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The head or the Termination of the building is the most important element of the architecture.of an iconic building.The video shows a very interesting comparison between two generations of architecture hundred years apart. The copper dome of courthouse vs the titanium copula of the museum.

Please join me on November 9th at 6pm at the New York Institute of Technology Manhattan Campus for the symposium "Post-Anthropocentric Architectural Futures". Architectural historian and theorist Catherine Ingraham, architect and scholar Lydia Kallipoliti, posthuman philosopher Francesca Ferrando and I will discuss the future or architectural theory and practice. In specific, the symposium will raise these crucial questions: How is the Anthropocene shaping the architectural debate? How we will approach the challenges brought by this new era for a sustainable, decarbonized, localized, and circular economy? What are the alliances that can be potentially established between humans and non-humans? Link to register to the event: https://lnkd.in/geCQT8EV

Part II | The Possibilities of Historical Reinterpretation The remaining historic architectural entities are commonly serving as tangible material remnants and archival records, reflecting and documenting the past, while the disciplinary background they entail, as well as the schools and trends of thought they had followed or derived, also comprehensively and profoundly, whether actively or passively, transmitting the intangible changes of the times, social transformations, and cultural evolution. Spatial Metaphor as Methodology Kui Yuan Gallery @kuiyuangallery, Guangzhou, China 10 Jun - 9 JUL 2023 #JXYStudio #culture #art #architecture #exhibition https://lnkd.in/gd9t85rk

When I saw this "#the_uncomfortable_art", what struck my mind was... ለካስ.. a small change in a design can change the function of that device/thing completely! Learn to value the small details!!! Just because they make it look simple, doesn't mean it has less function!!! you know the value is in the detail, when you no longer find it the same way you have taken it for granted for so long. My favorite "Uncomfortable Arts" were 1. "the key with a flat head", 2." the watering can with wrongly curved spout & sprinkler" & 3. "the fork with a flopy chain handle"

V&A's exhibition examines the colonial origins of "Tropical Modernism" in British West Africa, and the survival of the style in the post-colonial period when it symbolized the independence and progressiveness of newly independent countries like Ghana and India. Exhibition curators sought to contextualize the history of Tropical Modernism by also looking at the architecture against the regional anti-colonial struggle of the time. This film clip traces the style's colonialist beginnings to its adoption by Kwame Nkrumah, the first Prime Minister of newly-independent Ghana, to become a symbol of freedom, modernity and progressiveness. The full 30-minute film is on view at "Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence" at the V&A in London through September 2024.

My #ratiodujour (something which is abstracted from, and follows upon, a given picture) is the defining architectural principle from which the whole of the utopian Nova Cantabrigiensis Gesamtkunstwerk proceeds. #architecturalprinciple #utopia

Major milestone in my PhD: developing and designing a monograph of Alberto Cruz's work, funded by Câmara Municipal de Cascais, and to be published next month. This research aims to inscribe Alberto Cruz in the historiography of modern Portuguese architecture through the identification of points of reception and cleavage, associated with the tradition and modernity's debate overall. By characterizing this architect's journey through forty years (1945-1987), we believe is possible to argue about his ability to dialogue the modern process with a spirit of tradition, corresponding, like himself, to the floating notion of the project of modernity in Portuguese architecture.

This summer I rounded out my research on the perception of the elements with this essay presented at the annual Canadian Society of Patristic Studies conference at the University of Toronto. Everyone there was very kind and welcoming. The paper explores how modern modes of perception can be transformed through an understanding of the four elements - a widespread way of seeing the world in the ancient epoch. To do this, I looked at the work of St-Maximus the Confessor and ancient Roman architect Vitruvius. The goal of this research has been to shed light on the patterns of vision that allow art and architecture to open our receptivity to the transcendant in the world.