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Sustainable Textiles, 2023
This essential book unravels the link between regional cultures, adaptive reuse of existing build... more This essential book unravels the link between regional cultures, adaptive reuse of existing buildings and sustainability. It concentrates on the social dimensions relating to Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi’s late adaptive reuse projects and works from the 1960s to the early 1990s, interpreting her themes, technical sources and design strategies of the creation of luxury as sustainability.The edited book charts how Lina Bo Bardi “invented” her own version of sustainability, introduced this concept through her landscape and adaptive reuse designs and through ideas about cross-cultures in Brazil. The book offers a critical reflection, exploration and demonstration of the importance of adaptive reuse in the landscape and related themes for researchers and provides researchers and students new material on sustainability for further study.
Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes, 2021
This chapter traces the origin of pearls and seashells as underwater luxury goods from a global-h... more This chapter traces the origin of pearls and seashells as underwater luxury goods from a global-historical and marine-cultural perspective within the sustainability debate. It illuminates the luxury of the hidden sea gems, its natural and imitation items, refers to writings concerning jewellery ethnography and discusses the impact of the connections between the pearl, fashion and tourism industries in Western Australia. Contributing to creating Broome’s viable marine-culture, it analyses the popularity of the Australian pearl and pearl shell overseas as well as relooking at the jewellery traders who introduced the luxury of the indigenous “ritual good” to an international market in the context of “sustainable luxury”. The chapter concentrates on the display of the Western Australian indigenous commodity in newspapers and magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Suggesting how the indigenous integration of seashell luxury emerged in Australia’s Northwest, the town of Broome impacted the multicultural pearling industry not only through jewellery, but also by providing an alternative solution for pearl fishery farms. The viability of the pearl industry demonstrates how the natural jewel has contributed to the meaning of sustainable luxury, transforming how to measure coastal remnants in the Kimberley region. Broome’s marine culture developed a form of Australian pearlescence as a sustainable luxury, with Paspaley and Kailis jewellery injected with authenticity, reliability and organic substance
Reinterpreting Cities, European Association for Urban History, EAUH Conference, 2016
What does the tourist town of Limone on Lake Garda in Italy have in common with suburban Montreui... more What does the tourist town of Limone on Lake Garda in Italy have in common with suburban Montreuil in France? Reinterpreting the infrastructural constructions to house fruits in these places, this paper will trace their lesser-known architectural marks through the urban landscape based upon established memories. In 19 th century-Europe the citrus and peach industries reached their peak, but by the turn of the 20 th century these sought-after agricultural/luxury commodities went into decline: peaches were no longer tattooed with artisanal stamps and lemons were tainted with a disease. First, this paper analyses the citrus architecture, specifically the lemon greenhouses along Lake Garda's towns. Then, it compares them with the criss-cross spaces for peaches within walls (aka peach walls), created in suburban Montreuil, near Paris. Observing the links between these two cases, it is concerned with memory traces, argued herein as promoting functional vestiges in European urban landscapes. Referring to German landscape architect Leberecht Migge's writings, the paper questions why such functional vestiges operated as alternative allotments in the urban landscape elsewhere in Europe. How have they provided luxurious spaces or the cleansing of entrenched spaces for those who live or work outside the city or suburb? Although the spaces within such infrastructural constructions have since declined, peach walls have subsequently been converted into public spaces as with Jean Nouvel and Michel Desvigne's 800 kilometres 'seam' design (2009) near Paris. And traces of the lemon greenhouses have inspired David Chipperfield's new private luxury houses (2015) at Lake Garda. This comparison of the remnant fruit-growing traces of Limone and Montreuil through the landscape enabled remnant spaces to become sustainable places today. Urban citrus-spaces cleanse microclimates and the conversion of peach walls provides us with beneficial changes as communal spaces.
In the late 1980s, when Salvador, Bahia, was registered by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, Itali... more In the late 1980s, when Salvador, Bahia, was registered by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (Rome, 1914-Sao Paulo, 1992) created original urban visions to improve people’s lives in Brazil. In mending dilapidated regions and restoring past monuments, Bo Bardi focussed her attention on modest urban renewal works involving the local community. Her ethical process and concern became significant as she thought social issues and participation were more important than architectural restoration. She vehemently adhered to the principles of traditional historical preservation, encountered earlier in Italy through Gustavo Giovannoni’s idea of “ambientismo,” and the heritage protection work led by Lucio Costa. Bo Bardi experimented with the use of concrete and used the widely-available material in innovative ways for extensions and adaptive re-use, while respecting/restoring the existing (in collaboration with architect-engineer Lele). For her, the new ...
