@conference{
author = "Ćirić, Dragana",
year = "2015",
abstract = "The form of the traditional city, completely surrounded by walls and fences, guiding the movement through built structure labyrinths, controlled street axis, gates and passages, driven by demand to maintain its integrity and possessions, dissolved with the emergence of the open plan and structure configurations, geometries of endless expansion, contemporary ideas of the territorial and economic internationality and specific national-international-supranational division, open economy and the capital mobility. The territory- and mobility-control principles changed with every reconfiguration of power structures, where, as the most important for contemporary moment, we can draw out the development of modern societies, the influence of early ideas of the modern movement, followed by that of a high modernism, just to be again revisited in several occasions by contemporary technological move towards virtual and soft control. By their laws, cities developed the geometry of the unlimited urban sprawl and inner structural growth filling up the voids within the same logic of the overall urban spreading principles. Accessibility/mobility-control relation through architectural interventions, acquired different status and material responses to established aims, values, and regulations (from military to open economy principles).
The main research subject is the change of previous historical city borders, the particular architecture that replaces them, and the very architectural act of 'bordering' or 'othering' in contemporary conditions. The question underlined is not merely about the porous, unstable, and inconsistent boundaries of the contemporary city leading to the form of the city-region, nor merely about its peripheries, about distant or dislocated possessions (as remote fragments of contemporary colonial strategies), but also about the change of the very matter, nature and position of those dividing forms, principles or entities. Specified as architectural ones, these forms were recalibrated in a way that abolishes centre-periphery division and corresponding spatial configuration. The bordering role, or a position of architecture, connected with its material properties and impact, historically used to spatially reinforce different acts of (political, military, administrative, economic, cultural, etc.) division, has been questioned by introduction of the virtual spatial control and design in architecture.",
publisher = "Belgrade : STRAND - Sustainable Urban Society Association",
journal = "On Architecture - Reworking the City through New Architecture : conference proceedings / [Third International Conference and Exhibition On Architecture, Belgrade",
title = "Architectural Bordering: Concepts, Models, and Principles",
pages = "36-54",
doi = "10.5281/zenodo.10940144"
}