Archive for August, 2010

Experimental Dialogues: Sex Machines

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 17:32 2 Comments

Corrado Curti interviews Bryan Cantley, Professor of Design Theory at CSUF and owner of Form:uLA. Editorial coordination, Donatella Cusmà. Looking at the works and drawings by L.A. based architect, professor and spatial orchestrator Bryan Cantley almost gives you the impression that you’re peeping through the keyhole of the architectural mise-en-scène of Jean Tardieu’s La serrure: [...]

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Venice: The Car-Free City?

Friday, August 27, 2010 15:53 No Comments

A detail from Jurgen Mayer H’s award winning proposalsBlueprint Jurgen Mayer Architects were last named the winner of the Audi Urban Futures Award. The award is an innovation was set up by the German car manufacturer to encourage discussions around the relationship between mobility and urban planning. Mayer’s winning proposal posited a future where cars [...]

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Update: call for Mobility Pilots Copenhagen

Friday, August 27, 2010 15:12 No Comments

UPDATE: The deadline for Call for Mobility Pilots: the future of biking in Copenhagen has been extended to September 30 2010. Please send all relative information on previous post here Share this:Facebook

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You are the City: Observation, Organization and Transformation of Urban Settings

Friday, August 27, 2010 13:09 No Comments

Ethel Baraona of dpr-barcelona interviews New York based Architect and Urban Designer Petra Kempf, author of the publication ‘You are the city‘; a unique ‘kit’ of drawings and text which readers can mix, organize and overlay as they please, creating their own city scenarios. The publication aims, through play and interaction, to provide the individual [...]

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The role of art in placemaking

Thursday, August 26, 2010 16:50 3 Comments

In a review of Urban Interventions – Personal Projects in Public Spaces, Regine Debatty of We Make Money Not Art writes that as well as being “surprising, fun and delightful” the publication also reveals how artists play an important role in placemaking. By bringing places alive the artwork featured in the book compels us to [...]

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