Open House International: Volume 31 Issue 2

Editorial

Jia Beisi

Halfway through the first decade of the 21st century, expectation of the future and historical nostalgia co-exist. This tacit uncertainty is compounded by the painfully explicit…

“Seven Fallacies in Architectural Culture”

Douglas Kelbaugh

As an architect and educator I worry about the intellectual and pragmatic challenges that currently bedevil architectural practice and pedagogy. There are at least seven design…

Questions That Will Not Go Away: Some Remarks on Long-Term Trends in Architecture and their Impact on Architectural Education

N. John Habraken

I want to raise a more philosophical question. What fundamental images and ambitions have guided us in the past and may guide us in the future? I want to particularly call…

Reality and Diversity: Reform in the Architectural Design Studio

Jia Beisi

Habraken points out that the architectural studio failed to bring students to basic questions in the architecture of everyday environments. Till criticizes that in a studio, it is…

A High Density Open Building Studio Project for Hong Kong

Christiane M. Herr, A. Scott Howe

Constrained by requirements of efficiency and economy as well as tight building regulations, Hong Kong's high-density residential architecture is very different from architectural…

Warming-Up Exercises in Support of Open Building Education

Stephen Kendall

Teaching students of architecture an open building way of designing in a studio setting can be fruitful. To be even more fruitful, however, “warming - up” exercises are useful…

Downtown Mexico City: An Experience Teaching Open Building

Andrea Martin-Chavez

After more than five years of teaching Open Building to students in the last year of their architectural training we have learned one thing: it is easier to master the Open…

The Extendable Patio House as Public Support

Hadas Shadar

A theoretical social trend prevailed in the Western World during the mid-20th century aimed at creating a sense of belonging to the community, a physical and personal identity and…

Describing Housing Morphology in The City of Trabzon

Pelin Dursun, Gülsün Saðlamer

In morphological studies analysis, rather than intuitive explanations, of differences pertaining to the man-made environment requires an understanding of the relational or…

Book Reviews

Yonca Hürol, Fernando Julia Koschinsky, Stephen Graham, Ayona Datta

TIME-BASED ARCHITECTURE

METHODOLOGIES IN HOUSING RESEARCH

AT WAR WITH THE CITY

DESIGNING SOCIAL INNOVATION-PLANNING-BUILDING-EVALUATING