The Fractal Matrix Planning System. Engineering for the Ecological Age: Lessons from History | MIT World. Armadillo-GAIA module voute.pdf (application/pdf-Objekt) New towns on the Cold War frontier - Michelle Provoost How modern urban planning was exported as an instrument in the battle for the developing world. How modern urban planning was exported as an instrument in the battle for the developing world Constantinos Doxiadis, the architect who during the 1950s and 1960s built new towns throughout the Middle East and Africa, was a leading figure in US Cold War policy.
While hoping to inculcate democratic and free-market values in the developing world, the New Towns failed to take into account indigenous traditions. Today, Doxiadis's urban neighbourhoods have become something quite different to what he anticipated: Sadr city, Baghdad's giant slum, for example, where typhoid and hepatitis epidemics rage and which is now the backdrop for a new type of urban warfare. The most that can be said for Doxiadis's New Towns, says Michelle Provoost, was that they had in mind an ideal – precisely what the US programme to restore democracy in contemporary Iraq lacks. The cultural Cold War A sinister connection But, as Westad explains, the US was facing a terrible dilemma. The CIA and the European art scene. Kanal von howtoarchitect. Kanal von naturalhouses. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Chinese Architect Builds Egg House on Sidewalk to Escape Insane Rents | Co.Design. Beijing's architecture is a scene of extremes: on one end are Rem Koolhaas's multibillion-dollar structures; on the other, Dai Haifei's $964 sleep-pod -- which the 24-year-old architect built because he couldn't even afford to live in the city he helps shape. [Image via Getty, for use by Co.Design] Haifei was inspired to design and build his egg-shaped domicile after seeing a conceptual project called "City's Egg" at the 2010 Shanghai Biennale Exhibition.
"I was impressed by the green-notion of building a house like that, especially in cities like Beijing where rental price for a fresh graduate is a huge burden," Dai told China Daily. The egg-house's specifications are, of course, spartan at best: two meters high at its tallest point, built on a bamboo frame, insulated with wood chips, and an exterior made of what looks like cut-up sleeping bags.
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