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- Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts - ALBA's research workshop is a multi-disciplinary space for research and creation aiming to face the city's problems and to define appropriate solutions. News, projects, guests and tutors.
www.alba.edu
- Architects Design in Cyberspace - Illustrated article by Alfredo Andia and Claudia Busch on the designs by New York based architectural firm Asymptote on a virtual New York Stock Exchange.
members.tripod.com/wwwandia/art/100.html
- Architecture and Planning Studio, University of the West of England - White Design explains its use of innovatory technologies, notably 'glued brickwork' and panels of compressed straw bales, that turn a campus building into a teaching resource.
www.white-design.co.uk/White%20Design%20Associates/Webpages/gluedbrick.html
- Arcosanti - An experimental town in the desert of Arizona, built to embody is Paolo Soleri's concept of arcology - the fusion of architecture with ecology. Theory, worksops, events, images, visitor information.
www.arcosanti.org
- Boase - The winning project of the competition "The Future Home", promoted by the Danish Building Research Institute. The novel settlement will be built as an experiment.
www.danmarksdesignskole.dk/boase
- Copenhagen Substitute - An interactive tour of Utopian designs by various architects. Devised by Dellbruegge and de Molls, it formed part of the exhibition "models of resistance" in Copenhagen May/June 2000.
copenhagen-substitute.homepage.dk
- Corrugated Construction - Architecture students at the Auburn University Rural Studio are designing and building what may be the first house out of bales of waste waxed corrugated board, commonly known as cardboard.
www.corrugatedconstruction.com
- Curvilinear Surfaces - Aleksandra Kasuba explains how to install curved fabric structures (under tension) in environmental and architectural projects. Examples of her installations. Biography, bibliography.
www.curvedsurfaces.com
- Elevator Studio - Projects designed in Fall 2000, Rhode Island School of Design, aiming to redefining perceptions of the elevator.
www.vefrit.com/elevator.htm
- Experiments within Contemporary Architecture - An exhibition 26.10.2002- 02.03.2003 at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria.
www.latentutopias.at
- Futuro - The history of the spaceship-like home designed in 1968 by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen as a ski cabin. Images and film clips from Sydney artist Paul McNeil, who bought one of the few produced.
www.m-pm.com/futuro.html
- Just-In-Time Infrastructure Prototype - Igor Kebelour presents a concept of domestic, working, public and mobile institutions merged into one. Includes model, analysis and discussion.
www2.arnes.si/~sudikebe/jit/html
- Kunsthaus Graz - London architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier explain their "friendly alien" design for a new exhibition hall in Austria. Plan, computer models, construction schedule.
www.kunsthausgraz.at
- Modular Dwellings - Mobile, low cost and functional - a new species of pre-fabricated structures designed by Edgar Blazona.
www.modulardwellings.com
- Oak Park Library - Lynn Boyden and James Weiner present a case study in replicable energy-efficient design - a new public library in Ventura, California.
dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/boyden/oakpark.html
- Tent Design - Russian architect Anvar Khairoylline enthuses about the possibilities of tent structures. His profile, illustrated summary of his thesis and examples of projects using the principles of tent construction.
www.mi.ru/~anwar-da
- The Steel Research House - An experiment in modern house design using light steel framing at the University of Nottingham, UK. Context, project outline and progress. Feedback form for comments.
www.tsav.demon.co.uk
- The Translucent House - A prototype by Alfons Soldevila. Photograph parades show the building process from design to finish, and other buildings using translucence. A detailed description and theoretical background.
arquitectes.coac.net/lacasatranslucida
- Zomes - Creating homes from a harmonious family of geometric forms. Includes definitions, symbolism, images of zomes, construction, history.
zan.zoom.free.fr/zome_planet/zomes_en.html
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