IA&B 2007

December 2007

 

Main stories in this issue…

 

CURRENT
Latest in architectural exhibitions, news and competitions.


PRODUCTS
Innovative designer products from across the world

 

POST EVENT
Design Crossroads - The Pune Design Festival 2007
A review of the Pune Design festival 2007 which saw designers across the world coming together to expound on trends in designs.


TECHNOLOGY

The City in Your Pocket
Architects kai Kasugai and Philipp Hoppe have tried to enrich urban sites using virtual dimension of information and technology.            

City as Particle System
Vesna Petresin Robert and Laurent-Paul Robert provide an insight about how particle physics offers a new space of knowledge, lending a hand to urban planning.


OPTION

Reinventing the Wheel
Mitchell Joachim and MIT Media Lab challenges to change the urban streetscape with their Transology project which rethinks the urban mobility through ecological design.


PRODUCT DESIGN

Blending Practicality with Creativity
Profiling product designer Franscico Gamex Paz and his pragmatic approach towards creativity and design.


PUBLIC ART

Rooted in Concrete
Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein experiment with a design concept, the Ancient Tree, that boarders on the free hand drawing exercise.


FROM THE STUDIO
Data Visualisation : Exploring Emerging Challenges and Opportunities in India
M P Ranjan and Rupesh Vyas discuss methods of translating digital data to Facilitate design.


OPINION
Architecture, Interaction, System
Usman Haque explores the need to design objects and spaces that are interactive.


ARCHITECTURE
The Eye of the Future
The Infosys campuses are a narrative of the interesting history in architectural culture and theory and the new focus it is acquiring today.

Healing Habitat
Reviewing the Vastaad Lahuji Salve Arogya Kendra that brings a new healing experience to the historic district of Aurangabad.


INTERNATIONAL

Exploring Uniquesess
Exploring the works of office da, the Boston-based architecture and design firm that aims at exploring unique material qualities in conjuction with both traditional and digital techniques.

Hyperreality
Featuring the projects of Jordon Parnass Digital Architecture which create spaces that encourages new precedents in social behaviour.


NOTHING CONCRETE
The Nature of Architecture
G. Shankar Narayan explores the issues that concern the effect of architecture on People.


LESSONS FROM TRADITION
Vision and its Consequences
Parul Zaveri and Nimish Patel addresses the reality of 'sustainability' in India.


PLANNING
Those Five Myths
Christopher Charles Benninger takes an incisive look at the myths that blur the planning and visions of cities.


LOCUS
Pirate
Rahul Srivastava & Matias Echanove take a closer look at the issues revolving around Dharavi's Koliwada in the Dharavi Redevelopment Project.

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