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Music. ML: Macaulay Library. The architect's technical resource - archtoolbox.com. Organizations/Think Tanks. 2 × 4: Home. QUICKBORNER TEAM Gesellschaft für Planung und Organisation mbH. WAI Think Tank. LMNts: LMN tech studio. Photography. Practice-Illustration. Fontdarquitectura. User Interface + Graphic Design. Ward Shelley Homepage. Free Vector Graphics & Art Design Blog. 3D Architectural Visualization & Rendering Blog.

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Java script. SgHome. 1 Theory. Economics. SHADD Studies in the History of the African Diaspora – Documents. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 8. Subversive Festival | Subversive Forum / Conference. Social Intelligence. Society + Theory. Manifest destiny. In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. Historians have for the most part agreed that there are three basic themes to Manifest Destiny: The special virtues of the American people and their institutions;America's mission to redeem and remake the west in the image of agrarian America;An irresistible destiny to accomplish this essential duty.[1] Historian Frederick Merk says this concept was born out of "A sense of mission to redeem the Old World by high example [...] generated by the potentialities of a new earth for building a new heaven".[2] Merk concludes: From the outset Manifest Destiny—vast in program, in its sense of continentalism—was slight in support.

It lacked national, sectional, or party following commensurate with its magnitude. The reason was it did not reflect the national spirit. Context[edit] John L. Journalist John L. Themes and influences[edit] Data Science.

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Agriculture. Social Network Analysis. Environment and Planning homepage. Mapping. Contrail - About Contrail. Contrail is a public art project that celebrates shared spaces, helps make bicycling safer and more fun. How to Use Contrail Contrail attaches to your bicycles and, as you ride, the device leaves a colorful trail behind you. Contrail uses washable, non-toxic chalking fluid made from eco-friendly pigments. Like a jet's contrail, the lines on the road will fade with time and rain.

For more details, see FAQs. When to Use Contrail Contrail can be used used to lead bike-to-school rides or help large fundraising rides make sure no one gets lost. Our Hopes for Contrail Encourages more people to start biking Gives bicycling a stronger presence Help cities rethink the use of public spaces More about the makers Co-Inventor Pepin Gelardi is an Industrial Designer and Mechanical Engineer who has developed products as diverse as bathroom fixtures, cosmetic applicators, and iPod accessories over the past ten years.

Co-Inventor Teresa Herrmann is interested in the effects things have on communities. Learning-from.

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Sisters are Building it for Themselves: How the Victoria Mxenge women changed the housing game. Figures recently released by the City of Cape Town show that the number of shack fires which occurred in the Western Cape in 2014 reached just under 8,000, almost double the previous year’s 4,832. At least 20 people died in these fires, with countless others left homeless. Those numbers are a reminder of how perilous shack living can be, as well as testament to the housing backlog in a rapidly-expanding city. That backlog currently stands at around 400,000, with a City of Cape Town report last February stating that the city was only able to build just over 6,000 homes annually based on its resources. It’s a housing crisis that has been brewing for well over two decades, spawning frustration and protest, but also innovation. Dr Salma Ismail, of UCT’s adult education department, has just written a book chronicling the stirring story of the homeless women of Victoria Mxenge. It started with a small group of women, most of whom who had come to Cape Town from the rural Eastern Cape.

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INNOVATIVE projection management. AJBL. 4 Element. ArchiExpo - The Virtual Architecture Exhibition: kitchen, bathroom, lighting, furniture, office ... Online Collection Search Results. Ergonomics. FPO IP Research & Communities. Clues to Open Helsinki - Helsinki Design Lab. DIY Architecture: First WikiHouses Built - The Pop-Up City - Waterfox.

It was one year ago that we brought you news of WikiHouse, the innovative open-source concept for housebuilding from London-based design team 00:/ (zero zero). The idea is to bring house design and construction to the masses through open-source designs that use easy-to-assemble CNC cutouts from standard sheets of plywood. Anyone can contribute designs, download models (that can generate code for CNC cutting) and assemble the components with minimal training or skill. We’ve already seen IKEA dabble in urbanism. Imagine if they were to offer flat-packaged self-assembly houses — you would probably get something very much like a WikiHouse! Since we’ve last reported on this project, much progress has been made. Eight prototypes have been constructed so far, including two zero-bolts designs, which reduce assembly time.

