Victor Margolin is Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is considered today by the scientific community of design researchers as the most reliable design historians. Lately in march 2015 Bloomsbury published his first two…
The 7th World Urban Forum (WUF) will take place in the city of Medellin, in Colombia from 5 to 11 April 2014. It is the World’s Premier Conference on Cities, a non-legislative technical forum organized by the United Nations Human…
The Exhibition “Think Global, Build Social! Architectures for a Better World” is about contemporary architecture’s social responsibility. Far beyond from “star architecture”, the exhibition presents 22 examples of architecture projects that attempt to improve the living conditions of people in…
When a blighted city needs transformation, it’s usually a bulldozer rather than a brush that does the work. Few years ago, Edi Rama, Tirana’s mayor at the time, started in a creative way to paint the sad facades of the…
The Union Street Urban Orchard is created by The Architecture Foundation, Bankside Open Spaces Trust, ProjectARKs and the Wayward Plant Registry. This summer they will transform a derelict site, 100 Union Street-Southwark-London, into the Urban Physic Garden, a pop-up community built…
The primary objective of the International Graphic Competition Felicity – change your city change your life is to promote a debate about life in the city and how to improve the lifestyle of its inhabitants. Five issues were addressed: the…
29 August was the opening of the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale. More than 13.000 people visited the international exhibition in the first 10 days. In the 28th of October the number of visitors exceeded 100.000, and a record of 7660…
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