Eco sustainable. Floating-Permaculture. Audi Urban Future Initiative. Alan Boutwell. Alan Boutwell became acquainted with the ideas of the megastructuralists during his studies and was particularly impressed by the thoughts and designs of Archigram.
In 1965, his first designs of modular building systems were released, in which he experimented with new technologies and materials. The project of a gigantic linear city that he created together with Michael Mitchell caused a sensation. It spanned on hundred meter high pillars straight across the American continent. Its interior combined all classical functions of urban life and was connected by a complex traffic system that was differentiated by speed, transportation and distances. Alan Boutwell/ Mike Mitchell, Continuous city for 1.000.000 human beings. In: Domus 470, Milan, 1969 Alan Boutwell and Michael Mitchell described their project with the self-confidence and urgency that is characteristic of that time: This is our city. Alan Boutwell/ Mike Mitchell, Continuous city for 1.000.000 human beings, section.
Van Alen Institute - Competitions. Since 1894, Van Alen Institute has sponsored public design competitions identifying critical issues and developing partnerships that engage the public sphere.
Van Alen Institute has initiated and collaborated on some of New York's most innovative open-call public design competitions, addressing sites ranging from Wall Street, Times Square to Governor's Island and Gateway National Recreation Area. 2014 Times Square Valentine Heart Design Competition October 2013 Read more Ground/Work: A Design Competition for Van Alen Institute's New Street-Level Space May 2013 Read more Parks for the People: A Student Competition to Reimagine America's National Parks August 2011 Read more Life at the Speed of Rail March 2011 Read more Envisioning Gateway: A Public Design Competition for Gateway National Park.
10+ Competition. Eco Skyscrapers - Ken Yeang. LAGI-2012. The list to the right is not in the same order (they are both random).
July 2011. Architecture theory and practice has changed dramatically with the use of computers.
A lot has changed or has been adapted, but for many a radical new orientation lies still ahead. There are some fundamental shifts in the way a process oriented thinking of architecture manages the different steps from analysis to design to construction and beyond. The way it can integrate and mange thousands of parameters using algorithms and using it to dynamically model the progress is challenging a profession still largely clinging on to a modernist objectivity and distance.
Kas Oosterhuis is appointed professor digital design methods at the Delft Technical University and leads Hyperbody, the knowledge center for Nonstandard and Interactive Architecture at the TU Delft. His recent book 'Towards a New Kind of Building is published by NAi Publishers (2011) and was discussed earlier on urbanTick. Untitled. BIArch Dialogues. Reviewing Architectural Knowledge Formats. The Barcelona Institute of Architecture present its forthcoming BIArch Dialogues “Reviewing Architectural Knowledge Formats” to which I am invited.
As the title suggests, the dialogues will focus on issues regarding the generation and dissemination of architectural knowledge and content, through print and digital media, institutions and curatorial practices, and the establishment of pedagogical agendas. This way, BIArch hopes to open a field of inquiry that complements the Institute’s fundamental theoretical, technical and academic concerns. Through the shared reflection of scholars, critics, independent publishers, digital media entrepreneurs, curators, and cultural activists, the dialogues hope to establish a framework that might provide some of the answers to a context in which knowledge is permanently evolving. Where: Barcelona, Spain – Passeig de Gràcia, 92 When: Saturday, November 28, 2009 Pier Vittorio Aureli Pier Vittorio Aureli is an architect and educator. Pep Avilés Pedro Gadanho.