I do not think there will be much of a difference in my own approach to architecture after the pandemic is over. To be more cautious as resources at hand are exhausted, to think again, under all circumstances, how to transform rather…
There are many professionals who have used this past year to get together and make action plans to tackle the problems that COVID-19 brought to light. In the Netherlands there is a great movement towards reinstating centralized planning as we have an…
The climate crisis is one of the most important problems of our time and it increases its influence day by day. Forest fires, flood disasters and drought in our country are perhaps just the beginning. Unplanned urbanization, rapid population growth, destruction of…
Home / In high school Yvonne Brill was told by her physics teacher that women couldn’t amount to anything. At the University of Manitoba she was told that the engineering department wouldn’t admit women. Later, a colleague told her that she should…
Sophie Kowalevski believed it was a mistake of the uninformed to confuse mathematics with arithmetic. Arithmetic was just a pile of “dry and arid” numbers to be multiplied and divided. Mathematics was a world of elegant possibilities that “demand[ed] the utmost imagination.”…
Hedy Lamarr knew what was expected of her, and be coming the inventor of a secret communication system—that would usher in technologies like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS—was not it. But no one really pegged her for a Hollywood film star, either. Lamarr…
There are some certain topics that we have not been neutral - and we can not - ever since the first day we established our publication platform. We admit that we are positively discriminating when it comes to these certain topics.…
For me, sustainability relates to social interactions. I believe architecture now is positioned to sustain better living conditions by reorganizing urban fabric, designing flexible systems, redistributing wealth and resources, increasing time-efficiency, reducing environmental impact, influencing institutions, lifestyles…
My education was both technical and artistic: in high school I received an electrotechnical training, then I studied Fine Arts (“Les Beaux Arts” in French) and eventually Applied Art at the French National Higher School of Applied Arts and Arts Crafts in…
Autumn leaves, removed from urban areas by waste management, become, with the addition of cellulose, open-pored, sound absorbing acoustic panels. They are transformed into an open-pored composite by a manufacturing process originated in papermaking…