blog wunderlust: 251th August 2014

The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building.

Louis Kahn

Could Lego Architecture Studio actually be useful for architects? | The ‘Starchitect’ Image | Rebel Architecture: The creator's view | Big Read: A feast of art, food 
and architecture in Rodez | Paper Palaces | Clay robotics: the future of architecture is happening now in a Chilterns farm | Guerrilla architect | 20th Century architecture: Is it the end of our 'concrete jungles'? | Edible Chocolate LEGOs by Akihiro Mizuuchi

last word: Stop Order Placed On St Lucia Towers

blog wunderlust: 28th July 2014

Architecture isn't a job persae, it is more of a lifestyle. We never really stop [doing] architecture no matter what we are doing.

Lance Herbst

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Modern in Lexington, Kentucky | The tale of one woman's radically simplified 'built-it-myself' life | Two Cool Skyscrapers By Architect Norman Foster Proposed for First and Mission (San Francisco) | Tour the Concrete Home of Reclusive Architect Peter Zumthor | So much architecture is monstrous – that’s why we like to see it demolished | The Problem With Minimalism | How a New Dutch Library Smashed Attendance Records


last word: End comes for notorious Venezuelan vertical slum

blog wunderlust: 14th July 2014

There's a lineage of carpentry and masonry, building with high skill and great efficiency that's specific to India, and I am transferring that ideology to projects around the world.

Bijoy Jain

Why the Millennial Architect Won’t Be Your CAD Monkey | How Chinese Urbanism Is Transforming African Cities | Inside the Iconic World Cup Finals Stadium | Why the modern bathroom is a wasteful, unhealthy design | Is maverick master builder Bjarke Ingels the world's smartest architect - or just the craziest? | Slovak architect turns billboards into homes for the homeless | Knud Lonberg-Holm: ‘The Invisible Architect’

last word: Villanueva 114 years

blog wunderlust: 30th June 2014

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Adolf Loos

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Drink in the World's Architecture in Milky Coffee Swirls | How Technology Is Changing The Architecture Profession More Than Ever Before | The Invisible Architect Of Invisible Architecture | 10 Architectural Features That Should Be Taken Out Of Rotation | 15 Reasons to date an Architecture Teacher | Beyond the World Cup stadiums, architecture in Brazil returns to glory and Brasilia's Dramatic Architecture Draws World Cup Tourists

last word: Jamaican Architecture - The People's Views and UDC acquiring, refurbishing derelict buildings downtown Kingston

blog wunderlust: 23rd June 2014

We see architecture as the direct result of the way of life.

Peter and Alison Smithson

Archimusic: If Songs Were To Look Like Buildings | Constructing identities: Contributions from Iran, Morocco, and the UAE | When it comes to housing, small is the new big | Modern soccer football wouldn't be the same without an architect's invention | Newsmaker: Marc Norman | 22 Questions for Stanley Tigerman | This is not actually an abandoned building with overgrown plants | Why architects love Surface Pro

last word: Taylors Win Architecture Award

blog wunderlust: 2nd June 2014

I think my designs are quite contemporary, but I like to use older forms. I would describe my style as modern, which learns from the vernacular; it applies local building materials while reflecting indigenous culture, offering solutions to environmental issues and accounting for modern technology.

Ann Hodges (Kingston 10 Architects)

This Abandoned Wasteland Was Once America's Largest Mall | Playful Work Environments | Finding Space for the Living at a Memorial | Renewed Hope For Black Architects | Bauhaus Beauties | Remixing Famous Architecture in Animated GIFs | Focus of architecture is people | klopf architecture remodels double gable eichler home in california | Man who compiled the 'bible' on architecture

last word: Fire razes [Historic] commercial building in Falmouth

blog wunderlust: 19th May 2014

Modernism is often less about aesthetic impression and more about lifestyle, efficiency of living, sustainability

Leo Marmel

Theaster Gates Gets $3.5M Grant to Push Solar Decathlon -- Innovation in Home Design | This City Aims to Be “Car Free” in 20 Years | Older, Smaller, Better: Why new ideas need old buildings | Creatives, now you can swap homes with other creative types | Trash, waste and household items turned into houses for the homeless | BIG BIM for the conceptual architect

last word: 10 essential habits for successful architects

blog wunderlust: 12th May 2014

By tattooing walls, graffiti writers free them architecture and turn them once again into living, social matter, into the moving body of the city before it has been banned with functions and institutions.

