1st Edition

Design Studio Vol. 3: Designs on History The Architect as Physical Historian

Edited By Jonathan Hill Copyright 2022
144 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

144 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

Each architectural design is a new history. To identify what is novel or innovative, we need to consider the present, past and future. We expect historical narratives to be written in words, but they can also be delineated in drawing, cast in concrete or seeded in soil. The aim of this volume is to understand each design as a visible and physical history. Historical understanding is investigated... Read more

Editor’s Introduction

Jonathan Hill

Architects of Fact and Fiction

Elizabeth Dow and Jonathan Hill

The Architectural History of Civilisation and My Design

Terunobu Fujimori

Amateurs, Detectives, and Acupuncturists

Perry Kulper

Apartheid’s Architects

Lesley Lokko

Drawing Together

Niall McLaughlin and Yeoryia Manolopoulou

Learning from La Vedette: Reconstructing Viollet-le-Duc’s Alpine Study in Lausanne

Aisling O’Carroll

Soft Memory

Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Between the Borders of Utopia: Towards a Construction of Time

Arinjoy Sen

Explore, Restore, Ignore—Etymology and Continuity in Design

Amin Taha

A Monument is a Verb: Parallel Geographies, Choreographies, Atmospheres and Other Forms of Monument

Sumayya Vally

Final Word

Biography

Jonathan Hill is Professor of Architecture and Visual Theory at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he directs the MPhil/PhD Architectural Design programme and tutors MArch Unit 12. Jonathan is the author of The Illegal Architect (1998), Actions of Architecture (2003), Immaterial Architecture (2006), Weather Architecture (2012), A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction (2016), and The Architecture of Ruins (2019); editor of Occupying Architecture (1998) and Architecture – the Subject is Matter (2001); and co-editor of Critical Architecture (2007).