Posts tagged architecture
“Housing that is dignified, durable, beautiful and adaptable, and made available for all.” Dan Hill and Mariana Mazzucato dream big
The original sustainable architect, an evocation of time and tide, one year in a flower-farmer's life: A/V for Spring
Can stone return as a viable and sustainable material for buildings and constructions?
So what would a "farmscraper" look like - bringing living, working and the production of food to the heart of cities? Studio Precht shows us
Alternative Editorial: We Have To Build The Alternative To War
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, WAR/PEACEpat kanewar, violence, architecture, citizens assembly, democracy, peace, agency, participation
“We're living through a global 'blandemic' in building design - an age of boring”, says Thomas Heatherwick, who wants emotion to return to architecture
“When we design, we really have to be feeling the Earth in some way, we cannot continue to inflict damage on it.” RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner, Yasmeen Lari
In the move from enlightenment to entanglement, Indy Johar sees a new path through a world in flux
Alternative Editorial: Love Needs Architecture
A/UK EDITORIAL, ARTISTS, BEHAVIOUR, COMMUNITY, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, PLANET A, POLITICAL CULTUREpat kaneearth day, Planet A, planetarians, Extinction Rebellion, architecture, language, new politics, infrastructure
Dezeen's new Climate Salon podcast explores how designers and architects can help us pursue "radical sustainable living"
Italy's Domus magazine bring us eco-modern beauty: the forthcoming Burning Man temple, and Bologna's Museum of Girls and Boys
Here's the world's first 3D-printed net-zero home, producing as much energy as it consumes
"A floating, multifunctional space for a community": Ecuador's Santay Observatory tests out residence on water
A day of visionary urbanists and community designers, speaking at Turkey's Harvest Kaplankaya
COMMUNITY, GLOBALISTS, SOCIO-POLITICS, REGEN ECONOMIES, NEW ECONOMICS, LOCALISM, MANIFESTOS, 4TH SECTORpat kaneturkey, urban studies, urban development, architecture, design, ecodesign, biomimicry
"Somewhere between back to the land and back to the future": the architects who built a mini-topia in Vermont
“Fixers” know and see different things than “designers” or “users”. Shannon Mattern on the growing centrality of maintenance
ACTION, PRACTICE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, NEW ECONOMICS, LEARNING, INGENUITY, ARTISTSpat kanearchitecture, design, care, maintenance, repair
Regeneration! (1): "place-building", in a regenerative way, is happening at London's RSA, and at the Netherlands' Common Woods
How anarchist architecture could help us build back better after COVID
Cities should be for experiment - Hamburg putting digitality at the service of citizens, and Chicago showing architecture how to get close to the people
Take some old Edinburgh interiors, and turn them a philosophy library, a mindful dance club, an island of knowledge…