Publications by Marie Frier Hvejsel
INTERIORITY - A Critical Theory of Domestic Architecture
PhD Thesis of 2011
'A Place to Sit - Tectonics as Method in Architectural Education
A small book about about conceiving the furniture scale as an epistemological basis to architecture
Studio by Marie Frier Hvejsel
Frier&Frier
Furniture Design
Papers by Marie Frier Hvejsel
Individual Actions in Collective Processes and Forms: Collaboration for Change Across Education, Practice and Public Debate?
Sustainable development goals series, Dec 31, 2022
Introduction: Reader: Tectonics in Architecture
Architecture, Structures and Construction, May 1, 2022
CRC Press eBooks, Jul 8, 2022
What Gestures (Can We) Afford? On the Resourcefulness of Tectonics in Architecture and Engineering
Springer eBooks, 2022
An urban sink: Case study of an (im)material metabolism of buildings
CRC Press eBooks, Jul 8, 2022
Reducing material consumption necessitates a radical conception of the urban environ-ment as a “s... more Reducing material consumption necessitates a radical conception of the urban environ-ment as a “sink” for building materials, following the notion of “safe sink” from chemical engineering. In architecture, this means being able to describe the tectonic correspondence between material consequences (how architecture moves material between society and na-ture) and immaterial consequences (how architecture moves human experience and be-havior). As part of an ongoing doctoral study, this paper studies this correspondence in a case study exploring 5 constructs (sub-unit). Hence, the case study explores the tectonic correspondence between the immaterial capacities (experiential, phenomenological) of ar-chitecture and how they affect material flows (waste generation through renovation, dem-olition etc.) in three selected Danish low-dense housing developments. In conclusion, the paper discusses whether/how these immaterial capacities can become active design strate-gies for slowing material flows towards a conception of buildings as parts of a safe Urban Sink.
Tectonic Vocabulary & Materialization: Discourse on the future of tectonic architectural research in the Nordic countries
By referring to the fundamental question of how we unite aesthetics and technology – tectonic the... more By referring to the fundamental question of how we unite aesthetics and technology – tectonic theory is necessarily a focal point in the development of the architectural discipline. However, a critical reconsideration of the role of tectonic theory seems necessary when facing the present everyday conditions of the built environment. We see an increasing number of square meters in ordinary housing, in commercial buildings and in public buildings such as hospitals and schools that are dealt with as performative structural frameworks rather than qualitative spaces for habitation and contemplation. On the occasion of the Second International Conference on Structures & Architecture held in July 2013 in Portugal the authors organized a special session entitled From open structures to the cladding of control bringing together researchers from the Nordic countries to discuss this issue. Likewise the initiative to establish a Nordic Network for Research and Teaching in Tectonics is currently...
Tectonic Vocabulary & Materialization
Nordic Journal of Architectural Research, 2015
Gesture and Principle in Urban Tectonics:An Educational Case Study
Lost Potentials? – Unpacking the Tectonics of Architectural Cost and Value
Nordic Journal of Architectural Research, May 25, 2021
Architecture, Structures and Construction
Document Version Early version, also known as pre-print Link to publication from Aalborg Universi... more Document Version Early version, also known as pre-print Link to publication from Aalborg University Citation for published version (APA):
Architecture, Structures and Construction
Understanding the long-term consequences of architecture on human well-being is essential to info... more Understanding the long-term consequences of architecture on human well-being is essential to inform the underexposed social dimension of sustainability. In this context, architects are generally required to maximize the spatial capacities of architecture towards enhanced social quality and value. Consequently, we need to improve our methods for describing the impact of architecture across disciplines. It is our hypothesis, that tectonic theory provides a potential framework towards such interdisciplinary description by implying a critical discussion of the interrelations between architecture's impact on people's well-being by means of spatial gestures and the detailed prioritisation of resources in construction. As part of a research project investigating the social and socioeconomic value of architecture by juxtaposing architectural, anthropological, and economic analysis, this paper investigates the anthropological dimension of those gestures. Using anthropological analysis, the paper critically evaluates whether and how the key intended spatial gestures identified by the architects (in our previous analysis of the architectural dimension) are experienced by the occupants of the building in the form of lived spatial gestures. Data collection involved 8 semi-structured interviews with the occupants of a mixed-use building complex in Denmark. In conclusion, the paper contributes to the understanding of architecture's role and impact on human well-being, through the discussion of a tectonic framework describing the interaction between architecture and people as a spatial dialogue, in the form of constructed 'gestures' across the disciplines of architecture and anthropology. Hereby paving the way for positioning the question of human well-being related to the economic prioritisation of resources in construction.
Circular Tectonics? – A critical discussion of how the architectural discipline can drive ecological continuity
Structures and Architecture: Bridging the Gap and Crossing Borders, 2019
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