undance and connectivity are one way of looking at digital phenomena. Umberto Eco in his book The Infinity of Lists poses a challenge from the other side, by asking questions of meaning and hierarchy. As Eco points out, on the one hand, the elements are connected and information is wealthy and omnipotent but, on the other hand, information loses its meaning, and its hierarchies are unsettled in…
What do we see when we look at a monument, and how do we come to see what we do? Far from the innocent ravages of time, the calculated aesthetics of the Indian temple today result from the confluence of religious performance, the politics of identity formation, the tension between neoliberal and socialist preservation mod-els, and the display, erasure, and fragmentation of the visual and materi…
I am writing these lines in 2021, exactly forty years after the first coupling of the words ‘critical’ and ‘regionalism’ appeared on a printed page to discuss the work of Greek architects Suzana and Dimitris Antonakakis in Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre’s article ‘The Grid and the Pathway’ of 1981.1 Introduced by them then, the architectural theory of cr…
Formerly seen as a menial architectural task, adaptive reuse has come into its own. It is no longer a secret, and certainly no longer a novel idea, that the archi-tecture of adaptive reuse is, in terms of architectural creativity, beauty and impor-tance, in no way inferior to designing and building a brand-new building (Hauke and Werner 2011).Architecture incorporating existing …
Streets and routes, corridors and staircases are not only systems of access but also keys to the communal lives of occupants. Because they provide information concerning the distribution of spaces and the patterns of movement that connect them, access systems and the gestalts of access spaces condition and express social structures. The structure and development of urban districts and entire ci…
In normal ageing, bodies and brains slow down, though intelligence remains stable. Aging leads people to take more time to process information and learn new knowledge, and people appear to be physically and mentally less flexible. Memory changes occur as well, and elderly and older have greater difficulty remembering names and places, and complex notions. Compared to normal ag…