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Parallel to this reduction in oil supply will be a reduction, year by year, in our society’s ability to extract, manufacture, transport, communicate, sell and purchase resources at previous economic levels.
A building speaks for what it is, and for what it stands for. It has a function/purpose, it can represent an idea thought how it looks and works; and it can represent its function
Just about every historical era had something new in terms of its architectural styles. There are many renowned influences from the architecture in the past that can still be seen in the homes and buildings of today. Top 10 architectural styles
Heroic Maneuvers within a Straitjacket : article for e-architect by Douglas Klahr, 26 Jun 2012 – S cube chalet by AGi Architects, Heroic Architecture in the Middle East
There is one problem that will affect everyone in the World. The age of cheap energy will decline after the year 2020. From 2020 the world wide oil supply will reduce.
Bubbletecture – article by Karolina Szynalska on 12 Jun 2012 – a new architectural movement seem to emerge, not to be mistaken with blobitecture: Bubble Architecture
Many emotions in this week’s selection, but as growth is rather topical at the moment, a quick comment on whether this past phenomenon and future holy grail imbues fear, burden, excitement, joy…
The speed with which the structures get erected and the number of Western architects employed in Georgia is impressive. Italian designer, Michele De Lucchi (better known for his Artemide lamp), completed three Georgian icons
I arrived in Damascus on a cool spring night in 2009 via Air France, one of the few regular carriers into the city and a reminder of that country’s historical relationship with the Islamic edges of the Mediterranean. Unaware of the topography of the city in darkness I stared in awe at the myriad dots of lights in the northern sky
The recently completed Easter Sculpture Museum by Exit Architects and the Museum of Art & Archaeology of the Coa Valley (MAACV) by Camilo Rebelo + Tiago Pimentel, located in Spain and Portugal respectively, share a quality that one might describe as `a subterranean aesthetic’.
Glenn Murcutt and the Wisdom of the Elders – Grounded Aesthetic article by Lindsay Johnston – Australian architecture: Richard Leplastrier, Peter Stutchbury: , New South Wales buildings
Ambiguity, Vulnerability and Risk in a Home: Vertigo as Subtext – article for e-architect by Douglas Klahr – if Alfred Hitchcock were alive and filming “Vertigo” today, Ryuji Fujimura’s Storage House would play a role in the film
In Jönköping in Sweden the competition winning Spira Concert hall by Wingårdh Arkitektkontor AB was completed at the end of 2011. An elegant sinuous glass wall juts out into the Vattern Lake
When this week’s material appeared in my ‘inbox’, the buildings, ‘a mixed bag of projects’ as Isabelle put it surprised and delighted me. Some I knew very well – indeed had visited previously and indeed in previous iterations others I had less knowledge of.
This would be the appropriate answer in the joke about the insecure bridegroom’s last-minute question at the altar, addressed to one of the attending guests: would you marry her?
However, I have picked upon one evident theme – engineering and the expressive diagonal line. Sontag’s great book ‘On Photography’ was seminal in my caution in interpreting and critiquing architecture from images alone
Article 25 International Development Architecture. The challenge of working in international development often requires us to unpack the real needs of a community and design our interventions to their need.