The creators firmly believe that WikiHouse is a worthwhile endeavour as it unites civic, creative, educational, entrepreneurial and micro-economic activities. DigitArchi. Recordings - VRC, School of Architecture, Princeton University.

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Dpr-barcelona | beyond books | between art, science and architecture. SuckerPUNCH. Thehinge.net NEWS. Hemler Von Sternof and the Blue House Photography Company Useful Emptiness -Public Art Installation - Ablany Bulb FEET - Public Art Sculpture - Don Beyer Kia, Alexandria VA 'Territoriality' Evolution public art installation Intel T-shirt Design Territoriality - Drift wood Albany Bulb beach public art installation An evening with the Bob Ross Band This is how you carve a dodecahedron into a stump An animated mural for INTEL Animated Presentation for The WIN Luncheon Lead designer for re-design of interactionmetrics.com New sub-titles writen for The Matrix New additions to Chalk Shadows Background art for Robotic Opera Photos Montage : Last Thursday Alberta Arts . And of course music. The 101 Most Useful Websites on the Internet. Make Any Dead URL Work Again | DeadURL.com.

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine. Search Our Img. List of minimalist artists. Minimalism was an art movement that began during the 1960s and this list of minimalist artists are primarily artists whose works were done in the 1960s; and are considered minimal. Although some artists subsequently radically changed their work in the 1970s and in subsequent decades. This list in incomplete. Among the artists to whom the term minimalist was originally applied are[edit] Among the other artists whose work might be regarded as related to minimalist art are[edit] Anne Truitt (1921–2004), American sculptorFrederick Spratt (1927-2008), American painter/sculptorAnthony Caro (born 1924), British sculptorEllsworth Kelly (born 1923), American painter/sculptorRobert Ryman (born 1930), American painterRichard Serra (born 1939), American sculptorBob Law (1934–2004) British painter/sculptor Among the other artists whose work might be regarded as proto-minimalist are[edit] In music artists whose work might be regarded as minimalist include[edit] See also[edit]

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Images. Architecture + Design. Tools / Geometry. Resources. Parametric World. a3reel: Prove di voxelizzazione dipendente dai vettori del campo fluidodinamico.Catalogazione dei risultati variando:-il numero di celle in cui è diviso il campo-soglia-parametri di coesione,allineamento,separazione degli agents-viscosità,diffusione,influenza del fluido sugli agents,influenza degli agents sul fluido.I risultati ottenuti forniscono una gamma di mesh più o meno compatte a seconda della variazione dei parametri. Architecture,... Computational Design Italy. Parametric Design. Asian Historical Architecture: a Photographic Survey. Historical Materialism — Historical Materialism Journal.

Dig Deeper into the Scandal. Globally, extreme poverty has been halved in 20 years, and could be virtually wiped out by 2030. But much of the progress that has been made is at risk – not because of natural disasters or new diseases, but because of something far more insidious. Analysis by the ONE Campaign suggests that at least $1 trillion is being taken out of developing countries each year through a web of corrupt activity that involves shady deals for natural resources, the use of anonymous shell companies, money laundering and illegal tax evasion. This is not international aid – which is making a tangible difference.

Massive sums are being taken out of developing countries’ own economies, preventing them from financing their own fight against extreme poverty, disease and hunger. It is nothing short of a trillion-dollar scandal. In this report, we show the true human cost of this scandal, and how it can be dramatically reduced. Download the report (PDF format) Stealth of nations. Africa Past & Present | The Podcast about African History, Culture, and Politics | Page 2. Hikabwa Decius Chipande (PhD 2015 Michigan State) on the political and social history of football (soccer) in Zambia. He discusses becoming an historian; the game’s relationship with British colonizers, the copper mines, and postcolonial governments; and the archival research and oral interviewing process. Chipande concludes with insights from his extensive experience with sport development in Africa.

