Light, architecture and health

En sansefilm om “lys, arkitektur og sundhed”. Filmen bruger hurtig fremvisning af lys og arkitektur igennem dag og år for de forskellige verdenshjørner. Filmen er et – anderledes – formidlingsprojekt af forskningen fra arkitektskolen Aarhus. I dette tilfælde er udgangspunktet for filmen Carlo Volfs ph.d.-afhandling “Lys, arkitektur og sundhed”.

House of Light by Croatian architect A. Rusan

Special Prize Winner: Rusan arhitektura for Lumenart — House of Light by WienerbergerOfficial

Mistassini Theatre by Paul Laurendeau

In 2006, Paul Laurendeau Architect won the national architecture competition to design the 491-seat Dolbeau-Mistassini Theatre, in joint venture with Jodoin Lamarre Pratte & Ass. Architectes. The building is strategically located in the centre of the city of Dolbeau-Mistassini. It represents a new major cultural institution. Its main street facade uses elements found in theatre language: […]

Toyo Ito: A Conversation on Japanese Architecture

A lecture and conversation on Japanese architecture with world-renowned architect, Toyo Ito. This event was a part of the UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies’ 50th Anniversary program of events  Co-sponsored by: Center for Japanese Studies, Department of Architecture, and the Berkeley Art Museum.   post by UCBerkeleyEvents

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Tomas Saraceno: Cloud Cities

Opening of the exhibition Cloud Cities by artist Tomas Saraceno at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum fuer Gegenwart in Berlin. Video by Astrid Gleichmann.   post by VernissageTV

Herzog & de Meuron Architects: Messe Basel New Hall

Just in time for Basel’s important Baselworld fair, the new hall complex of Messe Basel was inaugurated. Designed by the Basel-based architects Herzog & de Meuron, the new hall building changes the character of Basel’s exhibition site considerably. The exhibition square is now clearly delineated towards the city. The key architectural and urban-planning feature of […]

Designing Responsive Environments

Spaces that transform our idea of architecture. Cameron McNall is the Principal of Electroland LLC. The scope of his work is wide, encompassing architecture, sculpture, film, sound, multi-media and installation art. He co-formed Electroland with Damon Seeley to explore how technology can connect people to their world and to each other in new and exciting […]

Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (December 15, 1907 – December 5, 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilian Portuguese: [ɔʃˈkaʁ ˈniemajeʁ]), was a Brazilian architect who is considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was best known for his design of civic buildings for Brasília, a […]

Artist Egill Sæbjörnsson at his studio in Berlin and the Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen

Icelandic artist Egill Sæbjörnsson talks about his practice and new work “Brick Is The Key” (2013) for Streaming Museum’s NORDIC OUTBREAK.   post by StreamingMuseum   This site-specific video-mapping installation with sound was commissioned by Streaming Museum and Danish Architecture Center and opened at the Danish Architecture Center on October 10, 2013. Video by Rebekka Elisabeth […]

Expression through Architecture – Preston Scott Cohen

Architect Ana Aleman interviews her former Professor from Harvard Preston Scott Cohen. Cohen speaks about how contemporary architecture is able to arouse feelings in people using unusual proportion, distortion and perspective so the viewers get the false sense of space and movement. According to Aleman, buildings interact with viewers and produces gestures, and it is […]

Jean Nouvel: Architecture is listening

Meet the award winning French architect Jean Nouvel, in this interview about his relationship to the Arab world. The architect is supposed to listen, Nouvel states, instead of imposing his own values and sensitivities on another place. In the Arab world there is a battle about identity and modernity going on. Because the development is […]