Constructions : an experimental approach to intensely local architectures

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: SHoP and the Ethics of Knowledge Transfer 102 Philip Nobel Chapter 14 Informed Non-Standard: En Route to Non-Standard Performative Architectures 110 Soren S Sorensen 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