Community Architect

AUGUST 8, 2024

Vishan Chakrabarti wrote this book in the time of the pandemic which he describes as "space and time ruptured". His new book sheds a lot more light on why separating architecture from urban design is a big problem and less light on how connecting these two professions could be a solution to many of the world's current problems.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. The post Philippe Block on Sustainable Construction: “Building Technique Is More Important Than Materials” appeared first on Journal.

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Deezen

JULY 9, 2024

Arrivals is Glastonbury's first dedicated South Asian stage Conceptualised as a cinematic journey to an alien jungle planet, the stage design combines iconography borrowed from pulp classic sci-fi films and comic books within a newly redefined South Asian aesthetic rooted in politics. Orientalism is bedded into sci-fi," Chaudhuri told Dezeen.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

Promotion: a range of contemporary furniture designers will showcase their work as part of Look Book, a networking event presented by Dezeen as part of WantedDesign Manhattan. Based on Vancouver Island, the studio aims to create furnishings that add a contemporary touch to the modern home.

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Architizer

MARCH 7, 2024

At some point in the school year, a student in my AP Literature class will ask the dreaded question: what is “Modernism?” Even though modern art seems “weird” to casual museum-goers, there was a method to the madness. Modern artists rejected representational conventions in pursuit of honest expression.

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Deezen

JULY 9, 2024

Arrivals is Glastonbury's first dedicated South Asian stage Conceptualised as a cinematic journey to an alien jungle planet, the stage design combines iconography borrowed from pulp classic sci-fi films and comic books within a newly redefined South Asian aesthetic rooted in politics. Orientalism is bedded into sci-fi," Chaudhuri told Dezeen.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The popularity of the Chandigarh chair, created by a team led by Swiss architect Pierre Jeanneret , has shone a light on the erasure of local designers in the mid-century modern design narrative. The Chandigarh chair by Jeanneret and his team remains an icon of mid-century modern design.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. The post Modern Vernacular: Emerging Firm of the Year Studio Toggle on Pioneering Cross-Cultural Architecture appeared first on Journal.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The recently released 100 Women: Architects in Practice book showcases the work of 100 architects from around the world. This book aims to be a small part in the process of correcting that imbalance, while also looking at what architecture is, who it is for and what it can do."

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Dwell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

They made what we think of as a modern ladder-back, which is pretty ubiquitous," he says. "Of It focused on how to use hand tools, joinery techniques, and things like that," he says. The designer uses green woodworking techniques that allow him to improvise shapes, a method inspired by Ethiopian Jimma chairs. Something clicked.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 31, 2022

His book, highly prized in terms of design and content, contributed significantly to introducing Japanese aesthetics to Western architecture, art and graphics. His book, highly prized in terms of design and content, contributed significantly to introducing Japanese aesthetics to Western architecture, art and graphics.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. Shou sugi ban, originally known as yakisugi, is an ancient wood-burning technique developed in Japan centuries ago. Order your copy today.

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Modern Architecture Concept

AUGUST 15, 2021

As technology advances, upgrading your home to the current standards of modernization is a welcome idea. Modernize your home by bringing in additional light and giving your space a new lease of life. Check out some modern house plans to get inspired. Here are our top 3 design trends from which you can borrow inspiration.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In 1939, Otto Neurath's Modern Man in the Making was released by Alfred A. The book is a classic, and for someone like me who veers toward arguments made in a combination of words and images, it is a book I should probably have — at the very least, I should know more about it. Alas, I'll have to wait until February to do that.

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SW Oregon Architect

JULY 7, 2024

Rapid progress in construction techniques and materials can quickly render buildings outdated, as can recognition of flawed design strategies (see the leaky condo crisis ). Cost-benefit analyses still too often reveal the expenses involved in bringing an older building up to modern standards exceed those of new construction.

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Deezen

APRIL 18, 2024

Top image: courtesy of the Design Museum Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design 2 September 2023 to 7 July 2024, USA Objects intended to illustrate the circularity of materials feature in the Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design exhibition by New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

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Architecture Here and There

APRIL 15, 2024

Below is the foreward to Léon Krier’s book The Architecture of Community (2009), which I posted on my blog in 2020. This is to say that the present book is not about exoticism, not about the brief thrill of consuming imported alien products, not about promoting trendy European goods for globalized markets, cultures and climates.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Read: Honoka 3D-prints furniture that "re-weaves Tatami into modern life" A New Horizon exhibition was curated by Suzy Annetta, and aimed at cultural exchange in the region. They edited select cuttings from the discarded textiles and exhibited them as artworks and books.

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The Spaces

DECEMBER 30, 2022

In his new monograph, the thirtysomething artist and writer takes us into his London home and Cotswold cottage, which he uses as a canvas for his work: think a modern-day Charleston House, the Sussex home of the Bloomsbury Group. Photography: Mikkel Vang courtesy Pavilion Books. Published by RIBA Books. Photography: Gestalten.

