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Material Formation in Design

P1020372, originally uploaded by _Elijah.
“Elijah Porter, a student at the Yale School of Architecture, has a great Flickr set up called Material Formation in Design. It features several awesome examples of how strategic cutting can transform a solid surface into a porous structure. In the specific case of the image featured above, you’re looking at [...]

BLDGBLOG Book Release

The much-awaited BLDGBLOG book is out. Sounds like the visually-stunning, encyclopaedic tour de force we’ve been expecting: 
“It’s got five major chapters and a huge bibliography; it’s got interviews, full-color photo spreads (by Simon Norfolk! David Maisel! Edward Burtynsky! Ilkka Halso! Bas Princen! and more!), as well as original illustrations by my colleague at Dwell, Brendan Callahan; it’s [...]

Detroit Green-Ready Houses Going for $100

Somehow I missed this inspiring development: artists are moving in to Detroit, buying up houses for dirt cheap and converting them into linked-up, green artist communities.
A local couple, Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert, started the ball rolling. An artist and an architect, they recently became the proud owners of a one-bedroom house in East Detroit [...]

Battlespaces: Feral Cities and the Scientific Way of Warfare

London, November 26: Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG with Antoine Bousquet of Birkbeck College will present a public lecture on ‘Battlespace/s: Feral Cities and the Scientific Way of Warfare’.
Manaugh’s lecture will be an analysis of ‘cities gone wild’ and their relation to war, architecture, science fiction and geopolytics.
Being a fan of Rafi Segal’s important A Civilian [...]

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