Research and education are the cornerstones for building effective heritage policies and the impl... more Research and education are the cornerstones for building effective heritage policies and the implementation of those policies are then critical to overall progress. Our main aim is to recover the traditional «architectural» language by integrating it within the framework of contemporary education. The architect's role encompasses appreciating the past, understanding the present, and anticipating and preparing for the future.
Kengo Kuma (born 1954 in Kanagawa, Japan) is a Japanese architect and professor at the University... more Kengo Kuma (born 1954 in Kanagawa, Japan) is a Japanese architect and professor at the University of Tokyo. Realized a large number of urbarchitectonic structures worldwide, especially in the second decade of this century, emphasizing use of wooden materials in the facades. The examples of buildings in this paper demonstrate an extraordinary lucidity and opting of the designer for continuous use of the natural, environment-friendly material whose texture of wooden elements provides effective esthetic-composition and artisanal-artistic, attractive archisculptural results. The pronounced use of many times repeated timber elements created elegant latticework gigantic, harmonic façade network with new hand-made forms, without using bolts, nails or glue to join them. By using the easily available resource - wooden material, the famous architect’s end goal is „effacing” of the already seen architecture, i.e. façade of the new non-standardized and non-stereotypical structures of organicall...
Application of new eco-friendly materials and technologies in construction indicate new tendencie... more Application of new eco-friendly materials and technologies in construction indicate new tendencies in biomorphic creation of physical structures in the cities. In this paper, the author focuses attention on organic-metabolic, continuous visionary development of micro and macro physical spaces or areas in which new cultural forms of life and communication among users are created. Newly built, multi-storey towers having dynamic, non-stereotypic forms were emphasized as they established a very close relationship with the natural resources and materials, and where the designers based their specific design-engineering ideas on the creation of flexible vertical socio-cultural communities. The examples in this paper represent homomorphic concepts of sustainable construction innovated with geometric shapes in which the volume of structural assemblies provide new intelligent standpoint with very prominent vegetation facade membranes-multilayer membrane skins. In addition to the esthetic, the...
Abstracts - ICAR 2012. ICAR 2012 International Conference on Architectural Research: (re)writing ... more Abstracts - ICAR 2012. ICAR 2012 International Conference on Architectural Research: (re)writing history. Book · May 2012 Edition: 1, Publisher: Editura Universitară „Ion Mincu” Bucureşti, Beatrice-Gabriela Jöger, Andra Panait, Editor: UAUIM, Beatrice-Gabriela Jöger, Andra Panait, Marina Mihaila, Daniel Comşa, ISBN: 978-606-638-022-5 Editura Universitară „Ion Mincu” Bucureşti, Beatrice-Gabriela Jöger, Andra Panait authors: Beatrice-Gabriela Jöger, Andra Panait, Marina Mihaila, Daniel Comşa, Adham Abulnour, Ileana Apostol, Maria Boştenaru Dan, Dragoş Horia Buhociu, João Paulo Cardielos, Stefania Chirico, Laura Vivola, Luigi Chirone, Cristina Constantinescu, Mihaela Hărmănescu, Ilinca Constantinescu, Cerasella Craciun, Cristina Enache, Giuseppe Gangemi, Cristina Olga Gociman, Sever Georgescu, Tiberiu Florescu, Artan Hysa, Bob Jarvis, Valbona Koçi, Andrei Eugen Lakatos, Vera Marin, Ana Opriş, Gabriel Pascariu, Simona Pascariu, Alexandru-Ionut Petrişor, Andreea Popa, Alexandru Calcating...
Journal of Cultural and Religious Studies, Nov 28, 2017
In this paper, the author focuses on the ecourbarchitectonic physical structures created after ye... more In this paper, the author focuses on the ecourbarchitectonic physical structures created after year 2000, whose artistic-esthetic value has an iconological character. An entirely new approach in formation of the facade and roof planes as well as of the forms of structures whose appearance resemble sculptural creations has been analyzed. The buildings from all over the world, with different functions contents, indicate a tendency of a different understanding of interpretation of physical structures and correlation with natural and artifact environment. Water surfaces and vegetative material contribute to an effective, cultural, majestic impression of engineering-technological philosophy of city building. The examples in the paper suggest the obvious need of radical changing of the way of thinking in the application of the design strategy in conceptualization of urban agglomerations, and essentially important, conceptually inspired metabolic of relationships among the spatial structures. The world entered new non-globalization trends of creation of the city memory, of the new iconically, symbolically strong, non-cliché, non-standard forms which define the contemporary cultural-artistic and historical identity of macro-ambient entities. This is a good and encouraging sign.
