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May 17, 2012 • Comments Closed If there is, indeed, nothing lovelier than a tree, Connecticut-based artist Bryan Nash Gill shows us why. Creating large-scale relief prints from cross sections of trees, Gill reveals the sublime power locked inside their arboreal rings, patterns not only of great beauty, but also a year-by-year record of the life and times of the fallen...
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May 15, 2012 • Comments Closed A restored modernist villa hosts a combined experimental art project and culture venue that revives its original purpose An art report from Warsaw by Marcin Szczelina The most original cultural center in Poland, Functional House combines various activities, commercial and cultural alike. The space contains an art gallery, the famous Varsovian culture magazine WAW, a conference room, and in the near future there will be...
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May 1, 2012 • Comments Closed What will Brussels be like in 2040 if its demographic growth continues? How will people get around the city if the motor car is no longer a sustainable means of transport? How can we reduce the social divide and avoid a dual city? How can we offer everyone an opportunity to live and work in...
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May 1, 2012 • Comments Closed She asks some very important questions: What is the origin of form ? How do we invent form? Where do we begin ? Instead of asking what the object wants to be, she asks what does the material want to be ? This was the same question that drove the visionary designers like Bukminister Fuller,...
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May 1, 2012 • Comments Closed Urbanized is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. Over half the world’s population now lives in an urban area, and 75% will call a city home by 2050. But while some...
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Apr 16, 2012 • Comments Closed If mainstream architectural pedagogy and practice remains fixed on unrealistic projections of perpetual economic growth and cultural supremacy, it should expect revolt from its more progressive corners. It’s amazing the way architects have responded to the ongoing financial crisis which has shaken and fractured the world’s economy (they have simply ignored it). Of course,...
By Seyda Ozpaker Kocer Around the globe, the emergence of metropolitan cities is a welcome trend. With the advancements in modern communication technology, the dimensions and the correlations of our world has been completely altered. New role for the cities is to build bridges for improved dialog to make cooperation much easier across the...
