ON SITE r e v i e w
Spring 2019
35: the material culture of architecture
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Ted Cavanagh and his students worked with seven collaborating universities to design and build four community buildings using advanced wood shell structures (Birkhauser 2019). His research combines design, the history of technology and material culture to discover how knowledge is communicated and how innovation happens. www.dalcoastalstudio.com Andrey Chernykh is a landscape architect and urbanist based in Toronto, Canada. He strives to strengthen connections between people and landscapes they inhabit, through design thinking and the nurturing of ecological systems that support us all. andrey-chernykh.squarespace.com/ Richard Collins trained as an architect and has a particular interest in visual communication, representational methods and model making. He works in a teaching and research workshop, specialising in digital fabrication technologies, at the University of Edinburgh. www.richardcollinsdesign.com Sharon Danzig is an industrial designer who has recently focussed on the study of diverse populations with distinct cultural and design characteristics, such as the Bedouin community, the Ethiopian community and the ultra-Orthodox communities both in Jerusalem and Eastern Europe. He is the co-writer, with Jonathan Ventura and Haim Yacobi, of Fortified Design , the political role of urban design in the transformation of urban and rural, central and peripheral, formal and informal landscapes in Israel. Nicole Dextras lives in Vancouver BC. Her art practice is rooted in the environmental art movement, where our fragile existence is presented through transformative installations that mark the nature of time. Dextras has exhibited her work widely in Canada, the USA and in Asia, is much published and has appeared in television programs in Quebec, and will appear later this year on CBC’s The Exhibitionist . www.nicoledextras.com Nigel Green is a photographer, artist and lecturer. Published projects include Dungeness (Photoworks 2003) and Reconstruction (Diaphane 2010). Jeffrey Olinger, AIA, believes that our collective imagination has the power to change the world for the better. Our work is highly collaborative and ranges across all scales from 60 unit perma-culture devlopment in Lincoln, MA (currently under construction) as well as a smart bike rack project with the MIT Climate CoLab called the Flycycle. www.olinger.io
Yuxin Qiu , MArch (Post-Professional) in Architecture History and Theory, McGill University. His research centres on two topics, the classical Chinese garden and early modernist architecture, and he is interested in representation and architecture as experience. Jonathan Ventura is a design anthropologist specialising in healthcare design theories and methodologies. He teaches at the Department of Inclusive Design at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem and in the Design Graduate Program at Shenkar - Engineering, Design, Art in Ramat Gan, Israel. He is a visiting researcher at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art, London UK. Stephanie White has been the editor of On Site review since its beginning in 1999, and its publisher since 2000. On Site review is conceived of as a place to think about things, slowly. Robin Wilson is a critic, curator and lecturer in history and theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. He is author of Image, Text, Architecture: The Utopics of the Architectural Media (Routledge, 2015). Photolanguage (Nigel Green & Robin Wilson) is a collaborative art practice documenting and reimagining the legacies of modernity in urban and landscape sites. Photolanguage.info Cover image: The brick on the cover was scavenged from one of the old Union Bay coke ovens that used to sit crumbling beside the highway on Vancouver Island. Coke is ‘the solid carbonaceous material derived from the destructive distillation of low-ash, low-sulfur bituminous coal’. Coke burns at a higher temperature than coal, thus its value. It didn’t stay on the island, it was exported by the shipload. Union Bay, owned (as was effectively the whole island) by Robert Dunsmuir, was a company town with a coal mine, a railway line, a wharf, the coke ovens and a coke washer. Labour was imported: Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Scottish. The coal industry was a significant, extensive, disruptive extraction enterprise, connected by water to the rest of the British Empire in all its outlines.
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Demolition of the Union Bay coke ovens, May 1968. ©Cumberland Museum and Archives.
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