ie ny Uy ea) ar Ny , 4 Bt Hg Interactive Design A Environments . .Architectural Design Backlist Titles ey ree ert) Individual backlist issues of &D are available for purchase at £22.99. To order and subscribe for 2007 see page 128.Architectural Design Forthcoming Titles 2007/08 ‘Sptember/October 2007, Profle No 189 Rationalist Traces ‘Guesteited by Andrew Peckham, Charles Ratray and Trston Schmedenecht Modern European architecture has been characterised by a strong undercurrent of rationalist thought. Rational Traces aims to examine this legacy by establishing a cross-section of contemporary European architecture, placed in selected national context by critics inchuding Akos Moravanszky and Josep Maria ‘Montane. Subsequent interviews discuss the theoretical contributions of Giorgio Grassi and OM Ungers, and a survey of Max Dude and De Architekten Cie's work sets outa consistency at once removed from fvant-garde spectacle or everyday expediency. Gesine Weinmille’s work in Germany (among others offers 4 considered representation of state institutions, while elsewhere outstanding work reveals diferent Approaches to rationality in architecture often recalling canonical Modernism or the Rational ‘Architecture’ ofthe later postwar period. Whether evident in patter of thinking, «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 Kolhoff. The buildings and projects ofa younger generation = Garci-Solera, GW}, BIQ, Basi or Servino = presenta rationalism less conditioned by acon cern to promote a unifying aesthetic: While often sharing a deliberate economy of means, ora sensual sobriety, chey present a more oblique or distanced relationship with the defining work ofthe 20th century. "November/December 2007, Profle No 190 ‘Made in India (Guest eid by Kazi K Astrat ‘The architectural and urban landscape of Inia is being remade in most unexpected and exuberant ways. New economic growth, permeation of global media and technologies, and the transnational reach of diasporic Indians have unleashed a new cultural and socal dynamic, While the dynamic is most explicit and visible inthe context of the Indian city, a different set of transformations staking place in rural India Yet, asthe political writer Sunil Khilnani notes. the world’s sense of India, of what it stands {or and what it wishes to become, seems as confused and divided today a is India’s own sense of itself Its a challenge, in these conditions to explore how the deeply entrenched histories and traditions of India are being reimagined, and how questions ofthe extraordinary diversity of Inia are being reinter preted in its architectural and urban landscape. AD traces this compelling story through the writings of rem Chandavarkar, Suni Xhilnani, Anupama Kundoo, Reinhold Martin, Michael Sorkin and others, and ‘new projects and works in the Indian subcontinent. Sarwary/February 2008, Profle No 181 Cities of Dispersal ‘Guesteite by Raf Segal and Els Verbakel (Questioning the traditional boundaries between cities, suburbs, countzyside and wilderness, this issue of AD explores emergent types of public space in low-dense urban environments. Cities of Dispersal describes this new form of urbanism: decentralised, ina constant process of expansion and contraction, ‘ot homogenous or necessarily low-rise, nor guided by one mode of development, typology or pattern ‘While functionally and programmatically, dispersed settlements operate asa form of urbanism, the place of collective spaces within them has yet to be defined and articulated. The physical transformation of the built environment on the one hand, and the change in our notion of the public onthe other ~ due to globalisation, privatisation and segregation call for renewed interpretations ofthe nature and char- acter of public space. The concept of public space needs to be examined: replaced, re-created or adopted to fit these conditions. What isthe place ofthe public inthis form of urbanism, and how can architec ture address the notion of common, collective spaces? What is the current socio-political role of such spaces? How does the form and use ofthese spaces reflect the conception of the public asa politcal or :nonpolitcal) body? And can architecture regain an active roe in formulating the notion ofthe collective? “These and other issues are addressed through essays, research projects and built work by distinguished writers suchas Bruce Robbins, Albert Pope, Margaret Crawford and Alex Wall, and practitioners inelud> ing Zvi Hecker, Vito Acconci, Mutopia and Manuel Vicente ina search for new collective architectures Within the dispersed city.