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“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famou s.” Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe’s quip perfectly epitomizes the challenges of product design, which share a range of contrasts and commonalities with those faced by architects shaping the built environment. Daniel Libeskind presented his latest foray into…
A group of engineers are out to change how designers construct their 3D digital models.
With spring just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about getting out of the city and into the woods for some fresh air. The brooks will be babbling, the birds chirping, and the sun shining. Forget what you know, camping doesn’t have to be roughing it unless you want it to be. Take…
The symbolic significance of the completion of One World Trade Center (f.k.a. the Freedom Tower), ca nnot be overstated. After nearly a decade and a half of controversy surround the sprawling construction site (an easy metaphor for a scar), the shiny new David Childs-designed tower will stand as a monument of rebirth and a landmark of…
In the matter of two decades, America has gone from having (arguably) “no” design scene to boasting a bona fide design movement. Role models have provided one source of that transformation, and Henrybuilt stands chief among them. Best known for its kitchens, the company approaches the function, materiality, and execution of all its products with…
In the 1920s El Lissitzky developed and proposed the idea of horizontal skyscapers — Wolkenbügels, o r “cloud-irons” — eight structures intended for the Boulevard Ring in Moscow. His logic was that as long as humans could not fly, moving horizontally was natural, and moving vertically was not. In an area where there is not significant…
Brutalism gets a bad rap for its over-bearing scale and sweater-snagging rawness. Polish studio Zupa grafika wants to challenge this perception by making several brutal icons of London into small, cut-out paper models. By introducing an element of arts and crafts (the pastime, not the movement), the foldable models cast brutalism as something miniaturized and makeable.…
Computer-generated graphics have gotten sophisticated beyond our wildest dreams and video games are almost completely realistic at this point. However, a new crop of games takes a different approach, opting instead for an overtly graphic approach. It might have something to do with the fact that we have now all but mastered the technology to…
Architizer continues to explore how architects experience the emotional realm during the process of creation, presenting the points of view of some of the profession’s most actualized practitioners. Today, Saxon Henry, author of Four Florida Moderns, interviews Kimberly Brown, AIA, LEED, AP — Co-founder and Principal of Strata Architects, PLLC — who speaks of the…