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Open architecture : migration, citizenship, and the urban renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA-1984/87
The International Building Exhibition 1984/87 in Berlin constitutes one of the most remarkable examples to discuss \"open architecture\". Almost 10,000 dwellings were constructed or restored in the Kreuzberg districts adjacent to the Berlin Wall, inhabited about halfway by immigrants. The renowned author Esra Akcan, related in many ways to Turkey, Berlin and the USA, narrates the history and reverberations of this architectural-political event.
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Writing Open Architecture as a book on Human Rights (and against Nation-States)
Drawing on the author’s book Open Architecture,this essay studies the relation between migration and architecture as a matter of human rights, and thereby exposes the historical roots of contemporary racisms, while giving due acknowledgment to the Black and Brown migrants in the making of even the most established European architectural projects. This analysis not only exposes the weaknesses of a world order predicated on the limited and constructed idea of the nation-state, but also outlines architecture’s ways to build resistance through the concept of openness. Defining open architecture as a new ethic of welcoming toward the immigrant, the essay alludes to the formal, programmatic and procedural aspects of latent open architecture, such as flexibility and adaptability of form, collectivity and collaboration, participatory processes, and multiplicity of meaning.
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Open Architecture
The International Building Exhibition 1984/87 in Berlin constitutes one of the most remarkable examples to discuss \"open architecture\".Almost 10,000 dwellings were constructed or restored in the Kreuzberg districts adjacent to the Berlin Wall, inhabited about halfway by immigrants.
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Writing Open Architecture as a book on Human Rights (and against Nation-States)
Drawing on the author’s book Open Architecture, this essay studies the relation between migration and architecture as a matter of human rights, and thereby exposes the historical roots of contemporary racisms, while giving due acknowledgment to the Black and Brown migrants in the making of even the most established European architectural projects. This analysis not only exposes the weaknesses of a world order predicated on the limited and constructed idea of the nation-state, but also outlines architecture’s ways to build resistance through the concept of openness. Defining open architecture as a new ethic of welcoming toward the immigrant, the essay alludes to the formal, programmatic and procedural aspects of latent open architecture, such as flexibility and adaptability of form, collectivity and collaboration, participatory processes, and multiplicity of meaning.
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Incomplete left-hand and complete right-hand pisiform and hamate coalition: multidetector computed tomography findings
Pisiform-hamate coalition is a rare form of carpal coalition. Only 14 cases of pisiform-hamate coalition have been reported in the English-language literature. We present a case of asymptomatic bilateral pisiform-hamate coalition in a 16-year-old boy. We also review the embryology, pathogenesis, and clinical features of pisiform and hamate coalition, along with the associated multidetector computed tomography findings.
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Is a Global History of Architecture Displayable? A Historiographical Perspective on the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale and Louvre Abu Dhabi
This article comparatively discusses the 14th International Architecture Biennale of Venice, directed by Rem Koolhaas, and the pilot exhibit and architectural design of Louvre Abu Dhabi undertaken by Jean Nouvel, in the context of recent big art events and world museums. Curatorial, historiographical, and installation strategies in these venues are differentiated in order to think through the question of displaying a global history of architecture. I make a distinction between the curatorial practices carried out in the Fundamentals and Absorbing Modernity sections of Venice's Central and National Pavilions as curator-as-author and curators-as-chorus, which I map onto recent historiographical and museum design practices, including the Louvre Abu Dhabi, to discuss the geopolitical implications of its installation strategies. I also argue that six methodological perspectives for displaying architectural history emerge from the curator-chorus of Absorbing Modernity, which can be identified as survey, nationalist history, case study, thematic history, archive metaphor, and deferment, all of which contribute to and raise questions about the ongoing project towards a global architectural history. After suggesting a difference between “world” and “global” history of architecture, I call for a more geopolitically conscious and cosmopolitan global history of architecture, by exposing the intactive bonds between the history of modernism and of colonization, as well as the continuing legacy of geopolitical and economic inequalities that operate in such venues.
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The “Occupy” Turn in the Global City Paradigm: The Architecture of AK Party's Istanbul and the Gezi Movement
The global city paradigm refers to the decreasing role of state in national economy, and of city municipality in global city, and the replacement of these powers with multinational corporate businesses in the context of neoliberalism. This article identifies an “occupy” turn in this paradigm, by pointing out what is actually happening on the ground in some of these global cities. Istanbul, for one, disrupts a few established notions of this paradigm, because neither has the city government been a weak actor, nor have informal settlements been attributes of globality, and nor do the habitants share the excitement any longer as confirmed most visibly in the Gezi protests of Summer 2013. The article then analyzes the AK Party government's architectural projects in Istanbul that perpetuated a construction industry as a major revenue under two groups: the urban fabric (the new housing and urban renewal developments) and the mega-projects meant to have a symbolic monumental effect. After underlining four points that characterize both groups of projects, the article discusses the AK Party government's Taksim-Gezi project in relation to these four attributes: crony capitalism or neoliberalism directed by and for the sake of the governmental elite, top-down planning, lack of commitment to public space and Ottoman revivalist architectural symbolism.
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