Today, what is organic within architecture enables local craftspeople to acquire new expertise. S... more Today, what is organic within architecture enables local craftspeople to acquire new expertise. Studio KO’s Yves Saint Laurent Museum (2017) in Marrakesh, Morocco, is imperative for understanding the relation between sustainable luxury and local craftsmanship. The construction fortifies fashion with the environment as well as local brickwork traditions. For the architects, horizontal layers of textured brickwork resemble a textile weave and become a constructed cultural entity. This chapter traces the ‘more-ish’ qualities, defined herein as causing one’s impulse to create handsome foci (as opposed to the Moorish, which is culturally based), inherent in the YSL Museum from an art-architectural perspective within the sustainable luxury context. It explores the display of the camouflaged Berber (or Amazigh) textile within the building’s facades and interprets its ‘more-ish’ qualities of luxury through its spaces. Analysing Howard Risatti’s ‘theory of craft’ [42] and Richard Sennett’s i...
... 1 christopher.vernon@uwa.edu.au ... These glorietas were positioned so that trees could be pl... more ... 1 christopher.vernon@uwa.edu.au ... These glorietas were positioned so that trees could be planted to shade pedestrian paths. The Paseo de la Reforma became the major avenue and the AvenidaJuarez, an east-west street, marked the southern edge of the Alameda Park. ...
In a world of diminishing resources, the opal has become a sign of mineral exclusivity for the co... more In a world of diminishing resources, the opal has become a sign of mineral exclusivity for the consumer luxury market and its value as a luxury object comes from gemstone cognoscenti. According to one Australian Aboriginal legend, rainbow-hued opals are believed by some to stir emotions of loyalty and connection to the earth. Regarding the integral indigenous connection of Australia’s national gemstone, rarely has one has looked at the spaces where opal veins were once quarried in remote regions in terms of sustainable luxury. More importantly, the revival of South Australia’s opal mining industry in Coober Pedy by female Aboriginal entrepreneur Tottie Bryant in 1946; its development into a multi-million dollar industry into a modern hub in the 1970s; and the spread of the town’s construction of subterranean spaces a decade later, enticed immigrants to mine for opals. And when seeking an inexpensive and cool environment, the place enticed immigrants to live underground, providing an...
Sustainable Textiles, 2023
This essential book unravels the link between regional cultures, adaptive reuse of existing build... more This essential book unravels the link between regional cultures, adaptive reuse of existing buildings and sustainability. It concentrates on the social dimensions relating to Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi’s late adaptive reuse projects and works from the 1960s to the early 1990s, interpreting her themes, technical sources and design strategies of the creation of luxury as sustainability.The edited book charts how Lina Bo Bardi “invented” her own version of sustainability, introduced this concept through her landscape and adaptive reuse designs and through ideas about cross-cultures in Brazil. The book offers a critical reflection, exploration and demonstration of the importance of adaptive reuse in the landscape and related themes for researchers and provides researchers and students new material on sustainability for further study.
Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes, 2021
This chapter traces the origin of pearls and seashells as underwater luxury goods from a global-h... more This chapter traces the origin of pearls and seashells as underwater luxury goods from a global-historical and marine-cultural perspective within the sustainability debate. It illuminates the luxury of the hidden sea gems, its natural and imitation items, refers to writings concerning jewellery ethnography and discusses the impact of the connections between the pearl, fashion and tourism industries in Western Australia. Contributing to creating Broome’s viable marine-culture, it analyses the popularity of the Australian pearl and pearl shell overseas as well as relooking at the jewellery traders who introduced the luxury of the indigenous “ritual good” to an international market in the context of “sustainable luxury”. The chapter concentrates on the display of the Western Australian indigenous commodity in newspapers and magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Suggesting how the indigenous integration of seashell luxury emerged in Australia’s Northwest, the town of Broome impacted the multicultural pearling industry not only through jewellery, but also by providing an alternative solution for pearl fishery farms. The viability of the pearl industry demonstrates how the natural jewel has contributed to the meaning of sustainable luxury, transforming how to measure coastal remnants in the Kimberley region. Broome’s marine culture developed a form of Australian pearlescence as a sustainable luxury, with Paspaley and Kailis jewellery injected with authenticity, reliability and organic substance
Reinterpreting Cities, European Association for Urban History, EAUH Conference, 2016
