Architectural case studies and material exemplars to spark your creativity and inspire your next project.
It’s one thing when a work of fiction is so immersive that it’s billed as a “time machine,” but even better when going behind the scenes actually makes it more magical. Starting this weekend, “Mad Men” fans will have the opportunity set foot in the office of Don Draper. Dripping in Herman Miller, the Museum…
When the Dubai Government recently unveiled the grandly titled Museum of the Future, the building lo oked like it was missing something: A vast void pierces the center of the oval structure, designed by an unnamed architecture firm and set for construction in 2017. The distinctive shape of the building forms the latest attempt by the…
In conjunction with Bjarke Ingels / BIG’s widely praised exhibition at the National Building M useum, “HOT TO COLD. An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation,” the New-York- and Copenhagen-based firm is pleased to release an exhibition catalog of the same name. Like the built environment, climate change affects each and every one of us, and both the…
“In this age of possibility, we can ask more from our buildings than ever before.” This is the thesis of Marc Kushner’s new book, The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings, released yesterday, concurrently with his TED Talk. Published by Simon & Schuster, the compact book covers 100 different structures are designed to be more…
The next building you build may contain sources of fungus, invasive alien plant species, mutant frui t, or weeds. But in a good way. These materials and more are some of the main ingredients in the new generation of biopolymers and biocomposites, products that mainly comprise plant, animal, fungal, and bacterial sources that can now be…
Seasteading is an exciting new vision of building micro-utopias out at sea, leaving the traditional nation-state behind and forming libertarian communities where new economic, legal, and social systems can grow and thrive without governmental constraints. These new places come not only with their own stories about who founded them and what kind of new civilization…
Today is a big day for Architizer — and for myself personally — and I wanted to take a moment to tha nk the entire community for being a part of it! Today sees the launch of my TED Talk, originally presented last March, an 18-minute crash-course in the last 30 years of architecture history. In…
Most everyone is familiar with the standard university typologies — lecture halls, dorms, libraries, gyms, student centers, etc. — but how many campuses can boast a “contemplative center?” San Francisco-based Aidlin Darling Design has recently completed The Windhover Contemplative Center at Stanford University, a uniquely programmed building meant expressly as a spiritual retreat for the…
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 Guy Peterson, FAIA — Founder and Principal of Guy Peterson | Office for Architecture — whose forthcoming book…