Lewis Bush uses photography to explore how capitalism applies the principle of ‘Stacking’ across contexts, from supermarket shelving to wealth-focused housing and the new architecture boom in the City of London.
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The Geometry of Progress
Posted in Babylon
Tagged with: Architecture, Capitalism, Industrial Growth Society, Photography
From: Stream
Tagged with: Architecture, Capitalism, Industrial Growth Society, Photography
From: Stream
The Alchemy of a Container
In Oakland, California, container homes are banned as urban blight. But what if they were made into art? Sarah Beckstrom created this house last year attempting to demonstrate how a search for alternative styles of urban living can mix utility, efficiency and art.See the whole project >>
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Free your Architecture… and your Mind will Follow
Emily Von Hoffman reports on recent research showing measurable positive effects on our mental state from looking at and being in buildings designed for contemplation. Read more here >>>
Photograph by Marcelo del Pozo
Bringing the Trees back to the City…
“This is a kind of biological architecture that refuses to adopt a strictly technological and mechanical approach to environmental sustainability…”
Introduction to the idea of an urban Vertical Forest – >>
and a very snazzy computer-modelled promo video for the project here >>
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Land & Freedom – Low-Impact Building in Spain
Stories from the forgotten zones of inland Spain where people are unfazed by the apparent obstacles to sustainable living and just getting on with it… article by Robert Alcock.
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Posted in Liberation
Tagged with: Architecture, Autonomy, Community, Eco-village, Low-impact Living
From: Stream
Tagged with: Architecture, Autonomy, Community, Eco-village, Low-impact Living
From: Stream
Meet the Babylonians – part 3
Iraq was the cradle of civilisation, its deserts the location of the first documented cities. Now, after decades of dictatorship, war and ongoing conflict, the reconstruction of Iraq’s crumbling cities is being masterminded by… a family business in Yorkshire using computer modelling software. Stuart Jeffries goes to meet them…
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