Paola Antonelli photographed by Marton Perlaki for Port
For the latest issue of Port magazine I spoke to Zaha Hadid, Paola Antonelli, Patricia Urquiola and several other leading women from the design industry. The design section was guest edited by Deyan Sudjic, who wrote an introductory essay and there is also a spectacular feature on the Rothschild Bank by OMA.
Prefabricated construction saves time and labour and new technologies and materials are enabling architects to develop complex designs and customisable modules so structures built this way need not all look the same. Find out more by reading my article about prefabricated architecture for Architonic.
This article for the website of Vision magazine explores the heritage of palm-leaf architecture in the United Arab Emirates and explains how contemporary architects should look to the knowledge and skills that have been used to build in this region for millennia in order to address issues relating to urban expansion in a sustainable way. Read the article here.
You can read my latest article for Architonic about how landscape architects are approaching the need for better public spaces in inner city environments here.
You can now download my article about the rise of digital design publishers for the lovely Port magazine from their website here. Ironically, this feature was misprinted in the magazine so the digital download is the only way to read the whole thing!
My first feature for the new Port magazine is now on their website. It discusses developments in efficient lighting technologies and how they may affect the future of the industry and our relationship with light. You can read the article here.
This article I wrote for Architonic deals with the legacy of R. Buckminster Fuller’s principles of geodesic construction and how they have been applied by contemporary architects. Read it here.