Made of recyclable materials and designed in parallel to energy saving principles, Casa Schierle, by Matthias Benz Architecture & Design deserves the name “green design”.
The Crystalline Skin for 2014 Winter Olympics
ShareDefining themselves as a global design practice specializing in creating environments that draw people and communities together for unforgettable experiences, Populous, (formerly sports part of HOK), has annonced that they been selected to design the main stadium for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Being responsible for the main Stadium and venues overlay for [...]
Glenn Murcutt – the man who touches the earth lightly
ShareBorn 25 July 1936, Glenn Murcutt is an important Australian architect. He studied architecture from 1956 to 1961 at The University of New South Wales and always had an appreciation for simple, vernacular architecture. He is currently Visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale. Murcutt‘s motto is “touch the earth lightly”; his highly econological and multi-functional [...]
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 [...]
Dr. Ken Yeang – The Man Who Greens The High-Rise
ShareDr. Ken Yeang, a Malaysian architect and ecologist who has been designing ecological, bioclimatic and energy efficient architecture for 40 years. Beginning his architectural practice in l974, Yeang designed large scale projects, skyscrapers, and ecomasterplanning and wrote books on ecodesign, including “The Skyscraper: Bioclimatically Considered,” “The Green Skyscraper: The Basis for Designing Sustainable, Intensive Buildings,” [...]
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 [...]
