Novel approaches to the art or science of planning and building structures.
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- 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.
- Curvilinear Surfaces Aleksandra Kasuba explains how to install curved fabric structures (under tension) in environmental and architectural projects. Examples of her installations. Biography, bibliography.
- 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.
- 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.
- Zomes Concept Creating homes from a harmonious family of geometric forms. Includes definitions, symbolism, images, and construction.
- Diaphan Architectural Sabine von Fischer explores space in material and thought, in the form of drawings and texts – from concept and criticism to construction. Projects focus on sensorial and invisible boundaries such as "sonic barriers", and on completely collapsed objects in the "event horizon" series.
- Decodeine Margot Kasojevik presents dynamics, simulation and animation design processes in architecture. Includes animations.
- Dynamic Architecture David Fisher presents his design for a rotating tower in Dubai. Between its independently rotating floors are wind turbines, generate electric energy for itself as well as for other buildings. Includes description, video and press articles.
- Parasitic Architecture A manifesto on the subject of parasitic architecture; defined as an adaptable, transient and exploitative form of architecture that forces relationships with host buildings.
- Michael Hansmeyer - Computational Architecture Features profile and experiments in computational and algorithmic architecture.