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Between 1968 and 1970 Georges Candilis worked on a project for the construction of two shopping centres in the Le Barcarès-Leucate tourist train station located on the Languedoc-Roussillon region of the French coast. This article studies the project as an exemplary intervention in terms of the construction being inserted as a stem in the urban storyline, the organisation of the commercial programme in a mat-building style, and the diverse applications of the meccano construction set. This article analyses, through architectural writings, the character in which consumer society lends itself to the commercial architecture, which itself is finally turned into a consumer object.

The origins of the University of Toulouse le Mirail, built between 1966 and 1972 by Georges Candilis, Alexis Josic, and Shadrach Woods, are part of a large residential project that was undertaken in Toulouse, France. This building is an emblematic work that falls under the category of modern universities. It is analysed from two significant aspects, the first being purpose it gives to the city: it is a new functional centre as well as serving as a community. The second is its value as a project, as it can be identified as a reference to the architectural system mat-building: a style characteristic of Team 10 and the universities that they built.

La relación de Le Corbusier con la enseñanza de la arquitectura siempre fue díscola. Su condición de autodidacta siempre la subrayó como una de las razones de su éxito. ¿Por qué construye entonces una escuela de arquitectura en Chandigarh? El artículo presenta datos generales del encargo y de la relación existente con el proyecto de la escuela de artes en la misma ciudad; así mismo, busca la forma en la que el propio proyecto es una manera muy lecorbuseriana de enseñar arquitectura, a partir de un modelo que partiendo del Modulor crea un sistema de edificio de crecimiento ilimitado en horizontal, es decir, un mat-building.

Composed of a series of essays, this book deals with the broad issues affecting the nature of architectural materials and provides a focused review of the state of the art materials. It also provides designers with the tools they need to evaluate and select from the thousands of different materials that are available to them. The book is organized into three sections; 'Time' looks at how the materials used in architectural design have changed over the years showing how we have come to use the materials we do in contemporary design. 'Materials' covers all five material families; metals, polymers, ceramics, composites and natural materials giving in depth information on their properties, behavior, origins and uses in design. It also introduces a review of the cutting edge research for each family. 'Systems' outlines the technical design-orientated research that uncovers how new architectural assemblies can be designed and engineered. All of this practical advice is given along with many real case examples illustrating how this knowledge and information has been, and can be, used in architectural design.

Intermingling architectural, cultural, and religious history, Louis Nelson reads Anglican architecture and decorative arts as documents of eighteenth-century religious practice and belief. InThe Beauty of Holiness, he tells the story of the Church of England in colonial South Carolina, revealing how the colony's Anglicans negotiated the tensions between the persistence of seventeenth-century religious practice and the rising tide of Enlightenment thought and sentimentality.Nelson begins with a careful examination of the buildings, grave markers, and communion silver fashioned and used by early Anglicans. Turning to the religious functions of local churches, he uses these objects and artifacts to explore Anglican belief and practice in South Carolina. Chapters focus on the role of the senses in religious understanding, the practice of the sacraments, and the place of beauty, regularity, and order in eighteenth-century Anglicanism. The final section of the book considers the ways church architecture and material culture reinforced social and political hierarchies.Richly illustrated with more than 250 architectural images and photographs of religious objects,The Beauty of Holinessdepends on exhaustive fieldwork to track changes in historical architecture. Nelson imaginatively reconstructs the history of the Church of England in colonial South Carolina and its role in public life, from its early years of ambivalent standing within the colony through the second wave of Anglicanism beginning in the early 1750s.

America stocks its shelves with mass-produced goods but fills its imagination with handmade folk objects.In Pennsylvania, the \"back to the city\" housing movement causes a conflict of cultures.In Indiana, an old tradition of butchering turtles for church picnics evokes both pride and loathing among residents.