March 2012
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February 2012
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100 Mile House Open Ideas Competition
The Architecture Foundation of BC promotes BIG IDEAS that recognize sustainable design, architectural merit and innovation in order to advance the knowledge and practice of the design of sustainable buildings in British Columbia.
The AFBC invites the participants of this competition to explore, rethink, question and experiment with new ideas that will challenge the concept of the regional house...
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Watchthis might be a little bit old and the video is not as informative as it could be. what is most interesting to me is the use of the poli-brick product to create a fairly cheap, thermally sound, and sustainable curtain-wall using simple construction methods.
from ecococos, its spanish but google does a great job of translating.
polli-brick product page
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WatchThe 2011 Research Through Making Faculty research grant recipients were announced by Dean Monica Ponce de Leon and awarded to Taubman College architecture faculty on April 1, 2011. Five grants were competitively awarded for the production of a research or creative project that is predicated on MAKING.
Via ArchiMorph
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Object Cancers →
as i am interested in digital fabrication and its implications relating to architecture i also find this a fascination sidebar as manufacturing becomes more accesible.
There was a lot of talk last week about the emergence of “physibles,” or downloadable data sets hosted on the Pirate Bay that would allow (potentially copyrighted) objects to be reproduced at home by 3D printers. The...
January 2012
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“…taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier. Social subjects,...”
– Distinction - Pierre Bourdieu
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General design reminders from a by-gone era
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“Good design is unobtrusive. Products that answer this criterion are tools. They...”
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“Good design is innovative. It does not copy existing product forms, nor does it...”
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WatchApostrophy’s is ‘multi-disciplinary design studio’ who workonto the segment of ‘New media Technology’ offering more information channels to consumer, with the close tile of visual design, motion graphic, animation, game application, lighting programming design, media technology,installation art feature, interior and architecture
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Watcha friend of mine in university worked on a proposal for this design, unfortunately not the winning one. although i would just be happy to be invited to a competition with http://www.saucierperrotte.com/
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December 2011
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"Is Drawing Dead?" @ YSOA →
Presented by the Yale School of Architecture February 9-11, the “Is Drawing Dead?” symposium will explore the historic role of architectural drawing and illuminate challenges to it in the digital era.
Jonathan Gales_animation →
November 2011
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“My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him...”
– Norman Maclean
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October 2011
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Migrating Landscapes [canadas venice biennale... →
“Increasingly, contemporary design is produced within a context that is globally, rather than regionally, situated. The work of emerging designers is influenced by glossy and well-presented images that blur design context and authenticity. Within this framework we ask: how might specific cultural memory be captured and rendered, informing the ways we generate design? How do divergent...
Herzog & Demeuron finally cave... →
Watchon a video kick… soon ill post more of my work
