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Founded in 1977 as an alternative to mainstream architectural publishing, Pamphlet Architecture provides a forum for architects and writers to present their ideas, theories and designs in modest, affordable booklets.  Pamphlet Architecture helped launch the careers of architects from Steven Holl and Lebbeus Woods to Zaha Hadid, and has had influence far exceeding the ad-hoc nature of these humble books.

Competition theme: Resilience
By addressing the capacity to cope, the ability to bounce back, and the mitigation and management of risk, proposals are welcome that showcase a fresh understanding of the possibilities and opportunities of resilience in architecture, from the large to the small scale. Whether resilience stems from natural disaster, civil conflict, global warming, catastrophe, and so on, is the applicant’s discretion. Please visit the submission site for more details. Dates and contact info after the break Leer el resto de esta entrada »

Our friends at Princeton Architectural Press have sent us “Interactive Architecture, where authors, Michael Fox and Miles Kemp, introduce us to a brave new world where design pioneers are busy creating environments that not only facilitate interaction between people, but also actively participate in their own right. These spaces—able to reconfigure themselves in response to human stimuli—will literally change our worlds by addressing our ever-evolving individual, social, and environmental needs. In other words, it’s time to stop asking what architecture is and start asking what it can do.

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A few weeks ago we received Digital Fabrications Architectural and Material Techinques by Lisa Iwamoto and edited by Princeton Architectural Press. Digital Fabrications celebrates the design ingenuity made possible by recent advances in digital-fabrication techniques. Lisa Iwamoto explores the methods architects use to calibrate digital designs whith physical forms.

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