ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW

• re PLACE BEIRUT

  24 May, 2011

  Ιntensive workshop about the city of Beirut.     

• Watch the sounds of a silent city

  18 April, 2011

  place: Krems an der Donau, Niederoesterreich, Austria.     

• European Urbanism: Lessons from a City without Suburbs

  02 March, 2011

  Athens, Greece has all the elements of good urbanism - density, diversity, destinations, distance (to transit) and design. So is Athens a poster child for good urbanism? Fanis Grammenos takes an in-depth look.     

• Architecture and the city in the dawn of the new decade

  20 February, 2011

  Queries arose by everyday thoughts.     

• Translocality as a Post-Native Narrative

  16 February, 2011

  The widening debate on the bipolar global-local relation relies on axiomatic definitions of the exercised terms.     

• “Against Ecophobia: Towards a Human Habitat”.

  06 February, 2011

  Many of the unwritten rules used today for design and building have no foundation, and are based upon ideological constructs. (By Nikos A. Salingaros & Kenneth G. Masden II)     

• Stefanos Polyzoides plans to make cities more livable

  23 January, 2011

  The architect and his wife, Elizabeth Moule, are among the founders of the New Urbanism movement, a reaction against urban sprawl as well as the so-called urban renewal movement of the 1960s.     

• Human, Nature and city

  15 January, 2011

  Environmental planning and urban landscape in our days.     

• New graduate school for climate-conscious construction

  06 January, 2011

  The Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (IBP) intends to address sustainable and climate-conscious construction in different climate zones more strongly in the future.     

• Canton Tower in Guangzhou

  19 December, 2010

  The world's second-highest building and its highest television and viewing tower just opened in time for the Asia Games in November 2010 in Guangzhou.       

• Kazuyo Sejima Interview

  04 December, 2010

  Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima interviewed by Hans Ulrich..     

• Frank Gehry: From 1990, defending a vision for architecture

  11 November, 2010

  Speaking at TED in 1990, the not-yet-legendary architect Frank Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his work...     

• Documentary. A Necessary Ruin

  31 October, 2010

  A Necessary Ruin tells the history of the Union Tank Car Dome via interviews with architects, engineers, preservationists, media, and artists...     

• Melbourne City Council. virtual tour

  17 October, 2010

  Guided video tour of CH2, Melbourne City Council's landmark green office building hosted by the Project Director, Professor Rob Adams.     

• The old 401 Military Hospital

  08 October, 2010

  An old historical hospital: a little-known oasis in the centre of Athens.     

• The Neohellenic Architecture Archives

  13 September, 2010

  An important data bank for architectural history.