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Stonemasonry in Context_The ARTIFEX Workshop

Category: ⚐ EN+architecture

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The intersection between the natural and the creative is subject of profound debate.
This places production at the crossroads of a pending reconfiguration that will invariably transform the way we formulate reproducible ideas, if giving consideration to material, cultural and environmental economies is that which can no longer be ignored.
Specific, collaborative revisions of existing productive practices may lead to visual and mechanical innovations that may foster these reconfigurations along. continue reading

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ecosistema urbano in Oslo

Category: ⚐ EN+ecosistema urbano

We’ll be lecturing at Oslo Association of Architects,
Josefinesgate 34, the 7th of may 2009 19.30 hours

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play pump!!

Category: ⚐ EN+engineering+sustainability+technologies

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from http://www.playpumps.org
Access to clean drinking water is critical for human survival and is an essential ingredient for improving the lives of those living in poverty in developing countries.
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fisheye sessions #12

Category: ⚐ EN+city+creatividad+proyectos+urbanism

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more office work on Fuencarral Special Plan… this time:

Glorieta de Quevedo. fisheye view from the gruond

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evolution of the household

Category: ⚐ EN+city+internet+research

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 from the website www.womansday.com

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Sustained development Hong Kong style:Architecture of Density

Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+sustainability

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Architecture of Density, an exhibition of large scale color photographs by Michael Wolf.

Wolf has lived and worked in Hong Kong for ten years. Stimulated by the region’s complex urban dynamics, he makes dizzying photographs of its architecture.
One of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the world, Hong Kong has an overall density of nearly 6,700 people per square kilometer. The majority of its citizens live in flats in high-rise buildings. In Architecture of Density, Wolf investigates these vibrant city blocks, finding a mesmerizing abstraction in the buildings’ facades. continue reading

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imagine the future

Category: ⚐ EN+city+creativity

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Surfing the web I’ve discovered that number of colormagazine dedicated to the effects of climate changing and sustenible development in the island of Vörland, in the year 2057.
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OPEN SOURCE CITIES SERIES 3: FAVELA PAINTING

Category: ⚐ EN+art+design

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FAVELA PAINTING IS A PROJECT BY THE FIRMEZA FOUNDATION

The Firmeza Foundation creates striking artworks in places where people are being socially excluded. The foundation collaborates with local people to use art to combat prejuducie, create sustainable solutions, and attract the world’s attention. continue reading

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call for papers: Hibrydation and cross-culturality in contemporary habitation

Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+urbanism

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Through the public bid won by means of the project presented to the aids to the investigation regarding architecture in the year 2007, from the old Ministry of Public Works and Transportation and today dependent on the Ministry of Housing and Planning of the Territory of Junta of Andalusia, a line of investigation is defined regarding the manners of coexistence and habitation in the Andalusian territory in the near future, within 20 and 40 years, that shape evolutions and generate possibilities according to variables that today, each day, we can perceive as determinants of cultural transformation. continue reading

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3D at the office #2

Category: ⚐ EN+creatividad+ecosistema urbano

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improving technique… put your 3D glasses on!

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