Facta universitatis - series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2008
The crisis in ecorurbarchitecture of modern times is reflected in the large number of superficial... more The crisis in ecorurbarchitecture of modern times is reflected in the large number of superficially conceived villages and towns, houses, streets and plazas, lacking the artistic contents, as well as the coloration synchronized with the natural structures in the environment. Creators of the architecture failed to see the color as the fourth dimension, even though it was at hand. The failed to understand its role as a primarily multidisciplinary issue of awareness, culture, tradition, human customs, their ethnic and historical understanding of the artifact-nature relation, and its role as a corrective procedure to improve the living conditions in the habitations and its role in unifying of ecorurbarchitectonic values in the vision of art. The creators also failed to convince the future users to comprehend that village and city, different as they are, have noticeably drawn closer in terms of art. The aim of this paper is to pose the crucial questions concerning the new ecorurbarchitectonic coloration, which may improve the state of physical structures in space.
Facta universitatis - series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2009
... University of Nis, The Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Serbia E-mail:nikola.ce... more ... University of Nis, The Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Serbia E-mail:[email protected] ... it for their own purposes in a most selfish manner, launching terrible lies, which were "accepted" by the people: "speculators, professional petty politicians, opposition ...
Facta universitatis - series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2006
This paper points out an extremely delicate urbarchitectonic-environemental drama, with innumerab... more This paper points out an extremely delicate urbarchitectonic-environemental drama, with innumerable global complex situations. There seems to be little hope for imporvement in the actual livng environemnt where the condition, in the developmental sense of the term, grows less and less sustainable. Very frequent conferences organized at all quarters of the world, with important declarations and recommendation do not manage to curb the increasingly evident crisis. The author points out to the need to create new action conditions in the Balkans and argues for the creation of a singular, coordinated, environemental Atlas of the Balkans, an important document, with bases of key data, so that a better quality of life in micro and macro ambience units could be achieved. Therefore, striving for a different, new reality which will not be based on the declarative principles, but on the scientific research and academic education.
Research and education are the cornerstones for building effective heritage policies and the impl... more Research and education are the cornerstones for building effective heritage policies and the implementation of those policies are then critical to overall progress. Our main aim is to recover the traditional «architectural» language by integrating it within the framework of contemporary education. The architect's role encompasses appreciating the past, understanding the present, and anticipating and preparing for the future.
Kengo Kuma (born 1954 in Kanagawa, Japan) is a Japanese architect and professor at the University... more Kengo Kuma (born 1954 in Kanagawa, Japan) is a Japanese architect and professor at the University of Tokyo. Realized a large number of urbarchitectonic structures worldwide, especially in the second decade of this century, emphasizing use of wooden materials in the facades. The examples of buildings in this paper demonstrate an extraordinary lucidity and opting of the designer for continuous use of the natural, environment-friendly material whose texture of wooden elements provides effective esthetic-composition and artisanal-artistic, attractive archisculptural results. The pronounced use of many times repeated timber elements created elegant latticework gigantic, harmonic façade network with new hand-made forms, without using bolts, nails or glue to join them. By using the easily available resource - wooden material, the famous architect’s end goal is „effacing” of the already seen architecture, i.e. façade of the new non-standardized and non-stereotypical structures of organicall...
Application of new eco-friendly materials and technologies in construction indicate new tendencie... more Application of new eco-friendly materials and technologies in construction indicate new tendencies in biomorphic creation of physical structures in the cities. In this paper, the author focuses attention on organic-metabolic, continuous visionary development of micro and macro physical spaces or areas in which new cultural forms of life and communication among users are created. Newly built, multi-storey towers having dynamic, non-stereotypic forms were emphasized as they established a very close relationship with the natural resources and materials, and where the designers based their specific design-engineering ideas on the creation of flexible vertical socio-cultural communities. The examples in this paper represent homomorphic concepts of sustainable construction innovated with geometric shapes in which the volume of structural assemblies provide new intelligent standpoint with very prominent vegetation facade membranes-multilayer membrane skins. In addition to the esthetic, the...
