The Modern movement began in the 1920s when a small group of young architects felt all that had gone before should be rejected and that architectural design should start afresh. This fresh start, they declared, should be based on modern technology and a new, modern approach to life. Their innovations became the 20th century’s dominant movement in architecture, crystallizing into the international style of the 1920s and '30s. In Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, Malcolm Millais exp...

Apparatus and apparatisation, the focus of the Cyber-Physical Architecture (CpA) issue #2 of SPOOL, refer to an assemblage of various components, tools, and instruments that in combination produce an exponential surplus beyond the linear sum of parts.

The CpA #2 samples various interests afforded by the apparatus and apparatisation in and of architecture and how they open up new potentials and opportunities. The first article, Building as Apparatus? (by Leach) addresses the theme of “buildi...

Over the last decades, the perception of glass in the engineering world has changed from that of a brittle, fragile material to a reliable structural component of high compressive load-bearing capacity. Although the structural applications of glass in architecture are continuously increasing, they are dominated by a considerable geometrical limitation: the 2-dimensionality imposed by the prevailing float glass industry. Cast glass can overcome this limitation: solid 3-dimensional glass compon...

Who were Le Corbusier’s photographers? The question is seldom asked yet is germane to under­standing the architect’s work. Le Corbusier used photography to promote modern architecture in ways no others did. He directed the photography of his buildings, selected the images that he liked, cropped them, abstracted them, and placed them on the pages of his many books. He mediated the medium of photography mani­pulating visual facts in an era when “the camera never lied”. Yet always ...

The thesis, titled ‘Towards the Integration of Additive Manufacturing for Freeform Steel and Glass Façade Construction,’ explores the transformative role of additive manufacturing (AM) in enhancing the design and construction of Freeform Steel and Glass Façades (FFSGF). These façades involve intricate components, necessitating collaborative efforts among designers, engineers, and fabricators to achieve complex façade geometries with good performance while ensuring efficiency in design...

De iA-bookzine serie brengt een overzicht van interdisciplinaire bijdragen over het onderwerp 'Interactive architecture' van onderzoekers, studenten, gastdocenten van Hyperbody, Faculteit Bouwkunde, TU Delft. Deze derde editie, in de reeks 'Interactive Architecture', bestaat wederom uit papers, reportages van workshops, bijzondere casestudies en projecten.<br/><br/>Het thema van iA#3 is Emotive Styling. In de inleiding tot dit nummer, benadrukt serieredacteur K...

De publicatie Working with Architectonic DNA [werken met een architectonische DNA], onder redactie van auteur en curator Karin Christof, onderzoekt het fenomeen van het ontwerpen van architectonisch complexe projecten, die voortdurend in verandering zijn en daarom om een constante aanpassing vragen. Het vertrekpunt is de luchthaven Schiphol in Nederland, een project dat voortdurend in beweging is en waarvan het gebruik is afgestemd op veranderende vliegpatronen als gevolg van economische gro...