Jean Baudrillard "Kool Killer, or the Insurrection of Signs"

When Architects Build Brands: Is Architecture’s Future in Advertising? | Meet the Dynamic Duo Behind Architecture Firm Fuksas | Why Architects should Blog | The Green Building Reality: Why Two-Thirds of the Profession Are Cowards | One of America's Most Famous Architects Was a Nazi Propagandist | A beautiful mobile home for just $33,000? | A degree in architecture … but all I can get are menial jobs

last word: 2014 - End of Year Exhibition at the Caribbean School of Architecture

blog wunderlust: Cinco de Mayo 2014

We were coming out the war the space race was on. People thought science and progress could solve all society’s problems, architecture was there to improve peoples’ lives and things could only get better.

Ivor Smith

An art collective is painting an entire mexican town in bright and beautiful colour | Why live in buildings when you can live in between them? | Is Liz Diller Even Convinced That Razing The Folk Art Museum Is The Right Move? | What It’s Like To Be A Walmart Architect | Architect Hans Hollein's fascination with California and the U.S. | Architect puts his stamp on award-winning home |

last word: Ivor Smith, Park Hill and Optimism

blog wunderlust: 28th April 2014

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the make-up of a person is influenced by the nature of the spaces

David Adjaye

My space: Steve Bowkett, architect | Is This House Too Modern to Exist? | Daily Overview: Captivating Satellite Images of Earth | Building the Picture: Architecture in Painting review – a show to change the way you look at art | Does Italy Have Way Too Many Architects? | Why You Must Consult an Architect When Putting Up Your House | Spanish court orders architect Santiago Calatrava to pay $4 million over city hall faults |


last words: Bogota- an urbanist's guide to the city

Blog Wunderlust: 22nd April 2014

An architect should be a chameleon

Mose Safdie

Adopt an architect | The Most Outrageous Pink Facades | Architect & client: Maggie’s by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners | Taiwan architect wins Far Eastern award | Architect turns 400 tons of sand into Easter joy | Building design must undergo paradigm shift: Raj Rewal, Architect | interview with architect Kersten Geers | Architect Joshua Prince-Ramus steps out of Rem Koolhaas' shadow

new software: Archisketch

last word: Indian Architect Bijoy Jain on Sustainable Design

blog wunderlust: 7th April 2014

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

Harry Seidler

Canada launches architecture prize to rival Pritzker | Step Back into the Real World of Mad Men | Battersea Flower Station: Guggenheim architect Frank Gehry unveils plans for new £8bn riverside development | Top architect [Ridwan Kamil] uses role as mayor to transform Indonesian city | Minimalist Leather Goods from a Harvard-Trained Architect | Architect Bjarke Ingels is transforming the Williamsburg waterfront |

last word: A middle-class syndrome: Is homeownership a possibility?

blog wunderlust: 31st March 2014

The current [urban planning] system doesn't allow people to be sensitive to the environment

Professor Ng Mee-kam

Photo by Shigeru Ban Architects

Why Cities Need to Stop Commissioning Calatrava's Fish Skeletons | Why the UK does not need a formal architecture policy | "One Day, The Only People Doing Architecture in China Will Be Chinese Architects" | The world's top 10 most innovative companies in architecture | How to Be an Architecture Critic | Anupama Kundoo’s handmade architecture | Building with Structural Insulated Panels … or SIPs |

last word: Shigeru Ban Wins the Pritzker Prize, Architecture's Highest Honour

blog wunderlust: 17th March 2014

erin go bragh (Happy St. Patrick's Day)

...there exists a need to objectively evaluate our traditional models for their validity in a changing world

Fida Ali

Collapsible woven refugee shelters powered by the sun | Awards scheme highlights female vision of architecture in today's world & “Why Do Women Really Leave Architecture” Is the Wrong Question | Dutch architects building Amsterdam canal house with 3-D printer | Freshly Baked Art: Cookies That Are A Feast For The Eyes | Avant-garde architect builds "ultra ruin" in Taiwan jungle | Re-design of Serpentine Pavilion



last word: Cape Town to Carve New African Art Museum Out of Former Grain Silo

blog wunderlust: 10th March 2014

Architecture is all about scale and this is a grandiose scale. It is a grandiose space. It makes you smile when you walk into the space. It makes you feel good. It talks to you.

