With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT’s Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets — like the calls we make, the garbage we throw away — to create surprising visualizations of city life. And he and his team create dazzling interactive environments from moving … Continued
Frank Gehry – you either love his work or you hate it. Is his architecture compelling or is he the worst living architect on the planet? The debate rages on throughout design and architecture blogs all across the internet. Being an internet nerd, but not a big architect buff, I started asking around the PJHM … Continued
As a young designer, Emily Pilloton was frustrated by the design world’s scarcity of meaningful work. Even environmentally conscious design was not enough. “At graduate school, people were starting to talk more about sustainability, but I felt it lacked a human factor,” she said. “Can we really call $5,000 bamboo coffee tables sustainable?” Convinced of … Continued
Daniel Libeskind builds on very big ideas. Here, he shares 17 words that underlie his vision for architectural inspiration — raw, risky, emotional, radical — and that offer inspiration for any bold creative pursuit. A true renaissance man, Daniel Libeskind possesses a staggering array of creative interests — he has been a free-verse poet, an opera … Continued
In the center of Caracas, Venezuela, stands the 45-story “Tower of David,” an unfinished, abandoned skyscraper. But about eight years ago, people started moving in. Photographer Iwan Baan shows how people build homes in unlikely places, touring us through the family apartments of Torre David, a city on the water in Nigeria, and an underground … Continued
