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Filmed within the Think Tank and launching of the 2017 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism: Imminent Commons. At Hong Kong University. Filmed and edited by Daniel Ruiz. More info: urbannext.net_Hong Kong 8 questions for a near future
By this new path passing through a flooded area, C. F. Møller’s new landscape design integrates both climate adaption and public nature park in one single project. The climate adaption project in Vorup, near Randers, resolves the city’s current and…
What does it mean to be radical architect or designer today? Never before have cities mattered as much to the future of humanity. As David Harvey attests, we have sleepwalked unknowingly into a full-blown “crisis of planetary urbanization”, with acute…
Agriculture today takes place at a range of radically different scales – from tiny urban farms that feed small neighborhoods to massive industrial operations that produce global food supplies and commodities. Over the past decade, as agriculture has gained popularity…
What is a new town? Looking from Chinese new towns, this question is unanswerable. The misunderstandings and opaqueness of the Chinese urbanisation process make both the new towns and our sight ambiguous. Entering the new towns force us to rediscuss…
Cino Zucchi talks about design, new generations, and digital technologies, within the Past, Present, Future talk series, by Itinerant Office. This series of video-interviews aims to understand how the architect’s profession is changing, gathering the points of view of a selection…
In the innovative and wide-ranging Obsolescence, Daniel M. Abramson investigates this notion of architectural expendability and the logic by which buildings lose their value and utility. The idea that the new necessarily outperforms and makes superfluous the old, Abramson argues,…
A conversation with Stefano Boeri. A project curated by Gianpiero Venturini - Founder of Itinerant Office - Camera, Luca Chiaudano. The project has been realised thanks to the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Italy and the Creative…
The urban population is expected to double in the next 40 years, forcing cities to undertake a holistic and sustainable transformation of their model. According to Martha Thorne, Dean of the IE School of Architecture and Design and Executive Director…
Cities are the ecosystem, the meeting point for two of the new realities that will define human development in the coming years: on one hand, the intense process of urbanization of the world’s population, and on the other, the spread…