Adrian Hawker

... 83-85. Educational Practice and Interpretation Richard Coyne, Dorian Wiszniewski and Adrian Hawker Department of Architecture University of Edinburgh ... Freire, P. (1972). Pedagogy of the Oppressed, trans. MB Ramos, Herder and Herder, New York. Gadamer, H.-G. (1989). ...

The term landscape metropolis and its associated practice of reading the city through the terminology and ‘lens’ of the landscape rather than the normal conventions of urban studies is generally applied to the contemporary city and its expansion beyond the historic centre. Yet, this approach also chimes with the peculiarities of the historic island city and the close relationship such cities have with the restricted, liminal ground on which they are founded. This paper explores the hypothesis that an island city can be understood as a metropolitan landscape as a consequence of peculiarities of geography, ecology, culture, place, and resiliency. By focusing on one such city, Valletta, a heightened case, in which a 16th Century metropolis was founded as Renaissance ‘ideal’, the paper examines the reciprocity between this projected ‘ideal’ and the actual landscape where the metropolis is fused and, indeed, confused with the landscape so that the spatial coherence between city and landscape determines the nature of the metropolis.

The term landscape metropolis and its associated practice of reading the city through the terminology and 'lens' of the landscape rather than the normal conventions of urban studies is generally applied to the contemporary city and its expansion beyond the historic centre. Yet, this approach also chimes with the peculiarities of the historic island city and the close relationship such cities have with the restricted, liminal ground on which they are founded. This paper explores the hypothesis that an island city can be understood as a metropolitan landscape as a consequence of peculiarities of geography, ecology, culture, place, and resiliency. By focusing on one such city, Valetta, a heightened case, in which a 16th Century metropolis was founded as Renaissance 'ideal', the paper examines the reciprocity between this projected 'ideal' and the actual landscape where the metropolis is fused and, indeed, confused with the landscape so that the spatial coherence between city and landscape determines the nature of the metropolis.

The term landscape metropolis and its associated practice of reading the city through the terminology and ‘lens’ of the landscape rather than the normal conventions of urban studies is generally applied to the contemporary city and its expansion beyond the historic centre. Yet, this approach also chimes with the peculiarities of the historic island city and the close relationship such cities have with the restricted, liminal ground on which they are founded. This paper explores the hypothesis that an island city can be understood as a metropolitan landscape as a consequence of peculiarities of geography, ecology, culture, place, and resiliency. By focusing on one such city, Valletta, a heightened case, in which a 16th Century metropolis was founded as Renaissance ‘ideal’, the paper examines the reciprocity between this projected ‘ideal’ and the actual landscape where the metropolis is fused and, indeed, confused with the landscape so that the spatial coherence between city and lands...

In the years prior to the commencement of major built works, Bridgebuilding No.4 Ponte Dell’ Academia holds a critical position within the formative work of the architect Peter Wilson. Significantly, it sits between the two key AA publications of this period, Peter L Wilson — Bridgebuildings + the Shipshape and Western Objects Eastern Fields: Recent Projects by the Architekturbüro Bolles Wilson. As such, this response to Aldo Rossi’s Biennale competition of 1985 articulates a transition between the graphic operations of a lone practitioner, where the representation of architecture is itself the final product and the establishment of a collaborative practice engaged in construction. The transition mirrors the particularities of the representational techniques employed — a movement away from heavily worked, soft graphite renderings to tighter, more immediately tectonic articulations of fine line drawings and detailed models. The project was published twice, featuring in the spring 198...

This paper presents and discusses the design of a retrospective exhibition of the work of Metis, shown at the Arkitektskolen, Aarhus, Denmark between 10 October and 14 November 2014 and at Edinburgh College of Art between 27 March and 6 April 2015. Making reference to Bruno Latour's distinction between 'objects' and 'things', as developed in his influential article 'Why has critique run out of steam?' (2004), it speculates on what it would mean to conceptualise an exhibition as a 'thing' – that is, as a gathering of relations – and how this might affect our approach to it. In the case of the Metis exhibition, which was titled 'On the Surface', this issue is related to the agency of the large-scale textile drawing that covered the floor of the gallery, forming a kind of raft within it upon which visitors walked. Acting as a gathering space for both exhibits and visitors, the drawing was constituted through a complex of representational moda...