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This feature has been created in collaboration with urbanNext, a multi-platform aimed at developing, disseminating and distributing content centered on architecture through a focus on the contemporary human milieu and its challenges. Architizer features a weekly discussion from urbanNext’s journals to support its investigation of urban conditions and innovations facing the architectural profession today. “Architects…
Research project “17 Volcanoes” explores the implications of tourism and its relationship to urban d evelopment through a historic lens.
“There’s a convergence between the artificial world and the biological one,” says Carlo Ratti. “Our buildings, our cities, can start to respond to us as if they were living beings.”
Architect Mitch McEwen’s project follows a rich tradition of local artists reclaiming Detroit’s aban doned spaces as public commons or art pieces for the community.
“Will there be more and more beaches as the water level changes? Will our cities become as nice as V enice, which has water everywhere?”
“Right now, the dominant geographies are geographies of extraction; they’re geographies of power,” s ays Saskia Sassen in an interview with Ibai Rigby of urbanNext.
What is the best way to manage the production and dissemination of content for the digital realm? Th is is the reason we launched urbanNext.
Predicting social behavior and usability in architecture presents an age-old conundrum in the profes sion.
This feature has been created in collaboration with urbanNext, a multi-platform aimed at developing, disseminating and distributing content centered on architecture through a focus on the contemporary human milieu and its challenges. Architizer features a weekly discussion from urbanNext’s journals to support its investigation of urban conditions and innovations facing the architectural profession today. “I…