Constructions

Michael Hensel is an architect, researcher and writer. He is Professor for architecture at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), where he directs the Research Centre for Architecture and Tectonics (RCAT). Previously he taught at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London (1993-2009), where he developed the curriculum and co-directed the Emergent Technologies and Design Program (2001-2009). He has held visiting professorships and innovation fellowships and taught and lectured in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia. He is founding member of OCEAN (1994). He is founding and current chairman of the OCEAN Design Research Association and the Sustainable Environment Association (SEA). He has written extensively on architecture. He has guest-edited 5 ADs and is on the editorial board.Christian Hermansen Cordua is a professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and formerly Head of the Department of Architecture (2004-9). He has taught internationally and in 2010 he spent a semester as visiting researcher at the LSE, Cities Programme.. He has published several books and contributed to journals, books and exhibitions in Europe and America. In recent years he has held several European Union funded research projects. E-archidoct, which ended in 2010, and currently: HERA, Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment (2010-1013) and Erasmus Mundus Latin America Project (2012-2015).

• Editorial 05Helen CastleAbout the Guest-Editors 06Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen CorduaIntroduction Relating Perceptions of Constructions, Experimental and Local 08Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen CorduaChapter 1 Past and Present Trajectories of Experimental Architectures 16Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen CorduaChapter 2 Building In and Out of Place 24David LeatherbarrowChapter 3 The Bauhaus: Case Study Experiments in Education 30Barbara Elisabeth AscherChapter 4 The Open City and the e[ad] School of Architecture and Design 34Christian Hermansen Cordua, David Jolly Monge and Michael HenselChapter 5 Incarnations of a Design-and-Build Programme: Rural Studio 40Michael HenselChapter 6 Architecture by Latitude and Locality: The Scarcity and Creativity Studio 48Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen CorduaChapter 7 In Search of Context: Working with the Force of Erasure: Koshirakura Landscape Workshop 58Shin EgashiraChapter 8 Detoured Installations: The Policies and Architecture of the Norwegian National Tourist Routes Project 64Karl Otto EllefsenChapter 9 Conviction Into Tectonics: The Work of Rintala Eggertsson 76Christian Hermansen CorduaChapter 10 Integrating On-Site Education and Practice: TYIN tegnestue Architects 82Lisbet HarboeChapter 11 Renzo Piano: Poet of Technology 88Peter BuchananChapter 12 The Practice of Making: Studio Mumbai 94Michael HenselChapter 13 The Builder’s Name: SHoP and the Ethics of Knowledge Transfer 102Philip NobelChapter 14 Informed Non-Standard: En Route to Non-Standard Performative Architectures 110Søren S SørensenChapter 15 Auxiliary Architectures: Augmenting Existing Architectures with Performative Capacities 116Chapter 16 Nested Catenaries: A Developmental Route to Local Specificity 120Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel and Guillem Baraut BoverChapter 17 Smart Living Architecture – Solar Prototypes: IAAC, Endesa Pavilion, Barcelona 128Areti Markopoulou and Rodrigo RubioChapter 18 Outlook: En Route to Intensely Local Architectures and Tectonics 132Michael Hensel and Christian Hermansen CorduaChapter 19 Counterpoint Sustaining the Local: An Alternative Approach to Sustainable Design 136Terri PetersContributors 142