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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.
George Lucas announces architects for lakefront museum | Are the ‘Star’ Architects Ruining Cities? | Medellín made urban escalators famous, but have they had any impact? | David Adjaye interview: ‘I’m not always looking at the usual references’ | David Adjaye designs a new boutique for Couturiere Roksanda Ilincic | Never Too Young; 15 Librarian-Recommended Architecture Books for Young Children |
last word: Build communities, not just home units
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.
George Lucas announces architects for lakefront museum | Are the ‘Star’ Architects Ruining Cities? | Medellín made urban escalators famous, but have they had any impact? | David Adjaye interview: ‘I’m not always looking at the usual references’ | David Adjaye designs a new boutique for Couturiere Roksanda Ilincic | Never Too Young; 15 Librarian-Recommended Architecture Books for Young Children |
last word: Build communities, not just home units
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The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building.
Could Lego Architecture Studio actually be useful for architects? | The ‘Starchitect’ Image | Rebel Architecture: The creator’s view | Big Read: A feast of art, food and architecture in Rodez | Paper Palaces | Clay robotics: the future of architecture is happening now in a Chilterns farm | Guerrilla architect | 20th Century architecture: Is it the end of our ‘concrete jungles‘? | Edible Chocolate LEGOs by Akihiro Mizuuchi
last word: Stop Order Placed On St Lucia Towers
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There’s a lineage of carpentry and masonry, building with high skill and great efficiency that’s specific to India, and I am transferring that ideology to projects around the world.
Why the Millennial Architect Won’t Be Your CAD Monkey | How Chinese Urbanism Is Transforming African Cities | Inside the Iconic World Cup Finals Stadium | Why the modern bathroom is a wasteful, unhealthy design | Is maverick master builder Bjarke Ingels the world’s smartest architect – or just the craziest? | Slovak architect turns billboards into homes for the homeless | Knud Lonberg-Holm: ‘The Invisible Architect’
last word: Villanueva 114 years
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Are Ivy League Schools Really Offering the Best Architectural Education? | 25 Architects You Should Follow on Twitter | A new blueprint for architectural excellence | Berlin Plans ‘House Of One,’ A Place Where Jews, Muslims, And Christians Will Pray Under The Same Roof | Life in the suburbs: the good, the bad and the ugly | How to make a tool set | Miami’s new vice – an addiction to star architects |
last word: “LEEDing” The Pack: acla:works Deepens Commitment to Green Building, Design and Construction
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By tattooing walls, graffiti writers free them architecture and turn them once again into living, social matter, into the moving body of the city before it has been banned with functions and institutions.
When Architects Build Brands: Is Architecture’s Future in Advertising? | Meet the Dynamic Duo Behind Architecture Firm Fuksas | Why Architects should Blog | The Green Building Reality: Why Two-Thirds of the Profession Are Cowards | One of America’s Most Famous Architects Was a Nazi Propagandist | A beautiful mobile home for just $33,000? | A degree in architecture … but all I can get are menial jobs
last word: 2014 – End of Year Exhibition at the Caribbean School of Architecture
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Architecture is not an inspirational business, it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that’s all.
Canada launches architecture prize to rival Pritzker | Step Back into the Real World of Mad Men | Battersea Flower Station: Guggenheim architect Frank Gehry unveils plans for new £8bn riverside development | Top architect [Ridwan Kamil] uses role as mayor to transform Indonesian city | Minimalist Leather Goods from a Harvard-Trained Architect | Architect Bjarke Ingels is transforming the Williamsburg waterfront |
last word: A middle-class syndrome: Is homeownership a possibility?
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Mass- production is the realm of the industrial designer and the process engineer – so let them maintain claim over that territory. The bespoke is the true specialty of the architect and the contemporary profession has more facility than ever to implement difference in the most intelligent of ways.
Chris Knapp
We Need More ‘Building’ in Architecture School | Leading architect John McAslan turns his attention from Haiti to Tottenham | Foster + Partners propose 136-mile cycling network above London | Architect Santiago Calatrava wins honor at Vatican and is sued by the city of Valencia as the white elephants (opera house) rot | Bjarke Ingels: An Architect For A Moment Or An Era? | Louvre Abu Dhabi architect Jean Nouvel sees his creation come to life
last word: Ten new year’s resolutions for architects in 2014
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Can we architects working in the Third World afford to consider projects in isolation? […]the issues are more serious than the design of aesthetically pleasing or even good buildings
Intense, Graphic Photos ‘Whitewash’ Buildings in Los Angeles | The Best (and Worst) Countries to Be a Female Architect | 10 architects were told to create their fantasy home. This is what happened | Los Angeles Bans Heat-Sucking Roofs | Man Builds Fairy Tale Home for His Family – Total Cost £3,000 | What Architecture Schools Get Wrong | 2013 in Review: Top 10 Architecture Projects | Top 10 Deliciously Modern Gingerbread Houses
last word: Islamic Art Scholar Traces Havana’s Mozarabic Influences
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