Electrical Geology

Two-dimensional (2D) electrical imaging surveys are now widely used to map areas of moderately complex geology where conventional 1D resistivity sounding and profiling techniques are inadequate. The results from such surveys are usually plotted in the form of a pseudosection (Figure 1a) which gives an approximate but distorted picture of the subsurface geology.

 

http://www.geoelectrical.com/products.php

‘’Atlas of the Unbuilt World ‘’

nabil gholam architects has been invited by the British Council to participate to the International Showcase ‘’Atlas of the Unbuilt World ‘’ for the London Festival of Architecture 2013.

Atlas of the Unbuilt World provided a snap-shot of the future of architecture hosting over 60 models, from nearly 40 countries. The exhibition showcased architectural models of future projects from around the globe by some of the most by exciting practices and emerging studios working today. The projects have been nominated by international experts including architects, academics and writers and representatives from London’s embassies and cultural institutes.http://www.archileb.com/article.php?id=786

The Future

12 March 2014, JW Marriot in Cannes

Now in their 13th year, the MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Awards are the only awards exclusively for future projects. They celebrate excellence in unbuilt or incomplete projects spanning across twelve categories. The awards take place at MIPIM, the international property market, which attracts over 20,000 delegates to Cannes.http://www.mipimarfutureprojects.com/home

Xior Namentism

X|Atelier is organizing an international intensive workshop of Advanced Architectural Design. The X|A Winter Workshop 2013 is led by X|A principals Erick Carcamo (SCI-ARC) and Nefeli Chatzimina (USC) both Graduates of Columbia University in New York City, GSAPP AAD.

http://www.xatelier.com/workshop/

We spend our lives ...by their walls.

We spend our lives inside buildings, our thoughts shaped by their walls. Nevertheless, there’s surprisingly little research on the psychological implications of architecture. How do different spaces influence cognition? Is there an ideal kind of architectural structure for different kinds of thinking?http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/the-psychology-of-architecture/

Pure Green to drive the Future

Ed Mazria is the influential environmental architect behind the 2030 Challenge, which aims to eliminate the use of fossil fuels in new construction, and to cut the use of fossil fuels in existing buildings by 50 percent before 2030.

http://inhabitat.com/interview-ed-mazria-founder-of-architecture-2030-introduces-the-2030-palette/

Moses. A decentralized Network

Moses is a decentralized, self-sustaining city unit, populated by approximately 25,000 inhabitants, which offers the transition of men from land to sea, so that the land could be used for food production and the Earth could start its process of self-regeneration from the negative human impact. It functions independently as a city-unit, as well as a cluster of units, which share information, energy, and goods.

 

http://www.evolo.us/competition/moses-a-decentralized-floating-network-of-skyscraper-cities/

Himalayan Architecture

This broad treatment of architecture throughout the region of the Himalaya mountains is the first book of its kind. The author has based this study on many years of research in Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, and the Darjeeling area of northeast India, northern Pakistan, and Himachal Pradesh in India's northwest.http://books.google.gr/books/about/Himalayan_Architecture.html?id=KXyvjqJoBIcC&redir_esc=y

Himalayan Architecture

This broad treatment of architecture throughout the region of the Himalaya mountains is the first book of its kind. The author has based this study on many years of research in Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, and the Darjeeling area of northeast India, northern Pakistan, and Himachal Pradesh in India's northwest.http://books.google.gr/books/about/Himalayan_Architecture.html?id=KXyvjqJoBIcC&redir_esc=y

Himalayan Architecture

This broad treatment of architecture throughout the region of the Himalaya mountains is the first book of its kind. The author has based this study on many years of research in Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, and the Darjeeling area of northeast India, northern Pakistan, and Himachal Pradesh in India's northwest.http://books.google.gr/books/about/Himalayan_Architecture.html?id=KXyvjqJoBIcC&redir_esc=y

THE POSTER

the eVolo 2012 Skyscraper Competition Poster that showcases 620 innovative projects submitted to the contest (all authors’ names and countries of origin are included in the publication)...http://www.evolo.us/category/magazine/

The Skyscraper Museum

Located in New York City, the world's first and foremost vertical metropolis, The Skyscraper Museum celebrates the City's rich architectural heritage and examines the historical forces and individuals that have shaped its successive skylines. Through exhibitions, programs and publications, the Museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology...

http://www.skyscraper.org/home.htm

Hearing the Volcano

Volcano is a B.Arch thesis project by Joakim Wadenholt, done at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. This proposal investigates how to make the opera in Stockholm popular again by making a new opera house. With different stages, concerts halls and music events –this proposal will reach a much wider target group. Hopefully this mix of music shows and stages attracts more people and makes the opera show more popular as well.

http://www.evolo.us/architecture/volcano-a-proposal-for-a-new-opera-house-stockholm-joakim-wadenholt/

