Architecture Anthology I: Architectural and Urban Theory

Edited by Nicholas Patricios

ISBN: 978-618-5065-82-9, 288 pages

First published in 2015 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

 

Preface

Stavros Alifragkis and Nicholas Patricios

i

Architecture Anthology I: Architectural and Urban Theory: An Introduction

Nicholas Patricios

iii

Part 1

1.

Architecture as Inauguration of ‘Das da Sein

Marc Belderbos

3

2.

The Fictional Environment

Lineu Castello

15

3.

The Fictional Representation of Modern Urban Concentration in the Work of J.G. Ballard

Zeynep Tuna Ultav

29

4.

The Phalanstery Paradigm. Paradoxes of Architectural Determinism

Stefan Dragos Dascalu, Sebastian Ionescu and Teodora Balan

39

5.

Re-presenting Architectural Space in Terms of the Literal Existence of Linear Perspective: “Perspectiv-ated Spaces” in the Case of Middle East Technical University (METU) Faculty of Architecture Building

Bilge Beril Kapusuz

51

6.

Thai Concept of Forms: A Case Study of the Ordination Hall ‘Sim’ or ‘Ubosot’ through Platoian Analysis

Pimwadee Eomthurapote

63

7.

A Methodology Attempt For Re-thinking Architecture: Rhetoric Reading

Serap Durmus and Sengul Oymen Gur

71

8.

Parameters vs Algorithms: The New Urban Paradigm

Nina Toleva

91

Part 2

9.

Social Dissolution’s Reflection on Housing in Afterwar Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lejla Kreševljaković

107

10.

Contemporary Housing in Poland: Product versus Preference

Ewa Stachura and John Dee

119

Part 3

11.

Montage and Composition. The Conception of Architectural Space

Domenico Chizzoniti, Letizia Cattani and Gaia Preta

133

12.

Material that Talks: Material Use of Architectural Surface in Semiotic Implications

Nan-Wei Wu and Chao-Ching Fu

145

13.

Light as a Metaphor of Dwelling: A Few 20th Century Examples

Vladimir Mako

159

14.

Industrial Heritage as Qualifying Elements in Urban Landscapes

Grete Swensen and Rikke Stenbro

171

Part 4

15.

Architectural Style and Decoration of the Industrial Buildings from the Late 19th Century and the Early 20th Century

Veronika Kvardová

189

16.

The Visibility Graph and Syntactical Analysis of Spatial Organisation in Traditional Buca Houses

Deniz Erinsel Önder and Sevde Korkmaz

203

17.

Cave Houses as Arcetypes of Shelter Formation in Capadoccia Region, Turkey

Pelin Yildiz

215

18.

Tourism-Dominated Spaces – The Strategic Potential of Hotel Lobbies

Jens Christian Pasgaard

229

19.

Museum and Exhibition Design in the Digital Age

Paola La Scala

247

20.

Adaptive Re-use of Historical Train Station Buildings:

Examples from the World and Turkey

Abdullah H. Erdogan and Ebru Erdogan

259