Places Journal has long targeted an interdisciplinary readership — practitioners, scholars, and students in architecture, landscape, and urban design.This week the journal has launched a new tool — Reading Lists — that promises to strengthen ties between the design disciplines and related... View full entry
MORPHING: A Guide to Mathematical Transformations for Architects and Designers is not your high school math coursebook. Authored by Design Topology Lab founder Joseph Choma, Morphing is a pedagogical guide that can help architects, designers, students, and whoever is interested in the topic to... View full entry
After a successful first run last June, Philadelphia University is inviting students, industry professionals, and all who are interested to enroll in the free massive open online course (MOOC), Principles of Sustainable Design. The graduate-level course, which starts today until April... View full entry
It's already time for the next round-up of Kickstarter and crowdfunding projects for Archinect's curated Kickstarter page. Check out this month's list right below.BOOKNITURE- Furniture Hidden in a BookDesigned by Hong Kong-based MIKE/PLATEAUS, BOOKNITURE is a sleek Origami Structure "book" that... View full entry
Our first Kickstarter list of 2015! Here you'll find our latest selections of crowdfunding campaigns that piqued our interest for Archinect's curated Kickstarter page.Parabola ChairAfter two years of development and 15 full-sized prototypes, designer Carlo Aiello's Parabola Chair recently won the... View full entry
In our most recent giveaway, Archinectors had a chance to win a copy of "Archibet" by architect and illustrator Federico Babina, whose popularity has grown due to his quaint illustration series that combine his love for architecture and drawing.With only 26 letters in the English alphabet and... View full entry
One of 2014's most popular news item was the announcement of Stage One of the not uncontroversial Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition.With a mind-boggling pool of over 1,700 Stage One entries (and one Idaho potato) from 77 countries, it's tough to grant each proposal an appropriate platform and... View full entry
Let's admit it, we architects much too often get lost in narcissistic own-horn-tooting, passionate ego-inflating, disillusioned navel-gazing, vile shit-flinging or simply in the mundane day-to-day operations for the paying clientele. But all is not completely lost thanks to the tireless work and... View full entry
In the blink of an eye, another year has passed. Check out our last 2014 list of interesting crowdfunding campaigns for Archinect's curated Kickstarter page.Brave the Storm - Aguantar La TempestadAs annual typhoons continue to rage in the Philippines, the "Brave the Storm" project has been working... View full entry
Architect and graphic designer Federico Babina has become popular for his whimsical illustration series that fuse together his love for architecture and drawing. This includes his "Archibet" series, where famous modernist and contemporary architects like Alvar Aalto, Luis Barragán, Herzog de... View full entry
The idea for Yandex. Street Photographer came to Daniill Maksyokov on a Friday night, while he was surfing the internet [...] “In Yandex.Maps there’s an analogue of Google Street View called Panoramas but it only has views of Russian cities and some former-Soviet countries [...]” say Maksyokov. “What’s more, faces, labels, registration numbers of vehicles and other personal data are not blurred … As a result you have a complete sense of presence and can see everything from a fresh perspective.” — calvertjournal.com
We call it “destructoporn” (since 2007, according to Urban Dictionary) and it comes, unbidden, via digital media. Where did I see that Tod Williams and Billie Tsien’s Folk Art Museum, just thirteen years old, was down to steel and rubble? The art critic Jerry Saltz’s Instagram. [...]
The dailiness, even hourliness, of social media makes it a perfect vehicle for documenting each thump of the wrecking ball, each crunch of the backhoe. Its visual slant is ideal for activism wrapped up in pictures.
— newyorker.com
This post is brought to you by Mosa. Leading Dutch surface specialist Mosa knows that the choice of materials can be what transforms a good design into an outstanding one — especially when it comes to picking out a material as versatile as the ceramic tile. For over 130 years, Mosa continues... View full entry
This post is brought to you by Mosa. The Netherlands has a rich centuries-long history of making tiles, so it's no surprise that Dutch ceramic surface specialist Mosa has been a leading expert in creating reputable products for the global architecture and design field for over 130 years.For... View full entry
We have our latest selection of crowdfunding campaigns from Kickstarter that piqued our interest. In our September and October 2014 picks for Archinect's curated Kickstarter page, you'll find floating objects, more 3D-printing gadgets, sea-plastic furniture, and some stylish everyday... View full entry
