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Community First! 3D-Printed Houses by ICON and Mobile Loaves & Fishes

Last fall, ICON 3D-printed a welcome center for a new type of community in Austin, Texas—and now the first homes are complete.

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Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass | CBC Radio

Bob McDonald's blog: A simple backyard procedure results in see-through wood with enormous potential as a building material.

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Bringing biology to bricks — concrete details on how to grow building materials | CBC Radio

Researchers have created a 'Franken-concrete' that heals itself, grows additional bricks and could provide a green alternative to traditiona

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To lack confidence at the outset seems rational to me. It doesn’t matter that something you’ve done before worked out well.

John McPhee: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/14/structure (via highlandsdinnerclub)

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Architekti BKPS - Weekend house addition, Čachtice 2019. Photos © Tomáš Manina.

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An attempt at modelling digital design as a form of psychological architecture, taking the form of a single HTML document.

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I believe the architecture of the future lay within some being akin to a forest. Within a forest, from leaves and insects and the seeds it carries, to the grand scale of the tree trunks, myriad of truly diverse matters interrelate and coexist. It is this diversity that I am strongly attracted to. Richness born from space between order and chaos. Thus if architecture akin to a forest can be created, it will be a place of complexity, rich in diversity far beyond preexisting architecture and cities of today. And its inhabitants will organically be a part of this diversity.

Sou Fujimoto, Sou Fujimoto - Recent Project

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“Avoid fields. Jump fences. Disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life. They are often understandable efforts to order what are manifold, complex, evolutionary processes. Our job is to jump the fences and cross the fields.”

— Bruce Mau, An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

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The architectural imagination is a combination of utility and philosophy. It responds to specific needs and situations, but keeps in mind that architecture is also a thought about how we want to live in our world. These two, utility and philosophy, should not drift too far apart.

Ben van Berkel (via inthenoosphere)

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Making/building/emerging at Ironbound Farm.

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Progress at Ironbound Farm.

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Certov & Morianz - Autobahn Chuch extension, Grafenstein 2000. Photos © Margherita Spiluttini.

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AZL Architects - Garden chapel, Nanjing 2015. Via, photos © Yao Li.