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4 4 Landscape Architecture: Site/Non-Site Guest-edited by Michael Spens Landscape Architecture: Site/Non-Site Guest-edited by Michael Spens Individual backlist issues of 4 are available for purchase at £22.99. To order and subscribe for 2007 see page 144. Volume 76 No. 2 ISBN 0470015292 Volume 76 No. 3 ISBN 0470018399 Volume 76 No. 4 ISBN 0470025859 Volume 76 No. 5 ISBN 0470026529 Volume 76 No. 6 ISBN 0470026340 Volume 77 No. 1 ISBN 0470029684 Volume 75 No. 5 ISBN 0470014679 Volume 75 No. 6 ISBN 0470024186 4Architectural Design Backlist Titles Volume 76 No. 1 ISBN 047001623X 4Architectural Design Forthcoming Titles 2007 July/August 2007, Profile No 188 4dsocial: Interactive Design Environments Guest-edited by Lucy Bullivant A new breed of social interactive design is taking root that overturns the traditional approach to artistic experience. Architects and designers are responding to cues from forward-thinking patrons of architec- ture and design for real-time interactive projects, and are creating schemes at very different scales and in many different guises. They range from the monumental – installations that dominate public squares or are stretched over a building’s facade – to wearable computing. All, though, share in common the ability to draw in users to become active participants and co-creators of content, so that the audience becomes part of the project. 4dsocial: Interactive Design Environments investigates further the paradoxes that arise when a new form of ‘socialisation’ is gained through this new responsive media at a time when social meanings are in flux. While many works critique the narrow public uses of computing to control people and data, and raise questions about public versus private space in urban contexts, how do they succeed in not just get- ting enough people to participate, but in creating the right ingredients for effective design? May/June 2007, Profile No 187 Italy: A New Architectural Landscape Guest-edited by Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi Every five or six years, a different country takes the architectural lead in Europe: England came to the fore with High Tech in the early 1980s; by the end of the 1980s France came to prominence with François Mitterrand’s great Parisian projects; in the 1990s Spain and Portugal were discovering a new tradition; and recently the focus has been on the Netherlands. In this ever-shifting European landscape, Italy is now set to challenge the status quo. Already home to some of the world’s most renowned archi- tects – Renzo Piano, Massimiliano Fuksas and Antonio Citterio – it also has many talented architects like Mario Cucinella, Italo Rota, Stefano Boeri, the ABDR group and Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo, who are now gaining international attention. Moreover, there is an extraordinary emergence of younger architects – the Erasmus generation – who are beginning to realise some very promising buildings of their own. September/October 2007, Profile No 189 Rationalist Traces Guest-edited by Andrew Peckham, Charles Rattray and Torsten Schmiedenecht Modern European architecture has been characterised by a strong undercurrent of rationalist thought. Rationalist Traces aims to examine this legacy by establishing a cross-section of contemporary European architecture, placed in selected national contexts by critics including Akos Moravanszky and Josep Maria Montaner. Subsequent interviews discuss the theoretical contributions of Giorgio Grassi and OM Ungers, and a survey of Max Dudler and De Architekten Cie’s work sets out a consistency at once removed from avant-garde spectacle or everyday expediency. Gesine Weinmiller’s work in Germany (among others) offers a considered representation of state institutions, while elsewhere outstanding work reveals different approaches to rationality in architecture often recalling canonical Modernism or the ‘Rational Architecture’ of the later postwar period. Whether evident in patterns of thinking, a particular formal repertoire, a prevailing consistency, or exemplified in individual buildings, this relationship informs the mature work of Berger, Claus en Kaan, Ferrater, Zuchi or Kollhoff. The buildings and projects of a younger generation – Garcia-Solera, GWJ, BIQ, Bassi or Servino – present a rationalism less conditioned by a con- cern to promote a unifying aesthetic. While often sharing a deliberate economy of means, or a sensual sobriety, they present a more oblique or distanced relationship with the defining work of the 20th century. 4 Landscape Architecture Site/Non-Site Guest-edited by Michael Spens Architectural Design March/April 2007 ISBN-13 9780470034798 ISBN-10 0470034793 Profile No 186 Vol 77 No 2 Editorial Offices International House Ealing Broadway Centre London W5 5DB T: +44 (0)20 8326 3800 F: +44 (0)20 8326 3801 E:
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