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Paolo Soleri; The Urban Ideal
The role of utopian thinking in architectural and urban design has always been fundamental. Utopian thinking is about breaking the limits and constraints and building a new visionary based on desirable values, this is when the thinker engages the most challenging issues the human society faces. Suggesting solutions for human terrestrial salvation, not necessarily feasible […]
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Tags: architecture, arcology, arcosanti, art, book, built environment, city, context, design, environment, frank lloyd wright, Italy, paolo soleri, philosophy, politecnoco di torino, united states, utopia
Architecture and the City
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Tags: architecture, art, city, cityscape, london, sketch, uk, urban design, Urbanism, watercolor
Less is Enough!
The book “Less is Enough; On Architecture and Asceticism”, written by Pier Vittorio Aureli is a must read for architects who are interested in the notion and origin of minimalism and its catchphrase ‘less is more’ and the impact of economic recession on today’s architecture. The idea which implied that beauty could only arise through […]
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Tags: architecture, art, asceticism, book, design, lessisenough, lessismore, minimalism, performance, piervittorioaureli
Reference: “Leon Krier on Sustainable Urbanism and The Legible City” article on Architectural Review’s website, 27 February 2014.
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Tags: architecture, city, illustration, Leon Krier, urban design, Urbanism
Dear DESIGNABILITY readers, I would like to invite you to follow me on Instagram via this link below. I share photos from my previous trips. I try to express my experiences of our built environment! Many thanks for your attention. I would be happy to have your further comments and points of view. Cheers, Milad […]
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Tags: architecture, built environment, Instagram, photo, photography
/DEFIGN/ in collaboration with MOAZOM!
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Tags: architecture, competition, pavilion
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Tags: architecture, city, ecological urbanism, green neighborhoods, infographics, sustainability, urban design, Urbanism
Today’s Environmental Impasse!
More than 40 years ago, Hans Hollein collaged the image of a warship into the natural landscape, suggesting a radical discontinuity between nature and technology. Today his vision can be seen as an anticipation of the present environmental impasse, or alternatively, as a starting point to rethink the relationship between nature and culture under the […]
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Tags: architecture, environment, landscape, nature, Urbanism
Tschumi says: – Architecture is not sculpture, what happens in it is architecture; the movement of bodies! – The “Context” is as important as the “Content”! – [There is a] mosque made with mud, every year after the rain inhabitants have to redo some parts of it, [this is where] architecture becomes a social act! […]
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Tags: architecture, Bernard Tschumi, Red is not a Color!
A design proposal for a cultural center in South Cadbury, England! By /DEFIGN/ Architectural Group! Milad Zabeti, Tannaz Monfaredzadeh
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Tags: architecture, competition, design, museum, sketch
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