Argument 15/2023

Concept and materiality in architecture

https://doi.org/10.54508/Argument.15

Publishing director:

Anca MITRACHE

Editor-in-charge:

Anda-Ioana SFINTEȘ

Editing team:

Constanța Carmina GHEORGHIȚĂ, Oana Anca ABĂLARU OBANCEA, Ruxandra PĂDURARU, Claudia PIPOȘ LUPU, Ruxandra BALCANU, Cristina PREOTESOIU, Andreea MUCIBABICI

English proofreading/ Romanian translation:

Dana RADLER

Cover:

Claudia PIPOȘ-LUPU, Eduard KORNER

© 2023 Editura Universitară „Ion Mincu” Bucureşti

0. Foreword

Anca Mitrache
Concept vs. Materiality in Architecture

1. Retrospective

Melania Dulămea, Ana-Maria Vesa-Dobre
Evolving typologies - Housing density. Architectural Concepts Inventory

Silvia-Georgiana Pușcașu
On the border between the periphery and the center. Method of intervention in a hybrid fringe-belt type area, in Bucharest.

Mihai Puiu, Ilinca Maria Dan
Grand Hotel du Boulevard. The early days of hotels in Bucharest

Lucia-Maria Pălăgeșiu
Alternative churches. From desacralization to adaptive-reuse

Amina Al-Adhami
The influence of vernacular architecture techniques and materials in modern architecture. Case study: Irak

2. Introspective

Bar-Eli Amos
Ambiguity and exposure: darkness as material in visionary architecture

Stefania Kenley
Ready-made object and material as found

Andreea Iuliana Vornicu
A dialogue between matter and light

Adrian Petre-Spiru
Color in architecture. From material appearance to chromatic concept

3. Prospective architecture

Melinda Bognár
From presentation to reality. Translating the topological space to the euclidean space

Andreea Robu-Movilă, Sabin-Andrei Țenea
Exploring and discretizing the latent space of algorithmic imagination through affective computation

Maria Boștenaru Dan, Adrian Ibric
Mapping perception. Innovative digital mapping approaches as urban investigation methods

Stephany-Emma Trif
The architectural material as palimpsest. Monitoring climatic changes within the built environment

Irina Mihaela Moise
Inflatable architecture. Short critical history of uses in architecture

4. Reviews

Adrian Ibric
Transnational urban circularity, green transition and innovative city development projects, funded through the JPI Urban Europe and DUT partnership instruments

Matei Alexandru Mitrache
Canvassing the Concept 2023. Architects in Dialogue

Reviewers:
Arg_15_2023_referenti.pdf