1960's The Avant Garde

ARCHIGRAM dominated the architectural avant garde in the 1960s and early 1970s with its playful, pop-inspired visions of a technocratic future after its formation in 1961 by a group of young London architects – Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb.
“A new generation of architecture must arise with forms and spaces which seems to reject the precepts of ‘Modern’ yet in fact retains those precepts. We have chosen to by pass the decaying Bauhaus image which is an insult to functionalism. You can roll out steel – any length. You can blow up a balloon – any size. You can mould plastic – any shape. Blokes that built the Forth Bridge – they didn’t worry.”http://designmuseum.org/design/archigram

a Cubic House

The Ambivalent Object_433 Cupid House by Ryan Hong is an exploration in curtain as poche, organizational hierarchy, tectonic continuity and the exterior’s variable presence or “exterior blackness”.
The floor plate of this house is not a direct offset of the exterior but constrained by its exterior while asserting its own proportion and scale within its given boundaries. Similar to that of a curtain’s estrangement to a fixed position, vector stippling –a drawing technique – communicates ambivalence as it lacks the commitment of a solid line.

http://www.evolo.us/architecture/cupid-house-is-an-exploration-in-organizational-hierarchy-and-tectonic-continuity/

Prepared for Storms

A year after Hurricane Sandy struck the United States, destroying houses and public infrastructure along the Eastern Seaboard, we reached out to several architects and posed two questions: What did you learn from Sandy? And how can architects prepare for the next storm?

http://www.archdaily.com/

Under the Sky

Η έκθεση φωτογραφίας «Ναοί στο σχήμα του ουρανού…» του Λουκά Χαψή άνοιξε  τις πύλες του ουράνιου θόλου της αρχαιότητας, την Τετάρτη 6 Νοεμβρίου 2013 στο Ίδρυμα Ευγενίδου και υποδέχεται το κοινό σε μια μοναδική διαδρομή φωτισμένη από αστρικές «ανταύγειες» πάνω στα αρχετυπικά μνημεία της ελληνικής αρχαιότητας.

 Aστρικές τροχιές, αστερισμοί, νεφελώματα και ο Γαλαξίας με το λεπτό, μυστηριακό φως τους διασχίζουν το νυκτερινό ουρανό και πλαισιώνουν την αρχαία μας κληρονομιά. Από την Ολυμπία ως τη Δήλο και από το Δίον ως την Κνωσό, ο φωτογράφος Λουκάς Χαψής μάς παρασύρει σε μια ονειρική όσο και πρωτότυπη επίσκεψη σε δεκατέσσερεις σημαντικές τοποθεσίες, όπου πάλαι ποτέ έλαμψε ο ελληνικός πολιτισμός.

http://www.eugenfound.edu.gr/frontoffice/portal.asp?cpage=RESOURCE&cresrc=3244&cnode=149

Connecting Districts

Compresscity, designed by Master of Architecture graduate Garrett Ryan Miller from California College of the Arts, is a speculative architectural intervention  that allows for a more sophisticated cross-occupation of urban vacancies near commercial and industrial zones along the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle, Washington.http://www.evolo.us/architecture/compresscity-connecting-districts

To be famous

Marble Trend started its publishing life in June, 2007. The magazine is published in every 3 month under the direction of the experienced journalist Çağlayan Sueli. Besides 4 periodic issues, 2 special China issues are published.http://www.marbletrend.com.tr/

DC-Cam has commissioned Zaha Hadid to design...

The Documentation Center of Cambodia’s (DC-Cam) has commissioned Zaha Hadid to design the much-anticipated genocide studies institute in Phnom Penh. The new campus, known as the Sleuk Rith Institute, will serve as an extension of DC-Cam’s work as the country’s go-to archive for Khmer Rouge history as well as a leading center for genocide studies in Asia. Within a modest campus, the institute will house a “cross-section of pursuits,” including a genocide studies center, a school, a museum for memorial and education purposes, and more.

http://www.archdaily.com/443616/zaha-hadid-to-design-sleuk-rith-institute-in-cambodia/

the Process of Creating

The Death of Authorship is B.Arch thesis project by Yoon Her, done at USC – University of Southern California, Los Angeles. The title of the projects indicates the situation we are witnessing and confronting for the 21 century, and the design tries to offer one’s prospective mind throughout the site of Pershing Square, Los Angeles. The program cycle of this edifice is mimicking the process of creating, producing and consuming of authorship while the building will hold emergent activities including writing, reading, printing, binding and copyrighting.

http://www.evolo.us/architecture/the-death-of-authorship-preserving-ideas-through-architecture/

Complex Marine Ecologies

Jessica Hernandez, Edgar Garcia, and Bing Bai of the Master of Architecture II, Geofutures, Post Professional Program in Architecture and Urbanism at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , under the guidance of the following faculty: Chris Perry and Andrew Saunders with Fleet Hower, propose an archipelago of remote islands which support a fragile ecology of marine wildlife, located in the Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii.

http://www.rpi.edu/