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Shigeru Ban on design, ethics, and constraints

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Q: Is there a design ethic? Magazine in conversation with Shigeru Ban. A: I just hate wasting material, time, and energy. When I started developing structures with humble, recycled, reusable material in the middle of the ’80s, no one—including myself—was considering any ecological and environmental problems.

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Kim Kardashian and Tadao Ando meet on Palm Springs dream home design

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Ando is designing a private residence for Kardashian in the Palm Springs area, the details of which were first uncovered by Vogue magazine last year. million post-divorce splurge.

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Texas Society of Architects selects 15 Design Award winners for 2024

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The Texas Society of Architects has selected 15 projects in the Lone Star state as winners of the 2024 Design Award. The annual contest judged this year by Gordon Gill, Roberto de Leon, and Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano drew 251 entries of “incredible caliber.” Brown Convention Center in Houston.

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Iconic American interior designer, businesswoman, and fashion icon Iris Apfel dies at 102

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Iris Apfel, an iconoclast interior designer who drew praise for her style and fashion collection, passed away last week at the age of 102. The New York Times is reporting on her influence in the design world this week following her death on March 1st. She also taught a textile design course at the University of Texas at Austin in 2011.

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Flea's Michael Maltzan-designed hillside LA compound drops price from $10M to $7M

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The Michael Maltzan -designed complex contains an outdoor movie pavilion, a redwood cabin, and a smaller two-bedroom house designed by Richard Neutra.

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Landscape Architect Kate Orff named 2023 TIME 100 Influential People honoree

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Historically, landscape architecture was concerned with the composition of private gardens, but Kate Orff is a landscape architect who’s never been hemmed in by garden walls—seeking instead to liberate landscape to do nothing less than repair our warming planet through design.

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Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Architects?

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In the May 2023 edition of Building magazine, Thomas Lane suggests that AI has the … Will Artificial Intelligence replace architects in their roles?

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