albino ortega house / Rozana Montiel | Estudio de Arquitectura

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Tepoztlán, Mexico

Why Designing a Person's Home is the Most Challenging, Thrilling Task an Architect Can Face

This article was originally published by Common Edge as "Why Homes Are the Original Architecture."

Homes may be the most powerful projection of architectural value. Because shelter is essential for all of us, the home is architecture’s universal function. We’re all experts on what our own home must be, to us.

But architects often have a different view of home. Twenty years ago—during the recession before the last recession—I remember hearing an architect declare that he could earn a living designing houses until “real work came along.” Another architectural meme is the classic first job: designing a house for your parents.

Uppsala University Main Building / AIX Arkitekter

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Forensic Architecture to Create a 3D Simulation of the Grenfell Tower Fire with Crowdsourced Video

Since the devastating Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017, the people of London have been searching for an answer to the exact cause of the fire that killed 71 people. Now Forensic Architecture—the Goldsmiths, University of London-based research group headed by Eyal Weizman—seeks to aid in the search for answers with their new Grenfell Media Archive. This online crowdsourcing database intended to collect people's first-person accounts in order to map them onto a 3D model of the tower and analyze exactly what happened to the tower.

ETH Zurich Uses Robots To Construct Three-Story Timber-Framed House

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Digital technology has broken into the timber construction scene at ETH Zurich, where a research team is using programmed robots to construct load-bearing timber modules. These modules are being used to stabilize the top two levels of their DFAB HOUSE project, a three-story residential unit located in Dübendorf, which aims to bring a variety of digital construction methods together under one roof.

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Interior ILL / INT2architecture

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Carnikava, Latvia
  • Architects: INT2architecture
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  125
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2017
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Dinesen, Zeitraum, Acor, Bianco, Blanco, +14

Small House / Masih Fazile

Small House / Masih Fazile - Houses, Facade
© Farshid Nasrabadi

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Isfahan, Iran
  • Architects: Masih Fazile: Masih Fazile
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  285
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Alfam, KWC, Knauf, Travertine

Bite to Eat / HAO Design

Bite to Eat / HAO Design - Interior Design
© Hey!Cheese

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  • Interior Designers: HAO Design
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  556
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2017

Pangyo H Residence / Kim Seunghoy (Seoul National University) + KYWC Architects

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Seongnam-si, South Korea

Yu Qingcheng Gallery / Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tianjin University

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Tianjin, China

Bookshelf House / Shinsuke Fujii Architects

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Yokohama, Japan
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  86
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2014
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Acor, Koizumi, Lixil Corporation, Toto

Artron Arts Center / Atelier Deshaus

Artron Arts Center / Atelier Deshaus - Extension, Facade, Door
Courtesy of Atelier Deshaus

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Jiading Qu, China
  • Architects: Atelier Deshaus
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  18300
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2014

Call for Entries: CTBUH 2018 International Student Tall Building Design Competition

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is pleased to announce its 7th International Student Tall Building Design Competition. The goal of the competition is to shed new light on the meaning and value of tall buildings in modern society. The deadline for submission is July 23, 2018.

The age of the tall building as a single iconic piece of sculpture, standing in isolation from its surroundings, is coming to an end. Designers have a responsibility to ensure that these permanent urban structures engender a future-oriented urban response to the greatest challenges of our time: unprecedented population growth; mass

Dovecote / Atelier Andy Carson

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Intuit Marine Way Building / WRNS Studio + Clive Wilkinson Architects

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  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  185400 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Sika, Interface, AGA, Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, Crossville, +3

Meandering Skydeck Features in HASSELL's Competition-Winning Shenzhen District Masterplan

HASSELL has won a competition for the design of the Qianhai Mawan Mile, a business district for the Chinese “gateway city" of Shenzhen. Stretching over one mile (1.6 kilometers), the masterplan seeks to combine “lush parklands, new cultural buildings, and a meandering skydeck” in a vision centered on human-wellbeing.

Aimed particularly at attracting young, mobile residents in a rapidly-changing urban environment, the Mawan masterplan consists of integrated public spaces, neighborhood zones, pavilion buildings, and a mile-long (1.6-kilometer-long) skydeck weaving throughout the development.

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Casa Bogavante / Riofrio Arquitectos

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Paracas, Peru
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  258
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Artco, KERLITE, KingBlock, Luminárias, Vidrios y Mamparas

Venice Biennale 2018: Collateral Events Announced

The Venice Biennale has released a list of 13 Collateral Events that will take place alongside the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, FREESPACE, curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara and chaired by Paolo Baratta. Previews of the main event begin May 24th and 25th, with the exhibition open to the public from May 26th to November 25th, 2018.

The collateral events, each promoted by a non-profit sponsor, will take place across the city in an attempt to enrich the diversity of voices that characterize the Biennale. 

The complete list of events can be found below, and make sure to follow ArchDaily's complete coverage of the Venice Biennale.

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