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SUPERSTUDIO / drawings collection
Founded in Florence by a group of radical young architects in 1966, SUPERSTUDIO was at the heart of the architectural and design avant garde until its dissolution in the late 1970s. Through photo-collages, films and exhibitions, it critiqued the modernist doctrines that had dominated 20th century design thinking. Browse our complete collection of images on [...]
D-MAPS / free worldwide maps
D-maps is a really incredible and useful site! It contains 29474 maps (world, countries, states, cities, etc…), each one proposed in 6 graphic formats (GIF, PDF, CDR, SVG, AI, WMF) for a total of 176844 files available to download for free for every need and every time u wish! Language: English, French, Italian, German, [...]
HAUS-RUCKER-CO / drawings collection
Viennese architectural and design group founded in 1967 by Laurids (1941– ) and Manfred (1943– ) Ortner, Günter Zamp Kelp (1941– ), and Klaus Pinter (1940– ), with others representing different disciplines. The group opened offices in Düsseldorf (1970) and NYC (1971), so quickly became international. Specializing in ‘disposable architecture’, pneumatic structures, air-mattresses, and life-support systems, its projects [...]
HOON MOON / drawings collection
Moon Hoon was born in 1968, in Sangdong Gangwon_do, lived his teenage years in Tasmania, Australia. He was educated in architecture in Korea, and US at MIT, also had work experience in both countries. He has been running his studio Moon_Bal_Sso since 2001. He is interested in breaking the boundaries of architecture by experimenting_crashing, [...]
LEBBEUS WOODS / drawings collection
Lebbeus Woods is well known for his conceptual drawings that bring new worlds and spaces into the eyes of their viewers. In four decades, Woods has shared his imagined worlds, expressing ideas about spaces, inhabitation and technology, and outlined alternate futures. Many of Woods’ drawings evoke a sense of deconstruction alongside construction. The [...]
PNEUMATIC ARCHITECTURE
Inflatable structures such as balloons and airships have been known for many years, but not until 1917 was the first patent for pneumatic architecture taken out by Frederick William Lanchester (1868–1946), brother of H. V. Lanchester, and manufacturer of the Lanchester motor car. With the development (1940s) of the Radome (Radar Dome) to provide [...]
MASSIMO SCOLARI / drawings collection
Massimo Scolari is an architect, painter and artist whose drawings and works have been inspirational to many architects and artists. Scolari affirms that drawings can be as powerful as words. In his drawings, machines populate the alienated worlds-worlds with no past, present, or future. He calls them hallucinated machines, and describes them as a [...]
LAND8LOUNGE / landscape architecture site
Land8Lounge is one of the premier social network for Landscape Architects, building up the profession by the sharing of work and ideas. Land8 helps you connect with landscape architects & designers from around the world, offering many services: gallery of projects, photos and videos; a forum; a daily updating of events and open jobs [...]
RETRO-FUTURE // 01
RETRO-FUTURE // 01 A collection of the best images about how the 21th century was imagined in the past (from 1930s to 1970s). Browse our complete collection of images on our FB page: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.413343595344766.110030.359599990719127&type=1&ref=notif¬if_t=like
SPECIALITY TREES
Speciality trees is a really useful support if you need to plan a garden, a park, or any open space. It offers a wonderful collection of plants, trees, flowers to browse by alphabetical order or by form (deciduous, evergreen, shade tree, etc..). This site also offers a really useful tool: “TREEFINDER” to display the [...]
LIST OF ARCHITECTS
:mlzd (Switzerland) 05AM ARQUITECTURA (BARCELONA) 1/0 INTERDISCIPLINARY OFFICE (Canada) 3C+T CAPOLEI CAVALLI ARCHITETTI (Italy) 3DELUXE (Germany) 3LHD ARCHITECTS (CROACIA) 3XN (Denmark) A N A R C H I T E C T O N A-CERO.COM – ESTUDIO DE ARQUITECTURA Y URBANISMO (Spain) A-LAB ARCHITECTS (Norway) A.A.R.T. ARKITEKTER (Denmark) A.STONOSHINC – AHMAD CHOUMAN ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN [...]
LA TRIENNALE / INTENSE PROXIMITÉ
La Triennale / Intense Proximité 20 April > 26 August 2012 Palais de Tokyo 13 Avenue du Président Wilson, Paris In the spring of 2012, the 3rd edition of the contemporary art triennial exhibition will move from the nave of the Grand Palais into the open galleries of the Palais de Tokyo and other neighbouring institutions [...]
ALDO ROSSI drawings collection
Aldo Rossi, one of the most influential architects during the period 1972-1988, has accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in three distinct areas: theory, drawing, and architecture. Although one of his professors tried to discourage him from studying architecture on the grounds that Aldo Rossi drew as if Aldo Rossi were a [...]
ARCHIVE TEXTURES
Archive textures offers one of the widest collection of textures to download absolutely for free! It’s possible to browse them by some main categories: wood, roof, garden, stone, ground, textile, etc… The textures are provided in JPG formats. The basic ways of use are 3D Visualisation, Interior Design, Architectural Visualisation, Landscape Design, 3D Animation [...]
DESIGNING FOR ADAPTABLE FUTURES / competition
Designing for Adaptable Futures This competition asks you to illustrate how the life of your building will unfold through time – over an hour, day, year, decade, or perhaps a century. Your submission should demonstrate the integration of time in your design proposal by highlighting how it will accommodate the different types of change [...]
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COMPETITIONS
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HOME / Competition for a $30,000 Single Occupancy Home
This design competition seeks to find well designed homes for the elderly or homeless within some of the World’s richest countries. The growing rate [...]
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COLLAGE COMPETITIONS
COLLAGE COMPETITIONS Collage Competitions is a cycle of competitions for prospective thinking in terms of urban planning, architecture, political, social and economical spaces in [...]
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ADREAM 2012 / competition
ADREAM 2012 Architecture and design using renewable and ecological materials The ideas competition ‘adream 2012 – Architecture and design using renewable and ecological materials’ [...]
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DESIGNING FOR ADAPTABLE FUTURES / competition
Designing for Adaptable Futures This competition asks you to illustrate how the life of your building will unfold through time – over an hour, [...]
VITAMINEWS
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LA TRIENNALE / INTENSE PROXIMITÉ
La Triennale / Intense Proximité 20 April > 26 August 2012 Palais de Tokyo 13 Avenue du Président Wilson, Paris In the spring of [...]
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DRYLANDS DESIGN / exhibition
DRYLANDS DESIGN 22 March > 15 Maggio 2012 6032 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles DRYLANDS DESIGN features work by architects, landscape architects, engineers, and urban [...]
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SALONE DEL MOBILE 2012 / milan fairground
SALONE INTERNAZIONALE DEL MOBILE 2012 17 April > 22 April 2012 Milan Fairgrounds, Rho (Milan) The Salone del Mobile is the global [...]
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British Design 1948 – 2012 / exhibition
British Design 1948 – 2012 Innovation in a Modern Age 31 March 2012 > 12 August 2012 Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell [...]
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FORECLOSED: REHOUSING THE AMERICAN DREAM / exhibition
FORECLOSED: REHOUSING THE AMERICAN DREAM February 15–August 13, 2012 MOMA – The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street New York, NY 10019 [...]
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