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Scripted in Beijing
Since 2004 Neal Leach has been curating an Architectural Biennial in Beijing, exposing the country to some of the most innovative and impressive architecture from schools and architects around the world. This year a workshop in Scripting and Parametric processes was held in conjunction with the exhibition, just another one of those good ideas that [...]
Design by CONTEXT
GINA, the new car designed by BMW, features a sleek and highly sophisticated performative skin. Instead of the traditional steel and plastic body shell, it uses a textile fabric stretching over a carbon fiber frame. This unique idea allows the car’s skin to change shape, stretching to match the position and curve of the wire [...]
A THOUSAND UNEMPLOYED ARCHITECTS
The figure is imaginative since there are no statistical facts to support it. But there’s a crucial conjecture based on the metaphor of this phrase – its ability to transcend architecture. Worldwide construction industry is suffering due to reduced capital flow. In spite of the Olympics, the largest show (on earth!) scheduled within the next [...]
I (heart) Corb
I come through the south of France, Marseille as a very naïve archi-tourist. My excuse? I really did not have time too pack and organise my travels properly, yet alone research where we are to be going (I am fortunate to have a very organised girlfriend who has taken care of this for me). I [...]
re PLAN [t]
During WWI and WWII, a government propaganda strategy became a moral buster during these harsh years for the communities of the allied countries. Under the name “Victory Gardens”, the plan Aimed to alleviate the shortage of vegetables supplies in the urban areas- since big part of the production was being destined for the soldiers across [...]
Eat home
Famine has always been a way for nature to control population, and with the estimated world’s inhabitants to reach 9 billion by 2050, it seams normal to see this problem starting to increase as we have dramatically more that double in number in less than a century. But statistics show that the shortage of food [...]
reflections about contemporary architecture
During the XXIII UIA World Congress of Architecture held in Torino in July 2008, the debate on the future of world Architecture in the 21st century revolved around issues related to depleted natural resources, population growth, digital advancements and environmental crisis within an increasingly complex and global contemporary culture.
The relationship object-subject-environment it is and has [...]
a vision of architectural research
We have reached the stage in contemporary architectural practice where the most common form of research and innovation lies in creating ‘shock’ architecture. Much time and effort is allocated for the research of new computational methods in creating the new ‘look’ of fluid forms, but how much of this actually constitutes proper practice based architectural [...]
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