Research Topics The research and design workshops engage with architecture, urban design and environmental art.Ruin Academy – Ouno 2010 Anarchic Grandmothers, Academic Squatting, Urban Acupuncture-these are some of the ideas behind the Ruin Academy.More Ruins – Phyllis Richardson, Archetcetera 2011 The Academy workshops include: Organic Acupuncture (spontaneous and often illegal urban farms and community gardens balancing the industrial Taipei and tuning the city towards the organic);The Community Gardens of Taipei – P2P Foundation 2010 "River Urbanism (landscape urbanism);Taipei from the River – International Society of Biourbanism 2011 "Illegal Architecture" (Architecture that uses the city energy source, like a parasite.Illegal Architecture in Taipei – Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, Architizer 2011 Casagrande adds, “many spontaneous and often illegal communities are growing that are more complex and fruitful than official development and official architecture – often blindly directed by economy and centralised politics. Anarchist grandmothers are cultivating illegal community gardens and urban farms everywhere around Taipei. They are breaking the city.” Academic Ruin Emma Tucker, The LIP, 2013 The Ruin Academy received the World Architecture Community Award in 2011.WA Awards – World Architecture 2011 The Academy is operated by the Taiwanese JUT Foundation for Arts Architecture, in cooperation with Finland-based Casagrande Laboratory.Ruin Academy in Taipei, Architectural Research Centre – New Territories 2010%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Third Generation City The core of the Ruin Academy's cross-over architectural philosophy is the theory of the Third Generation City, the organic ruin of the industrial city. The Academy is focused in the research of the ruining processes of Taipei that keep the city alive.Ruin Academy – Greek Architects 2011 The element of Ruin is viewed as something man-made having become part of nature.Chen House by C-Laboratory – Dezeen 2009 Third Generation City follows the first generation where humans' peacefully coexisted with nature and the second generation built walls and stone structures everywhere in an attempt to shut out nature. In the third generation however, nature, which can never be truly shut out, grows back through the ruins, through the cracks in the wall, sucking human nature back into the wider nature. Third Generation City concentrates on local knowledge and urban acupuncture. Returning Humans to Nature and Reality – Nick Couson, eRenlai 2011 Third Generation cities are those that have grown from the ruin of industrial society but lie beyond its fordist structure of social and economic organization. Principally, Third Generation cities can be conceived of as rhizomatic in nature and ultimately, bound up with pre-existing and future conditions of human construction.Ruin Academy - Lee-Michael J. Pronko, Art Science Journal, 2012%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% The Third Generation City is the industrial city ruined by the people – human natureas part of nature.Cross-Over Architecture and the Third Generation City – Epifanio 2009 The elements of the Third Generation Taipei are: Anarchist Gardener Spontaneous community gardens and urban farms operating outside the official urban development. Urban Nomad / Instant Taipei Light weigh and movable citizen architectural actions attached on top of the static city. Urban Acupuncture Architecture that is in the position of producing needles for the urban Qi. Compost Independent, self organized and often illegal communities that are organically editing the official city.River Urbanism A form of landscape urbanism – city developed from the viewpoint of river nature. Ruin Academy – Epifanio 14, 2011 Ruin Academy ’s workshops bring an ecological approach to a mapping of the city’s informal activities. In this sense, lodging a constructed nature within an architecture of decay dramatizes the incursion of the organic in the city  .Ruin Academy establishes a living fragment of the third generation city that counters the modern spaces produced by global technology and standardized construction methods.Harrison, Ariane Lourie. 