ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2012
ISSN 0003-8504
PROFILE NO 220
ISBN 978-1118-336410
GUEST-EDITED BY
PAUL BRISLIN
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SUSTAINING IDENTITY
HUMAN
EXPERIENCE
AND PLACE
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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
GUEST-EDITED BY
PAUL BRISLIN
EDITORIAL
Helen Castle
6 ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITOR
Paul Brislin
8 INTRODUCTION
Identity, Place and Human Experience
Paul Brislin
r| Newness, Tradition and Identity:
Existential Content and Meaning
in Architecture
Juhani Pallasmaa
aa In Conversation:
Peter Zumthor and Juhani Pallasmaa
Michael Asgaard Andersen
a6 IDENTITY AND LOCALITY
a8 Appropriating, Reclaiming and Inventing
Identity Through Architecture
Farrokh Derakhshani
| A Reexive Conversation:
Bridge School and Liyuan Library
Li Xiaodong
|o Identity Through the Grounding
of Experience in Place
Rick Joy
|6 Earthworks
Josep Llus Mateo
a Outlines
Mauricio Pezo and Soa von Ellrichshausen

HUMAN EXPERIENCE AND PLACE:
SUSTAINING IDENTITY
IN THIS ISSUE
EDITORIAL BOARD
Will Alsop
Denise Bratton
Paul Brislin
Mark Burry
Andr Chaszar
Nigel Coates
Peter Cook
Teddy Cruz
Max Fordham
Massimiliano Fuksas
Edwin Heathcote
Michael Hensel
Anthony Hunt
Charles Jencks
Bob Maxwell
Jayne Merkel
Peter Murray
Mark Robbins
Deborah Saunt
Leon van Schaik
Patrik Schumacher
Neil Spiller
Michael Weinstock
Ken Yeang
Alejandro Zaera-Polo
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o IDENTITY AND SCALE
a Mapping Scales of Urban Identity
Ricky Burdett
8 Essence, Scale and Natural Events
Paul Brislin
ro| Common Artefacts
Christopher CM Lee
rra The Breathing Tropical High-Rise
Wong Mun Summ, Richard Hassell
and Alina Yeo
rr6 The Problem of Scale
Sean Godsell
raa The Reluctant Architect:
An Interview with Wang Shu
of Amateur Architects Studio
Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren
ro AFTERWORD
Developing a Sensitivity to Locale
and Human Experience
Jayne Merkel
r6 COUNTERPOINT
A Pivotal Point: On the Edge of History
Peter Buchanan
r|o CONTRIBUTORS
In its widest sense architecture and the space we make
inhabits us; it conditions how we feel and respond to our
surroundings. We, our identity and the physical world,
are intimately and inseparably connected by the way we
create space, and the way we exist in it.
Paul Brislin
8 IDENTITY AND ECONOMY
6o The Future is Unwritten: Global
Culture, Identity and Economy
Murray Fraser
66 School in Gando, Burkina Faso
Dibdo Francis Kr
ya The Big Feet Aesthetic
and the Art of Survival
Kongjian Yu
y8 Reading the Wind and Weather:
The Meteorological Architecture
of Studio Mumbai
Kazi Ashraf
8| Peripatetic Infrastructure
Jonathan Kirschenfeld

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