Dive into the archives.
- Habitat Interlocks
[Josh Keyes, Interlock #3 (2006)]
Quantifying the impact of human habitats on animal habitats is complex and ever-shifting. Only when a freak incident of a bear, or wolf, or deer wander into our developed environment - and a strange tussle between fumbling law enforcement officers and a primal instinct-driven beast ensues - are we reminded on [...]
- Student Works: Büroland(wirt)schaft
[Agro-office Parks with a nod to Andrea Branzi. All images by Tomer Diamant]
Picking up on the intermittent series of student projects, included is a project by University of Toronto M.Arch graduate Tomer Diamant titled Büroland(wirt)schaft. Tomer began his research on speculative development and the hyper-efficiency of (spec) office buildings. Looking closer at the siting of [...]
- Exotic Urbanism
[Monu Magazine issue #9 thumbnails]
Just wanted to point out the excellent new issue (#9) of MONU is out now and has a contribution from Mason and Lola (aka Lateral aka Infranet Lab directors) on the Thawing Urbanism of the Arctic.
You can get a copy form the fine folks at BoARD and MONU for a paltry [...]
- Vert.Farms
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Vertical Farms get coverage in the New York Times science section, curiously enough. Not in the Architecture section, nor in the Food section. Apparently when architecture meets food (agriculture) it becomes science. Dickson Despommier, a professor of public health at Columbia University arguably claims authorship of farms in the sky, though that could be attributed [...]
- Elevated Landscapes, or Railbanking
New images and a video of the High Line in New York has prompted a ricochet of references of examples of biologically domesticated infrastructures.
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There is the promenade plantée. Designed by Jacques Vergely (landscape architect) and Philippe Mathieux (architect), the promenade is a 2.8 mile elevated park in Paris’ 12th arrondissement that extends from Opera Bastille [...]
- Urban Actions
[An image from Denis Darzacq's La Chute series (2006).]
After viewing the “Streets belong to all of us!” exhibition organized by the Paris-based IVM at the Faculty of Architecture at University of Toronto, I was mostly struck by a single image. Denis Darzacq’s photographs feature agile figures in mid-leap, or mid-fall, or even mid-flight. The space [...]
- Cubiclopia
[Johnson Wax Headquarters\' Great Workroom.]
In a 2006 article on the decline of the cubicle, Julie Schlosser, reminds us of Robert Propst’s earnest regret at having invented the cubicled workspace. Propst, just before his death in 2000, called the modern cubicled office “monolithic insanity.”
David Franz in the New Atlantis picks up on this critique citing the [...]
