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Sustainable Holiday Home by Tjep | Isolée

2013-03-07T13:05:00-05:00

Frank Tjepkema of Dutch design studio Tjep. has designed an ecologically friendly getaway home to be self-sufficient in remote areas. Called Isolée, the small house embraces and uses technology to be as energy efficient as possible.

Mµ Thermal Imager attachment for the iPhone will detect thermal vulnerabilities in a building

2013-03-02T11:22:00-05:00

In construction or renovation of buildings you'll be able to identify poorly insulated areas and badly wired electrical outlets before you put the drywall up. You'll find places where water has penetrated the structure where it should not have. Identifying mold and moisture is a much easier task with the Mµ Thermal Imager.

Mµ Optics is currently seeking financial support on crowsourced-funding website Indiegogo. The iPhone attachment may offer steep competition to the existing thermal imaging cameras that range in prices from $2,000 to $22,000, according to Mµ Optics. The Mµ Thermal Imager is currently offered for $125 and $150 to early adopters, with a final price goal of less than $200 if they are able to stock the product in the big box stores.

Le Corbusier's Ecology: What Modern Architecture Teaches Us About Green Design

2013-01-21T20:02:00-05:00

The modernists were attempting to make architecture for a class of people who were not necessarily privileged to the architectural product... that’s very relevant for our times, because once again architecture has drifted to the fringe of being a product for the elite... when the early modernists imagined that we could build light, airy, and dignified environments for working-class, they recognized that there was a limitation on the resources and capital society had available to make the work.

Artinfo talks to Kevin Bone, curator of “Lessons From Modernism: Environmental Design Considerations in 20th Century Architecture"

Will Biomimcry Offer a Way Forward, Post-Sandy?

2013-01-04T18:25:00-05:00

As neighborhoods devastated by Hurricane Sandy begin drafting plans for reconstruction, some progressive architects and urban planners have been pointing out that the emerging science of biomimicry offers a way forward. The notion is that the next generation of waterfront designs could draw inspiration from the intricate ways that plants and animals have adapted to their situations over hundreds of millions of years.

Buildings and clothes could melt to save energy

2012-01-10T18:02:00-05:00

It is no design flaw: encapsulated within the walls and ceiling panels is a gel that solidifies at night and melts with the warmth of the day. Known as a phase change material (PCM), the gel will help reduce the amount of energy needed to cool office space in the building - scheduled to house the molecular engineering department when completed this month - by a whopping 98 per cent.

Apologue's Tali Krakowsky To Speak On Experience Design At Eyeo Festival & PromaxBDA

2011-06-14T14:26:11-04:00

Tali Krakowsky, founder of experience design studio Apologue, will be speaking at the Eyeo Festival on June 27th and June 28th in Minneapolis, and at the 2011 PromaxBDA Conference on June 30th in NYC.

At the Eyeo Festival, Krakowsky will be moderating in two panels. On June 27th is a panel that wonders “WHY” and features Golan Levin, Natalie Jeremijenko, and Zach Lieberman. Why do we do what we do? Why should our spaces be infused with the digital? Why data? Why code? Why generative? Why collaborative? Why interactive? Why color? Why sound? Why touch? Why do frameworks have to be open? Why design?

June 28th will feature a panel called “Coding Spaces” with Emily Gobeille, Theo Watson and Jake Barton. Peep behind walls made of bits and bytes to unravel and contemplate the art and science of imagining, coding and building interactive environments. The panel will search for some general process ideas, tips, warnings, recommendations and insights into the making of these fascinatin...

Cal Poly Pomona ENV40 Celebration

2011-04-12T15:09:02-04:00

Event includes panel discussions featuring leaders of the environmental design professions including: Marvin J. Malecha, Ray Kappe, Richard Chylinski, Frank Clementi, Stefanos Polyzoides, Deborah Sussman, Michael Rotondi, Ken Smith, Rick Bishop, and Lorraine Wild.

SCHEDULE OF ENV 40 PANELS, Saturday April 16th 2011

10 – 11 am: The early years

Dean Emeritus Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA, 2009 President of the American Institute of Architects
Professor Emeritus Ray Kappe, FAIA, former Chair of the Architecture Department (who went on to found SCI-ARC)
Professor Emeritus Richard Chylinski, FAIA, former Chair of the Architecture Department (who helped establish the department in 1966)
Professor Emeritus Ken Nakaba, FASLA, former Chair of the Landscape Architecture Department
Professor Emeritus Bob Perry, Landscape Architecture Department
Professor Emeritus Charles Loggins, Urban and Regional Planning Department, former Associate Dean of ENV

11 – 11:45 am: Years of growth

Dean Emeritus Barry Wasserman, FAIA, former California State Architect
Professor Emeritus Rod Tapp, FASLA, Landscape Architecture Department
Calvin Abe, FASLA, AHBE Landscape Architects
Steven A. Preston, FAICP, City Manager, City of San Gabriel
Bob Kain, AIA, Healthcare Principal, HMC Architec...