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Eliphante: Feb 5, 6:48pm 5 reviews architecture, arts
http://www.eliphante.org/; Eliphante art and architecture in Eliphante.org
Any fool can hire an architect to draw up a plan for a house, but it takes a truly inspired fool - which is to say, an artist - to start building and see where the earth and driftwood and shards of broken pottery take him. In 1979 Michael [Kahn] & Leda [Livant] moved themselves and their paintings from Provincetown MA to rural land in Cornville Arizona. There they began the first mixed media structure which they later called Eliphante. They continued building and sculpting on the 3 acre environment. Eliphante art and architecture A flickr photo set. Exploring Eliphante NYT slideshow All are David Kadlubowski photos for The New York Times Congratulations guys you made your dream come true and how beautiful it is indeed.

Eco-Dome.htm: Oct 11, 2007 7:09pm 45 reviews architecture, environment
http://www.calearth.org/EcoDome.htm; ECO-DOME: via Stardust's SU pages, in calearth.org
Learning and building an Eco-Dome is an excellent way to prepare for building a larger design such as the 3-bedroom house, because it provides a hands-on learning experience on the essential aspects of Superadobe construction. The Eco-Dome's size of approximately 400 square feet (interior space), makes it a manageable structure for the first time owner builder. The finished "very small house" is self-contained and can become a small guest house, studio apartment, or be the first step in a cluster design of an Eco-Village of vaults and domes. ECO-DOME: Material: the earth under our feet. Great site where would be builders will find a ton of info

Firmitas.org: Oct 5, 2007 5:37pm 3 reviews architecture
http://firmitas.org/; Shipping Container Architecture via Metaflter by dersins, in Shipping Container Architecture by by Zack Smith
This is a webpage devoted to listing as many examples of people using shipping containers as architectural elements as I can find, in an effort to embolden people to use containers in building projects, when and where doing so is feasible and appropriate. Be aware that containers are not a perfect building material, since they tend to corrode, but they have been used effectively in some cases, especially in areas near saltwater. This is mainly a links page, and I cannot guarantee anything at all about the sites that I am offering links to, but I try to periodically search for and add links that are fresh and offer something useful and interesting, and I remove bad links and projects where information is incomplete. If you have a site worth adding, or experiences to relate in using containers for building, please contact me. Shipping Container Architecture The new, recycled FREITAG SHOP ZURICH, made entirely from used freight containers is ready for stock-in. Great archive. Times decidedly change fast. We seem to enter a period of Do It Yourself based on the recycling of industrial elements. But results remain mostly boxy.

Green Roofs: An Introduction with Pretty Pictures | EcoGeek | Roof, Green, Writt…: Aug 30, 2007 9:27pm 123 reviews architecture, environment
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/902/; Green Roofs via the SU pages of chrystalStar; in EcoGeek by Philip Proefrock
It's not just for hobbits anymore. The logic of green roofs is becoming more apparent. We can minimize our bills while maximizing the beauty of the urban landscape. And every day it's becoming a little easier to live in a house that just happens to have plants growing on it. Vegetated roofs, or green roofs have a layer of living plants on top of the structure and the waterproofing elements. There are really two types of green roofs, intensive and extensive. Green Roofs Tales Of A Green Roof
Hundertwasser was an ecologist activist and houses hidden with vegetation have long been his idea of architecture. Hunadertwasser architecture KunsthausWien HundertwasserNL

07-housing-competition: Aug 24, 2007 6:30am 3 reviews architecture
http://www.evolo-arch.com/; Evolo 2007 Housing Competition Results via FutureFeeder, in Evolu
Evolo's 07-housing-competition results are out. Check them out. They're all way too small to read the text, but the images look great. Evolo 2007 Housing Competition Results The air of our times is decidedly turning... ORGANIC and COMPLEXITY is the rule of organicity. Great.

Monolithic Dome Institute: Aug 16, 2007 7:03pm 9 reviews architecture
http://www.monolithic.com/; The Monolithic Dome in www.monolithic.com
The Monolithic Dome is a super-insulated, steel reinforced concrete structure used for homes, schools, gymnasiums, bulk storage facilities, churches, offices, and many other uses. The Monolithic Dome Sunrise on "Eye of the Storm" home on Sullivans Island, SC
Four-dome home of Don and Shirley Tuttle, Shamrock, Texas.
Monolithic Dome home in the Sangre De Cristo Mountains of Colorado Interesting concept. Great insulation and wide variety of plans.

