Great post about Christopher Alexander’s work and influence via The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia, originally published at the Metropolis […]
Genius architect Pliny Fisk of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems is featured in a GE Focus Forward short
Fabulous talk by Jason Roberts of “The Better Block: A Living Charrette”, presented at TedX Austin. You should watch this…
Earlier this week I attended a breakfast panel sponsored by Gensler (http://www.gensler.com), an architecture, design, planning and consultation firm that
Via Flemming Funch, a review of “Finite and Infinite Games – A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility” by
Daniel Pink has a smart article on flip thinking, a trend in innovation. It’s a matter of rethinking sequence logic:
This is what you want to find under your Christmas tree – the hypercool Roadrunner trike, “designed to ride on
Farewell to Jeanne-Claude, who with her husband and collaborator Christo produced high-concept major-scale aesthetic works in public places. [Link to
Thames Town is part of Songjiang New City, in Shanghai, China. Modeled on traditional urbanism, it’s “only one enormous block
Andrew Lippman on “open architecture products,” and viewing customers as partners who will contribute to the evolution and design of
Geographers are researching buzz, according to this New York Times article (thanks to the phenomenal Oliver Markley for the pointer).
Constructal law can predict patterns in living sysems. [Link] “Our finding that animal locomotion adheres to constructal law tells us
Added Bruce Sterling’s “Last Viridian Note” to the Viridian Design web site and to Worldchanging. It’s kind of like simple