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Multiple Discovery, Idea Theft, or Tweaking?
Tweaked
Having an original idea is everything in architecture. Its history is one of innovations and breakthroughs; of new ideas, materials, and applications. Originality is what distinguishes architecture from ordinary building construction, where the ad nauseam repetition of sameness is business-as-usual. Builders can copy with impunity, but architects must always innovate.
Of course, it’s difficult to…
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Optimization Takes Command: Angelo Roventa's Elastic Dwelling
Optimization Takes Command: Angelo Roventa’s Elastic Dwelling
[originally published in ST/A/R special issue 23 catalogue for the Vienna MAK exhibition "The Game of the Mighty: Heidulf Gerngross archistrates Franz West's Nageltower. With Hofstetter Kurt and Angelo Roventa"]
Architect Angelo Roventa operating his Elastic Dwelling prototype at the MAK, Vienna
Angelo Roventa’s Elastic Dwelling applies a principle—and a mechanism—that is borrowed from a…
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