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Contours of an urban architectural anthropology : built environment, climate control and socio‐material practices in winter in Chongqing (south‐west China)

Kobi, Madlen

In: Social anthropology/Anthropologie sociale, 2019, vol. 27, no. 4, p. 17 p

The materiality of and daily life in urban high‐rise buildings has barely been researched, especially when compared to the rich anthropological and architectural studies that exist on rural architecture. This article engages with indoor climate control in an urbanising environment. It considers urban architecture as a social field characterised by the interaction of diverse actors such as...

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Warm bodies in the Chinese borderlands : architecture, thermal infrastructure, and territorialization in the arid continental climate of Ürümchi, Xinjiang

Kobi, Madlen

In: Eurasian geography and economics, 2020, vol. 61, no. 1, p. 77-99

Architectural research often considers buildings and settlement practices as local material adaptations to climate, particularly when it comes to the analysis of architecture in rural and small-scale settlements. Based on ethnographic data from the rapidly urbanizing oasis metropolis Ürümchi in China’s northwestern borderlands, this paper goes beyond such a localized view of climate ...

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Form-finding, form-shaping, designing architecture : experimental, aesthetical, and ethical approaches to form in recent and postwar architecture = approcci sperimentali, estetici ed etici alla forma in architettura, dal dopoguerra ad oggi : [SNSF-International Exploratory Workshop, Mendrisio, 10-11 ottobre 2013]

Hildebrand, Sonja ; Bergmann, Elisabeth

Mendrisio : Mendrisio Academy Press, 2015

(ISA, Istituto di storia e teoria dell'arte e dell'architettura)

ISBN: 978-88-3663-265-7

During the last twenty years, the topic of form has become one of the most controversial issues in public and professional discussions about architecture. Ever since the Digital Turn, it has been exacerbated, since computer-aided design makes it possible, rapidly and effortlessly, to create extraordinary and emblematic buildings. These icons are threatening to become banal and often express...

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Within the technical image : an alternative reading of contemporary Swiss-German architecture

Grignolo, Roberta

In: Form-finding, form-shaping, designing architecture : experimental, aesthetical, and ethical approaches to form in recent and postwar architecture = approcci sperimentali, estetici ed etici alla forma in architettura, dal dopoguerra ad oggi, 2015, p. 145-157

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Towards an expanded concept of form : Gottfried Semper on ancient projectiles

Hildebrand, Sonja

In: Form-finding, form-shaping, designing architecture : experimental, aesthetical, and ethical approaches to form in recent and postwar architecture = approcci sperimentali, estetici ed etici alla forma in architettura, dal dopoguerra ad oggi, 2015, p. 131-143