The current trend for constructing experimental structures is now an international phenomenon. It has been taken up worldwide by design professionals, researchers, educators and students alike. There exist, however, distinct and significant tendencies within this development that require further investigation. This issue of AD takes on this task by examining one of the most promising trajectories in this area, the rise of intensely local architectures. In his seminal essay of 1983, Kenneth Frampton redefined Critical Regionalism by calling for an intensely local approach to architectural design. Today, Frampton’s legacy is regaining relevance for a specific body of work in practice and education focused on the construction of experimental structures. Could this ultimately provide the seeds for a compelling and alternative approach to sustainable design?
Contributors include: Barbara Ascher, Peter Buchanan, Karl Otto Ellefsen, David Jolly Monge, Lisbet Harboe, David Leatherbarrow, Areti Markopoulou, Philip Nobel, Rodrigo Rubio, Søren S Sørensen, Defne Sungurodlu Hensel.
Featured practices: Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Rintala Eggertsson, SHo P, Studio Mumbai, TYIN tegnestue.
Table of Content
Editorial 05
Helen Castle
About the Guest-Editors 06
Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen Cordua
Introduction Relating Perceptions of Constructions, Experimental and Local 08
Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen Cordua
Chapter 1 Past and Present Trajectories of Experimental Architectures 16
Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen Cordua
Chapter 2 Building In and Out of Place 24
David Leatherbarrow
Chapter 3 The Bauhaus: Case Study Experiments in Education 30
Barbara Elisabeth Ascher
Chapter 4 The Open City and the e[ad] School of Architecture and Design 34
Christian Hermansen Cordua, David Jolly Monge and Michael Hensel
Chapter 5 Incarnations of a Design-and-Build Programme: Rural Studio 40
Michael Hensel
Chapter 6 Architecture by Latitude and Locality: The Scarcity and Creativity Studio 48
Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen Cordua
Chapter 7 In Search of Context: Working with the Force of Erasure: Koshirakura Landscape Workshop 58
Shin Egashira
Chapter 8 Detoured Installations: The Policies and Architecture of the Norwegian National Tourist Routes Project 64
Karl Otto Ellefsen
Chapter 9 Conviction Into Tectonics: The Work of Rintala Eggertsson 76
Christian Hermansen Cordua
Chapter 10 Integrating On-Site Education and Practice: TYIN tegnestue Architects 82
Lisbet Harboe
Chapter 11 Renzo Piano: Poet of Technology 88
Peter Buchanan
Chapter 12 The Practice of Making: Studio Mumbai 94
Michael Hensel
Chapter 13 The Builder’s Name: SHo P and the Ethics of Knowledge Transfer 102
Philip Nobel
Chapter 14 Informed Non-Standard: En Route to Non-Standard Performative Architectures 110
Søren S Sørensen
Chapter 15 Auxiliary Architectures: Augmenting Existing Architectures with Performative Capacities 116
Chapter 16 Nested Catenaries: A Developmental Route to Local Specificity 120
Defne Sunguroglu Hensel and Guillem Baraut Bover
Chapter 17 Smart Living Architecture – Solar Prototypes: IAAC, Endesa Pavilion, Barcelona 128
Areti Markopoulou and Rodrigo Rubio
Chapter 18 Outlook: En Route to Intensely Local Architectures and Tectonics 132
Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen Cordua
Chapter 19 Counterpoint Sustaining the Local: An Alternative Approach to Sustainable Design 136
Terri Peters
Contributors 142
About the author
Michael Hensel is an architect, researcher and writer. He is Professor for architecture at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), where he directs the Research Centre for Architecture and Tectonics (RCAT). Previously he taught at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London (1993-2009), where he developed the curriculum and co-directed the Emergent Technologies and Design Program (2001-2009). He has held visiting professorships and innovation fellowships and taught and lectured in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia. He is founding member of OCEAN (1994). He is founding and current chairman of the OCEAN Design Research Association and the Sustainable Environment Association (SEA). He has written extensively on architecture. He has guest-edited 5 ADs and is on the editorial board.
Christian Hermansen Cordua is a professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and formerly Head of the Department of Architecture (2004-9). He has taught internationally and in 2010 he spent a semester as visiting researcher at the LSE, Cities Programme.. He has published several books and contributed to journals, books and exhibitions in Europe and America. In recent years he has held several European Union funded research projects. E-archidoct, which ended in 2010, and currently: HERA, Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment (2010-1013) and Erasmus Mundus Latin America Project (2012-2015).
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