Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Preparing a Firewise Plant List for WUI Residents by Anna L. Behm, Alan J. Long, Martha C. Monroe, Cotton K. Randall, Wayne C. Zipperer, Leslie Annie Hermansen-Baez

“…Extension agents, nursery personnel, landscape architects, or urban foresters may use this publication for preparing local firewise plant lists in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). …”
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'Des Yeux Qui Ne Voient Pas...': The smartphones by Luca Di Lorenzo

“…The subject of the survey is the first BMW Guggenheim Lab, designed in 2010 by Atelier Bow-Wow. Described by the architects themselves as a ‘travel toolbox’ or ‘pop-up fly loft theatre in the city’, this compact architecture is the incarnation of three interesting formal qualities usually associated with smartphones: the clear division between the hardware and the ergonomic user interface; the possibility to operate different functions (or software) in the same space (or screen); and the real and virtual connection with different urban situations.…”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on construction project performance: challenges and strategic responses by Eda Selcuk

“…The research aims to determine the effects of these challenges on project and company performance using data obtained from survey conducted with 126 construction professionals including architects and construction engineers operating in seven different geographic locations. …”
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Benjamin’s Dialectical Image and the Textuality of the Built Landscape by Ross Lipton

“…This discussion will be further contextualised by discussing a cadre of German/Austrian planners and architects who attempted to translate architectural idioms between cultural identities in Kemalist Era Turkey. …”
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Urban strategic foresight in European territories – Lessons from Geneva and Luxembourg by Panos Mantziaras

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There and Back Again by Owen Hopkins

“…Meanwhile, the populist left argues for a return to the mass council house building of the post-war era, despite the recent success of small-scale, tactical council housing projects, such as those by Peter Barber Architects. The essay argues that the polarised and asymmetrical nature of this debate, conflating questions of aesthetics, typology and planning and tenure type, is typical of populist politics, ensuring a middle ground is by definition impossible. …”
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Du sol foncier au sol vivant by Atelier Georges, Thibault Barbier, Mathieu Delorme, Charles Rives

“…However, our activity as landscape architects and urban planners poses a real problem for the different actors in urban and regional planning in considering the soil as a fundamental issue. …”
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L’architecture de paysage à Wageningue (Pays-Bas) by Martin van den Toorn

“…New design knowledge and work domains for a growing number of landscape architects have emerged over the last 50 years. The academic environment of Wageningen University has strengthened the position of landscape architecture in meeting the new challenges of climate change; the combination of knowledge of the landscape as a natural system and conceptual ways of thinking seems to be a unique and solid basis for the future.…”
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On Display by Nitzan Zilberman

“…In the Selfie Museum, subject and object aren’t the sole dichotomies that are conflated; physical space combines with the virtual image; the still moment merges in the temporal experience; and two-dimensional projections are overlaid onto three-dimensional structures. As a result, architects become ‘experience designers’, virtual reality is a mode of design practice, and an ‘instagrammable’ moment is a project deliverable. …”
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Tel-Aviv a cent ans ! 1909-2009 : un siècle de globalisation au Proche-Orient by Caroline Rozenholc

“…How did it turn into the global city it is today within a century, with the most prestigious architects, the “starchitects”, launching again Tel-Aviv as a complex mix of scales, places and moments. …”
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Biomimétisme en architecture. État, méthodes et outils by Natasha Chayaamor-Heil, François Guéna, Nazila Hannachi-Belkadi

“…The goal is to show how the use of biomimetic design methodologies could lead to innovations in architecture to meet current environmental challenges. However, architects do not yet have the means to access these biomimetic methodologies neither to use them effectively. …”
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Landscape architecture at Wageningen (Netherlands) by Martin van den Toorn

“…New design knowledge and work domains for a growing number of landscape architects have emerged over the last 50 years. The academic environment of Wageningen University has strengthened the position of landscape architecture in meeting the new challenges of climate change; the combination of knowledge of the landscape as a natural system and conceptual ways of thinking seems to be a unique and solid basis for the future.…”
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Free Plan versus Free Rooms by Xavier Van Rooyen

“…Today, in the midst of health and climate crises, some architects are reconsidering the need for an evolving and adaptable architecture that encourages multiple uses. …”
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Explaining the Relationship between by Ghodrat Zare Andarian, Hossein Zabihi, saeid kardar

“…Municipal law is a set of laws, rules and regulations that govern the interconnection of citizens and city departments in local and urban affairs, and explain the duties of overseers of councils, municipalities, and other city institutions; And planners 'and architects' awareness of the rights of citizens is one of the influential components in the process of urban architecture planning which is discussed in this article. …”
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Le Bassin minier du Nord-Pas-de-Calais, un patrimoine évolutif et vivant. Entre conservation et évolution, enjeux et nouveau paradigme pour les projets d’architecture by Philippe Prost, Lucas Monsaingeon

“…Inscribed on the World Heritage Site list as an "evolving and living cultural landscape" in 2012, the recognition of this territory, considered a force of resilience for an ambitious transition, has raised the question of preservation and architecture - with more than 28,000 registered housings - on land rarely approached and on an unprecedented scale, raising many questions for architects and preservationists. We will first look at the challenges of this heritage recognition for existing architectural projects, then we will present the context and method of practice-led research commissioned by the Mining Basin Mission and conducted by the Atelier d’Architecture Philippe Prost between 2017 and 2019. …”
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Ensuring Mobility-Supporting Environments for an Aging Population: Critical Actors and Collaborations by Chris S. Kochtitzky, Amy L. Freeland, Irene H. Yen

“…It then examines the impacts of community design on individual mobility, delving into which traditional and nontraditional actors—including architects, urban planners, transportation engineers, occupational therapists, and housing authorities—play critical roles in ensuring that community environments serve as facilitators (rather than barriers) to mobility. …”
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Proust’s Ruskin: From Illustration to Illumination by Emily Eells

“…It borrows terms from Ruskin’s works to define their aesthetic relationship: that of ‘incrustation’, meaning both the way Venetian architects covered brick walls with marble and the way they decorated walls with precious stones, is applied here to define Ruskinian intertextuality in Proust’s text, as it involves both textual layering and the use of quotation as ornamentation. …”
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“I want to see more of this, where our stories are told”: Exploring iwi cultural landscapes through photovoice by Kimiora Raerino, Rau Hoskins, Kara Beckford, Aneta Cram

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Urban expansion indicators of cities "Case study for Arab cities by Nabil T. Ismael

“… Urban population growth requires an appropriate and suitable place for future population to cope with the expected urban expansion of major cities in developing countries, and to identify an indicator urban expansion to guide planners, architects and decision makers, and help them reduce negative effects of city expansion with improvement in the ability to live in cities.  …”
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Vienna’s Resistance to the “Neoliberal Turn" by Florian Urban

“…Examples for new residences that follow this strategy include the Car-free Model Estate (1996–99, Cornelia Schindler and Rudolf Szedenik), the women-led scheme Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky-Hof (1993–97, Liselotte Peretti, Gisela Podreka, Elsa Prochazka and Franziska Ullmann), and the residences on the former railway station Nordbahnhof (1992–2015, master plan by Boris Podrecca and Heinz Tesar, buildings by various architects). This article will present Vienna’s turn-of-the-twenty-first-century housing as a successful strategy to provide affordable residences that respond to current needs, and at the same time a way to harness innovative architecture for social policy goals. …”
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