucault, I identify principal characteristics of the architectural competition and relate it to notions of freedom and vitality that was thought to be present in the competition. By analyzing the corps’s competition discourse the dissertation makes clear both short-term functions of the competition, such as accumulating esteem, and long lasting effects of the corps’ control of the competition activities by means of guidance, the system of sanctioned competitions and control of the architectural press. This competition system regulated the quality of the competition results and utilized the rivalry between architects by channelling it to the formal legitimate competition. The rivalry between architects, formalised in the competition situation, was thought to bring the competition spirit to the fore and was defined both as the necessary prerequisite of architectural progress and as a constituent property of the normative position of the free practitioner, which was reproduced as architects while competing entered the autonomous time space of the competition.
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- Kirkeby, Inge Mette, 1947-
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Skolen finder sted
- 2006
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Målet med forskningsprojektet "Skolen finder sted" er at etablere viden om samspillet mellem pædagogik og arkitektur, mellem børn og rum, og om samspillets beskaffenhed. En sådan viden forventes at kunne medvirke til at kvalificere dialog og beslutningsgrundlag i kommende skolebyggerier samt indgå i arkitektens værktøjskasse, projektets overordnede vinkling er således designteoretisk. Det er en grundlæggende antagelse i projektet, at relationen mellem skolens fysiske ramme og den indhold skal opfattes som et samspil, hvor den "virkning" et givet design har på aktiviteter og adfærd i skolen forudsættes at være modtagerafhængigt. De anvendte metoder er kvalitative, idet undersøgelsen er foretaget som en kombination af etnologisk inspireret feltarbejde, interview, arkitektoniske analyser, herunder udvikling af analysemodel. Teoretisk trækker forskningsarbejdet på teorier fra pædagogik, filosofi, psykologi og designteori.I analysemodellen opdeles samspillet i fem "rum": Det sociale rum, handlingens rum, det adfærdsregulerende rum, det betydningsbærende rum og det stemte rum. Rummene gennemgås enkeltvis med en række refleksioner over samspillets beskaffenhed med brug af andre teoretikere på den ene side og eksempler på bygningsudformning på den anden. Konkrete eksempler. hvor designet gør en forskel for de måder, hvorpå mennesker kan bruge og erfare de fysiske omgivelser. Hvert af de fem afsnit afsluttes med formulering af nogle designgreb, der står arkitektens til rådighed i formgivningsarbejdet.Arkitektens arbejde består i at omsætte en lang række visioner for, hvad der er godt for børns trivsel og udvikling i skolen, i konkrete byggematerialer og fysiske rum. Der er således tale om at omsætte abstrakte forhold i materiel virkelighed. En afsluttende perspektivering tager derfor udgangspunkt i den franske filosof Bruno Latour, fordi han på et filosofisk plan behandler relationer mellem forskelligartede uens forhold.
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