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GUEST-EDITED BY
HÜLYA ERTAS¸,
MICHAEL HENSEL AND
DEFNE SUNGUROG˘LU HENSEL
JAN/FEB 2010
PROFILE NO. 203
Turkey
At the Threshold
4 Architectural Design ing Titles
March/April 2010 Profile No 204
Exuberance in Architecture
Guest-edited by Marjan Colletti
This title of AD heralds a new era of exuberance in digital design. Having e the alienation and
otherness of the cyber, having mastered the virtual qualities and protocols of the parametric, having
achieved the intricacy and elegance of the digital, and having fully embraced the potential of 3--
puter software and CAD/CAM manufacturing technologies, it is now time for architects to show off!
Conjure up the extravagance of furniture design, the abundance of CGI in Hollywood, the profuseness
of bio-techno ornamentation or the lavishness of Middle-Eastern and Asian super-urbanism. Exuberance
not only celebrates new Baroque theatricality, formal sophistication and digital virtuosity; it also
debates a plethora of joyful and intelligent ways in which experimental architecture manages to cope
with the contemporary turmoil in global politics, economics and ecology.
•Includes the work of seminal figures such as Peter Cook and Wolf D Prix
•Features Hernan Diaz Alonso, CJ Lim, Ali Rahim, Neil Spiller, Kjetil Thorsen and Tom be.
May/June 2010 Profile No 205
Territory: Architecture Beyond Environment
Guest-edited by David Gissen
Advancing a new relationship between architecture and nature, Territory emphasises the simultaneous
production of architectural objects and the environment surrounding them. Conceptualised within a
framework that draws from physical and human geographical thought, this title of AD examines the pos-
sibility of an architecture that actively produces its external, ecological conditions. The architecture here
scans and modifies atmospheres, arboreal zones, geothermal exchange, ic fields, habitats and
toxicities – enabling new and intense g