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Samuel Bianchini (ed.).able is a free image-based multiplatform journal for publishing research at the intersection of art, design, and sciences.

An Image-based Multi-platform Journal at the Intersection of Art, Design, and Sciences Samuel Bianchini (ed.) .able journal reinvents the publication form by making research accessible through images. Free of charge and distributed on numerous platforms, media, and devices, .able journal, through its five visual essay formats (scroll.able, pan.able, zoom.able, story.able and video.able), provides multiple entry points to research in arts, design, and sciences. From the design of sustainable fashion or bioluminescent micro-architecture, to the dynamics of bacterial contamination or the exploration of deep sleep, .able combines academic rigor and accessibility focused on exploring contemporary sociopolitical and environmental issues in images and putting these challenges into perspective. With Contributions of Among others : (.able journal is an ongoing journal, list of contributors is always evolving) Anne Bationo-Tillon, Anaïs Blo, Ninon Bonzom, Walid BREIDI, Dimitri Charrel, Jean-Marc Chomaz, Emile Costard, Francesca Cozzolino, Jean-Robert Dantou, Dominique Deuff, Émile De Visscher, Christian Duriez, Olga Flór, Jean-Jacques Gay, Arno Gisinger, Denise Gonzales Crisp, Tzu Nyen Ho, Dan Kneeshaw, François-Joseph Lapointe, Peter Lunenfeld, Ophélie Maurus, Isabelle Milleville-Pennel, Marie-Eve Morissette, Aurélie Mosse, Nicolas Nova, Virgile Novarina, Ioana

The ReView

Iñaki Alday / Tulane School of ArchitectureThis book tries to communicate the pedagogical project and some of the lines of research of the Tulane School of Architecture (TuSA) through the work, mostly visual, of its students and professors.

How and What for Iñaki Alday / Tulane School of Architecture The ReView: How and what for, presents the pedagogical project of the Tulane School of Architecture through the work, mostly visual, of both students and faculty over the past few years. The book is organized into two main blocks, "how" and "what for". On the one hand, "how" exposes the sequence of studies and theoretical courses with exceptional pedagogical methodologies. On the other hand, "what for" shows the connection of the Tulane School of Architecture's academic work with the social, economic, and environmental reality we face today. The conceptual link that connects the "How?" and the "What for?" is the idea of innovation. In a time of global crisis, the Architecture - and educational systems - needs to be revised. This revision of academic programs is crucial to educate new architects to address social and environmental challenges from an innovative perspective. With Contributions

Behavioral Formation

Behavioral Formation.

Roland SnooksEmergent processes of formation create intensive, volatile, intricate, complex phenomena.

Volatile Design Processes and the Emergence of a Strange Specificity Roland Snooks Emergent processes of formation create intensive, volatile, intricate, complex phenomena. These processes have come to define our contemporary understanding of the nature of becoming, which stands in contrast to established notions of architectural design and authorship. The design research of Roland Snooks is a speculation on the relationship between emergent processes of formation and architectural design intention, and explores the strange specificity of an architecture that is drawn out of this interaction. This research operates within a larger architectural and cultural concern for complex systems and their role in algorithmic design processes. The original methodological territory carved out from this larger milieu is the articulation of a design process in which architectural intention is embedded within emergent processes. Roland Snooks is a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT. EBOOK EDITION

Strange objects: New Solids and Massive Things

Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Things

Winka Dubbeldam, Archi-TectonicsThe object as solid, having three dimensions, is not just a different formal trend, but a paradigm shift; a reconceiving of how the architectural object is produced and experienced.

Archi-Tectonics Winka Dubbeldam/ Archi-Tectonics A manual for a non-standard approach to research and design in architecture. For close to a century, modernism was the norm, presented to culturally aware citizens as the expression of modern life. It arrived hand in hand with medical advances, mass standardization, and a shared ideal of what the ease and speed of the modern lifestyle could offer. Only in the early years of the 21st century did our widespread allegiance begin to shift away from modernism and towards a new social realm. The digital revolution introduced online societies, niche cultures, and digital design. Digital manufacturing facilitated opportunities of surface patterning and the fabrication of one-off special building components, removing the constraints of standardization in the construction industry and celebrating the experimental. Testing designs through prototypes allows for a much more informed decision-making process. The focus is on precise, rigorous research and development, rather than the usual representational

Gran Mediterraneo

Gran Mediterraneo

David TajchmanDavid Tajchman’s first book about a self-initiated architectural research for a White City-specific High-Rise: the Gran Mediterraneo

Project, Process, Progress David Tajchman David Tajchman's first book about a self-initiated architectural research for a White City-specific High-Rise: the Gran Mediterraneo. Gathering working documents, sketches and rare pictures in an object specifically designed by graphic designer and art director Sara Jassim. In 2016, architect David Tajchman made public a self-initiated high-rise proposal on which he worked in secret during a few months. He decided to propose a new typology of skyscraper, more city-specific for Tel Aviv. Based on his previous observations that a new skyline is appearing in the White City, which according to his experience of the city and his knowledge of the local architectural history, does not take enough into account the 1930s and later Brutalist legacies. His yet unbuilt (but surely to get built) skyscraper is a spontaneous proposal from a foreign architect to the local decision makers, to open their eyes and their mind to other visions, for

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