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MiesArch European Prize 2009
2009-04-21 15:17:00
"MiesArch European Prize is a joint initiative of the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe. The principal objectives are to recognise and commend excellence in the field of architecture and to draw attention to the important contribution of European professionals in the development of new concepts and technologies. The Prize also sets out to promote the profession by encouraging architects working throughout the entire European Union and by supporting young architects as they set off on their careers." to find out more...Image featuring Mountain Dwellings by BIG ARCHITECTS downloaded from http://www.miesarch.com/press by Jens Lindhe

DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DEE AND CHARLES WYLY THEATRE
2009-04-19 18:04:00
"Dallas Theater Center (DTC) is recognized as one of the country?s few innovative theater companies located outside the triumvirate of New York, Chicago, and Seattle. Ironically, the company?s artistic success can be attributed largely to its provisional accommodations in a dilapidated, galvanized metal shed. Free of the need to respect its architectural surroundings, the group regularly challenged its art?s physical conventions. The company?s makeshift residence also allowed it to be multi-form: throughout its season, DTC routinely reconfigured its stage. Imagining a new home for DTC posed two distinct challenges. First, like a restaurant renovation which polishes out the character that made the original establishment successful, the creation of a pristine venue threatened to stultify the environment that had facilitated the company?s originality." to find out more...Image & Passage from http://www.rex-ny.com/work/wyly-theatre/
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11th International Bauhaus-Colloquium 2009 - Call for Papers
2009-04-13 18:17:00
"An acephalous power has superseded imperialism, if we can believe Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. This new world order that they call ?Empire? transgresses all the inherited divisions of political thought, such as state and society, war and peace, control and freedom, core and periphery. It is a diffuse Foucauldian network of economic, military, political, cultural and social power, ?in a permanent state of emergency and exception justified by the appeal to essential values ....? The decentered and deterritorializing Empire rules through biopolitics, a form of power that regulates social life from within, directly affecting the minds and bodies of the citizens via media, machines and social practices. The 11th International Bauhaus Colloquium in April 2009 in Weimar asks how architecture responds to the Empire.The Bauhaus Colloquia are the oldest and most esteemed conferences on architectural theory in the German speaking world. The last five meetings ? Power (1993), Technofic...
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Teaching Architecture Learning Architecture
2009-04-13 17:45:00
"Young people go to university with the aim of becoming architects, of finding out if they have got what it takes. What is the first thing we should teach them?First of all, we must explain that the person standing in front of them is not someone who asks questions whose answers he already knows. Practicing architecture is asking oneself questions, finding one's own answers with the help of the teacher, whittling down, finding solutions. Over and over again.The strength of a good design lies in ourselves and in our ability to perceive the world with both emotion and reason. A good architectural design is sensuous. A good architectural design is intelligent.We all experience architecture before we have even heard the word. The roots of architectural understanding lie in our architectural experience: our room, our house, our street, our village, our town, our landscape - we experience them all early on, unconsciously, and we subsequ...
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Commentary from Kevin Mark Low
2009-04-12 18:49:00
Apart from the interesting work, what stands behind is more interesting."All architects seek frame of reference in design.Some seek it in style and others in theory, it comes down to personal choice and our instinctive need for reference and context. Mostly, we are moved by and drawn to originality, the expression of singular thought. Originality is quite commonly found in published work. Due primarily to the speed and proliferation of published architectural material, architects have begun to gauge and be gauged themselves with reference to the publishing eye; we to ooften aspire to an international fraternity of the avant garde, to design staples of a western paradigm. Being drawn to what has been deemed good by virtue of inclusion, we often relive the strength of that originality in our work; we subtly duplicate the aesthetics of design already realized, believing it to be our own.Unintentionality is no absolution.Plagiarism is the act of engaging in the context of duplicating...
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Estudio Carme Pinos
2009-04-12 16:41:00
Interesting projects from Estudio Carme Pinos Architects you cannot miss! to find out more...Images featuring Cube Tower in Guadalajara in Mexico from http://www.cpinos.com/english/home-eng.ht ml#inferior

Vicente Guallart Architect
2009-04-12 16:09:00
"With all the respect that assumes building in the frontline of the sea, this buildings, of squared plan, Project themselves according to new space organizations and functions with the objective of profiting the maximum the sea location of the site. One of the differential factors has been the relation between the rooms and the big terrace that surrounds them, conceived literally to enhance and enlarge each apartment. By folding doors and curtains we can have terraces follow essential elements for the circulation in the terraces. The kitchen and bathrooms look over exterior. The sea can be seen from the bathrooms. Another remarkable condition: the water elements are placed in the façade, reflect the surroundings and generate a relation between the interior skin and the exterior of colored glasses. " to fin...
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Kazunori Fujimoto
2009-04-12 12:26:00
Clean, Simple, integrated space design with strong shape and space grammar from Architect Kazunori Fujimoto. to find out more...Images featuring House in Miyanomachi and House in Higashi-Machi from http://www.jutok.jp/en/ by Kazunori Fujimoto

