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Urs Meister, Vojko Kilar naslov knjige / title of the book: Building anatomy: rope structures izdajatelj / publisher: UL FA kraj, leto izdaje / place, year of edition: Ljubljana, 2007 obseg / number of pages: 57 strani, fotografije naklada / number of copies printed: 300 izvodov prodaja / sale: Monografija ni v prodaji, izdelana v namene promocije 78 V publikaciji so ilustrirani potek in rezultati Erasmus intenzivnega programa, ki ga je Fakulteta za arhitekturo organizirala v soteski Pršjaka pri Tolminu. Primer študentskega modeliranja v merilu 1:10 in 1:1 združuje izkušnje ljubljanske Univerze, Univerze Liechtensteina iz Vaduza, Tehniške univerze iz Trondheima, Katalonske politehnike iz Barcelone, Univerze Moderna iz Setubala, lokalne skupnosti in regionalnih borcev za spoštljivo ravnanje z naravnim okoljem. Po proučitvi lokalne tradicije in tridnevnem natečaju so udeleženci delavnice izdelali brv za pešce čez potok, začasne garderobe za soteskarje ter poskrbeli za nevpadljivo udob...

Radical Tectonics is a multi-scalar approach to improving the short-and long-term outcomes of sustainable design and circular economies. Community empowerment, building reuse, and material regeneration are three fundamental principles of a radical tectonics which operates simultaneously at the macro, meso, and micro scale. Three tactics define our integrated approach to radical tectonics: building material choices and labor practices which favor the health, safety, and prosperity of communities; urban design policies which favor the rehabilitation , re-use, reprogramming and re-mining of existing structures; building construction innovations that channel the adoption of traditional, craft-based, local, low-energy, and regenerative materials. Not only does each scale introduce an original interpretation of tectonics (as a form of built justice, a practice of urban re-mining, and regenerating matter) but their integration speaks to the question of 'radicality' which at its simplest form references change or action with essential, fundamental, and all-encompassing outcomes. In this sense, this collaboratively written paper introduces a methodological approach whose multi-scaler insistence on circularity is essential to its role as transformative agent.

Architecture is always built out of architecture, there is no tabula rasa. This essay is built like the architecture it examines. It consists of fragments, interpretations, and intentions. An interplay of analogies, references, and influences emerges among the pictorial examples, written quotations, and short commentaries that bind them together. The various levels intersect and overlap – sometimes in contrast, sometimes with empathy. The reader is called upon to put the fragments together for himself or herself.