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Shipping Containers Converted to Homes
Shipping containers, those big metal boxes used to transport the lamps, washing machines and furniture in our houses, are now becoming homes in their own right.
The 40-foot-long and 8-foot-wide containers left empty at ports around the country are being recycled into stylish, eco-friendly housing that's less costly than traditional construction.
Initially developed as an experiment for art installations, emergency housing and vacation homes for wealthy modernists, cargo container housing is moving off the fringe and into the mainstream. Shipping containers, those big metal boxes used to transport the lamps, washing machines and furniture in our houses, are now becoming... more -
Rem Koolhaas - An Obsessive Compulsion towards the Spectacular
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas talks about new trends in architecture and urban development, the end of the European city, the rise of Dubai, Russia and China, the obsession with XXXL and the difference between the people who design buildings for a living and "star architects."
Read the interview... Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas talks about new trends in architecture and urban development, the end of the European city, the rise of D... more -
Marion Mahony: A Pioneering Woman Architect
"Marion Mahony: A Pioneering Woman Architect." Marion Mahony was the first woman to obtain an architecture license in Illinois. Most of the beautiful architectural renderings that helped Frank Lloyd Wright promote his building designs and career, were in fact drawn or painted by Mahony.
Beautiful photographs and a photo-gallery are included. "Marion Mahony: A Pioneering Woman Architect." Marion Mahony was the first woman to obtain an architecture license in Illino... more -
If You Build It, Will They Come?
In 25 years, will the current museum construction binge seem brilliant or foolish? Will it have advanced the mission of art museums, or merely diffused it? In 25 years, will the current museum construction binge seem brilliant or foolish? Will it have advanced the mission of art museums, o... more
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Emerged Project
"According to Christopher Alexander, compartmentalization and the dissociation of internal elements are potential signs of anarchy and schizophrenia. Fuzzy logic thinking is another step of helping human thought to recognize our environment less as a world of crisp boundaries and disconnections and more as a field of swarming agents with blurred borders.
EMERGED is investigating the potential of fuzzy logic as a loose-fit organizational technique for developing intelligent, flexible and adaptive environments. Seeing the project as a testing ground for its computational tools and design techniques, the team expands its research territory from focusing and systemizing the dynamic hair tool as generative design machine to a larger scale, involving therefore levels of social, cultural and global organizations. The aim set by the team is to demonstrate a wide range of formal, spatial and programmatic organizations, exploring the ideas of form finding and self organization." "According to Christopher Alexander, compartmentalization and the dissociation of internal elements are potential signs of anarch... more -
Dwell On Design
Dwell Magazine hosts Dwell on Design- an engaging weekend of design and architecture that brings everyone from merchants, students, designers, top archictects and the public together to explore hot issues in design today- the buzz word being "sustainability." Dwell Magazine hosts Dwell on Design- an engaging weekend of design and architecture that brings everyone from merchants, students, d... more
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