Research and Practice

Design Research on Temporary Homes

Edited by Agnese Rebaglio and Elena Giunta Design Research on Temporary Homes – Hospitable Places for Homeless, Immigrants and Refugees focuses on questions of home, identity, and modes of inhabitation in relationship to asylum seekers and political refugees in Milan, Italy. The design research takes into account people’s complex and diverse cultural backgrounds and individual needs and …

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Interlocking Digital and Material Cultures

  Edited by Sven Pfeiffer Interlocking Digital and Material Cultures brings together a collection of recent research projects and theoretical perspectives on architectural design and fabrication, showing the potential of digital tools by developing their spatial and constructive potential. Contributions come from academics and practicioners, including Dr Markus Hudert (EPFL Lausanne / TU Braunschweig), Daniel Büning …

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Perception of Space in Architecture and Culture – Summer School 2

From the Erasmus IP-funded international summer school, which was organized and hosted by the Department of Interior Architecture of the Lucerne School of Engineering and Architecture in collaboration with the Detmold School of Architecture and Interior Architecture this time. The theme “Sensory Living” brought together academics and students from the University of Plymouth, England, the …

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Intravention, Durations, Effects: Notes of Expansive Sites and Relational Architectures, edited by Altes & Lieberman

Intravention, Durations, Effects defines architecture not as an ‘it’ but as a process; in that sense, architecture is a verb: to architect. Rather than refer to the (paradoxical) limiting of intervention’s ‘in-between’, it posits a new concept: intravention. Intra’s focus on the ‘within’ establishes intraventions as (already) a part of the spaces and times in which …

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