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The Dutch sociologist Saskia Sassen, (The Hague, Netherlands, 1949) has been awarded with the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, for her contribution to urban sociology and to the analysis of the social, economic and political…
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Manipulating light as a sculptor molds clay, James Turrell creates works that directly amplify perception. Unlike pictorial art that replicates visual experience through mimetic illusion, Turrell's light works-one cannot call these shimmering events…
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The other day, on my return from university, I saw from the suburban train, a large sign that read "rent offices" located on one of the four Mendez Alvaro towers, that I always see when return to Atocha. The towers were built when I was still a…
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The greek architects, Tense Architecture Network, teach us a very interesting house, with a compositive description that articulates the prisms generating a sense of balance, calm. The interior is a retreat that disappears when sliding panels that…
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AAIMM be part of the exhibition Cut 'n' Paste, scheduled to be showed in the gallery of Architecture and Design at MoMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York, with its Solar Tower project from 1st. of June until December., full_html
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Solar Tower project. AAIMM Architecture Office. Poster
I suppose that many students will be reflected in the views of this video that could have been from any promotion, any college, school. Its real value lies in the opinions of respondents. Daniel Rueda, Students Coordinator of Culture of the ETSA-UPV…
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Herzog & de Meuron has after some controversy over the planning guidelines of the historic site, Oxford City Councillors have finally granted the firm permission for the new Blavatnik School of Government (BSG) at Oxford University. The design…
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Good oportiunity to visit Prague or Berlin this May. , full_html
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Zimoun: 60 & 318 at Prague and Berlin
Today we present the proposal that has been built in a neighborhood of Vitoria-Gasteiz, by the architects Iñaki Garai and Inés López. Three longitudinal volumes were designed connected together on the ground floor. The buildings are finished…
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104 Social Housing Units in Borinbizkarra. Photography © Aitor Ortiz. Courtesy of ACXT
With this project for the Urban Data Design Challenge, the studio, Schema Design receibed a Honorable Mention. The intention of the challenge was to use various methods of data visualization to develop insight into public transit in three cities:…
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