May 30, 2014
May 26, 2014
blog wunderlust: 26th May 2014
Architecture is a contaminated art.
Renzo Piano
Ettore Sottsass: the godfather of Italian cool | At First It Looks Like An Old Empty Factory. But Go Inside And... WHOA | Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art devastated in fire: "I think we've lost it" | Cutting the Housing-Car Umbilical Cord | Farnsworth House Could Soon Get a Lift | A Manifesto For Icons and Architecture Infatuated By Form | Libyan Board of Architecture wants to redefine architecture in Libya |
last word: Holness Fortress!
May 23, 2014
May 19, 2014
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
May 16, 2014
May 12, 2014
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
May 5, 2014
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
May 2, 2014
April 28, 2014
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
April 25, 2014
April 22, 2014
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
April 18, 2014
April 11, 2014
How public spaces make cities work
More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part, it’s the city’s great public spaces — from tiny pocket parks to long waterfront promenades — where people can stroll and play. Amanda Burden helped plan some of the city’s newest public spaces, drawing on her experience as, surprisingly, an animal behaviorist. She shares the unexpected challenges of planning parks people love — and why it's important.
April 7, 2014
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?
April 5, 2014
April 4, 2014
Cresta
CRESTA from BREADTRUCK TV on Vimeo.
A look into the soul of a piece of architecture. This film explores the connection between architecture and nature, and how clean minimal design can save us from the suburbs. Film by Jeff Durkin, Architecture by Jonathan & Matthew Segal.
March 31, 2014
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
March 28, 2014
L. Mies van der Rohe - New National Gallery
Another in the excellent architectural film series by Franco Di Capua, this one on the New National Gallery in Berlin, Germany by Mies van der Rohe
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