Building a skyscraper? Forget about steel and concrete, says architect Michael Green, and build it out of … wood. As he details in this intriguing talk, it’s not only possible to build safe wooden structures up to 30 stories tall (and, he hopes, higher), it’s necessary. Michael Green wants to solve architecture’s biggest challenge — … Continued
Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years’ big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying malls rehabilitated, dead “big box” stores re-inhabited, parking lots transformed into thriving wetlands. (Filmed at TEDxAtlanta.) Ellen Dunham-Jones takes an unblinking look at our underperforming suburbs — and proposes plans for making them livable and … Continued
In a wildly entertaining discussion with Richard Saul Wurman, architect Frank Gehry gives TEDsters his take on the power of failure, his recent buildings, and the all-important “Then what?” factor. A living legend, Frank Gehry has forged his own language of architecture, creating astonishing buildings all over the world, such as the Guggenheim in Bilbao, … Continued
How do we solve the problem of the suburbs? Urbanist Jeff Speck shows how we can free ourselves from dependence on the car — which he calls “a gas-belching, time-wasting, life-threatening prosthetic device” — by making our cities more walkable and more pleasant for more people. Jeff Speck is a city planner and the author … Continued
THE GETTY CONSERVATION INSTITUTE PRESENTS MINDING THE GAP: THE ROLE OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE IN THE HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT ON MAY 21 LOS ANGELES—Internationally renowned architects and urban designers Thomas H. Beeby, Juergen Mayer H., Rafael Moneo, Richard Rogers, and Denise Scott Brown will gather to discuss their work as part of Minding the Gap: The Role of Contemporary Architecture in the Historic Environment, … Continued
