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Bjarke Ingels presents paris’ europa city project in new video

Offering a mix of retail, culture and leisure facilities, paris’ ‘europa city‘ is conceived as a hybrid project that combines urban form with expansive landscaping. in order to explain the 800,000 square meter scheme, creative agency squint/opera joined up with the project’s architect bjarke ingels, who takes viewers through the design with the help of […]

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Postindustrial Landscapes

Architectural Association Visiting School conducts workshop at the Academy of Art University’s School of Architecture exploring Postindustrial Landscapes. During this 10 day intensive workshop, students and instructors designed a flying object with remote censoring to experience an elevated space. AcademyofArtU

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Alvar Aalto at Vitra Design Museum / Introduction

The Alvar Aalto retrospective at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein provides an extensive overview of Alvar Aalto’s life and work. Entitled Second Nature, the exhibition presents historical architectural models, original drawings, furniture, lights and glassware, as well as works by other acclaimed artists like Alexander Calder or Jean Arp. The exhibition is […]

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Master in Design Studies Program

If rapidly changing climates, energy flows, material economies, and migratory populations are the emerging challenges of our time, then research and design is urgently needed to enact change in new ways. The Master in Design Studies (MDes) program challenges students to understand and influence the underlying processes of what supports life today as a new […]

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“Contour Crafting” 3D-print constructor wins NASA Tech Briefs’ Create the Future Design Contest 2014

“Robotic Building Construction by Contour Crafting” by educator Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California was named the grand prize winner of the Create the Future Design Contest for 2014. Launched in 2002 by the NASA Tech Briefs magazine publishers, the contest was created to encourage and honor innovation from engineers, students, and entrepreneurs […]

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Importing garbage for energy is good business for Sweden

Everyone produces waste, and the Swedes are no different. It’s what they do with it that is unusual. Sweden recycles and sorts its waste so efficiently that less than 1 percent ends up in landfills. But perhaps even more interesting, and somewhat controversial, is that Sweden burns about as much household waste as it recycles, […]

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AA Athens Visiting School 2014

The Architectural Association Visiting School in Athens is part of the AI research agenda, investigating design possibilities of architectural modelling via scripting and digital fabricating techniques at large scale models.  The Architectural Association Visiting School in Athens is part of the AI research agenda, investigating design possibilities of architectural modelling via scripting and digital fabricating […]

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Zaha Hadid Architects Designs London Science Museum Mathematics Gallery

The new gallery devoted to mathematics will be composed of fluid forms generated through analysis of aeronautics turbulence fields. The Science Museum in London announced today that Zaha Hadid Architects will design its new Mathematics Gallery, which will showcase the history and advances in the field of mathematics. The gallery will feature a 1929 Handley Page […]

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Architects Explain the Appeal of Portland, Ore. (3 videos)

Recent development in the city has emphasized the success of all neighborhoods through strategic design and connections. (by Architect Magazine) by Architect Magazine

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Julia Morgan’s AIA Gold Medal

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) annual convention and business meeting in Chicago, taking place June 26 to the 28th, broke new ground, in particular with women in architecture. For the first time ever, the highest honor of the Institute – the AIA Gold Medal – was awarded to a woman, and the Beverly Willis […]

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Beyond the Super Square: The Architecture Challenge!

This evening of game and celebration is conceived by artist Pedro Reyes, organized by the Bronx Museum of the Arts, in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics by The New School Beyond the Super Square: On the Corner of Art & Architecture was a three-day conference and publication designed to draw attention […]

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USC School of Architecture Commencement Address 2014

University of Southern California School of Architecture undergraduate commencement address delivered by Corey Koczarski in Los Angeles, California, May 16th, 2014. by Corey Koczarski

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