Wozniak's New Goal is Efficient Housing: Aug 15, 2007 9:42am 1 review architecture, energy
http://www.ecnmag.com/article.aspx?id=146610&menuid=&adcode=section=effzone; Wozniak's New Goal is Efficient Housing
Apple Inc. co-founder and legendary hacker Steve Wozniak recently found a new passion in energy-efficient housing. Last month he told PC World magazine, "I have a long dream to build my own house in a very energy-efficient approach. The form of energy efficiency that appeals greatly to me is the idea of efficiency of construction. I have always admired getting the same results with fewer parts or procedures. That's a win for everyone. I used that concept in my design approach in life. For example, ram-dirt is a material made of the dirt dug under where your home will be. It uses less energy than any other building material form to create, with a machine right at the construction site. ... A home made of this should last 500 years, not just 75 years. Wozniak's New Goal is Efficient Housing Passive Solar Architecture adobe or pise the real name of the rammed dirt technique. On this site an adobe or pise architect and builder surveys the use of adobe around the world, examines the state of the adobe industry today RAMMED EARTH at MIT The EARTH ARCHITECTURE website The CRATerre lab. earth-sheltered architecture Do It Yourself Rammed Earth CMHC's Healthy House in Toronto Rammed Earth Wall in iagram visual encyclopedia
Cape Cod Home by Malcolm Wells
Pines CalyxTM is the new, healthy, sustainable cliff top conference venue just 90 minutes from London
By Earth-Tec Victoria's premier earth building contractor. Architecture is a passion of mine. I built a home by myself in Belgium around 1980 so I know what I speak about and... I feel close to Steve Wozniak's approach. Now I'm thinking about building a new adobe abode next year along the following lines: - simple design - passive solar techniques: fully glass southern exposure (New York area),... - walls: rammed dirt.

Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society & VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE WEEK: Ho…: Aug 6, 2007 4:10pm 1 review architecture, gardening
http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog?p=197; Houses Woven Out of Trees A got a vision. in kirchersociety.org """ An MIT architect named Mitchell Joachim has proposed a living house, based on an ancient gardening method known as pleaching, which involves weaving together tree branches to form living archways, lattices, or screens. """ URL: Houses Woven Out of Trees URL: On discovery URL: Arborsculptor Richard Reames URL:the treedomes of Konstantin Kirsch

Asia Times Online :: China News - China chasing an urban utopia: May 17, 2007 8:00am 1 review architecture, china, change
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IE18Ad01.html; China chasing an urban utopia in AsiaTimes by Daniel Allen
Today the majority of Beijing's high-profile building projects attempt to steal the limelight with bold architectural gestures such as impossibly angled roofs or hanging glass exteriors. However, some home-grown architects are pushing innovation in a different direction - one that focuses on the intrinsic issues of materiality, limited-budget construction and local context. In their own small way these pioneers are contributing to something huge - a radical new identity for Chinese architecture. Instead of attempting to fuse Oriental esthetics with Western-style design, leading architects such as Chang Yung Ho and Ma Yansong are exploring more sophisticated ways of connecting today's construction to their nation's culture. Combining an understanding of local craft traditions and the fabric of urban life with contemporary approaches to technology and new materials, these designers are pushing the creative envelope and changing the built environment in a way that has never been attempted before. China chasing an urban utopia

China's architecture has a glorious past: refined, daring and sometimes very creative. This past is not going away nor is it forgotten in the minds of China's contemporary architects and artists. The story of China today is one of extremely rapid change creating a reality that is pure chaos. But China's history has seen chaos along much of the way the country followed and its people have thus learned to surf on the waves within chaos that are bringing about change. While still not being mature China's architecture, and other arts, could well soon be eye openers for the rest of the world, for, as Ma Yansong says"China has grown very fast and the country faces very distinct challenges. This gives China the opportunity to create unique solutions and do something different for the future."

Future Feeder & Archive & Genetic Architecture: Feb 4, 2007 9:29am 1 review architecture, complex-systems, life, reality, worldviews
http://futurefeeder.com/index.php/archives/2006/08/06/genetic-architecture/; Genetic Architecture in Future Feeder by cw wang
With the dissolution of the last utopian project of Man in the name of Communism, the great specter that once haunted Europe and the rest of the world has all but vanished, leaving in its wake an ideological vacuum that is now being filled by the tentacles of globalization with its ecumenical ambition. As humanity has become mesmerized by the triumphant spell of capitalism, what remains less apparent in the aftermath of this dissolution is that the world is moving incipiently toward a threshold that is far more radical and fantastic than any utopic vision since the dawn of the Enlightenment. Once again, the world is witnessing the rumblings of a Promethean fire that is destined to irrupt into the universe of humanity, calling into question the nature and function of life world relations as they so far have existed. Genetic Architecture Leibniz, Information, Math and Physics. G. J. Chaitin 14 pages PDF. A New Kind of Science FREE Online access (1280 pages)
CC Wang is primary concerned with architecture and the conclusion of his post goes "...architecture is becoming increasingly dependent on genetic computation: the generative construction and the mutual coexistence of possible worlds within the computable domain of modal space." I have nothing against the organic principle... it's the principle of life. BUT It frightens me when man starts dreaming of taking over the organic principle in order to devise a possible materialization of his fantasies. This is just what's on the verge of happening. A few thinkers, dwelling into their abstractions, could eventually unleash "a Promethean fire that is destined to irrupt into the universe of humanity"... How to call this? Is this not by definition the summit of what is totalitarianism? Totalitarianism is the principle of complete and unrestricted power of government. Tampering with the organic principle does not require the control over the power of a government. It only requires brain power and cash invested into that brain power. In the end this combination of capital + brain power is far more potent than government. It has the potential to inflict its will to all governments and all people on earth... This is uber-totalitarianism.

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