Anthropocene Processes

When you walk along the Thames Pathway between the Thames Barrier and Greenwich, you walk through what appears to be a very large building supply yard, with a web of conveyor belts over one’s head leading to enormous tapering hoppers and mounds of gravel and sand. An information board tells you that you are walking through Angerstein and http://geoarchitecture.wordpress.com/2014/06/29/anthropocene-processes-mining-sands-and-gravels-from-the-sea/

Sea Scapes

http://mydesignstories.com/seascapes-photos-antti-viitala/

Italian Futurism

From a single manifesto penned by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1908, came a wealth of paintings, poetry, sculpture, architecture, and design known as Futurism. Futurism was an art movement ...http://blog.sculpture.org/2014/06/25/italian-futurism/

Architecture of the street

The last fifty years of theory have not managed to produce a consistent body of knowledge about the street and its architecture. On the contrary, human and urban geographers have discussed the street as arendtian space ...http://thecityasaproject.org/2010/04/maria-s-giudici/

Improving Life's Quality

The Daegu Architectural Culture Confederation (DACC) recently announced an international ideas competition to design the new gymnasium complex for the city of Dalseong, South Korea.http://www.archdaily.com/519241/dalseong-citizen-s-gymnasium-international-competition/?ad_medium=widget&ad_name=competitions&ad_content=519241?ad_medium=widget&ad_name=competitions

An iconic expression of supremacy...

A cylindrical matrix of super tall structure centered on an electromagnetic vertical accelerator to eliminate the hydrocarbon dependency of aircraft during takeoff. The radical re-interpretation of the skyscraper format provides hyper density in an organic and adaptive habitat...http://www.evolo.us/competition/launchspire/

a Specifier is...

In companies that make use of the specifier position, the specifier acts as an information gathering source between the engineer and the buyer. Once the engineering department comes up with a design, the specifier takes the design and comes up with a list of materials needed for manufacturing. This list includes very exacting specifications including the grade of materials and the timeline that the parts or materials are needed.
The specifier defines the nature, characteristics, and features of the materials to be used, including specific quality criteria and brand names (sometimes “or equivalents”)...http://www.theindustrialmarketplaceweb.com/2011/11/specifiers-industrial-definition/

Minimizing the consumption of energy...

Bioclimatic architecture of the 21st century resets the goal of human living in harmony with the natural environment.

Fascinated by the technological achievements of the 20th century, we built without limits, with the illusion that nature cannot punish us.

Now that we understood that we must build ecologically, it is useful to investigate our traditional architecture that was integrated in the ecosystem...http://www.greekarchitects.gr/en/architects-eye-view/greek-traditional-bioclimatic-architecture-id8960

A connection with the beachfront forest...

Laboratory for Visionary Architecture designed Jeju Hills Hotel Resort for Korea – the island will house a luxurious hotel designed as another landform. JeJu is a mountainous volcanic landform located in the south east of South Korea...http://www.evolo.us/architecture/jeju-hills-hotel-resort-mimics-surrounding-landscape-lava/

The Public Frame

This thesis puts forward the idea of the city as a Public Frame. The architecture of the public frame not only build the prospect of enclosing communal, natural, and artful life within the city, but at the same time it also regards a certain degree of organization, of management; with the aim of having an appropriate economy in its diversity of definitions. Therefore, apart from connoting the frame of a picture or the structural framework of a building or city, framing denotes an enclosure providing intelligibility. The word “frame” comes from “framian” meaning...http://thecityasaproject.org/2014/06/fernando-donis-defence-ceremony/

an Era of Making

This is an era of big shifts in technologies of designing and of making.  The imperious trend is also to blur the boundary between them.  The expanding horizon of fabrication is becoming synonymous with advancement in design.  In this jump-start phase, experimentations taking place in neutral controlled factory-like spaces are gradually expanding to the unpredictable ...‘outside’http://www.dezact.org/

Bronze-colored paints ...

A bright blue hue serves as the background for the bronze-colored paints applied to the walls. various motifs and symbols from animals to people are abstractly illustrated in whimsical and dramatic compositions throughout the space. the students will see the process of the artists...http://mydesignstories.com/yusuke-asai/

Eric Cesal Named Executive Director of Architecture for Humanity

Meet the new executive director of Architecture for Humanity, Eric Cesal. We caught up with him at the 2014 Venice Biennale to ask about his vision for the future of the organization…
http://www.architectmagazine.com/videos/detail/ar-2014-06-10-eric-cesal-named-executive-director-of-architecture-for-humanity/2143804?utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=jump&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ANW_061014&day=2014-06-10

The “capacitors” on the motherboard...

Inspired by Ridley Scott’s 1982 “Blader Runer”, Patrick Soares and Indra Alam, students at the Florida International University in Miami, envisioned a future plagued by after affects of war and corruption, for their master thesis. The context is of climate change, global dimming, pollution and de-population. In order to establish an architectural strategy for this scenario they looked into Deleuze’s idea’s of Nomadology...http://www.evolo.us/architecture/nomadic-city-unplugged-architecture/

Νever see things in isolation...

Because the exile sees things both in terms of what has been left behind and what is actually here and now, there is a double perspective that never sees things in isolation’

—Edward Said, Representations of the Intellectual

... Cant refers to one of any number of secret languages used by Bulgarian masons (Meshterski), Bosnian bricklayers (Banjački), Russian or Yugoslavian criminals (Fenya, Šatrovački), or Galician knife-sharpeners and umbrella-repairers (Barallete). Its etymological parents are disputed (either from the Latin cantare, ‘to sing’, or from Celtic variants, chainnt or caint, ‘speech talk’), which seems consistent with a cant’s capacity as an orphanage of words...http://www.bipublications.com/home
 

clustered Atriums

The Scitech mixed-use redevelopment by UNStudio is located on a crossing point of traditional and modern developments in Beijing, China. The site is adjacent to the city’s east-west central axis leading to the Tiananmen Square. UNStudio’s ...http://www.evolo.us/architecture/beijing-scitech-mixed-use-redevelopment-unstudio/

“Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital”

Despite the headline-grabbing hype, the promise and the premise, artists remain mixed about the viability and use of three-dimensional printing in their work. Some have embraced this new technology...http://blog.sculpture.org/2013/12/30/3-d-printing-viable/

a kind of mythic village...

Once the basic design—a kind of fanciful pagoda with schematic flourishes not unlike Leonardo’s inventions—was devised, dis­cussions with artists, musicians, architects, and suppliers yielded no end of possibilities and challenges. With a cast of contributing sound artists and inventors proposing a mind-boggling array of unusual or obscure technologies, the functioning of its instrumentation became a central focus, and it was soon evident that creating a series of smaller temporary musical shanties could provide an invaluable way of conducting field tests before embarking on the construction...http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag14/june_14/fullfeature.shtml

Everyone thinks we’re just stacking boxes...

There’s a detectable hint of dismay in the voice of Christopher Sharples, AIA, founding principal of New York’s SHoP Architects. “Everyone thinks we’re just stacking boxes,” he says about SHoP’s 32-story modular residential tower that is now under construction as part of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards project. When complete, the tower, known as B2, will be the tallest modular building in the world, made up of more than 910 prefabricated elements and comprising 363 units.http://www.ecobuildingpulse.com/performance-metrics/piecemeal-potential.aspx

an Underwater Museum

The underwater archaeological research deals with the study and excavation of sunk building remains and shipwrecks. Its importance lies in the fact that the underwater archaeological finds are often better preserved than terrestrial findings, because of their stay in a humid environment and their protection from human interference.

Pursuant to the concept of a monument's protection in situ