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Experimental Dialogues: Sex Machines

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 17:32 1 Comment

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: right [...]

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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

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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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A little less conversation (a little more action)

Thursday, July 1, 2010 16:54 No Comments

Corrado Curti

Designs for inflatable architecture and air structures source www.cca.qc.ca/en/collection/907-cedric-price-designs-for-inflatable-architecture-and-air
Elvis might not be considered a pioneer in experimental architecture, but his suggestion fits perfectly with the work of Cedric Price, one of the most radical and influential experimental architects of the XX century: no mind-stuffing, self-referential blabla on autonomous disciplinary discourse or formal experiment, but [...]

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Revising the Systems: RIEAch and the Commitment to Knowledge Production

Monday, June 7, 2010 17:10 2 Comments

Per-Johan Dahl
Social space implies a great diversity of knowledge.¹Henri Lefebvre

left: Bachelor students working in the “Fullskalelab” at Lund Institute of Technology; top right: Spatial investigations by Bachelor Students at Lund Institute of Technology, School of Architecture; bottom right: School of Architecture Model by Masters Students at the Sustainable Urban Design program, Lund Institute of [...]

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