Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2013 was awarded to Japanese architect Toyo Ito. A seven-person jury, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, selected Ito for the annual award, making him the sixth Japanese architect to receive what is considered the field’s highest honor. Toyo Ito Pritzker Price
Mathematical Excursions To Architecture (Repost) The world's greatest buildings provide a window on great math and great design. By: Alexander J. Hahn, Inside Science Minds Guest Columnist Mathematics and architecture are two sides of the same golden coin.On the one side is mathematics, and its capacity to enhance the understanding of architecture, both aesthetic aspects such as symmetry and proportion, ...
Culture "The function of culture is not to satisfy existing needs, but to create new ones". – Zygmunt Bauman Zygmunt Bauman is a Polish sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven out of Poland. He is the Professor of sociology at the University of Leeds (and since 1990 emeritus professor), Design “That’s not what we ...
Mourinho has been given a two-match touchline ban and WOULD HAVE HAD to sit in the stands with a minder anyway. Here we are talking about the "future in the past". At the time the speaker is talking, Mourhino had already received the ban (past). He knew then that for the next match (future, when he got the ban) ...
' The Lunch Hour Lecture discusses two academic buildings by CRAB studio currently on site, demonstrating with many anecdotes and pertinent observations how forty five years’ teaching experience have been integral to their design process. A law school at Vienna Economics University with “a jolly plan” rallies against the convention of prioritising only spaces dedicated to parts of the curriculum, ...
Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions of the design professions. Seventeen conversations with practitioners from the fields of architecture, policy, activism, design, education, research, history, community engagement and more, each representing an emergent role ...
Brazil is mourning the loss of one of the country's best and brightest creative minds, famed architect Oscar Niemeyer. Born into an elite family, Niemeyer was a lifelong Communist who stood up for social inequality in one of the most unequal nations on earth, though he held no illusions his work could create a more egalitarian nation. Wikipedia Obituary ...
Residential: Single Residence - Ar. Jayadev, Cochin Project: Rithu, Cochin Highlights of Project: Integrated indoor-outdoor transition; simple lines; play of colours; ample natural light and ventilation. Residential: Multi-storey -Ar. Kiran Venkatesh of InFORM Archietcts, Bangalore Project: Housing Tower One, Hyderabad Highlights of Project: Green features; responsible living and social interaction spaces; strong massing and colour scheme; aesthetic of building ...
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." -Will Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, social commentator and motion picture actor. He was one of the world's best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s.
Remember "handaya" and "Doctor Honda Hitha". Titus Thotawatte was a great film maker and perhaps the best film editor Sri Lanka ever had. He made several popular and technically skilled Sri Lankan action movies in the 1960s and 1970s and later developed Sinhala children's pro grammes and perhaps made the most significant contribution by producing properly dubbed foreign language ...
After a bit of a hitus I am back. As I was away from the blog, I had a quick look at the hit counter and what struck me most was the disparity between the hits from Western Province and the rest of the country. Is this a case of less interest of architecture outside Colombo or just that we ...
Sony announced the CDP-101, the world's first Compact Disc player, on October 1st, 1982. When the CD came out, it was like something from another planet. In 1982, no one except computer nerds had computers. It wasn't until the late 1980s that hard drives were seen commonly, and then they were only 10 megabytes, an astounding number. By 1985, computers ...
