Revista Lusófona de Arquitectura e Educação nº 06-07 (2012)

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    Digital Pseudo Communication in Architectural Design
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2012) Antonis, Papamanolis; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
    This paper focuses on a hermeneutic approach to digital architectural methodologies. Firstly, it is established that the digital design product can be examined as an object of interpretation. Secondly the digital design process itself is conceptualized as an interpretative process, through the utilization of the model of the hermeneutic circle. An attempt is then been made to establish a framework of two distinct approaches to the integration of the digital tools in design. This framework is finally examined in order to question the limitations of digital design tools regarding the design processes in which they are being integrated.
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    Framing Luchtbal: Local Muslim Community and Global Urban Machinery
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2012) Stevens, Jeroen; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
    Luchtbal is a neighbourhood in the North of Antwerp, the major harbour city of Belgium. Since the last decades, the urban quarter became largely inhabited by migrant families. In this paper I will explore some relation between the extremely different scales in the urban process of migration. On the one hand I will elaborate on the historical evolution of the modernist social housing project of Luchtbal, and the way it became the migrant neighbourhood of today. On the other hand I will elaborate on the particular case of the local Atthawid mosque, and the ambivalent role it plays for both the social apparatus of the residential quarter and the global urban machinery.
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    Small Active Urbanism : Liitle Havana's configuration and use of public space as a paradigm for a socially sustainable urbanity in multicultural cities
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2012) Alvarez Lombardero, Nuria; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
    Since 1959 Miami has been the major entry point for Latin American immigrants in the United States, what has made of the city a hot spot of social conflict between races and cultures in the country. In Miami, a pervading logic of city space privatization and inherited modern urban planning tradition based on automobile use and secure suburban gated communities, have led to an increasing tension between individuals and groups with different cultural, social, ethnic and economical backgrounds. In contrast, Little Havana neighbourhood, epicentre of Cuban exiles in Miami for years and stepping stone for new Latin American immigrants, has become not only the most multicultural neighbourhood, but also the less conflictive in the city. Little Havana’s public space spatial configuration and its use by Miami’s citizens has made the coexistence of these different forms of life possible. In this article, an analysis of different small-scale interventions, community events and remaining spatial configurations created by first Cuban entrepreneurs in Little Havana, will unveil the possibility of a different urban praxis in Miami, based on small scale interventions and the activation of the public space.
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    Using visual methodologies to understand the urban cultural landscape
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2012) Menezes, Marluci; Allen, Judith; Vasconcelos, Lia; ECATI - School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies
    This reflection explores the advantages of using visual methodologies to understand the urban cultural landscape, focusing on the use and appropriation of public space by immigrants. We based this discussion on an exploratory study developed for the Praça República in Ericeira, within the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon, that identified specific characteristics of the use and appropriation of urban public space by Brazilian immigrants. It identifies five advantages arising from the use of visual methodologies: (1) the process of collection and registration of information; (2) multiple possibilities of articulation between the visual techniques of observation and analysis and the interpretation techniques for other information collected; (3) enhancing inter/multidisciplinary potential through the working methodologies; (4) improving the capacity to respond to urban social diversity and complexity; (5) the potential for mapping the social practices of immigrants.