Abstracts - ICAR 2012. ICAR 2012 International Conference on Architectural Research: (re)writing ... more Abstracts - ICAR 2012. ICAR 2012 International Conference on Architectural Research: (re)writing history. Book · May 2012 Edition: 1, Publisher: Editura Universitară „Ion Mincu” Bucureşti, Beatrice-Gabriela Jöger, Andra Panait, Editor: UAUIM, Beatrice-Gabriela Jöger, Andra Panait, Marina Mihaila, Daniel Comşa, ISBN: 978-606-638-022-5 Editura Universitară „Ion Mincu” Bucureşti, Beatrice-Gabriela Jöger, Andra Panait authors: Beatrice-Gabriela Jöger, Andra Panait, Marina Mihaila, Daniel Comşa, Adham Abulnour, Ileana Apostol, Maria Boştenaru Dan, Dragoş Horia Buhociu, João Paulo Cardielos, Stefania Chirico, Laura Vivola, Luigi Chirone, Cristina Constantinescu, Mihaela Hărmănescu, Ilinca Constantinescu, Cerasella Craciun, Cristina Enache, Giuseppe Gangemi, Cristina Olga Gociman, Sever Georgescu, Tiberiu Florescu, Artan Hysa, Bob Jarvis, Valbona Koçi, Andrei Eugen Lakatos, Vera Marin, Ana Opriş, Gabriel Pascariu, Simona Pascariu, Alexandru-Ionut Petrişor, Andreea Popa, Alexandru Calcating...
Journal of Cultural and Religious Studies, Nov 28, 2017
In this paper, the author focuses on the ecourbarchitectonic physical structures created after ye... more In this paper, the author focuses on the ecourbarchitectonic physical structures created after year 2000, whose artistic-esthetic value has an iconological character. An entirely new approach in formation of the facade and roof planes as well as of the forms of structures whose appearance resemble sculptural creations has been analyzed. The buildings from all over the world, with different functions contents, indicate a tendency of a different understanding of interpretation of physical structures and correlation with natural and artifact environment. Water surfaces and vegetative material contribute to an effective, cultural, majestic impression of engineering-technological philosophy of city building. The examples in the paper suggest the obvious need of radical changing of the way of thinking in the application of the design strategy in conceptualization of urban agglomerations, and essentially important, conceptually inspired metabolic of relationships among the spatial structures. The world entered new non-globalization trends of creation of the city memory, of the new iconically, symbolically strong, non-cliché, non-standard forms which define the contemporary cultural-artistic and historical identity of macro-ambient entities. This is a good and encouraging sign.
Facta universitatis - series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2008
The crisis in ecorurbarchitecture of modern times is reflected in the large number of superficial... more The crisis in ecorurbarchitecture of modern times is reflected in the large number of superficially conceived villages and towns, houses, streets and plazas, lacking the artistic contents, as well as the coloration synchronized with the natural structures in the environment. Creators of the architecture failed to see the color as the fourth dimension, even though it was at hand. The failed to understand its role as a primarily multidisciplinary issue of awareness, culture, tradition, human customs, their ethnic and historical understanding of the artifact-nature relation, and its role as a corrective procedure to improve the living conditions in the habitations and its role in unifying of ecorurbarchitectonic values in the vision of art. The creators also failed to convince the future users to comprehend that village and city, different as they are, have noticeably drawn closer in terms of art. The aim of this paper is to pose the crucial questions concerning the new ecorurbarchitectonic coloration, which may improve the state of physical structures in space.
Facta universitatis - series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2009
... University of Nis, The Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Serbia E-mail:nikola.ce... more ... University of Nis, The Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Serbia E-mail:[email protected] ... it for their own purposes in a most selfish manner, launching terrible lies, which were "accepted" by the people: "speculators, professional petty politicians, opposition ...
Facta universitatis - series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2006
This paper points out an extremely delicate urbarchitectonic-environemental drama, with innumerab... more This paper points out an extremely delicate urbarchitectonic-environemental drama, with innumerable global complex situations. There seems to be little hope for imporvement in the actual livng environemnt where the condition, in the developmental sense of the term, grows less and less sustainable. Very frequent conferences organized at all quarters of the world, with important declarations and recommendation do not manage to curb the increasingly evident crisis. The author points out to the need to create new action conditions in the Balkans and argues for the creation of a singular, coordinated, environemental Atlas of the Balkans, an important document, with bases of key data, so that a better quality of life in micro and macro ambience units could be achieved. Therefore, striving for a different, new reality which will not be based on the declarative principles, but on the scientific research and academic education.
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