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Architizer

AUGUST 20, 2024

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. The Taproom at Tenczynek Brewery in Poland is a compelling example of how tiles can bridge the gap between historic preservation and modern design.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Although Lutyens is nowhere to be found in Pevsner's An Outline of European Architecture (1943) or in his influential genealogical history of modernism, Pioneers of Modern Design (1949; originally published as Pioneers of the Modern Movement in 1936), Pevsner did write a lengthy reassessment of Lutyens for Architectural Review in 1951.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

The lamps will be showcased as part of WantedDesign's Look Book – a programme that connects North American designers, makers and entrepreneurs with interior designers and architects. Dezeen is a media partner of Look Book 2023. Based in Long Island City, Rust makes each ceramic piece to-order, allowing for full customisation.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This elegant book explores the fascinating nature of the architectural model through 26 illustrated essays, one for each letter of the alphabet. REFERRAL LINKS : REVIEW : In the realm of architecture books, those devoted to models are in the minority, maybe even at the bottom.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Sketchbooks: Collected Measured Drawings and Architectural Sketches by George Saumarez Smith Triglyph Books , October 2021 Hardcover | 10 x 12-1/2 inches | 240 pages | English | ISBN: 9781916355439 | $55.00 The drawings display a supreme mastery that goes beyond technique and assumes the status of art.

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Hotel Designs

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Traditional decoration techniques such as verre eglomise, gilding and tromp l’oeils are featured throughout. It’s a round room, lined in books including original editions by Proust, and the ceiling has an exquisite starburst tromp l’oeil, inspired by the Salon du Soleil at Palais Garnier.

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Dwell

MAY 9, 2024

The "kooky print of a huge science lab with all these beakers bubbling" in the kids’ bathroom, as Turner remembers it, might have felt like a scene from a children’s book unfolding right from the walls. Books take up the majority of the space in my house and I have bookshelves in almost every room except for the bathrooms," she says.

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Habitus Living

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This innovative brand seamlessly blends ancient glassmaking techniques with contemporary design and a commitment to sustainability. Find out more Books as objects of beauty A stunning coffee table book is always a good gift idea, especially for avid readers and design lovers.

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The designers create a combination of pocket park and book bar and use landscape design techniques to simulate interest and charm in freehand landscape paintings. You can have a panoramic view of all car series and enjoy the city scenery when sitting around in the book bar.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 10, 2024

History of Parametric Architecture Duncan Champney , A 3D version of the Mandelbrot set plot “Map 44” from the book “The Beauty of Fractals” , CC BY-SA 4.0 These standout examples are reshaping our understanding of what architecture can achieve through cutting-edge computational techniques.

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Hotel Designs

AUGUST 19, 2024

Verno House Budapest , Vignette Collection presents an urban oasis overlooking Liberty Square, evoking the idea, born in 19th century Budapest , that one can only truly appreciate all the modern attributes of a city if there is a nurturing natural environment to escape to from time to time. A live DJ enhances the Flava experience on weekends.

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Shades of Grey

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This historic centre was walking distance from where my cousin lived at the time so I was able to take quite a few digital photos and also picked up a book with a number of hand drawn plans and Sections. Is there anything in our modern culture to hold a candle to this exuberance? The Way We Build" was going to be a book title.

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ArchiDiaries

JANUARY 23, 2022

“Er” in Chinese indicates the number “two” The two mountains are the site where scholars preserved books from burning by Qin Shi Huang. If, “Er You” (in Chinese character) add a dot, it becomes the character “wine”, this is a magical touch to link the concept and life together by Lin Feng, both a book and wine lover.

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Architizer

MARCH 28, 2024

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. The Crystal Palace heralded the emergence of the modern-era global exhibition, unparalleled in its magnitude, duration, and attendance: World Expos.

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Shades of Grey

OCTOBER 9, 2024

So many buildings in this area still have traces of the old oak framing that was once the height of modern technology. Evidence again of a couple of centuries of evolution in form technique and materials. I never got very far, reading my copy of Lewis Mumford's most famous book. Is that the book or is it me?

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

How do color, decoration and whimsy come together in modern design? In turn, that phrase would come to define a generation of minimalist, modern design. Wutopia Lab chose the ark as the theme, with the yellow outside and red inside sailing ship docked in the harbor of the book sea.

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Hotel Designs

MAY 30, 2024

Built with the same materials and architectural techniques as AlUla Old Town’s 900 surviving traditional houses, the property utilises the southern end of the heritage site, reimagining some of the surviving homes into luxury multiple-level exquisite accommodations.

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Bustler

JULY 20, 2022

The continual advancements of modern simulation and modelling techniques empower engineers and designers around the globe, making the goal of net zero energy buildings a very real possibility today. These modern developments also contribute to the resiliency of architectural constructs, through the use of composite and nano materials.

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