Current Issue | Volume 29, Issue 1-2
Architectural reckoning: traces, tensions and alter-relations
Doreen Bernath & Deljana Iossifova
Hiding in plain sight is what architecture does par excellence. So much of what is meant to have materialised in reality and what has been accounted for is itself a disguise of untold events and unrecognised deeds. On the other hand, many of the unrepresented aspects continue to assert effects and trigger unexpected relations in ways that often escape explication. The establishment of particular meanings and values of certain architecture can continue to be esteemed while blanking a different kind of architectural understanding that these built realities embody. The force of signification continues while the content of signification may resist or yield to cycles of hiding and seeking, prompting shifts in the constellation of relevant signifiers that evidence new findings, however, desired or feared. This assembly of articles demonstrates such art of capturing and questioning, with sleuth-like precision and penetration, what lies behind the assumed fixity of built realities to wrestle with the possibility of different recognitions and what may often be difficult reckonings of failure, distortion, absence and imposition. CONTINUE READING
Land Use in 1994, Moshi, in Moshi Master Plan 1974–1994, Main report, Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development — Urban planning division, United Republic of Tanzania, and Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland — Department for International Development Cooperation (Dar es Salaam and Helsinki: 1976), courtesy of the MFAA
Essi Lamberg
Competition for the Turin Business District, 1962, by AUA, courtesy of the Vieri Quilici archives
Lina Malfona
Campus environment, gathered by Paniz Mousavi Samimi, 2023
Pouya Mousighichi, Paniz Mousavi Samimi & Baharak Mousapour
La Perle by DRAGONE, 2017, courtesy of Al Habtoor City, Dubai
Nebojša Tabački
Original photograph before cropping that included (left to right) Yuelin Jin, Wilma Fairbanks, Huiyin Lin, John Fairbanks, and Sicheng Liang, c. 1934–1935, in the public domain
Ruo Jia
Interior of the west building, showing golden columns of the lobby, photographed by the author, 2022
Yinrui Xie
St Joseph’s Fountain, Piazza d’Italia, New Orleans, 1978, designed by Charles Moore, photographed by the author, 2010
Xiangnan Xiong
An architectural model that responds to the sensory needs of children with autism, view of life skills activity. 3D modelled by the authors based on research findings, 2022
Neda Norouzi, Cristina Michelle Garza & Gerrah Brinkerhoff
Drawing from a Buenos Aires lecture, 1929, by Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), ‘Ceci n'est pas l'architecture’ [‘This is Not Architecture’], 1929, courtesy of Digital Image, The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Scala, Florence, 2024
Rafael Urano Frajndlich
The view of the kiblah walls from the model of Şehzade Mehmed mosque, drawn by the author, 2023
Serhan Tuncer
Book Review
Maja Babić
Book Edited by Nikolina Bobic and Farzaneh Haghighi Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9780367629175 £190/$200, hardback, pp. 630, with illustrations
