“Scientists think that ice will probably disappear from the North Pole for the first time by this summer 2008 due to the global warming. We would like to express our solidarity with the hungry – and probably angry – polar bears that will soon reach our lands (?) trying to find some dry land and food. What about architecture?”
⚐ EN
[ecosistema urbano] exhibition in paris.
February 5 > march 12 2009
Opening February 5 at 6:30 pm.
“Le Sommer Environnement” la Galerie.
5 bis rue des Haudriettes, 75003 Paris
web: www.lesommer.fr continue reading
February 1, 2009
[bracket] is a collaboration of Archinect and InfraNet Lab, and is composed of a collection of diverse editors and an open-source contributing membership.
[bracket] is an annual publication documenting issues overlooked yet central to our cultural milieu that have evolved out of the new disciplinary territory at the intersection of architecture, landscape, urbanism and, now, the internet. It is no coincidence that the professional term architect can also now refer to information architects, and that the word community can also now refer to an online community. [bracket] is a publishing platform for ideas charting the complex overlap of the sphere of architecture and online social spheres. continue reading
January 27, 2009
THE GREAT CAKE ESCAPE
Category: ⚐ EN+art+city+creativity
I’d like to present this curious group all composed by young women who invaded London’s streets with cakes.
Glorieta de Bilbao [Madrid]
-fisheye view from the ground-
Emergency Architects Foundation was founded in April 2001 by Patrick Coulombel after the floods in the Somme and Oise departments in France. It is now a foundation reconnue d’utilité publique, with two other national sections in Canada and in Australia. continue reading
January 26, 2009
In its newest edition Volume #18, published by an international think-tank including AMO, Archis and C-LAB, is raising questions about the condition of sustainability in a world that seems to have yet accepted its importance, but still searches for its meaning. continue reading
Superuse is based on a simple but effective concept. For the viewer, it is a big database of recycling-related projects in various fields (design, architecture, art, etc) and for its registered users it is a community whose members can submit stuff and vote other people’s sumissions. continue reading
10 things we have learned from the city
Category: ⚐ EN
Here we have our list of 10 things in english, spanish and french: continue reading
January 23, 2009
fisheye sessions #10
Category: ⚐ EN+city+creativity+urbanism
Glorieta de Bilbao [Madrid]
-fisheye view from top-