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Infrastructure as Landscaping

Infrastructure as Landscaping
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This article appears in the publication Infrastructure And Landscape produced by the Michael Graves College School of Public Architecture at Wenzhou-Kean University. I will post a link as soon as the book is published on ISSUU. Landscape has long been valued for its role in the creation and enhancement of public space and the recognition […]

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Habitat Compensation Island

Habitat Compensation Island
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This post appears as the article For The Birds in the publication Monument to Habitat Compensation Island, available on GoogleBooks. Habitat Compenation Island is a tiny sand construction in the Arabian Gulf that is easily missed, with the exception of a bleached billboard on its shore. A subtle addition to the Emirati culture of island-building, […]

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The Cycle of Cold

The Cycle of Cold
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October 7: I love the times around equinoxes – they are the best seasons. They are complexly bold. For one, my apartment gets penetrated with sunlight right to its back wall. It is the only season when this happens for my window orientation. And it is during these seasons that day and night are the most expressed and pronounced. One is […]

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Future Nature

Future Nature
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At least The Futurists were honest about it. Nature sucked for being too natural, too simple and too uncontrived. And, worst of all, because they hadn’t designed it – a situation they quickly remedied. Nature’s making a comeback – not in its abhors-a-vacuum sense but the more sinister sense of being an object of design once again. This time though, […]

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Vertical Farmwash

Vertical Farmwash
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When we have an architecture that fulfils no shelter need, it’s no surprise we get vertical farm proposals that satisfy no real food requirement. Vertical farms are not going to look like this. Ever. They’ll most likely look like this if they don’t already – sheds providing conditions suitable for plants to grow. Plants being plants, those […]

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Architecture Myths #10: Learning from Nature

Architecture Myths #10: Learning from Nature
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So what’s left then to ‘learn’ from Nature? We’re still very quick to want to do it but what have we ‘learned’ so far? It’s time for a quick roundup. In the not-so-dark ages before Architecture was invented, people managed to work out how to build buildings that suited how they wanted to live, using […]

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The Demise of the Green Roof

The Demise of the Green Roof
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PHASE 1: Cost-effective building performance (more from less) This is an Icelandic turf house. They’ve been around for say, 1,000 years – about since the time of the Vikings, let’s say. The turf provided better insulation than wood or stone which were difficult to get enough of anyway. Technically, I suppose, we’ll have to include […]