Made of recyclable materials and designed in parallel to energy saving principles, Casa Schierle, by Matthias Benz Architecture & Design deserves the name “green design”.
Paolo Soleri – Mentor of all Archologists
ShareBorn in Turin, Italy on June 21, 1919, Soleri is an Italian-American visionary architect and a distinguished lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006. He is widely known with the notion he created: archology, ie. architecture in line with ecology, explained in detail in [...]
The New Residential Typology for Singapore by OMA
ShareOMA released the pictures of Ole Scheeren’s new design, The Interlace, a large-scale complex of thirty one blocks in stacked hexagonal configurations. Developed by CapitaLand and Hotel Properties Limited, The Interface claims to be a new residential typology for Singapore, through communal spaces and the feeling of interconnectedness. The “sustainable” architecture of Singapore is marked [...]
Bricault Residence Venice, California, 2008
ShareVancouver-based architecture firm Bricault Design is developing projects not only in architecture, but also in interior design, graphic design and product development in playful and customized ways. Among their architectural designs are a Brooklyn brownstone renovation, a Regina convent conversion, and a home addition located on Brooks Avenue, which can literally be called a “green [...]
Wm. Heath’s book on Vernacular Architecture
Share Vernacular stands for common speech patterns of a society, as opposed to the formal literary language oriented towards academic discourse. Vernacular building in that sense is a regionally distinctive and regionally understood structure. It involves methods of construction which use locally available resources and traditions to address local needs and tends to reflect the [...]
Ecological Architect, Modernist and Humanitarian: Shigeru Ban
ShareFamous for his usage of paper as an architectural component, particularly recycled cardboard paper tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims, Ban shakes much of architectural conventions. He doesn’t only use an unusual palette, he also designs structures that don’t have very long lives and used out of recycleable materials. He just doesn’t [...]
