-Michael Young’s thesis and final presentation videos from Sci-Arc in Los Angeles, California.

-Bus shelter concept exploring the use of carbon fiber as a primary material through a woven network of strips following stress vectors in the form. Using ANSYS structural software in conjunction with a parametric modeler, vector stress points will inform layering of carbon fiber strips. The initial form of the bus shelter would be cut […]

Towards A Biological Understanding of Architecture and Urbanism: Lessons from Steven Pinker -Nikos Salingaros Architecture is indeed linked to biology. This observation is intuitively true from a structural perspective, since human beings perceive a kinship between the different processes — natural and artificial — that generate form. Nevertheless, the broadness of the claim might appear […]

–Jason Hopkins develops a compelling digital art work entitled Abhominal that illustrates a beautiful hybridization of geometrical normative structures with a tumorous organic flesh. His “bodies” are as much striking to me that it obviously evokes the hyperactive use of uncontrolled topological surfaces in current architecture. Jason Hopkins proposes a much more interesting vision of […]

-A bus shelter concept exploring a structural system composed of extruded polystyrene struts and nodes wrapped in carbon fiber. As members experience less compressive strengths, the tubular struts become hollow. The design explores the use of a light-weight shelter with quick installation time.

Rona Pondick 1. Animal and Architecture mouse The question of how architecture becomes animal is entwined, especially today, with how animality (and in fact, animals) become architectural. What Agamben calls the anthropological machine constructs a contingent boundary between human-animal and non-human animal, and a definition of politics in the imagee of what sits on the […]

Time for change Since 2004, when DesignIntelligence began ranking undergrad and grad programs separately, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design has held top honors for its M.Arch. program. So it is fascinating to consider how the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning nudged Harvard out of No. 1 this year. In […]

–Nano Supermarket -Next Nature’s Nano Supermarket OPENS! (Next Nature)

Fabrication photographs of Zip Ceiling. The photos displayed are the initial beginnings, 1000 zip ties, for a much larger ceiling topology.

“A friend of ours loves to joke that the future will have no hard edges; experience will be defined in pastel-colored gels, foams and mists that deliver your voicemail and bring you milk. Probably to his dismay, this new project from the Wakita Laboratoray at Keio University may one day prove him right. Blob Motility […]