Archinect - News2024-09-07T20:59:54-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150303520/get-lectured-boston-architectural-college-spring-22
Get Lectured: Boston Architectural College, Spring '22 Katherine Guimapang2022-03-22T20:48:00-04:00>2022-03-22T20:49:51-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/24/24885df38ed81c7996f4575d8de678d7.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>As the final weeks of March approach, architecture schools continue with their Spring 2022 lecture event programming. <a href="https://archinect.com/BostonArchitecturalCollege" target="_blank">Boston Architectural College</a>, a winner by popular vote of <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150298979/the-winners-of-the-2021-lecture-poster-popularity-contest-are" target="_blank">Archinect's 2021 Get Lectured Poster competition</a>, provides another series of lecture events to watch.</p>
<p>The School's <em>Just Design</em> Spring 2022 lecture series welcomed presentations from <a href="https://the-bac.edu/events-index/2022-spring-lecture-series-david-rifkind-and-dawit-benti-jan-18" target="_blank">David Rifkind and Dawit Benti</a> in January, who discussed contemporary Ethiopian architecture, followed by <a href="https://the-bac.edu/events-index/2022-spring-lecture-series-khushnu-panthaki-hoof-feb-9" target="_blank">Khushnu Panthaki Hoof</a> (Studio Sangath), who spoke on perceptions of lightness in February. For March, <a href="https://the-bac.edu/events-index/2022-spring-lecture-series-chuan-hao-alex-chen-mar-2" target="_blank">Chuan Hao (Alex) Chen</a> discussed Race, Nation, and Biocontainment Architecture, and <a href="https://the-bac.edu/events-index/2022-spring-lecture-series-sierra-bainbridge-mar-9" target="_blank">Sierra Bainbridge</a> spoke on her work with <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/106488/mass-design-group" target="_blank">MASS Design Group</a> in Rwanda.</p>
<p>Coming this April the school welcomes a presentation from Dr. Kwesi Daniels on April 7. Dr. Daniels is the Head of the <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/15684951/tuskegee-university" target="_blank">Architecture Department at Tuskegee University</a> and will present his lecture, "<a href="https://the-bac.edu/events-index/2022-spring-lecture-series-kwesi-daniels-apr-7" target="_blank">An unexpected journey: Citizen Professor</a><em></em>." On April 16 Dr. M. Lee Pelton will pres...</p>
https://archinect.com/news/article/150148442/what-happens-in-neom-stays-in-neom
What happens in Neom, stays in Neom Antonio Pacheco2019-07-27T12:18:00-04:00>2019-07-30T13:39:39-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e2/e27d7d9d04bbca2ad88c892d4fec64bb.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>“This should be an automated city where we can watch everything,” Neom’s Mohammed bin Salman-led founding board said, according to the documents—a city “where a computer can notify crimes without having to report them or where all citizens can be tracked.”</p></em><br /><br /><p><em>The Wall Street Journal</em> digs into some of the documentation underpinning <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/22321/saudi-arabia" target="_blank">Saudi Arabia's</a> forthcoming desert tech city, <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1035435/neom" target="_blank">Neom</a>. The Massachusetts-sized city-state, a pet project of the country's omnipresent crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is being planned as part of an effort to turn the country into a producer of information technologies and other technological and industrial innovations.</p>
<p>Plans obtained by <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> envision a $500 billion technological wonderland populated by robotic maids, a Jurassic Park-style robot dinosaur theme park, and an artificial "moon" projection screen that live-streams images from <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/472322/outer-space" target="_blank">outer space</a>.</p>
<p>“Neom is all about things that are necessarily future-oriented and visionary,” Neom's chief executive officer, Nadhmi al Nasr, told <em>The Wall Street Journal,</em> adding, “So we are talking about technology that is cutting edge and beyond—and in some cases still in development and maybe theoretical.”<br></p>
https://archinect.com/news/article/130422582/lexus-offers-a-glimpse-of-a-functional-hoverboard-prototype
Lexus offers a glimpse of a functional hoverboard prototype Nicholas Korody2015-06-25T18:18:00-04:00>2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/yn/ynuo6d4p4dwpxu15.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Watch out, world. Toyota is heading back to the future.
The automaker has hinted it’s looking into flying cars. Now its Lexus luxury brand has actually built a working model of a hoverboard.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Social media lit up last night after Lexus <a href="http://www.lexus-int.com/amazinginmotion/slide/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">revealed</a> a tantalizing promo video for a "functional hoverboard" prototype. Smoke can be seen curling up from the skateboard-like design, which features a bamboo deck and "the iconic Lexus spindle grille." The prototype uses liquid nitrogen-cooled superconductors and magnets, a technology already implemented in Japan's high-speed rail lines to eliminate friction. While the video appears to show the board hovering on a regular surface, <a href="http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2015/6/25/8846785/lexus-hoverboard-skatepark-its-real-not-a-drill" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">reports</a> indicate that there is a metal track beneath the custom-designed skate park, which was built in a town outside of Barcelona.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/i8/i886cehlvz0tsyzb.jpg"></p><p>If the video makes you nostalgic for <em>Back to the Future, </em>it's no coincidence. A more detailed release is slated for Oct. 21, the day that Marty McFly traversed back to the future. </p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/tp/tptbgbayar6mbfss.jpg"></p><p>Actually, this isn't actually the world's first overboard prototype. <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/142464853/hendo-hoverboards-worlds-first-real-hoverboard" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hendo Hoverboard</a> is a crowd-sourced technology designed by Greg Henderson, an architect by training. Henderson joined Archinect Sessio...</p>