arq: Architectural Research Quarterly

by Edited by Peter Carolin , Thomas Fisher

• ISBN13: 9780521002776
• ISBN10: 052100277X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-11
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This ground-breaking quarterly aims to act as an international forum for practitioners and academics by publishing cutting-edge work covering all aspects of architectural endeavour. Generously illustrated throughout, ARQ is edited with busy practitioners and academics in mind. Contents include building design, urbanism, history, theory, environmental design, construction, materials, information technology, and practice. Reviews of significant buildings are published at a length and in a detail matched today by few other architectural journals. Articles in ARQ 5:3 include: Koolhaas on shopping, The shaping of architectural research, An Integrated design: the Jersey Archive, From table to basin: St Mary's Island, On the sublime, The Pyramid and the wall: an unknown project of Le Corbusier in Venezuela, Passive downdraught evaporative cooling: principles and practice, Figuring ground: notes on recent work by the Office of Zaha Hadid.

Table of Contents

Leader

Letters

Koolhaas on shopping Rem Koolhaas

The shaping of architectural research Dean Hawkes

An integrated design: the Jersey Archive David Prichard and Chris Twinn

From table to basin: St Mary's Island Buschow Henley

On the sublime Eugè

ne Freyssinet

The Pyramid and the wall: an unknown project of Le Corbusier in Venezuela Alejandro Lapunzina

Passive downdraught evaporative cooling: principles and practice Brian Ford

Figuring ground: notes on recent work by the Office of Zaha Hadid Mohamed Sharif

Book reviews.