Tinkering with post-industrial scraps to innovate in housing by Nicolás Boullosa on June 1, 2022 Thomas Edison defined discontent as the first necessity of progress. Optimism and progress are naïve constructions of non-conformists who believe …
SimCity-like arcologies as self-sustaining living ecosystems by Nicolás Boullosa on January 19, 2022 When we recently visited the courtyard of 25 Verde, the condominium of 63 wooden-shingle-clad apartments on a five-story, corten steel …
Crisis Urbanism: medieval citadels to Soleri’s arcologies by Nicolás Boullosa on November 19, 2021 William Gibson was 22 when he visited a 1970 exhibition hosted by Paolo Soleri, an idealist architect who envisioned self-contained …
Materiales con futuro: ¿impresión aditiva de seda de araña? by Nicolás Boullosa on October 17, 2019 La seda de araña es resistente, flexible, reparable, antibacteriana y energéticamente eficiente. Varios estudios tratan de desvelar los secretos de …
Por qué la construcción residencial necesita nuevos manifiestos by Nicolás Boullosa on May 16, 2019 El canal de YouTube kirstendirksen es una puerta que muchos tenemos al descubrimiento de la vida, ideas, valores, proyectos y …
Arquitectura dematerializada: las utopías modulares y nómadas by Nicolás Boullosa on January 17, 2018 Dos guerras mundiales y la crisis económica entre ambas alimentaron a principios del siglo XX un debate profundo sobre un …
Edificios con piel: luz, aire y agua en estructuras textiles by Nicolás Boullosa on June 7, 2017 Nuevos tejidos flexibles, resistentes, potencialmente translúcidos y con comportamiento personalizable para repeler agua, fuego o contaminación están llamados a transformar …
Arcosanti: Paolo Soleri’s futuristic utopian city in the desert by Kirsten Dirksen on June 20, 2016 Visionary architect Paolo Soleri began building Arcosanti, his utopian city in the desert, in 1970 and continued to work on …
A spaghetti western on lean urbanism (documentary) by Kirsten Dirksen on May 11, 2015 What makes a good shelter? For thousands of years we’ve been attempting to regulate the idea. Even the bible had …
A spaghetti western on lean urbanism (documentary trailer) by Kirsten Dirksen on May 3, 2015 It’s undeniable that building codes save lives, but something has changed in the past couple of decades. Now, thanks to …
