Léonore Dubois Losserand’s Post

A much needed initiative- “ACSA Justice in Architecture provides resources, references, and scholarship on equity, and social, and ecological justice in architecture. These references include works on anti-racism, settler-colonialism, disability studies, ecological justice, and other topics germane to the pedagogies of the built, destroyed, and imagined environments that comprise architecture and related fields.”

What a different way to end the week, spending the day lecturing to University of Edinburgh Year 1 Post-graduate Landscape Architecture students on my favourite subject. A thoroughly enjoyable teaching experience and helping the students in the afternoon in tutorials. #steppingoutofyourcomfortzone #lecturing #etiveconsultingengineers #civilengineering #suds #proudsudsgeek

Today kicks off the crucial five-year Floating Future research into large-scale floating construction Many cities situated in coastal areas are vulnerable to sea level rise and at the same time, they have a scarcity of space. Extreme weather events may give rise to high or low water levels in rivers and more space is consequently needed to accommodate big water flows or to store water for periods of drought. In the Netherlands and other deltas around the world the space for housing and industry is becoming limited due to these developments. What can floating construction contribute to the long-term habitability of the Netherlands? This urgent question is what a consortium led by MARIN (Maritime Research Institute Netherlands), consisting of five universities, three research institutes, three colleges and dozens of societal partners from the public sector, will tackle in the coming years. Space&Matter and Common City will lend their expertise in proven examples of floating architecture and research into floating urban planning. Read more: floating-future.nl & Floating Future Research Project I MARIN (Maritime Research Institute Netherlands) I Stichting Blue Revolution Foundation I Universiteit Utrecht I NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research I HAN University of Applied Sciences I Hanzehogeschool Groningen I Deltares I Rijksuniversiteit Groningen I TU Delft I Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam I Open Universiteit

As landscape architecture evolves due to technological, environmental, and societal changes, education in this field must adapt accordingly. For its Winter Issue, Landscapes | Paysages seeks insights from students, educators, and researchers on how they are addressing these shifts. We invite submissions—ideas, draft articles, or abstracts - exploring the future of landscape architecture education within the themes of education, innovation, and advocacy. Interested in contributing or need more details? Email qwan02@uoguelph.ca or submit your article idea by July 31.

Do environmental histories of architecture have a problem with cities? This is my argument in this short piece for "Planning Perspectives", where I also touch upon a few issues (the notion of temporality in historical research, the public role of the historian) that represent crucial challenges for this fast-evolving field of investigation and will certainly deserve further discussion. The paper is open access. Comments are welcome. https://lnkd.in/dbT85rsv

I am pleased to announce that I have been awarded the 'Outstanding Article Presentation Award' for my participation in the 7th International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism (ICCAUA2024) ICCAUA Alanya University, specifically in the Architecture and Technology session held in Alanya, Turkey. My research, titled "Overlooking the Visibility of Mosques: From a Norm to a Harm on Developed Urbanism in Nablus City," explores the transformation of the visibility of historic mosques by examining the impact of existing urban settings on the perception of contemporary and historical mosques. In this study, computational tools such as DecodingSpaces and Ladybug plugins are utilized to conduct isovist and view percentage analyses of the surrounding context of the investigated mosques This paper will soon be included in the Conference Full Book Proceedings and Proceedings Journal of ICCAU2024. The 10-minute presentation can be accessed through the following link: https://lnkd.in/dvQQ-EhV

This is just a point of view. With a great respect towards all scientific jobs done in this case.🙏 As a university lecturer and a professional, I have been reviewing something in my mind for some time. Something that hurts, but it is a bitter reality. During these years, when I was involved with discussions in the fields of energy and architecture, sustainable architecture, the quality of interior space and similar topics, a key question bothered my mind. Why do we lack theorists and philosophers in these fields? Perhaps the biggest scientific gap in the field of sustainable architecture and green architecture and similar topics is theological theories. For modern architecture, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe and others presented theories of modern architecture in the form of philosophical discussions, where people like Charles Jencks, Bernard Chomi and... drew postmodern; Where people like Zaha Hadid and Peter Eisenman objectively turned deconstraction into a form; No one has done this for sustainable architecture, energy optimization in architecture and similar topics. It can be boldly said that with all the respect to the experimental work that has been done regarding sustainable architecture, a philosophical and theoretical view has not yet been presented in this regard sharply. Maybe it's time that after a mountain of articles and experimental works, someone philosophically draws the framework of sustainable architecture, green architecture, zero energy architecture, etc. Maybe it's time for universities that train doctoral students in this regard to train theorists instead of specialists.

The global trend on mass timber utilization is one of the most key factors to develop forestry industry as it promotes sustainable forest management

[HKIA Journal | Issue 79: Community] Participant Observation and Community Design : An Anthropological Inquiry of the Western District Public Cargo Working Area Benni Yu-Ling Pong The Western District Public Cargo Working Area, alias Sai Wan Pier or Instagram Pier, sits on reclaimed land planned for cargo handling functions. It was never designed as an open space. It was only “discovered” by the public at large when it received the Outstanding Public Space Award in 2013. Despite accessing the area for purposes other than logistic functions being technically unauthorized, the space, with its spectacular waterfront view, it received widespread media coverage and attracted regular crowds of visitors. Public appropriation and the vibrant activities at the pier defied the practice and pedagogy of design and planning. It is also debatable whether the categorization of formal versus informal space and top-down versus bottom-up approach could have suitably described its presence. Conventional design and planning apparatuses focusing on tangible, well defined, quantitative and geometric elements fail to frame these undesigned activities and the perception of space. This paper analyzes three major aspects which may shed light to future community design, namely spatial practice, perception of space and tacit agreement. For the full HKIA Journal, please visit https://lnkd.in/ghq8C-YK HKIA Journal Issue 80: Technology in Architecture is now calling for papers. The submission deadline for viewpoint essays and project showcases is on 18 October 2024. More details at https://lnkd.in/gRMvhAfj #hkia #architecture #journal #community

Completely new perspectives in the field of cultural heritage