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Editor's Picks #274

2012-07-23T21:52:00-04:00

In Archinect's latest feature Color in Architecture — More Than Just Decoration, Frank H. Mahnke (author of COLOR, Environment, & Human Response) explores the links between color, space and human neuropsychology. anf thought it was a "Great article... fits in well with the themes and topics being explored over at the Architectural Association's Research Cluster on Colour in Architecture and Urbanism,

In Archinect's latest feature Color in Architecture — More Than Just Decoration, Frank H. Mahnke (author of COLOR, Environment, & Human Response) explores the links between color, space and human neuropsychology. For more information check out the interdisciplinary education/accreditation program known as IACC Academy for Color and Environment. anf thought it was a "Great article... fits in well with the themes and topics being explored over at the Architectural Association's Research Cluster on Colour in Architecture and Urbanism, ‘Saturated Space’'”.

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The Architects’ Journal surveyed the British public and reported that It’s true: people don’t know what architects do Rusty Shackleford quipped "To be fair, 98% of architecture students and 95% of their professors have no idea what architects actually do" but Will Galloway answered "only in the usa rusty. we're all licensed architects here. i would bet the numbers are even lower here". Stephan Pezdek meanwhile, believes "p...

The Shopping Mall Turns 60 (and Prepares to Retire)

2012-07-17T12:18:00-04:00

Gruen’s idea transformed American consumption patterns and much of the environment around us. At age 60, however, the enclosed regional shopping mall also appears to be an idea that has run its course

Megastructures are the Shopping Malls of the Avant-Garde

2012-03-27T12:51:00-04:00

What About ideal cities, and counter revolutionary master plans?

Avant-Garde
The avant-garde is a paradoxical state. In order to exist, it relies on its incongruous condition of being both fundamentally contemporary and ahead of its time. A conceptual palimpsest, the avant-garde requires writing its history over its own past keeping a vulnerable balance between present problems, and possible future solutions. All about contextualizing the perfect timing, what happens when the avant-garde goes out of sync; when its solutions are overlooked for being too premature, or ridiculed for being delayed?

In the past century alone, the avant-garde was victim of two untimely appearances. In the first one, its proposals arrived too early; the world was taken aback by the boldness of its ambitions, by the audacity of its delirium. In the second coming, the avant-garde was too late. Here its stratagems were on a futile mission of inventing a program that already existed.

These consecutive...