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Breaking Down Architectural Techniques With USC School of Architecture’s Foundational Graduate Studio

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This foundational studio focused on giving students with no previous architecture backgrounds an opportunity to gain "experience to foundational design concepts, disciplinary knowledge, and techniques for thinking about and developing fundamental architectural principles."

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From Sketch to Painting: A Digital Art Gallery To Inspire Everyday Architectural Work

ArchDaily

Despite the utilization of technical knowledge, architecture, and interior design also incorporate artistic concepts into their processes. In this sense, digitalization has also permeated the art world, conceiving initiatives like SINGULART , which challenges the traditional concept of art galleries by existing in a digital format.

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5 extraordinary hotel concepts currently on the boards

Hotel Designs

In the process of trying to sift through the style to get to the substance, we discovered a few concepts that both caught our eye and gave us pause for thought. From 3D printing to biophilic bolt-holes, as boundaries shift and expectations rise, the only limit to hotel designs and concepts would appear to be the imagination.

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Vernacular Elements Applied in Contemporary Housing

ArchDaily

© Syam Sreesylam Vernacular architecture is a complex concept that has different meanings depending on where we are, and it is present in various architectural typologies. Its constructions are also often linked to traditional building techniques from each place. Read more »

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Woodio develops toilet made from wood chips

Deezen

Named Block, the wall-mounted toilet was made using a material developed by Woodio founder Petro Lahtinen that is around 80 per cent wood by volume, incorporating locally sourced aspen and offcuts from the Finnish forest industry. Basically we have developed moulds that can handle non-fluid raw materials," Lahtinen said. "It

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Philippe Block on Sustainable Construction: “Building Technique Is More Important Than Materials”

Architizer

From the jump, our conversation was all about proving his thesis that geometry, or building technique, is more important than materials when it comes to sustainable construction. This, he explained, is the concept behind VAULTED AG’s revolutionary floor plates. Sustainability does not mean thinking smaller — just thinking differently.

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Designers experiment with traditional tile-making techniques for Pentagram x Huguet collection

Deezen

"It was an open brief: there was no limitation or restriction as long as Huguet was capable of manufacturing and developing each concept," explained Stavro, who initiated the project three years ago before leaving Pentagram in 2021 to set up her own studio. A playful coffee table was designed by Matt Willey.