Tag: wunderlust

blog wunderlust: 4th August 2014

Foamboards
If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.
Frend Kent

George Lucas announces architects for lakefront museum | Are the ‘Star’ Architects Ruining Cities? | Medellín made urban escalators famous, but have they had any impact? | David Adjaye interview: ‘I’m not always looking at the usual references’ | David Adjaye designs a new boutique for Couturiere Roksanda Ilincic | Never Too Young; 15 Librarian-Recommended Architecture Books for Young Children |

last word: Build communities, not just home units

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blog wunderlust: 4th August 2014

Foamboards
If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.
Frend Kent

George Lucas announces architects for lakefront museum | Are the ‘Star’ Architects Ruining Cities? | Medellín made urban escalators famous, but have they had any impact? | David Adjaye interview: ‘I’m not always looking at the usual references’ | David Adjaye designs a new boutique for Couturiere Roksanda Ilincic | Never Too Young; 15 Librarian-Recommended Architecture Books for Young Children |

last word: Build communities, not just home units

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blog wunderlust: 251th August 2014

Foamboards
The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building.
Louis Kahn

Could Lego Architecture Studio actually be useful for architects? | The ‘Starchitect’ Image | Rebel Architecture: The creator’s view | Big Read: A feast of art, food 
and architecture in Rodez | Paper Palaces | Clay robotics: the future of architecture is happening now in a Chilterns farm | Guerrilla architect | 20th Century architecture: Is it the end of our ‘concrete jungles‘? | Edible Chocolate LEGOs by Akihiro Mizuuchi

last word: Stop Order Placed On St Lucia Towers

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blog wunderlust: 14th July 2014

Foamboards
There’s a lineage of carpentry and masonry, building with high skill and great efficiency that’s specific to India, and I am transferring that ideology to projects around the world.
Bijoy Jain


Why the Millennial Architect Won’t Be Your CAD Monkey | How Chinese Urbanism Is Transforming African Cities | Inside the Iconic World Cup Finals Stadium | Why the modern bathroom is a wasteful, unhealthy design | Is maverick master builder Bjarke Ingels the world’s smartest architect – or just the craziest? | Slovak architect turns billboards into homes for the homeless | Knud Lonberg-Holm: ‘The Invisible Architect’

last word: Villanueva 114 years

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blog wunderlust: 9th June 2014

Foamboards
It is in hard times especially, that good architecture is made.

Christopher Whyms-Stone [Cornerstone.Design Ltd]

Are Ivy League Schools Really Offering the Best Architectural Education? | 25 Architects You Should Follow on Twitter | A new blueprint for architectural excellence | Berlin Plans ‘House Of One,’ A Place Where Jews, Muslims, And Christians Will Pray Under The Same Roof | Life in the suburbs: the good, the bad and the ugly | How to make a tool set | Miami’s new vice – an addiction to star architects |

last word: “LEEDing” The Pack: acla:works Deepens Commitment to Green Building, Design and Construction

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blog wunderlust: 12th May 2014

Foamboards
By tattooing walls, graffiti writers free them architecture and turn them once again into living, social matter, into the moving body of the city before it has been banned with functions and institutions.
Jean Baudrillard “Kool Killer, or the Insurrection of Signs”

When Architects Build Brands: Is Architecture’s Future in Advertising? | Meet the Dynamic Duo Behind Architecture Firm Fuksas | Why Architects should Blog | The Green Building Reality: Why Two-Thirds of the Profession Are Cowards | One of America’s Most Famous Architects Was a Nazi Propagandist | A beautiful mobile home for just $33,000? | A degree in architecture … but all I can get are menial jobs

last word: 2014 – End of Year Exhibition at the Caribbean School of Architecture

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blog wunderlust: 7th April 2014

Foamboards
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that’s all.
Harry Seidler

Canada launches architecture prize to rival Pritzker | Step Back into the Real World of Mad Men | Battersea Flower Station: Guggenheim architect Frank Gehry unveils plans for new £8bn riverside development | Top architect [Ridwan Kamil] uses role as mayor to transform Indonesian city | Minimalist Leather Goods from a Harvard-Trained Architect | Architect Bjarke Ingels is transforming the Williamsburg waterfront |

last word: A middle-class syndrome: Is homeownership a possibility?

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blog wunderlust: 6th January 2014

Foamboards
First Blog Wunderlust Post of the Year

Mass- production is the realm of the industrial designer and the process engineer – so let them maintain claim over that territory. The bespoke is the true specialty of the architect and the contemporary profession has more facility than ever to implement difference in the most intelligent of ways.

Chris Knapp

We Need More ‘Building’ in Architecture School | Leading architect John McAslan turns his attention from Haiti to Tottenham | Foster + Partners propose 136-mile cycling network above London | Architect Santiago Calatrava wins honor at Vatican and is sued by the city of Valencia as the white elephants (opera house) rot | Bjarke Ingels: An Architect For A Moment Or An Era? | Louvre Abu Dhabi architect Jean Nouvel sees his creation come to life

last word: Ten new year’s resolutions for architects in 2014

The blog wunderlust is a weekly round up summarizing the architectural highlights, news and web links, that don’t otherwise fit the format of this blog. If you have any to share feel free to drop me an email

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blog wunderlust: 23rd December 2013

Foamboards
Can we architects working in the Third World afford to consider projects in isolation? […]the issues are more serious than the design of aesthetically pleasing or even good buildings
Yasmeen Lari
(c)Alka Patel, Courtesy ARTstor Alka Patel Archive

Intense, Graphic Photos ‘Whitewash’ Buildings in Los Angeles | The Best (and Worst) Countries to Be a Female Architect | 10 architects were told to create their fantasy home. This is what happened | Los Angeles Bans Heat-Sucking Roofs | Man Builds Fairy Tale Home for His Family – Total Cost £3,000 | What Architecture Schools Get Wrong | 2013 in Review: Top 10 Architecture Projects | Top 10 Deliciously Modern Gingerbread Houses

last word: Islamic Art Scholar Traces Havana’s Mozarabic Influences

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blog wunderlust: 16th December 2013

Foamboards
architects should reclaim a sense of naivety in design practice
Mark Wigley

What Will Be Mandela’s Spatial Legacy? | Should architects design housing that is bespoke, made to measure or off the rack? | Shipping Containers Make for an Unusual Home | 12 Amazingly Creative Examples of Environmental Art | In Photos: The Last Days Of Three Paul Rudolph Houses | America Could End Homelessness in One Year by Doing This | FAT Announces The End of Its Practice | Architect Says FIFA Construction Headed for Trouble

last word: The Bonanza

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