Boycotting South African goods, San Francisco, 1962. Used by permission of ILWU. Peter Cole (Western Illinois, SWOP [Wits]) compares Durban and San Francisco, maritime union solidarities, the anti-apartheid movement, and technological change in the two ports. Cole concludes with reflections on researching and teaching comparative history. Menán Du Plessis (Stellenbosch University and U. of Kentucky) on her literary work, research on the Kora! Part I of a series on digital African studies. Abdilatif Abdalla is the best-known Swahili poet and independent Kenya’s first political prisoner. Blogs - Adam Curtis. International | The Swedish Research Council Formas. Ailanthus altissima. Ailanthus altissima /eɪˈlænθəs ælˈtɪsɨmə/,[2] commonly known as tree of heaven, ailanthus, or in Standard Chinese as chouchun (Chinese: 臭椿; pinyin: chòuchūn; literally "foul smelling tree"), is a deciduous tree in the Simaroubaceae family.

It is native to both northeast and central China and Taiwan. Unlike other members of the genus Ailanthus, it is found in temperate climates rather than the tropics. The tree grows rapidly and is capable of reaching heights of 15 metres (49 ft) in 25 years. However, the species is also short lived and rarely lives more than 50 years.

The tree was first brought from China to Europe in the 1740s and to the United States in 1784. Description[edit] Botanical drawing of the leaves, flowers and samaras from Britton and Brown's 1913 Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada The leaves are large, odd- or even-pinnately compound, and arranged alternately on the stem. Bark and flowers of A. altissima Immature seeds on a female tree. Taxonomy[edit] T38studio. Startpage | The Swedish Research Council Formas. Konrad Wachsmann. Konrad Wachsmann (May 16, 1901 in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany – November 25, 1980 in Los Angeles, California) was a German modernist architect.

He is notable for his contribution to the mass production of building components. Originally apprenticed as a cabinetmaker, Wachsmann studied at the arts-and-crafts schools of Berlin and Dresden and at the Berlin Academy of Arts (under the Expressionist architect Hans Poelzig). During the late 1920s he was chief architect for a manufacturer of timber buildings.

He designed a summer house for Albert Einstein, one of his lifelong friends, in Caputh, Brandenburg. He received the Prix de Rome from the German Academy in Rome in 1932. In 1938 he emigrated to Paris and in 1941 to the United States, where he began a collaboration with Walter Gropius and developed the "Packaged House System", a design for a house which could be constructed in less than nine hours. He is buried in his native Frankfurt an der Oder. References[edit] External links[edit] NounProject Search. BLDGBLOG. Art and architecture, heck out book. Ours is a time when art looks more and more like architecture, and architecture looks quite like art. Now rising at the 2012 Olympic Park is the Orbit, a pile of steel composed by the artist Anish Kapoor, which has things like lifts and stairs, serious engineering, and the scale of a building.

Olafur Eliasson has just finished a spectacular glass wrapping to the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik which has attracted a lot more attention than the parts by the actual architects of the project, Henning Larsen. The Serpentine Gallery in London, a place dedicated to visual art, presents an annual pavilion, designed by an architect, as if it were the work of an artist, which is then sold to collectors. Architects themselves profess to be inspired, with varying degrees of credibility, by the likes of the American artist James Turrell. "Minimalism" has turned from an artistic movement to an architectural style to an interior design option.

Toothpaste For Dinner - 2,600+ comics by Drew - Updates daily at midnight. Designs for Working. Why your bosses want to turn your new office into Greenwich Village. In the early nineteen-sixties, Jane Jacobs lived on Hudson Street, in Greenwich Village, near the intersection of Eighth Avenue and Bleecker Street. It was then, as now, a charming district of nineteenth-century tenements and town houses, bars and shops, laid out over an irregular grid, and Jacobs loved the neighborhood.

In her 1961 masterpiece, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” she rhapsodized about the White Horse Tavern down the block, home to Irish longshoremen and writers and intellectuals–a place where, on a winter’s night, as “the doors open, a solid wave of conversation and animation surges out and hits you.” Her Hudson Street had Mr. Slube, at the cigar store, and Mr. The miracle of Hudson Street, according to Jacobs, was created by the particular configuration of the streets and buildings of the neighborhood. Jane Jacobs did not win the battle she set out to fight. | Bombay Mumbai Bumbai.