2013. Architectural Theories of the Environment: Posthuman Territory. New York, NY: Routledge. Anarchist Gardener Cover of the Anarchist Gardener issue 1. The Ruin Academy publishes an independent free newspaper, the Anarchist Gardener, edited by Nikita Wu.Ruin Academy – Architizer 2010 The newspaper is an open form collage of the Academy's thinking on the future of the built human environment.Anarchist Gardener Issue One 安那其建築園丁 – Anarchist Gardener 2010 A special issue of the newspaper has been produced for the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism 2012 .Anarchist Gardener Issue Two HK special 安那其建築園丁港深建築雙城雙年展特別版 – Anarchist Gardener 2012 and for the Austrian Museum of Contemporary art MAK exhibition Eastern Promises, 2013.Mensch – Mensch 2013 Biourban Acupuncture The International Society of Biourbanism published in 2013 Marco Casagrande's book Biourban Acupuncture - From Treasure Hill of Taipei to Artena, which explains the operations, methodology and aims of the Ruin Academy in detail.Biourban Acupuncture – Marco Casagrande, International Society of Biourbanism 2013 For the industrial cities, biourban acupuncture offers a path to achieve the Third Generation City. Cities, to be the fall of the machine, where “the ruin” is the reality produced by nature, that reclaims the artefact. Biourbanism happens, when nature force takes the initiative, affects the design of industrial society, and becomes co- architect.Biourban Acupuncture, review – Angelo Abbate, International Society of Biourbanism 2013
Research Topics The research and design workshops engage with architecture, urban design and environmental art.Ruin Academy – Ouno 2010 Anarchic Grandmothers, Academic Squatting, Urban Acupuncture-these are some of the ideas behind the Ruin Academy.More Ruins – Phyllis Richardson, Archetcetera 2011 The Academy workshops include: Organic Acupuncture (spontaneous and often illegal urban farms and community gardens balancing the industrial Taipei and tuning the city towards the organic);The Community Gardens of Taipei – P2P Foundation 2010 "River Urbanism (landscape urbanism);Taipei from the River – International Society of Biourbanism 2011 "Illegal Architecture" (Architecture that uses the city energy source, like a parasite.Illegal Architecture in Taipei – Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, Architizer 2011 Casagrande adds, “many spontaneous and often illegal communities are growing that are more complex and fruitful than official development and official architecture – often blindly directed by economy and centralised politics. Anarchist grandmothers are cultivating illegal community gardens and urban farms everywhere around Taipei. They are breaking the city.” Academic Ruin Emma Tucker, The LIP, 2013 %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% The Academy is focused in the research of the ruining processes of Taipei that keep the city alive.Ruin Academy – Greek Architects 2011 The International Society of Biourbanism published in 2013 Marco Casagrande's book Biourban Acupuncture - From Treasure Hill of Taipei to Artena, which explains the operations, methodology and aims of the Ruin Academy in detail.Biourban Acupuncture – Marco Casagrande, International Society of Biourbanism 2013 For the industrial cities, biourban acupuncture offers a path to achieve the Third Generation City . Cities, to be the fall of the machine, where “the ruin” is the reality produced by nature, that reclaims the artefact. Biourbanism happens, when nature force takes the initiative, affects the design of industrial society, and becomes co- architect.Biourban Acupuncture, review – %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Angelo Abbate, International Society of Biourbanism 2013 The Ruin Academy received the World Architecture Community Award in 2011.WA Awards – World Architecture 2011 The Academy is operated by the Taiwanese JUT Foundation for Arts Architecture, in cooperation with Finland-based Casagrande Laboratory .Ruin Academy in Taipei, Architectural Research Centre – New Territories 2010 Anarchist Gardener Cover of the Anarchist Gardener issue 1. The Ruin Academy publishes an independent free newspaper, the Anarchist Gardener, edited by Nikita Wu.Ruin Academy – Architizer 2010 The newspaper is an open form collage of the Academy's thinking on the future of the built human environment.Anarchist Gardener Issue One 安那其建築園丁 – Anarchist Gardener 2010 A special issue of the newspaper has been produced for the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism 2012 .Anarchist Gardener Issue Two HK special 安那其建築園丁港深建築雙城雙年展特別版 – Anarchist Gardener 2012 and for the Austrian Museum of Contemporary art MAK exhibition Eastern Promises, 2013.Mensch – Mensch 2013
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