December 19 09
Our friend Francesco has shared the abstract [in Spanish] that was accepted today for URBAN HYBRIDIZATION in Contemporary Territories. Here it is in English: In the past 20 years, the communications revolution produced by the Internet substantially affected the way we interact with the world. This has driven us to a change of perception in [...]
December 11 09
Hace algunos meses, la revista Volume publicó su número Unsolicited Architecture, en un momento más que oportuno para la profesión del arquitecto. Un momento en el que todos [o la gran mayoría] nos cuestionamos las diversas vías del hacer arquitectónico, ya que a raíz de las dificultades económicas que atraviesa el planeta, ha surgido una [...]
December 8 09
“What defines the Internet is its social architecture. It’s the living environment that counts, the live interaction, not just the storage and retrieval procedure.” -Geert Lovink, 2005 Networking is revealed as the new way to explore the world. The ties in between users from different places help to create a new cartography, where new portions [...]
November 24 09
From ThinkArk’s GoogleWave: “Architecture is something different from building. So what makes it different? [...] And there is something else. The more concepts and ideas formulated by the architect have an immediacy for contemporary conditions of living, thinking, working, the higher we will value it as architecture. We want architecture to participate in the crucial [...]
November 8 09
Just a few hours ago, we received a tweet sent by our friend @javierest and thougt that is an event with the perfect philosophy and a great program to post as our first review in this blog, that came out from a networking session via twitter in between some of us [bloggers, friends, architects and [...]