Architechnophilia

LATEST ARTICLES ( 521 )

• Cresta

  from BREADTRUCK TV on Vimeo.A look into the soul of a piece of architecture. This film explores the connection between architecture and nature, and how clean... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• House of the Week 175: Tellico Cabin

  

  Photography (c) Sara Dario and Harlan Hambright Located along the Tellico Plains, Tennessee is a cabin designed Hefferlin + Kronenberg Architects. Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 31st March 2014

  

  The current [urban planning] system doesn't allow people to be sensitive to the environment Professor Ng Mee-kamPhoto by Shigeru Ban ArchitectsWhy Cities Need t... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 17th March 2014

  

  erin go bragh (Happy St. Patrick's Day) ...there exists a need to objectively evaluate our traditional models for their validity in a changing worldFida Ali... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• 38n9w / Afriplanus (Angola)

  Portuguese design and architecture practice 38N9W has partnered with Afriplanus to establish a presence in Angola, to develop a variety of new projects includin... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 10th March 2014

  

  Architecture is all about scale and this is a grandiose scale. It is a grandiose space. It makes you smile when you walk into the space. It makes you feel... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 3rd March 2014

  

  One of the biggest mistakes in architecture is that we're expecting society to be interested in the specific problems of architecture. [Architects] need to... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 24th February 2014

  

  Good architecture is like a good theory session, a good marriage, a good poem - gently and almost invisibly allowing you to be you, as flawed and as beautiful a... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 17th February 2014

  

  In becoming architects, we learn to see the world with intelligent sensuality. Intuitive propositions become the means by which we discover the qualities of... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 3rd February 2014

  

  Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put Some of that turmoil into architecture, or... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 13th January 2014

  

  I'm an architectural academic on a mission to get as many cities as possible to approach their next growth phase with cycling at the forefrontSteven Fleming... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 30th December 2013

  

  First Blog Wunderlust Post of the YearMass- production is the realm of the industrial designer and the process engineer – so let them maintain claim over that... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• 2013 Holiday Gift Guide (the Architect's Version)

  

  Tired of people coming up with lame excuses that they don't know what to get you for Christmas because of your discerning tastes, or maybe you signed up for you... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 23rd December 2013

  

  Can we architects working in the Third World afford to consider projects in isolation? [...]the issues are more serious than the design of aesthetically pleasin... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• On the Boards: Petersen Automotive Museum

  

  The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles has announced a complete exterior transformation and a dynamic redesign of the interior, characterized by long... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• On the Boards: Baton Rouge Municipal Dock

  

  Designed by New Orleans based practice Trahan Architects, the 64,000 ft2 Baton Rouge Municipal Dock lies on an emerging pedestrian thoroughfare that connects... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 16th December 2013

  

  architects should reclaim a sense of naivety in design practice Mark Wigley[image source] What Will Be Mandela’s Spatial Legacy? | Should architects design... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Meeting Bar at Castilla Plaza, Madrid

  Vídeo Espacio Gourmet from STUDIO LIN DAVIS on Vimeo. A meeting bar at Castilla Plaza, Madrid designed by architects Losada Garcia (Ramiro Losada and Alberto... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 9th December 2013

  

  Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life. Peter Zumthor Swiss superstars of... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 2nd December 2013

  

  one prerequisite of architecture is travel. I think that you should travel as much as you financially and possibly can. Essentially architecture is impossible t... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE