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Get Lectured: Tulane University, Fall '23/Spring '24

Archinect

As the 2023-24 academic year unfolds, Archinect is looking at all the exciting events at architecture schools nationwide with our Get Lectured series. The school shares: “This year, Tulane School of Architecture has themed our lecture series 'Thinking Out Loud.'

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Zaha Hadid Architects unveils modular tent classrooms for refugees

Deezen

One of the last structures designed by Hadid, the tents were created by Zaha Hadid Architects ( ZHA ) in collaboration with non-profit Education Above All Foundation ( EAA ) as schools and health clinics for displaced populations throughout the Middle East. Above: a structure used for education in Turkey.

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Hannah begins construction on "first multi-storey 3D-printed house in the US"

Deezen

Ithaca, New York-based design studio Hannah has begun work on Cores, a building in Houston that it says will be the first multi-storey 3D-printed structure to be completed in the United States. The hybrid structure is being constructed from 3D-printed concrete combined with wood framing and was designed as a multi-storey single-family home.

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Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen develops modular building system to address the global housing crisis

Deezen

Photo is by Cristóbal Valdés The panels are installed within a lightweight, anti-seismic, recycled steel structure measuring 5 metres by 18 metres (16 feet by 60 feet) to create an 80-square-metre (860-square-foot) house. Photo is by Cristóbal Valdés The prototype system can also function without a roof structure.

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Ten architecture projects by Kingston University students

Deezen

Our reputation is reflected by our continued presence in the Domus listing of the top 50 Architecture Schools in Europe, and our students and staff continue to win prestigious industry awards, including regular successes in the RIBA President's Medals." The building sits comfortably within its surroundings.

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Deconstructivist architecture "challenges the very values of harmony, unity and stability"

Deezen

For Wigley, "deconstruction gains all its force by challenging the very values of harmony, unity, and stability, and proposing instead a very different view of structure: the view that the flaws are intrinsic to structure". "A Wexner Center for the Arts was designed by Peter Eisenman. Photo courtesy of Eisenman Architects.

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Moholy-Nagy: Hitler’s Revenge

Architecture Here and There

They accomplished this by purging the architecture schools of all but modernist theory, twisting architectural history to impugn the motives of traditional work, crushing the crafts on which traditional architecture depended, and brainwashing professional organizations so to exclude the influence of any but modernist practice and practitioners.

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