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Publication Escribir la arquitectura – Kawabata Yasunari(Universidad Europea, 2018) Vela Castillo, José; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75El escritor japonés Yasunari Kawabata (1899- 1972) fue autor de una extensa obra en la que destacan una serie de novelas que retratan las tensiones de un Japón que se moderniza a lo largo del segundo tercio del siglo veinte y que construye mediante una técnica episódica y fragmentaria. En ellas el espacio, el tiempo y la arquitectura cobran un papel determinante, al punto que ayudan a construir un modo de narrar propio en el que los hechos que ocurren no pueden entenderse sin la existencia conjunta de los espacios en que acontecen, y viceversa. El presente texto quiere ofrecer una aproximación a cómo es la arquitectura que se desprende, sin esfuerzo aparente, de la escritura del novelista. Para ello tomaremos ejemplos extraídos de algunas de sus obras y los contextualizaremos en el marco más amplio de la cultura japonesa de la época. Una coda final apunta algunas relaciones no tan aparentes de lo anterior con la práctica y la ideología del grupo de arquitectos metabolistas, que floreció en el Japón del cambio de década de 1950 a 1960.Publication Making up the Plaza: An Urban Archive in Osaka ’70(2021) Aragüez, Marcela; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75El artículo establece una conexión directa entre las investigaciones urbanas del arquitecto japonés Arata Isozaki y su implicación en el diseño de los espacios performativos en el Festival Plaza, el espacio central de la Expo. El trabajo de Marcela, publicado en la revista Roadsides de la Universidad de Zurich, contribuye a la comprensión de esta gran obra de la arquitectura japonesa del siglo XX más allá de sus asociaciones al movimiento Metabolista y los intereses de diseño del arquitecto Kenzo Tange.Publication Material recovery certification for construction workers(Ubiquity press, 2020-09-07) Mayer, Matan; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Low and zero-carbon building certification programmes typically focus on emissions caused by building operation and/or material extraction and manufacturing activities. However, ‘end-of-life’ issues involving the reuse, remanufacture or recycling potential of embodied energy-intensive components are often overlooked. As a result, training and certification in this field tends to be diagnostic and observational rather than proactive and anticipatory. To ensure that vocational workers have appropriate capabilities to recycle or reuse building components fully, a training and certification programme is necessary that focuses on end-of-life material recovery potential. A framework is presented for recovery of building products and the certification system for workers. The system rates recovery potential at both the material and assembly levels through a series of evaluation criteria. This assessment is translated into a product labelling scheme as well as a training and certification programme for vocation workers involved in the production, supply and installation chains of recovery-oriented products.Publication Material worlds: Domestic objects and the question of auto/biography in contemporary art(School of the art University of pretoria, 2019) Zarza García Arena, Clara; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75At the turn of the twenty-first century, due to the expansion of postcolonial consciousness, artists identified as “non-western” gained a new visibility in the Euro-American art world that was far from unproblematic. Installations and multimedia practices revolving around domestic space and daily objects were internationally celebrated as a novel source for reflections on the notion of home. Based on the assumption that artists’ lived experiences of migration, separation, or loss made their use of the domestic inherently transgressive, these disparate works were framed as autobiographical or self-representational. With this, the institutional landscape seemed to undergo a total transformation in reevaluating the use of personal materials in art practices. Dismissed as confessional or narcissistic when articulated as a key critical strategy by feminist Euro-American artists just a decade earlier, it was precisely this personal and domestic quality that seemed to be seen as valuable and relevant in the context of an art world with newfound pretensions of inclusion and globalisation. Focusing on Ishiuchi Miyako's work Mother’s 2000-2005: Traces of the Future as a case study, I argue that the reasons behind this notable shift were twofold: first, the shift in artistic language, from the political explicitness of earlier feminist artworks to the use of material subtlety and conceptual ambivalence, allowed for these works to travel well from national to international exhibitions; at the same time, the use of personal and domestic objects seemed to justify their framing through biographical narratives that, in turn, served to comfortably categorise them, while also offering grounds for viewer engagement.Publication Pero...¿Qué queremos decir cuando decimos teoría?(2018) Vela Castillo, José; Iniciativa Digital Politécnica RU Books; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Los Textos de Arquitectura, Docencia e Innovación dan testimonio de las “Jornadas sobre Innovación Docente en Arquitectura” (JIDA) y vehiculan reflexiones diversas sobre la docencia de la disciplina. Son un marco de debate dirigido tanto a docentes y estudiantes, como a profesionales e interesados en la idiosincrasia de la formación del arquitecto. La colección pretende ensanchar puntos de vista y ampliar el conocimiento de la Arquitectura a través de la descripción y el análisis de prácticas docentes actuales y pasadas. consecuentemente, se reúnen experiencias pedagógicas que ofrecen un pequeño panorama actual de la enseñanza de la Arquitectura tanto a nivel nacional como internacional.Publication Un jardín rocoso. Cinco estampas de Ryōan-ji(2024-04-30) Vela Castillo, José; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Cinco estampas de Ryōan-ji son cinco aproximaciones al famoso jardín seco emplazado en el templo del mismo nombre en Kioto. Se ha buscado a través de ellas explorar distintas particularidades de este jardín y, por extensión, de los jardines secos japoneses de inspiración Zen desde distintos medios: la narrativa (Kawabata), la música (Cage y Takemitsu), el cine (Ozu, Iimura), la arquitectura (Isozaki y Mies, tangencialmente). No se ha pretendido ofrecer una visión unitaria de Ryōan-ji, antes bien, como el deslumbramiento en el verso final de un haiku, se ha querido construir un mecanismo de iluminaciones parciales que muestre, al menos, parte de su compleja esencia; pero que también ilumine simultáneamente la narrativa, las músicas o la arquitectura que se presenta. El protagonista real del texto es la muy particular espacialidad que pone en marcha este jardín (y la temporalidad que lo acompaña), así como el constante reenvío en el juego de huellas de sus (posibles) significados, que se diseminan en los distintos medios.Publication Urban Morphology and Housing Stock Granularity A Cross-Scalar Analysis(ESSD, 2023-12-31) Kayatekin, Cem; Uribe, Lorenzo; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Do urban morphological parameters trickle down to impact the diversity and granularity of a district’s housing stock? Do urban morphological parameters impact housing rental values? These are the main questions underpinning this mixed-method study of four districts across Madrid and Barcelona—two districts developed in a bottom-up manner and exhibiting high morphological heterogeneity, and two developed in a top-down manner and exhibiting high morphological homogeneity. The large-scale statistical analyses conducted from October 2021 to May 2022 via the course of this research delves into the cross-district variations and commonalities of residential values, dwelling unit sizes, plot sizes, block sizes, and street widths. Three findings of import are uncovered—(1) possessing an intricate urban-morphological (or housing stock) granularity does not come hand-in-hand with having high urban morphological (or housing stock) diversity; (2) despite not possessing a higher diversity of urban morphological elements, the bottom-up districts still behaved as slightly-divergent and more-affordable real estate bubbles when compared to the top-down neighborhoods; and (3) across all the districts examined, smaller-scale plots consistently supported more than their expected share of smaller-scale dwelling units.