The book is the first monograph on Raphael Zuber`s work. It presents four buildings designed between 2009 and 2016, exploring their spaces through the medium of precise computer animation. Rather than simply a presentation technique, these animations were an essential instrument both for the development of the project and the evolution of the architect`s thinking, transitioning from a strong conceptual design to a more conscious resolution of spatial qualities.
In 1959 the American architect John Saunders Chase completed a radical work in Houston: a modernist house for his own family. No architect would hire Chase for the necessary professional internship when he – the first African American to enroll in and graduate from the University of Texas School of Architecture – arrived there in 1952. He instead had to petition the state for special permission to take the licensing exam, and he became the first African American registered as an architect in Texas. Yet by 1959 Chase had worked his way to a position of remarkable influence in the cultural, political, social, and economic life in Houston. His progressive house was testimony to this accomplishment. Its architectural form was equally radical, the first fully enclosed courtyard house – a building type only initially experimented with by progressive architects across America at that time – in Houston. Notorious but not well known, the Chase Residence, in both its original version and after a fundamental alteration undertaken in 1968, is an ongoing experiment in how a family might live. This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of the house, describes how its architecture frames experience, and places the house within the larger context of Chase’s career and times
This book explores the concept of co-dividuality, an architecture that expresses a new response to joint living in the age of postindividualism, social media, and the sharing economy. The focus lies on current experimentation in Japanese architecture and presents thematic homes with shared spaces designed as a result of warm, simple, fun and contemporary design reflections. In addition to their private room, the co-tenants have large common areas where they can practice urban farming, create a start-up, cook together, or experience new spatial ergonomics. The book offers an overview not only on domestic space but also on projects characterized by a multifarious mix between public and private spheres. What Is Co-dividuality? reflects on how we might want to live tomorrow.
Lise Juel is dissecting Can Lis into fragments, uncovering the masterpiece layer by layer, offering the reader a unique key in understanding the architecture of Jørn Utzon
Days of Oris is an international architectural festival organized by the magazine Oris from Croatia, which has been held since 2001. Every year it gathers more than 2,000 participants – architects and professionals from related fields. So far, more than 300 top experts and speakers from all over the world, have participated in the Festival.
ArchitectureForChange is a series of workshops and seminars that aim to foster knowledge exchange and to track innovations in the field of “Architecture”. The 21st century witnesses a shift in architecture and urban practice with architects, urbanists, planners, artists and others from different disciplines getting more and more involved in community development projects, urban development and conflict resolution; Mostly, Architecture is responding to today’s human condition.
This year we are back with Nudging limitations
We address “Limitation” beyond the traditional semiology of both limits and restrains. We use the word in its wider sense that in addition to its negative connotations of restrictiveness, its challenging nature that induces creativity to crack open the darkened status quo and sheds light on possibilities: It is about how limitations become submissive to the “will to/for change. We focus on spatial processes, ongoing and unfinished hands-on practices in order to understand, learn and develop.
We became architects to conceptualize, to design, to create. But too much of our time is spent searching for products, organizing details and writing specifications. Technology has provided tremendous improvements to the design process, but beyond digitizing all those binders, it has provided little advancement to product sourcing.
The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) is happy to announce the 2021 Great Places Awards in collaboration with the Project for Public Spaces (PPS).
The idea proposes an imaginative typology of a terminal space that permits the transfer of souls to either heaven or hell. The design concept explores various different theories of philosophy and expresses it through proposing a creation of an imaginative typology for all belief systems that serves as an arrival space for all souls before they embark on their journey of afterlife.
In PLAT 9.0: Commit, Walter Benn Michaels asked: beyond its spatial effects, does architecture have the capacity to convey a thought?
A beautiful idea or evocative image may stir our imagination more than an object, a building, or even an entire city. Yet, it is the materiality that constitutes the great power of architecture, its ability to turn a physical building into a truly transcendental experience.
Let’s think of how to improve buildings that we already have rather than, as often happens, raze them to start new ones from scratch. And when it comes to dealing with recent buildings, yet unprotected by landmark status, there is a lot of freedom as far as how they could be transformed.
Our cities today are an amalgamation of various choices and experiences of the past, made by our users, designers as well leaders. A by-product of cultures that abide in it, today's urban environment faces fastidiously changing technology and transforming lifestyle choices. ‘Communication’ has had a large impact on ‘commute’ and the meaning of ‘meeting’ is no more limited to physical. There has been a paradigm shift in the cultural perception of the built and personal boundaries and territorialities have strengthened tremendously. The quality of indoor and outdoor in an urban space determines the quality of interpersonal relationships as well and health and well-being of its users. It is hence important to plan and design spaces that are capable of accommodating transformation. In today’s scenario ‘Resilience’ is the only constant that helps keep the cities stable. The quality and strength of this resilience determines the quality of Urban life.
2020 has been a hard year; everyone needs a little break to take a step back and rediscover the things, places, and people they love. With this context in mind, we are proud to open the Architecture Illustration Competition.
We want students to explore what architecture truly means and what it can achieve without any constraints. This competition encourages students to create unconventional and exceptional designs. The aim is to let your imagination run wild and design a breathtaking Visitors Center.
PLAY is a design competition with the aim of generating interactive, modular and dynamic furniture prototypes for children up to the age of 10. Furniture for children should be a reflection of their personality and must be more than just a functional entity for them. The furniture should have an innate sculptural quality that could stimulate a child’s creativity and imagination.
Organized by the partnership of The Circle and Binat Communication & Consultancy and under the main sponsorship of VitrA, the Istanbul Architecture Festival will address the theme of "Paradigm Shift" with events to take place between 5-11 December 2020.
A3: Archives of African Architectures is set to bring forward the 20-year old archive of an important movement that birthed Freedom Park, Lagos at the turn of the millennium.
Graduate Studio: Alejandro Zaera-Polo