Strategic Urban Design, Planning and Remaking the City – Rod Simpson

Calls for a greater emphasis on strategic planning beg the question of how the public can be better engaged, and how one possible future for a place can be compared to another. Rod Simpson outlines the idea of ‘strategic urban design’ as the basis for integrating planning, design and community engagement, using ‘real-time’ modeling of […]

Emerging Practices in Mexican Architecture

Daniel Lopez received his degree from La Salle University and established his own firm in 1994. His work has included numerous institutional buildings for the Harp Helu Foundation in Oaxaca and a recent series of single family houses. His design focus is on the reinterpretation of modern architectural patterns in Oaxaca and the landscape. Renata […]

Olson Kundig’s Project Los Altos

For 242 State Street, Kundig conceived a 16-by-10-foot guillotine window that can open the 2,500-square-foot interior entirely to the outdoors. video by ArchDaily   Text by archrecord. In 2009, a progressive local business called Passerelle Investment Company was founded to turn the tide in Los Altos’ favor. Among its activities, the group acquires downtown retail properties […]

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Norman Foster – Sustainability and Architecture

‘Sustainability and Architecture’ with Herbert Girardet, Director of Programmes for the World Future Council and Stefan Behling, senior partner at Foster + Partners and Professor of Architecture at the University of Stuttgart.   post by ivorypress

Building For The Future Next Generation Architecture in India

The architecture of India is rooted in its history, culture and religion. Indian architecture progressed with time and assimilated many influences. post by TrDocumentary

Adventures in Architecture – Dan Cruickshanks

Historian and writer Dan Cruickshank celebrates architecture as a creative force as he explores the world’s greatest cities, buildings and monuments. post by Art Documentaries   Dan sets out to reveal how architecture enables people to live together across the world. He finds vibrant communities in extraordinary buildings – but why do some places succeed and […]

The Absent Column

Modern architecture, and the fight for its value in the world, is brought into sharp focus in this documentary examining the battle over the preservation of former Prentice Women’s Hospital in downtown Chicago, designed by master modern architect Betrand Goldberg. post by Nathan Eddy The owner of the building is Chicago institution Northwestern University, which intends […]

The architecture of the Oxford Mathematical Institute: William Whyte

Dr. William Whyte, tutorial fellow in History at St John’s College, Oxford, discusses the new Mathematical Institute: one of Oxford’s newest buildings, but one which demonstrates a century-old trend in buildings around the university.   post by oxford

The restoration of Astley Castle

In July 2012, the Landmark Trust opened the newly-restored Astley Castle near Nuneaton, Warwickshire to the public. The castle, which dates back to the 1200s, was damaged by fire in 1978 and had fallen beyond a normal conservation approach. This film shows how Landmark finally found a solution by inserting modern accommodation within the ancient […]