the Umbrellas

by Zongolopoulos

The Chinese publishing group Tianjin Ifeng Space Media Co. - Phoenix Publishing & Media Group in collaboration with the George Zongolopoulos Foundation included in the edition Landscape Installation Art - Beijing, 2013 one of the most recognizable sculptures of George Zongolopoulos, the "UMBRELLAS"...

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MATERIAN

Materian is a new initiative introduced by the DIA with a focus on Advanced Material Innovation.

Through collaboration our aim is to identify the most innovative and advanced materials ...

Source: http://www.colourways.com.au/materian/

Green Cred

It was only a matter of time before LEED credentialing launched a cottage industry in green education. The professional-training-course and educational-guide company Kaplan, which preps students for http://www.architectmagazine.com/education/green-cred.aspx?dfpzone=business.architecture_schools

the Sinking City

With bigger and worse natural disasters appearing on the news with no signs of slowing down, we need to rethink how cities should rebuild. When a city is destroyed, it is a sign that the city’s infrastructure is not suitable for the environmental conditions of that particular location. With so much variation of inherent environmental properties around the globe...http://www.evolo.us/competition/liquefactower-the-sinking-city/

as a Mirror Utopia

Four well-known architectural Utopias of the past 100 years are relocated 'otherwhere'. Le Corbusier's Domino House (1914), Lissitzky's Wolkenbügel (1923), Fuller's Wichita House (1946) and Superstudio's Life/Supersurface (1972) are reconceptualized, having another protagonist at their center. The Sub-Saharan African becomes the new protagonist, and the African planes the new areas where these Utopias are transferred.

This conceptual shift functions as ...http://www.greekarchitects.gr/en/διαγωνισμοι/a-utopia-for-all-id9104

Declarations

This acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980. For the fourth edition Kenneth Frampton has added a major new chapter that explores the effects of globalization on architecture in recent years, the phenomenon of the celebrity architect...http://www.thamesandhudson.com/Modern_Architecture/9780500203958

QR codes for Sculptors – A Mobile Marketing Opportunity?

One of the cool things about using QR codes is that if you can get someone to scan your code you already have their attention – this is a big step in any advertising or promotional effort! Once you have their attention...http://blog.sculpture.org/2014/07/09/qr-codes/

An emotionally-charged world

The Tchoban Foundation was founded at a time when the architectural drawing seems to have been supplanted by digital design processes. The founder is a passionate draftsman and a collector of historic architectural drawings. While just a generation ago, the acquisition of skill in drawing was still fundamental...http://www.tchoban-foundation.de/3-1-Collection.html

Told colorful anecdotes about Hawai‘i

Much of Hawai‘i Art Deco reflects popular percep­tions and promotional strategies associated with the islands that had been developing since shortly after the region’s annexation as a United States Territory in 1898. With territorial status came the need to estab­lish Hawai‘i as a destination open to even the most exacting traveler. In 1902, in an effort... http://blog.honoluluacademy.org/a-honolulu-magazine-cover-a-1929-version/

Maya Lin’s Meeting Room

To call Nick Benson a stone carver is a little like calling Louis Comfort Tiffany a glazier. Technically, you’d be correct, but there’s a lot more to it. 
Benson hails from a family of stone carvers who have worked out of the John Stevens Shop in Newport, Rhode Island since the 1920’s. Nick’s grandfather and father designed and/or carved inscriptions for Yale, Harvard and Brown http://blog.sculpture.org/2014/06/11/nick-benson-inscriptions/#more-3851

of Marble and Stone

When we hear of marble sculptures, we tend to think of the human forms belonging to timeless examples from Greece, Italy and elsewhere. A form is not necessarily a solid, as sculptor Matthew Simmonds points out through his work, which consists of sculptures not of full and defined human bodies, but of empty architectural interiors... http://www.yatzer.com/matthew-simmonds

Future of Shades

See how architects created new shade designs that protect from the sun, plus much more. The 2014 Sunbrella Future of Shade competition, in partnership with Architizer, garnered more than 110 shade concepts from small shade structures ...https://trade.sunbrella.com/en_us/awning/inspiration/future-of-shade/?utm_source=Architizer+US&utm_medium=Banner+-+Website&utm_content=Xafari_Generic+-+300x%20250+-+ROS+Banner+-+Flash+-+Intermediate&utm_campaign=+-+Trade