ArchitectureWeek Blog Center

Contents/RSS

Foundations of Passive House

Corbu's Maison Ternisien

People & Places


	Current Contents
	People & Places
	Blog Center
	Book Center
	Download Center
	New Products
	Products Guide
	Classic Home
	Calendar
	Competitions
	Conferences
	Events & Exhibits
	Architecture Forum
	Architects Directory
	Topics Library
	Complete Archive
	Web Directory
	About ArchWeek
	Search
	Subscribe & Contribute
	Free Newsletters

ArchitectureWeek Blog Center
live stories around the architectural blogosphere...

View by Most Recent Favorites (most likes) Most Viewed

ArchWeek Blog Center Home

Featured Blogs

Show All Blogs

Suggest a Blog

Detecting lost rooms with architectural antennae

Currently 1.00/1
1

BLDG BLOG 2013-01-29 20:00:00
[Image: "Constant time slices" from northwestern Argentina; image from, and courtesy of, the Journal of Archaeological Science, "Detecting and mapping buried buildings with Ground-Penetrating Radar at an ancient village in northwestern Argentina," by N�stor Bonomo, Ana Osella, and Norma Ratto]. While reading The Losers last night for the first time?a graphic novel about a team of ex-CIA members now executing a …

Crashing Through Dark Matter Walls

Currently 1.00/1
1

BLDG BLOG 2013-01-20 16:06:00
[Image: An otherwise unrelated image from NASA, an artist's rendition of the heliosphere and magnetic fields]. The Earth is "constantly crashing through huge walls of dark matter," New Scientist explains, "and we already have the tools to detect them." This dark architecture in space consists of so-called "domain walls" that are like the boundaries between soap bubbles in foam. "The idea …

Spreading Ground

Currently 1.00/1
1

BLDG BLOG 2013-01-20 18:16:00
In Richard Mabey's excellent history?and "defense"?of weeds, previously mentioned on BLDGBLOG here, he tells the story of Oxford ragwort, a species native to the volcanic slopes of Sicily's Mount Etna. Exactly how it arrived in Oxford is unknown, Mabey explains, but it was as likely as not brought back deliberately as part of an 18th-century scientific expedition. [Image: Cropped photo of …

Librarian of Rocks

Currently 1.00/1

BLDG BLOG 2013-02-10 17:22:00
[Image: Recording a landscape; photo courtesy of Jan Magne Gjerde, via Past Horizons Archaeology]. Last winter, Past Horizons Archaeology ran some remarkable photos from a site in NW Russia, close to the border with Norway, where more than a thousands petroglyphs have been discovered carved into the horizontal surface of the local bedrock. Most of the site had been buried under …

Fault Wall

Currently 1.00/1

BLDG BLOG 2013-02-10 19:57:00
With my eyes on all things fault-related these days, as we're now in the third week of the San Andreas Fault National Park studio up at Columbia, I was interested in a brief moment from poet Simon Armitage's new memoir, Walking Home. [Image: Hadrian's Wall (not the wall described below) on the Whin Sill, via Wikipedia]. While hiking with a friend …

Caustic Engineering

Currently 1.00/1
1

BLDG BLOG 2013-02-06 12:54:00
New milling techniques applied to glass and plexiglass panels could be used to "create windows that are also cryptic projectors, summoning ghostly images from sunlight." [Image: A piece of milled plexiglass acting as a projecting lens; via the Computer Graphics and Geometry Lab at the �cole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne]. They do so by "taking control of a seemingly chaotic optical …

Optical Calibration Targets

Currently 1.00/1
1

BLDG BLOG 2013-02-15 15:59:00
[Image: "Three tri-bar targets remaining at Cuddeback Lake... the flat surfaces are peeling, crumbling and sprouting, producing dimensionality, and relief." Photo by and courtesy of the Center for Land Use Interpretation]. "There are dozens of aerial photo calibration targets across the USA," the Center for Land Use Interpretation reports, "curious land-based two-dimensional optical artifacts used for the development of aerial photography …

The Fifth Wall

Currently 1.00/1
1

BLDG BLOG 2013-02-16 15:56:00
[Image: Green screen; image via Geek Magazine]. Earlier this week, Petro Vlahos, described by the BBC as "the pioneer of blue- and green-screen systems" in cinema, passed away. Vlahos's highly specific recoloring of certain surfaces in the everyday built environment allowed "filmmakers to superimpose actors and other objects against separately filmed backgrounds"; they are walls that aren't really there: He called …

Soft Launch

Currently 1.00/1
1

BLDG BLOG 2013-02-06 08:00:00
The long-awaited second installment of Bracket, a co-publication of Archinect, InfraNet Lab, and ACTAR, is finally here. The new issue is themed around "soft systems" in architecture and landscape design, or "systems, networks and technologies that are responsive, adaptable, scalable, non-linear, and multivalent," as the editors describe it. The resulting soft-systems issue was edited by Lola Sheppard and Neeraj Bhatia …

Send this to a friend Media Kit Contributing Privacy Comments
Special thanks to our sustaining subscribers, including Building Design UK, Building Design News UK, and Building Design Tenders UK.

http://www.ArchWeek.com/blogs/