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Pop-up parks and tiny houses are just a few of the innovative solutions that can help post-industrial cities across Europe and North America adapt to the future.
Bio-inspiration takes cues from natural structures that do certain things very effectively. One example: the strong but flexible fibers that sea sponges use to anchor themselves to the ocean floor.
Cities have always been more than a dense collection of people. They are labs of innovation, hotbeds of crime and inequality, architectural stunners, decaying ruins and everything in between.
Research shows that bringing nature indoors, in the form of movement created by light, wind and water, makes occupants calmer and more productive. It also could promote interest in sustainable design.
People in visually creative professions have their own way of seeing the world.
There are three key principles: prevent risk, evacuate users and minimise damage – in that order.
Massive damage and suffering was caused when a London tower block became an inferno.
When the young Wright moved to Chicago to work for the architect Joseph Silsbee, he was introduced to Japanese prints. It changed his career, and very possibly the course of American architecture.
Repetitive patterns from windows, blinds and stairs are really uncomfortable to look at.
Without protection, Iran’s spectacular American- and Italian-designed mid-century structures will be reduced to dust, beams and concrete blocks.
The mall’s inventor, Victor Gruen, envisioned thriving hubs of civic activity, rather than bland, asphalt-enclosed shopping centers. Is his original vision now being realized – or further corrupted?
Ding dong, the bridge is dead.
We need to imagine new types of borders in this era of fervent fence building.
Toxic industrial processes put a distance between work, home and leisure. Now, in the post-industrial era, these functions are being reunited.
By following these three lessons, Homs can re-emerge from the Syrian conflict an even greater city than before.
A Syrian architect reveals what makes her home town so special – and how locals can rebuild it.
Academics are often in the vanguard of the fight to preserve heritage buildings but they are losing the battle on home turf as universities shed their 1960s and 1970s concrete skins.
With his work Francis Kéré, who is one of Africa’s top architects, represents an innovative breakthrough in the collective imagery of what architecture in Africa could be in the 21st century.
A transcript from a segment of The Anthill podcast about the futuristic visions of Filippo Marinetti.
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Professor, Monash University
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Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of History of Art, Vanderbilt University
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Chair Professor of Architecture, UNSW Sydney
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British Academy Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Architectural Technologist and Urban Designer, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Urban Design, Lancaster University
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Adjunct professor of architecture, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Architecture and SARChI: DST/NRF/SACN Research Chair in Spatial Transformation (Positive Change in the Built Environment), Tshwane University of Technology
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Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Practice, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Head of School, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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Architect and lecturer, University of Liverpool
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Head and Professor of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art
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Visiting Scholar, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
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Transformation Fellow + Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Queensland University of Technology