What does the tourist town of Limone on Lake Garda in Italy have in common with suburban Montreui... more What does the tourist town of Limone on Lake Garda in Italy have in common with suburban Montreuil in France? Reinterpreting the infrastructural constructions to house fruits in these places, this paper will trace their lesser-known architectural marks through the urban landscape based upon established memories. In 19 th century-Europe the citrus and peach industries reached their peak, but by the turn of the 20 th century these sought-after agricultural/luxury commodities went into decline: peaches were no longer tattooed with artisanal stamps and lemons were tainted with a disease. First, this paper analyses the citrus architecture, specifically the lemon greenhouses along Lake Garda's towns. Then, it compares them with the criss-cross spaces for peaches within walls (aka peach walls), created in suburban Montreuil, near Paris. Observing the links between these two cases, it is concerned with memory traces, argued herein as promoting functional vestiges in European urban landscapes. Referring to German landscape architect Leberecht Migge's writings, the paper questions why such functional vestiges operated as alternative allotments in the urban landscape elsewhere in Europe. How have they provided luxurious spaces or the cleansing of entrenched spaces for those who live or work outside the city or suburb? Although the spaces within such infrastructural constructions have since declined, peach walls have subsequently been converted into public spaces as with Jean Nouvel and Michel Desvigne's 800 kilometres 'seam' design (2009) near Paris. And traces of the lemon greenhouses have inspired David Chipperfield's new private luxury houses (2015) at Lake Garda. This comparison of the remnant fruit-growing traces of Limone and Montreuil through the landscape enabled remnant spaces to become sustainable places today. Urban citrus-spaces cleanse microclimates and the conversion of peach walls provides us with beneficial changes as communal spaces.
In the late 1980s, when Salvador, Bahia, was registered by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, Itali... more In the late 1980s, when Salvador, Bahia, was registered by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (Rome, 1914-Sao Paulo, 1992) created original urban visions to improve people’s lives in Brazil. In mending dilapidated regions and restoring past monuments, Bo Bardi focussed her attention on modest urban renewal works involving the local community. Her ethical process and concern became significant as she thought social issues and participation were more important than architectural restoration. She vehemently adhered to the principles of traditional historical preservation, encountered earlier in Italy through Gustavo Giovannoni’s idea of “ambientismo,” and the heritage protection work led by Lucio Costa. Bo Bardi experimented with the use of concrete and used the widely-available material in innovative ways for extensions and adaptive re-use, while respecting/restoring the existing (in collaboration with architect-engineer Lele). For her, the new ...
Today, what is organic within architecture enables local craftspeople to acquire new expertise. S... more Today, what is organic within architecture enables local craftspeople to acquire new expertise. Studio KO’s Yves Saint Laurent Museum (2017) in Marrakesh, Morocco, is imperative for understanding the relation between sustainable luxury and local craftsmanship. The construction fortifies fashion with the environment as well as local brickwork traditions. For the architects, horizontal layers of textured brickwork resemble a textile weave and become a constructed cultural entity. This chapter traces the ‘more-ish’ qualities, defined herein as causing one’s impulse to create handsome foci (as opposed to the Moorish, which is culturally based), inherent in the YSL Museum from an art-architectural perspective within the sustainable luxury context. It explores the display of the camouflaged Berber (or Amazigh) textile within the building’s facades and interprets its ‘more-ish’ qualities of luxury through its spaces. Analysing Howard Risatti’s ‘theory of craft’ [42] and Richard Sennett’s i...
... 1 christopher.vernon@uwa.edu.au ... These glorietas were positioned so that trees could be pl... more ... 1 christopher.vernon@uwa.edu.au ... These glorietas were positioned so that trees could be planted to shade pedestrian paths. The Paseo de la Reforma became the major avenue and the AvenidaJuarez, an east-west street, marked the southern edge of the Alameda Park. ...
In a world of diminishing resources, the opal has become a sign of mineral exclusivity for the co... more In a world of diminishing resources, the opal has become a sign of mineral exclusivity for the consumer luxury market and its value as a luxury object comes from gemstone cognoscenti. According to one Australian Aboriginal legend, rainbow-hued opals are believed by some to stir emotions of loyalty and connection to the earth. Regarding the integral indigenous connection of Australia’s national gemstone, rarely has one has looked at the spaces where opal veins were once quarried in remote regions in terms of sustainable luxury. More importantly, the revival of South Australia’s opal mining industry in Coober Pedy by female Aboriginal entrepreneur Tottie Bryant in 1946; its development into a multi-million dollar industry into a modern hub in the 1970s; and the spread of the town’s construction of subterranean spaces a decade later, enticed immigrants to mine for opals. And when seeking an inexpensive and cool environment, the place enticed immigrants to live underground, providing an...