Shawn Lawrence

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The Expansive Designs of Landscape Architect Thomas Woltz | In Indianapolis, a Bike Path to Progress | Inside the Homes of Eight Famous Architects | We cannot absolve ourselves of responsibility for the implications of a project | Energy efficient villas in china by Vincent Callebaut | Levitating Buildings and Floating Extrusions From A+ Finalists | Time stands still: the empty streets of an abandoned inner mongolian city

last word: Arms wide open

blog wunderlust: 3rd March 2014

One of the biggest mistakes in architecture is that we're expecting society to be interested in the specific problems of architecture. [Architects] need to adjust to what society is discussing. We just provide the forms that can translate their problems into solutions.

Alejandro Aravena

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The World's Most Successful Model for Sustainable Urban Development? | An Office With Just One Table That Is Long Enough To Seat All 125 Employees | Interview: Bruno Simões | Spike Lee’s Amazing Rant Against Gentrification: ‘We Been Here!’ and Cities Mobilize to Help Those Threatened by Gentrification | This House Is Super Cool On The Inside. Which Is Why The Outside Shocked Me So Much | Architect Rem Koolhaas's Protégés

last word: Car park to replace Art Deco house

blog wunderlust: 24th February 2014

Good architecture is like a good theory session, a good marriage, a good poem - gently and almost invisibly allowing you to be you, as flawed and as beautiful as you are

Robert Sullivan

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Robert Redford and Wim Wenders on new architecture film Cathedrals of Culture | Architecture: The Most Romantic Profession in Tinseltown | Alejandro Aravena: architect, equaliser, el visionario | An Amazing Village Designed Just For People With Dementia | Green Globes challenging LEED for market share | A Dictator's Guide to Urban Design | Peak Gentrification | Bicycle roundabout | Architect Rem Koolhaas' Protégés

last word: Jamaican Architecture Students [from the Caribbean] Visit Belize

Blog Wunderlust: 17th February 2014

In becoming architects, we learn to see the world with intelligent sensuality. Intuitive propositions become the means by which we discover the qualities of location

Jeanne Sillet (Forward to Mega III, Architectural Association, London, 1987)

I love you Building – Happy Valentine’s Day | A bridge that’s a carpark that’s also a park | Frank Gehry Is Still the World's Worst Living Architect | Crossrail brings in top architect behind King's Cross revamp | Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie laments unfriendly Hong Kong architecture | Sexism in architecture: Remember what Kathryn Findlay said? 'Women, don't be put off by the aggression of men' | The world's first 'selfie building'

last word: Cuba’s Reward for the Dutiful: Gated Housing

Blog Wunderlust: 3rd February 2014

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put Some of that turmoil into architecture, or it isn't real

Frank Stella

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10 Innovative Affordable Housing Designs For Sustainable Living | Vandals break into Le Corbusier's Ronchamp chapel and spark a scandal | Building Faces Wrecking Ball. So Does Couples’ Friendship | An affordable modern home in Atlanta | Far East: Architecture in India | Taiwan architect leads humanitarian building projects | Architect Named to Transform Courtyard at MoMA PS1 | Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) open Motor of Modernity


last word: Colonial gems in T&T

blog wunderlust: 13th January 2014

I'm an architectural academic on a mission to get as many cities as possible to approach their next growth phase with cycling at the forefront

Steven Fleming

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Kevin Mark Low expands on the position of women in the architectural profession in Malaysia | A Grand Redesign of MoMA Does Not Spare a Notable Neighbor | Lessons from North Korean urbanism | MoMA: A Needless Act of Destruction | I Really, Really Want To Live In This Tiny House. Step Inside And You’ll Instantly See Why | The Abandoned Ruins given New Life | Almost 90% of women think having children puts them at a disadvantage in architecture

last word: Plantations, Ian Fleming and Georgian architecture: Discover another Jamaica

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