Port issue 7

September 11th, 2012

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.

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Prefabricated Architecture

August 29th, 2012

Prefabricated architecture

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.

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Dated dwelling: palm leaf architecture

May 24th, 2012

Palm leaf architecture

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.

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Park life: the evolving approach to designing urban public space

May 14th, 2012

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.

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RIP CMYK

March 25th, 2012

rip-cmyk

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!

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Leading lights: current and future applications for new lighting technologies

February 10th, 2012

Architonic - Leading Lights

This feature for Architonic examines external and internal uses for innovative lighting technologies. You can read the full article here.

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Hole Lot of Sense: smart uses for perforated façades and partitions

August 6th, 2011

Another new article for Architonic examines applications of perforated materials in architecture. You can read it here.

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Sporting Chance?: the challenge of legacy-building in international stadium design

July 6th, 2011

My latest article for Architonic just went live. It’s about the architectural legacy of major sporting events and you can read it here.

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Bright Ideas: the future of lighting

April 18th, 2011

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.

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Neo Geo: geodesic construction in contemporary architecture

March 10th, 2011

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.

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