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Dynamic Architecture - http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net
David Fisher presents his design for a rotating tower in Dubai. Between its independently rotating floors are wind turbines, generate electric energy for itself as well as for other buildings. Includes description, video and press articles. |
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Decodeine - http://www.decodeine.org
Margot Kasojevik presents dynamics, simulation and animation design processes in architecture. Includes animations. |
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Symphonic House - http://symphonichouse.com
A resonant house built on a Lake Michigan beach as a joint experiment between David Hanawalt, architect, and Bill Close, sonic installation artist. Includes photographs and video with music. |
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Emergent - http://www.emergentarchitecture.com
Tom Wiscombe researches issues of globalism, technology, and materiality through built form. Projects and publications on experimental architecture of complex geometry, informed by contemporary models of biology and business. |
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Design Museum: Archigram / Architects (1961-1974) - http://www.designmuseum.org/design/archigram
Formed by a group of young London architects, Archigram magazine dominated the architectural avant garde in the 1960s with its playful, pop-inspired visions of a technocratic future. Exhibition at the Design Museum, London. |
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Pouchulu Architects - http://www.pouchulu.com/
Argentinian architect and academic Patricio Pouchulu displays his portfolio of futuristic designs, including those for major competitions. |
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Zomes Concept - http://www.zomes-concept.com/
Creating homes from a harmonious family of geometric forms. Includes definitions, symbolism, images, and construction. |
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Archi Libre - http://archilibre.org/
Takes a look at vernacular and self-educated strands in architecture. Materials and techniques, fantastic architecture, domes, and zomes. [French, English, Spanish] |
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Curvilinear Surfaces - http://www.curvedsurfaces.com
Aleksandra Kasuba explains how to install curved fabric structures (under tension) in environmental and architectural projects. Examples of her installations. Biography, bibliography. |
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Architects Design in Cyberspace - http://members.tripod.com/wwwandia/art/100.html
Illustrated article by Alfredo Andia and Claudia Busch on the designs by New York based architectural firm Asymptote on a virtual New York Stock Exchange. |
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Diaphan Architectural - http://www.diaphanarch.ch
Sabine von Fischer explores space in material and thought, in the form of drawings and texts – from concept and criticism to construction. Projects focus on sensorial and invisible boundaries such as "sonic barriers", and on completely collapsed objects in the "event horizon" series. |
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The Translucent House - http://arquitectes.coac.net/lacasatranslucida/
A prototype by Alfons Soldevila. Photograph parades show the building process from design to finish, and other buildings using translucence. A detailed description and theoretical background. |
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The Steel Research House - http://www.foursteelwalls.co.uk
An experiment in modern house design using light steel framing at the University of Nottingham, UK. Context, project outline and progress. Feedback form for comments. |
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Electronic Democracy Spaces - http://www.dixtio.net
University diploma project on two parallel networks (physical and digital) that host and encourage political participation. Dimitris Papadopoulos and Iannis Orfanos. |
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Just-In-Time Infrastructure Prototype - http://www2.arnes.si/~sudikebe/jit/html/
Igor Kebelour presents a concept of domestic, working, public and mobile institutions merged into one. Includes model, analysis and discussion. |