Raymond Loewy – a Legendary Designer
What design philosophy was Raymond Loewy best known for? Being a design student myself, I would walk around the studio and be fascinated by the myriad of objects and designs on people’s desks: ...
Design & Architecture
Quasicrystal Facade | Elegant Embellishments
Elegant Embellishments creates a new depolluting quasicrystal façade for the Hospital Manuel Geo Gonzalez in Mexico City, Mexico. Courtesy of © Elegant Embellishments The new outter skin ...
Material Computation: Towards a performative architecture
Many projects and research that lie within the domain of responsive architecture, dynamic architecture, or kinetic architecture, tend to follow a non-linear approach towards design. Notably in many ...
Responsive to Adaptive – The shifting trends in Architecture
“Adaptation is the evolutionary process whereby a population becomes better suited to its habitat. This process takes place over many generations, and is one of the basic phenomena of biology.”– On ...
Super-complexity & Human Perception
The power of the human brain to perceive and understand everything around us is limited. However, these boundaries are being pushed continually, and our “perception bubble” is continuously extending ...
Simplexity – What exactly are we trying to achieve?
With the evolution of the human race and continuing development of science, man has been exceedingly inquisitive towards exploring the unexplored and answering the unanswered. The continuous urge to ...
Woodskin | MammaFotogramma
When I first entered architecture school, I did so as a sculptor who liked maths. I had always been interested in flow and curvatures and when I began experimenting in the wood shop, everything I did ...
Women within the Spaces of Architecture
There is an apparent paradox between the Modern Architecture Movement and the women’s role in it. Although Female Architects Have Always Contributed to Shaping The History of This Industry, it was ...
The Monroe Chair | Alexander White
Striking elegance, simplicity in idea, comfortable, designed with sustainability in mind. The Monroe Chair is an attempt to drastically simplify the manufacturing process involved in making an ...
Miss Maple Pendant Lamp | Elisa Strozyk
One way of looking at wood is as a smooth straight plank of wood, but some can look at wood and see far more potential. German designer Elisa Strozyk saw potential in breaking wood into triangles ...
Parametric Urban Street Furniture for Hong Kong
This unique outdoor bench offers users a variety of seating options. The idea of the chair stems from Hong Kong’s search for an architectural identity, instead of adapting a rigid and single ...
Reef Benches | Remy & Veenhuizen
It is quite refreshing to see designers who are still generating their design through experimenting with models and working with materials as opposed to relying on computer generated models. ...