“REBEL ARCHITECTURE” DOCUMENTARY ON ARCHITECTURAL ACTIVISM

Al Jazeera has launched Rebel Architecture, a six-part documentary that profiles lesser-known architects who are using their design skills “as a form of activism resistance to tackle the world’s urban, environmental and social crises.” These designers aren’t building glass towers for the global elite, but schools, cultural spaces, and homes for everyone else. And they’re […]

A building that is a play – TAAT

HALL01 is the first in the series of 32 sub projects that work towards the building that is a theatre play and the theatre play that is a building (HALL03). HALL01 is presented at the SAM decorfabriek, a large industrial space once used by Mosa, a tile producing company, which also served as the setting […]

Building with the Orang Asli

Building a communal toilet and shower with a Orang Asli community in a Jahut village, Pahang, Malaysia. The project is a hybrid of exchange of knowledge and skill between traditional and modern. The idea is to provide a simple modern support to become the backbone for the indigenous crafts. Scaffolding is used as structure and […]

Pojangmacha Porject in Seoul

Documentary of Pojangmacha Porject in Platoon Kunsthalle Seoul. The Pojangmacha Project is not merely an architectural event but has become quite a complex task. This experience has been breaking down any genre distinctions, with the participation of creators of every stripe, such as the culinary arts, studio arts and the various forms of designing. The […]

Diy designer

Building a diy designer greenhouse in 5 minutes by garryentropy

Wood Frame Hay Walls

Forest home constructed with local materials and hay bale walls. by yootubealator

An eco building named Speckled Wood

Speckled Wood is a roundwood timber-frame eco building. It was built in 2012, at Swan Barn Farm in Haslemere, on the borders of West Sussex and Surrey, by the National Trust’s Black Down countryside team and volunteers, led by Head Ranger David Elliott. The building was designed and put up in association with Ben Law, […]

Designer Builds Home Out Of Shipping Containers

Debbie Glassberg, a Kansas City designer believes in cutting edge thinking. She created a home out of shipping containers. It’s now part of a residential area in the Kansas City area. Why this former toy designer believes that her kind of ‘future think’ may have answers that the rest of the world can use. by […]

Anderson Shelter Restoration Project

In February 2011, Elburton Primary School in Plymouth, acquired a wartime Anderson shelter from a local resident. By June, 300+ hours later, the shelter was restored and installed in the school’s 1940s themed garden in order to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Plymouth Blitz, and to educate the children about life on the Home […]

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Cal-Earth’s Sustainable Architecture

The California Institute of Earth Architecture hopes their Superadobe construction technique may be applied to more traditional contemporary homes found throughout SoCal suburbs.   Post by KCETOnline Cal-Earth’s coiled Superadobe forms arches, domes, vaults, and apses using local materials are easy and cheap to come by. Overall construction of Superadobe is inexpensive, affordable, and sustainable […]

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 […]