Category Archives: Things I like
Favel issues
FAVELissues is a collaborative blog analyzing urban informality on a global scale. With such an interdisciplinary team composed of sociologists, architects, planners, economists, political scientists, academics and practitioners, and such an international body (US, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, India, South
Favel issues
FAVELissues is a collaborative blog analyzing urban informality on a global scale. With such an interdisciplinary team composed of sociologists, architects, planners, economists, political scientists, academics and practitioners, and such an international body (US, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, India, South
Pakistan Chulah
The Pakistan Chulah addresses the plight of women in rural areas of the Third World. Since it is mostly women who cook for their families, they are the worst sufferers. The eye and respiratory diseases they acquire largely remain unattended
Pakistan Chulah
The Pakistan Chulah addresses the plight of women in rural areas of the Third World. Since it is mostly women who cook for their families, they are the worst sufferers. The eye and respiratory diseases they acquire largely remain unattended
Cities for people
A Jan Gehl lecture about planning from above versus planning from people’s scale, about the interation between life and forms… Why all cities have department for traffic and not department for public life? For more than forty years Jan Gehl
Cities for people
A Jan Gehl lecture about planning from above versus planning from people’s scale, about the interation between life and forms… Why all cities have department for traffic and not department for public life? For more than forty years Jan Gehl
Cloud Seeding
“Cloud Seeding,” a plaza pavilion for Israel’s national design museum, Design Museum Holon, shows that design can do more than fulfill a public need: it can foster engaging public experiences. The structure is located in the museum’s urban plaza
Cloud Seeding
“Cloud Seeding,” a plaza pavilion for Israel’s national design museum, Design Museum Holon, shows that design can do more than fulfill a public need: it can foster engaging public experiences. The structure is located in the museum’s urban plaza
Spacehive
Spacehive is a funding platform for civic projects. We want to empower people to bring their civic environment to life. The blog: https://about.spacehive.com/blog/ .
Spacehive
Spacehive is a funding platform for civic projects. We want to empower people to bring their civic environment to life. The blog: https://about.spacehive.com/blog/ .
How to Be an Architectural Detective
The Architectural Detective Agency (ADA) was founded in 1974 by architect-historians Terunobu Fujimori and Takeyoshi Hori while they were graduate students. They undertook field research to document structures that were disappearing or that had been excluded from official Japanese architectural
How to Be an Architectural Detective
The Architectural Detective Agency (ADA) was founded in 1974 by architect-historians Terunobu Fujimori and Takeyoshi Hori while they were graduate students. They undertook field research to document structures that were disappearing or that had been excluded from official Japanese architectural
Time for Impact
Architects spend a lot of time on competitions. But compentitions can have only one winner. So that is a lot of time wasted. Wouldn’t it be nice if all that collective competition time could be spend on something worthwhile? Something
Time for Impact
Architects spend a lot of time on competitions. But compentitions can have only one winner. So that is a lot of time wasted. Wouldn’t it be nice if all that collective competition time could be spend on something worthwhile? Something
Everything is already there…
Four examples of reuse of construction materials 1. Reclaim Detroit creates local jobs while solving the blight problem. Reclaim Detroit is a social enterprise founded in 2010 to fight blight, create jobs for Detroiters, and reclaim valuable resources from the
Everything is already there…
Four examples of reuse of construction materials 1. Reclaim Detroit creates local jobs while solving the blight problem. Reclaim Detroit is a social enterprise founded in 2010 to fight blight, create jobs for Detroiters, and reclaim valuable resources from the
monoskop.org
A wiki for collaborative studies of the arts, media and humanities. An incredible collection of source documents in the history, theory and criticism of 20th-century architecture!!!
monoskop.org
A wiki for collaborative studies of the arts, media and humanities. An incredible collection of source documents in the history, theory and criticism of 20th-century architecture!!!
Henna Tattoos
Body, space, design, fragility, temporality, lightness, beauty, metamorphosis. The body as a space. A space in which to give shape from what is already there, the body’s geometry and lines of force. A space to search for harmony and beauty.
Henna Tattoos
Body, space, design, fragility, temporality, lightness, beauty, metamorphosis. The body as a space. A space in which to give shape from what is already there, the body’s geometry and lines of force. A space to search for harmony and beauty.
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