London-based design studio Minimaforms (brothers Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos) question how architecture can facilitate new forms of communication. Through experimental architecture, they explore these questions in hopes to open up a dialogue about social and material interaction. Check out more pictures in …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apBO9pujP5E] Watch this amazing Indian village participate in a century old tradition of weaving bridges from living tree roots to combat the monsoon season. Truly amazing.
Alghorithmic Design run by Ezio Blasseti is an online repository of code used to generate form with Python and Processing. Its a priceless tutorial and content resource dedicated to “computational craft,” definitely check it out, amazing graphics as well.
Kokkugia is a progressive architecture and urban design practice exploring generative and emergent design methods modeled primarily after self-organizing behavior found in biology (resulting in what they call “non-linear” architecture). Its run by Roland Snooks (currently teaching at Columbia GSAPP) …
Solid Thinking is an amazing software that takes your engineered solids and models (in various formats) and optimizes them the same way as if nature had built it (with material only responding to anchors and direct force. You need to …
Case center for Architecture Science and Ecology in NYC is a very promising research program pushing architectural innovation into an entirely new generation. It is a joint collaboration between research office co-hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Skidmore, Owings & …
An awesome book has come to our attention by Actar Publishing entitled Natures. It is part of the elegantly crafted Verb series of “Boogazines” (half book, half magazine, clever eh?). Take a look and see what’s inside, great addition to …
If there is one project you will take the time to learn about today it should be this. Elevated Brood by Paul D Nichols a masterful display of the application of naturally-inspired architecture. Absolutely stunning imagery.
We have been meaning to post about SU11 architecture for quite sometime. They are an excellent firm based in Brooklyn NY run by Ferda Kolatan and Erich Schoenenberger. We’ve included short synopsis of their various projects with plenty of images …
Patrik Schumacher is a partner at Zaha Hadid Architects. He is an accomplished architect and educator having influenced and entire generation of avant garde architectural practitioners. In 2008 he published the Parametric Manifesto, wherein he argued parametric architecture will have …
