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Willow Technologies Transforms Agricultural By-Products Into Building Materials in Ghana

Paul Yakubu — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:30:00 +0000

Willow Technologies is a material research and building technology practice that has been selected as part of ArchDaily's 2023 Best New Practices. Founded by Ghanaian-Filipino designer and architectural scientist Mae-Ling Lokko, it operates in the gap between research, development, and diffusion of bio-based building materials. Working with agro-waste and bio-based materials usually incurs technical questions regarding scalability, industrial production, standardization, fireproofing, and mechanical strength. Exploring this data is where Willow Technologies situates itself, but peculiarly through the lens of developing regions in West Africa. Through comprehensive works with coconuts, moringa, rice, and other indigenous crops, Lokko’s practice has been able to investigate and catalog the material character of various crops, their possible by-products, local transformation techniques, and the prospect and challenges of scalability as building materials.

Are School Rankings a Thing from the Past? 16 Architecture Deans Criticize these Surveys in Official Statement

Christele Harrouk — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 05:30:00 +0000

In a letter published on MIT's School of Architecture and Planning’s website, 16 deans from prominent architecture schools in the U.S, explain their position to stop participating in the annual survey that ranks universities. "Design education is not a popularity contest. Although generally our schools have been highly ranked in past DesignIntelligence reports and benefitted from the attention, we believe that it is time to stop participating", declares the statement signed by scholars, deans, and department chairs of MIT, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Yale, Rice, and UCLA, to name a few.

From Architecture School to Practice: How Famous and Emerging Figures Made the Transition

Andreea Cutieru — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 07:30:00 +0000

Architecture school is a place of experiment and a testing ground for innovative ideas. The academic work and student projects can bring to light the focus of an entire career, shape the backbone for an architectural theory, and crystalize values. How do their studies and formative years reflect on the later work of different architects? Taking a journey along decades, we explore the transition from architecture school to practice, the reverberance of academic explorations and early projects in the work of several architects and practices, highlighting the different pivotal steps that have shaped the beginning of their architectural journey.

Call for Submissions: Fetishes and Obsessions and Trends (Oh My!) — Paprika! Volume 5, Issue 7

Rene Submissions — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:19:00 +0000

Although the field of architecture likes to think it is cutting-edge, adamantly liberal, and on the forefront of history, we still look towards the compulsive tendencies of the glorified visionary, their revolutionary thoughts, illuminating process, and iconic vision.

Call for Submissions: "Vernacular" — Paprika! Volume 4, Issue 6

Rene Submissions — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 16:09:00 +0000

In the spirit of Virgil Abloh we put quotation marks around the word "vernacular." Then we replace the word with a blank and ask you to fill it in. What do they build with where you're from? What do indigenous houses look like? What methods do they prefer and who actually uses them? This issue of Paprika!, a weekly journal at the Yale School of Architecture, will probe the architectural vernacular, a concept increasingly in vogue but equally undefined.

We invite all essays and comments that reevaluate the “vernacular" in contemporary design, encouraging specific examples where possible. We also invite

Robert Venturi and the Difficult Whole: How Architecture's Enfant Terrible Changed Design Forever

Mark Alan Hewitt — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 09:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published on CommonEdge as "Robert Venturi and the Difficult Whole."

The Renovation of Louis Kahn's Yale University Art Center: A Significant Moment for Architectural Preservation

Lloyd DesBrisay — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 09:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published by Common Edge as "How the Restoration of Louis Kahn’s Yale Art Gallery Helped Kickstart Modern Preservation."

Oskar Hansen: Open Form Exhibition at Yale School of Architecture

Rene Submissions — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:07:00 +0000

An exhibition highlighting the work of Oskar Hansen (1922-2005), architect, urban planner, and theorist, has opened at the Yale School of Architecture (YSoA) running from 1 September to 17 December 2016.

Oskar Hansen: Open Form traces the evolution of Hansen’s theory of Open Form from its origin in his own architectural projects to its application in film, visual games, and other artistic practices. The exhibition will be on view at YSoA through 17 December in Paul Rudolph Hall, 180 York St. It is free and open to the public Monday-Friday 9.00- 5.00, and Saturday 10.00-5.00.