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Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2025 Examines the Technosphere and Human Impact on Earth

Romullo Baratto — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Thirty trillion tons. This is the estimated mass of all human-made matter on Earth, and the starting point for the 7th edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Curated by Ann-Sofi Rönnskog and John Palmesino, founders of Territorial Agency, the event asks a deceptively simple question: How heavy is a city? To answer it requires more than data. It demands a shift in perception: from the scale of the city to the planetary technosphere.

The Architect as a Scientist: New Materials Emerging Between Science and Design

Enrique Tovar — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 07:30:00 +0000

What is architecture? For some, its traditional role is to bring together imagination, technical knowledge, and problem-solving, allowing architects to design and construct while balancing ideas with the means to realize them. From the stone and wood of early buildings to the steel and concrete of the 20th century, each era demanded not only an understanding of form but also of the properties and potential of the materials in use. This grasp of materials has always been a core part of the creative process, though its scope was limited by the know-how and technologies available.

The Science of Design: How Neuroscience can Help Architects Shape the Built Environment

Moises Carrasco — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 04:00:00 +0000

In recent years, the integration of neuroscience and architecture has revolutionized our understanding of how built environments influence human well-being, behavior, and cognition. This interdisciplinary field, known as neuroarchitecture, explores the connections between spatial design, brain function, and psychology, offering insights into creating environments that promote health, creativity, and emotional resilience.

Carlo Ratti Associati's Proposed Milan Science Campus Features Robotically-Assembled Brick Facades

Niall Patrick Walsh — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Carlo Ratti Associati has released details of their schematic design for the University of Milan’s new science campus, featuring robotically-assembled brick facades, porous communal areas, and natural oases. Working in collaboration with Australian real estate group Lendlease, the “Science for Citizens” proposal will sit within a new Milan Innovation District, located on the site of Milan’s 2015 World Expo.

Donghua Chen & Partners Release Details of "Science Island Loop" Proposal in Lithuania

Niall Patrick Walsh — Sat, 23 Jun 2018 08:00:00 +0000

Donghua Chen & Partners released details of their proposal for the Lithuanian National Science and Innovation Center, an initiative known colloquially as “Science Island.” The competition saw entries from 144 teams, making it the largest design contest ever held in Lithuania. Donghua Chen & Partners were one of three finalists for the competition, with the entry by SMAR Architecture Studio ultimately chosen for realization.

Bernard Tschumi Team Wins Competition for University Research Complex in Paris

Niall Patrick Walsh — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Bernard Tschumi Architects has been awarded one of the largest university commissions in France, with the design and build of a €283 million ($350 million) state-of-the-art educations and research center at the Université Paris-Sud in Saclay, just south of the French capital. The “METRO Center” will form part of the biology, pharmacy and chemistry wing of the university, comprising six buildings connected by flying bridges, featuring teaching facilities, research labs, offices, restaurants, and logistics areas.

SMAR Architecture Studio Selected as Winners of Science Island Design Competition

Collin Abdallah — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 06:00:00 +0000

Kaunas City Municipality has announced SMAR Architecture Studio as the winners of the Science Island International Design Contest for Lithuania's new National Science and Innovation Center. SMAR's design was the highest ranked of three winners in the Design Contest, which was the most popular in Lithuania's history attracting 144 teams from 44 countries.

Florence Experiment To Show How Watching Movies Impacts Plant Growth

Niall Patrick Walsh — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:01:00 +0000

Throughout the spring and summer of 2018, the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy will host a new site-specific project seeking to further our understanding of ecology, and the relationship between humans and the natural world. “The Florence Experiment” will connect internal and external spaces of the famed Renaissance palace through two separate experiences: an intertwined set of 65-foot-high (20-meter-high) slides, and a “live analysis” of the impact of human emotion on plant growth.

ARCHITECT's 12th Annual R+D Awards

Rene Submissions — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 14:22:00 +0000

ARCHITECT magazine is now accepting entries for its 12th Annual R+D Awards! We would be grateful if you could share the competition details below with your network. The winners will published in ARCHITECT’s July 2018 issue and on our website. As with previous years, full-time students and faculty are eligible for a reduced registration fee!

With the array of digital, fabrication, collaboration, and analysis tools available, everyone in the built environment has the potential to produce groundbreaking, industry-changing work. To celebrate the state of the art, and the efforts that go behind them, ARCHITECT invites design firms, manufacturers, researchers,

The Experience of Architectural Space: A Design Experiment

Rene Submissions — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 17:40:00 +0000

What is architectural space? How is it perceived and experienced by the user? What reactions does it produce within the human mind and body? The Experience of Architectural Space is a interactive design experiment conducted by students of Hunter College. The experiment takes place within Natasha Johns-Messenger's interactive installation within El Museo de Los Sures, ThreeFold, curated by Melissa Bianca Amore.

http://www.iscp-nyc.org/events/current/natasha-johns-messenger-threefold.html

The installation plays with the participant's perception of the gallery space and ultimately with the very act of perception itself. Subjects in the experiment will enter the gallery space and have their pulse read at three critical junctures within the

Laboratory Design: It's Time for a Breakthrough

Eric Baldwin — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

As science continues to propel forward, it seems that the architecture to support scientists and their advancements is falling behind. The problem of laboratory design was recently brought up in an article by The Financial Times' Edwin Heathcote, who cited labs around the world, from Mendelsohn's Einstein Tower to Cern's giant timber globe, as great examples of an architecture of collaboration and experimentation. If some of our greatest discoveries today are often happening in mundane environments, what would happen if the architecture of labs and offices began to support and inspire innovation? Read the full story here.

From STEM To STEAM: The Value of Art

Eric Baldwin — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

In a recent article for the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, Barney Mansavage champions the idea of transforming STEM into STEAM (Science, Technology, ART, and Mathematics). He argues that overlapping science and art helps launch cross-disciplinary conversations and relationships, and in turn, promote experimentation; he thus suggests that educational spaces be designed to bring these fields together. Check out the article here, and more about the TED talk that inspired it, here.

Designers Don't Get Science (And That's A Dangerous Thing)

Michael Mehaffy & Nikos Salingaros — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This article, by Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros, originally appeared in Metropolis Mag as "Science for Designers: The Meaning of Complexity."