Technological and environmental design: Italy and Greece in comparison by Antonella Violano, Alexandra Sotiropoulou, Ioannis Tzouvadakis, Euphrosyne Triantis, Athanasios Stamos, Antonio Bosco

“…As an answer to new challenges concerning the role of the architect in future societies, a new approach to the teaching of the technological and environmental design was developed by an interdisciplinary team of academics, involving a reconsideration of the basic concepts and strategies in architectural design and its interaction both with the natural and built environment and users. …”
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Le paysage urbain du centre ancien de Barcelone : outil d’analyse des processus de gentrification by Hovig Ter Minassian

“…The second part presents the methodology, which is based on a semiological reading of the landscape inspired by work of the geographer S. Rimbert and of the architect G. Chelkoff. The last part illustrates, with three examples, the contribution of the urban landscape analysis, following three axes : the logics of scales, the spatial inscription of the social transformations in the urban landscape and the role of the representations in the gentrification of a district.…”
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La Permanence, une politique de l’attention by Giulia Tellier, Tiphaine Hameau

“…This contribution is the outcome of exchanges between an architect and a garden-artist, both of whom are attached to the act of writing as a means of putting real life situations into perspective and providing feedback on their own experiences. …”
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E. W. Godwin’s Month in Normandy: Travel Writing as Intertext by Richard W. Hayes

“…In 1873, architect E. W. Godwin (1833‒86) embarked on a month-long trip through France’s Normandy region, accompanied by his partner, the actress Ellen Terry (1847‒1928), and their daughter Edy. …”
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La définition du parc Matisse dans l’urbanisme d’Euralille by Clément Quaeybeur

“…The planning imagination of the Euralille head architect and planner, Rem Koolhaas, is interpreted in the light of several previous conceptual references from his career. …”
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Encoding Theory of Mind in Character Design for Pedagogical Interactive Narrative by Mei Si, Stacy C. Marsella

“…We argue that a rich model of characters and in particular a Theory of Mind capacity are needed. The character architect in the Thespian framework for interactive narrative is presented as an example of how decision-theoretic agents can be used for encoding Theory of Mind and for creating pedagogical interactive narratives.…”
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Les jardins paysagers des seigneurs domaniaux de l’époque d’Edo et les manuels relatifs à la composition des jardins by Nicolas Fiévé

“…During the Heian period (794-1195) in Japan, at the time where the main characteristics of pleasure gardens were introduced, the landscape architect was a well-read aristocrat who enjoyed reproducing one of the country’s famous landscape in his own home garden. …”
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Jules Lavirotte (1864-1929) ou l’Art nouveau symboliste by Bruno Montamat

“…The study of unpublished family archives from the architect’s wife, the painter Jane de Montchenu (1857-1924) allows the writing of a sensitive biography, more able to grasp the exuberance of an idealistic architectural signature. …”
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Designing Community Houses – Application of the modular approach to an innovative model of facility by Riccardo Pollo, Elisa Biolchini, Valeria Scognamiglio

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Politicisation and the Rhetoric of Shanghai Urbanism by Non Arkaraprasertkul

“…Using the city as a primary source, this paper succinctly presents specific information derived from the observations needed to authenticate the research, i.e. to understand the existence of contemporary architecture as a means of urban iconography, which will contribute to the theory of how we conceive and experience the hybridized urban complexity in Asian cities in a practical manner from the perspectives of both the pedestrian and architect-planner critical to the awareness the far-reaching consequence of Shanghai’s urban environment.…”
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Quand le jardin révèle un imaginaire du paysage méditerranéen : les Colombières de Ferdinand Bac by Agnès du Vachat

“…This article studies the role of the imagination, as the mental faculty for transforming reality, in the work of the landscape architect Ferdinand Bac (1859-1952) as well as his contribution to the imaginary Mediterranean landscape in the 20th century. …”
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Les jardins paysagers des seigneurs domaniaux de l’époque d’Edo et les manuels relatifs à la composition des jardins by Nicolas Fiévé

“…Living far from Kyôto, which had been the cradle of gardening art until then, these lords call upon specialists who are in charge of the conception of landscape parks and their architectures: thus, the figure of the landscape-architect was born in Japan at the beginning of the 17th century. …”
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Making a lot with little – Modular architecture, starting with Walter Segal by Niccolò Di Virgilio

“… This paper examines the remarkable design journey of the Jewish architect Walter Segal and his fifty-year career in London. …”
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Competition Juries as Intercultural Spaces by Carmela Cucuzzella

“…An environmental expert’s evaluation of quantitative eco-measurements is very different from an architect’s judgment of spatial qualities and experiences. …”
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De l’école des Beaux-arts à la leçon de Louis I. Kahn : assimilations et détournements théoriques chez Bernard Huet by Juliette Pommier

“…Several factors determine this assimilation : the context of reception and the trajectory of the architect, but also the internal characteristics of these teachings and the modalities of assimilation. …”
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Lewis Hine et le National Child Labor Committee: vérité documentaire et rhétorique visuelle et textuelle by Anne Lesme

“…This article endeavors to show the photographer as the architect of an elaborately constructed truth. It will analyze the different modes he employs in organizing his images in order to guide the reader/viewer towards an interpretation that is increasingly controlled, eventually even linking documentary photography and advertising with poster design.…”
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Les communicants : des professionnels de la réputation engagés dans la fabrique de l’agence d’architecture by Margaux Darrieus

“…Evolving outside and within the architecture firm, whether as independents or employees, they support architects in building their reputation and that of their company, as they construct images and discourses associated with their name, creating portfolios, websites and monographic books, organizing visits for the editors of specialized reviews, as well as privileged meetings with potential owners. …”
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Preposterous Preservation. Postmodern Paradoxes by Pablo von Frankenberg

“…While the application of traditional preservation methods may seem appropriate, it often overlooks the architect’s intentions and the unique characteristics of postmodern design. …”
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Imaginaires de nature sauvage dans la théorie et la pratique de Gilles Clément by Camilla Barbero

“…This research explores imaginary perspectives nourished by ancient memories of these new landscapes by conducting a case study of the poetic vision of the gardener and landscape architect Gilles Clément. It seeks to understand whether one may identify resonances of the sublime in the surprise Clément evokes when faced with the chaotic initiative and the impermanence of an inventive pioneering vegetation. …”
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Bernard Huet et la synthèse du rationalisme exalté d’Aldo Rossi by Julien Correia

“…The last decade has seen a renewed interest in the Italian architect Aldo Rossi, who died in 1997. The article recalls the steps and difficulty of its French reception. …”
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