Pugh & Scarpa Architects
2009-04-12 12:01:00
"Orange Grove is a five-unit for sale market rate loft project, featuring ceiling heights up to 30 feet. The building is sensitively designed and compatible with the neighborhood, but differs in material palette and scale from its neighbors. Referencing architectural conventions of modernism rather than the pitched roof forms of traditional domesticity, the project presents a characteristic that is consistent with the eclectic and often unconventional demographic of West Hollywood. Distinct from neighboring structures, the building creates a strong relationship to the street by virtue of its large amount of highly usable balcony area in the front façade.While there are dramatic and larger scale elements that define the building, it is also broken down into comprehensible human scale parts, and is itself broken down into two different buildings. Orange Grove displays a similar kind of iconoclasm as the Schindler House, an icon of California modernism, located a short distance away. L...
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Sauerbruch Hutton
2009-04-10 06:17:00
"Sauerbruch Hutton is an international agency for architecture, urbanism and design, founded in 1989. Presently there are about 100 Architects, Designers, Engineers, Modelmakers and administrative staff of approx. twelve different nationalities working in our office in Berlin. The team is led by Matthias Sauerbruch, Louisa Hutton, Juan Lucas Young as well as Jürgen Bartenschlag and Andrew Kiel.Sauerbruch Hutton realise individual and sustainable solutions to a wide range of programmes. The enjoyment of the sensuality of space and material, as well as the mastery of up-to-date technology is combined with the intelligent use of existing resources of every kind. Built works range from the much-noted Brandhorst Museum in Munich to the Federal Environmental Agency in Dessau, which presents a benchmark building for the sustainable design of offices. A whole series of projects for private and public clients are currently under way in Paris, Geneva, Milan, Tilburg, Sheffield a...

Bonzai3d
2009-04-04 08:13:00
A simplified formZ version called Bonzai3d beta version is out for free download and tryout!to find out more...

Modular Furniture - More
2009-03-20 00:23:00
"More is an extremely versatile system of modular furniture for internal and external environments with multiple functions, enabling one to interpret their space freely and dynamically, changing the face of the home environment or public spaces. It offers an infinite variety of solutions to its users in the widest imaginable circumstances. Modularity has been the key to this project, it enables one to create furniture of various shapes and dimensions, it can be used for different contexts, starting with a few base elements that are easy to assemble. The project centred around the theme of transformability starting from the design of a simple unit, and in the same time close attention was paid to experimenting with new tactile, visual, aesthetic and chromatic effects. The furniture can serve as shelving, a resting platform, display or even as a seat. It can act as a suspended wall unit, an open bookcase against the wall, or it can be used as a divi...
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Archi Central
2009-03-19 10:31:00
Another interesting architectural portal coming to our attention here~ archicentral. to find out more...
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Google Power Meter
2009-02-15 16:01:00
"Google Power Meter , now in prototype, will receive information from utility smart meters and energy management devices and provide anyone who signs up access to her home electricity consumption right on her iGoogle homepage. The graph below shows how someone could use this information to figure out how much energy is used by different household activites." to find out more...Passage & Image from http://www.google.org/powermeter/howitwor ks.html

Hypershot for Sketchup
2009-02-14 10:50:00
"BUNKSPEED was founded in November of 2002 with the philosophy that 3D software should be easy to learn,simple to use and produce stunning photographic quality results. We are privately owned and financed the old fashioned way, creating great products that people enjoy owning. At the core, we are a passionate software development and marketing team dedicated to solving specific challenges in the computer graphics, industrial design and automotive industries We have established a global team of partners and resellers to provide support to our clients with a complete solution for 3D computer graphics and design." to find out more...Passage & Image from http://hypershotforsketchup.blogspot.com/

Architeria
2009-02-12 15:29:00
An Architecture Portal by partners Magdalena Wysocka (Manager) and Tomasz Wysocki (Architect) for your browsing purposes. to find out more...Image from http://www.architeria.eu/

Hector Vigliecca
2009-02-11 10:10:00
Some nice work from a Brazilian Architect for your browsing pleasure. to find out more...Image from http://www.vigliecca.com.br/
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INKSCAPE
2009-02-03 02:58:00
"Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development. " to find out more...Passage from http://www.inkscape.org/

Kevin Mark Low - Small Projects
2009-01-31 07:07:00
"small projects conceptualizes, designs and builds things. Primarily architecture, though there are many side orders to its concerns. smallprojects concerns itself with relevant design, architectural economy and spatial technology as related to specific context. In principle, smallprojects is singular: the architecture of garden houses are its focus. In application, it is plural: planning, project identity, building and product design and the space which can neither be called landscape nor architecture but sits somewhere in between are its concerns and passions. With each work it undertakes, big or small, it is less interested in what makes things different and more concerned with what all things share. small projects refers less to the size of things than to the intimate relationships which bind them. It is characterized by an entirely uncorporate identity, ironically grown from eleven years of corporate history. It is less concerned about the theatrical than it is about the dramat...
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3d by Photoshop CS4
2009-01-23 20:26:00
"Photoshop can be used for much more than pixel pushing these days. Photoshop CS4 Extended not only handles 3D models, but it has a sophisticated timeline animation mode that lets you keyframe changes over time. In this tutorial, we will open a 3D residential model in Photoshop and create a 30 second flyaround animation that displays a moving cross-sectional plane (see final animation here)." to find out more...Passage from http://www.cgarchitect.com/news/newsfeed. asp?nid=4340by Scott Onstott

