Indice

 

4 – COLOPHON

6 – ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

8 – INTRODUCTION  Reto Geiser

12 – PERFORMATIVE MODERNITIES: REM KOOLHAAS’S DELIRIOUS NEW YORK AS INDUCTIVE RESEARCH  Deane Simpson

14 – STOP MAKING SENSE  Angelus Eisinger

26 – ALTERNATIVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS IN ARCHITECTURE: THE INSTITUTE FOR ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN STUDIES  Kim Förster

29 – Research Environments*

 

A – METHODOLOGY

34 – A DISCOURS ON METHOD (For the Proper Conduct of Reason and the Search for Efficacity in Design)  Sanford Kwinter

48 – THE INVENTION OF THE URBAN RESEARCH STUDIO: ROBERT VENTURI, DENISE SCOTT BROWN AND STEVEN IZENOUR’S LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS, 1972  Martino Stierli

50 – FROM CITY TO DETAIL: THE SPHERE OF THE ARCHITECT Harry Gugger, Carolin Stapenhorst

54 – LAPA Laboratoire de la production d’architecture [EPFL]

73 – Research Environments*

 

B – NETWORKS

78 – CRITICAL PRACTICE BETWEEN SCIENE AND ART: LUCIUS BURCKHARDT AND THE EMERGENCE OF PLANNING THEORY  Martin Josephy

80 – “GIVE ME A GUN AND I WILL MAKE ALL BUILDINGS MOVE”: AN ANT’S VIEW OF ARCHITECTURE  Bruno Latour, Albena Yaneva

90 – THE ORACLE OF ATHENS: CONSTANTINOS DOXIADIS AND THE STUDY OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS Jeannie Kim

92 – URBAN TRANSFORMATION IN DEVELOPING TERITORIES  Marc Angélil

94 – ADDIS THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS  Marc Angélil, Cary Siress

98 – MAS UD Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design [ETHZ]

114 – A WEB OF RESEARCH ON SOCIO-PLASTICS: TEAM 10 AND THE CRITICAL FRAMING OF EVERYDAY URBAN ENVIRONMENTS  Tom Avermaete

117 – Research Environments*

 

 

 

C – DIDACTICS

122 – NOTES ON THE ANALYSIS OF FORM: CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER AND THE LANGUAGE OF PATTERNS  Andri Gerber

124 – UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN: THE SYNTHETIC APPROACH TO INTELLIGENCE  Daniel Bisig, Rolf Pfeifer

134 – THE CITY AS ARCHITECTURE: ALDO ROSSI ’S DIDACTIC LEGACY  Filip Geerts

136 – EXPLORING UNCOMMON TERRITORIES: A SYNTHETIC APPROACH TO TEACHING ARCHITECTURE   Dieter Dietz

141 – ALICE Atelier de la conception de l’espace [EPFL]

158 – STRUCTURE AND CONTENT FOR THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT: HOCHSCHULE FÜR GESTALTUNG ULM, 1953–1968  Tilo Richter

161 – Research Environments*

 

D – TECHNOLOGY

166 – ARCHITECTURE AS MEMBRANE  Georges Teyssot

176 – WORLD GAME NEW YORK 1969: BUCKMINSTER FULLER’S GLOBAL SWITCHBOARD  Mark Wasiuta

178 – DIGITAL MATERI ALITY IN ARCHITECTURE: BRIDGING THE REALMS OF THE VIRTUAL AND THE PHYSICAL  Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler

182 – DFAB Architecture and Digital Fabrication [ETHZ]

200 – R AND D: THE EAMES OFFICE AT WORK   John Harwood

202 – Credits

204 – Index of Contributors

206 – Image Credits

207 – Patrons and Sponsors

208 – EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP OF MODERNITY: REFORMIST DESIGN EDUCATION FROM VAN DE VELDE TO BAUHAUS  Ole W. Fischer

210 – STRUCTURAL OSCILLATIONS, Installation for the 11th Venice Architectural Biennale, Swiss Pavillon 2008

 

* Research Environments at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne and Zurich, photos by Maris Mezulis