Bligh Voller Neild Architecture
2009-01-14 05:11:00
"With over 75 years experience, Bligh Voller Nield is widely acknowledged for both creative, award winning design and sound professional expertise. Bligh Voller Nield was established during 1997 to 1999 with the merger of Bligh Voller Architects, Lawrence Nield and Partners Australia, Grose Bradley and Pels Innes Neilson and Kosloff.Bligh Voller Nield has national and international capacity with offices in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. It is one of Australia's largest architectural practices with 13 principlas, 28 practice directors, 25 associates and a total of over 200 people. A fully integrated IT system allows our practice to perate as a single nationally and internationally linked office. People in different locations can work on the same project in real time, achieving majo benefis in flexibility and efficiency." to find out more...Passage from http://www.bvn.com.au/pages/practice.html
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DRL Pavillion
2009-01-12 13:46:00
"We are happy to announce the winning entry for the DRL Pavilion competition. There have been several very interesting submissions which will all be documented and published on this site in the coming week. We would like to thank you all for the excellent work and active participation." to find out more...Passage & Image from http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/aadrl/drlpavili on/#Winner
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Luxury Insider
2009-01-09 14:34:00
"Featuring only the products and services of the very highest order available in the world today, Luxury -Insider .com is the essential guide for the modern connoisseur. In this age of information overload, only true knowledge is power. With in-depth editorial by experts in their respective fields, Luxury-Insider.com enables greater insights into the often-esoteric world of high-end luxury. We scour tirelessly for the latest and most interesting ideas in elegant living, so that our readers are always kept informed. Ultimately, we empower our readers to make the best decisions possible. Luxury-Insider.com is a magazine in continuous evolution, always delivering content most relevant to and desired by our readers." The good thing is there is a session for building~!to find out more...Passage from http://www.luxury-insider.com/about/

Dezeen
2009-01-05 05:21:00
"Dezeen is edited by Marcus Fairs, author of the major new book Twenty-First Century Design (published October 2006) and former editor of icon magazine.A furniture design graduate, Marcus began his journalism career writing for publications including Blueprint, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday and Conde Nast Traveller.He launched icon, the international architecture and design magazine, in 2003, and edited the publication until November 2006. Under Marcus, the magazine rapidly established itself as one of the world?s most influential and respected design journals, winning a string of awards including Launch of the Year and Designer of the Year in 2003 and Monthly Magazine of the Year in 2005 and 2006.Marcus himself has won numerous awards, including Journalist of the Year (2002) and Architectural Journalist of the Year (2004). He also regularly appears on radio and TV, writing and presenting a documentary about French designer Philippe Starck for the BBC in 2003 and appearing...

Arquitectum Landscape Competition
2008-12-22 04:57:00
Something that blends into the nature. Simple and Grand. to find out more...Image from http://www.arquitectum.com/index.php
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World Architecture Winners
2008-12-20 07:05:00
There are some selected architectural work in World Architecture Community being voted as winning master pieces by the forum's honorary members. Don't think you want to miss this. to find out more...
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Peter Eisenman: What makes great architecture?
2008-12-16 17:25:00
"Notable for his commanding perspective and respected opinions on design, theory and architecture, Peter gives a rare insight into some of the thoughts and practices that informed recent projects, including the University of Phoenix Stadium, home to the Arizona Cardinals, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin." to find out more...Passage from http://www.thenbs.com/topics/DesignSpecif ication/articles/PeterEisenman.asp
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The Architecture Rooms
2008-12-01 06:31:00
It's competition months now since things are slowing down with recessions and economical downturn. For you guys who are looking for competitions, here's some useful links to find out:-www.thearchitectureroom.com/www.deat hbyarchitecture.com/http://www.architectu re.com/Competitionshttp://www.e-architect .co.uk/architecture_competition.htmhttp:/ /www.umsitio.com/architecture-competition s/
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SketchUp Pro 7
2008-11-21 18:52:00
Sketchup Pro 7 with updated features and revised layout 2 is ready for your downloading. to find out more...

Seire Architecture
2008-11-10 16:08:00
"The proposal imagines a modulated skin; made up of 9 modules, that performs as a series of balconies, storage spaces, sun-shades and window-cabins all moulded into one. " to find out more...Passage & Image from http://www.serie.co.uk/HTML%20Files/Proje ct/V%20Office03.html
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