Tag Archives: archigram

Floating Eden

By Joop de Boer | Published: Tuesday March 2, 2010

Will the first Dutch hills be on water? Dutch architect Anne Holtrop collaborated with green technology firm Studio Noach and botanist and vertical garden…

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What To Do With An Unfinished City In The Desert?

By Joop de Boer | Published: Saturday November 28, 2009

This is the first time that we react on the news of the day. But with the unexpected and rather predictable collapse of the Dubai bubble we have…

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Metabolist Masterpiece: Nakagin Capsule Tower

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Monday April 6, 2009

Kisho Kurokawa (1934-2007) was a leading Japanese architect and one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement in 1959. The categories that the group in visioned…

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On Mobile Cities, Archigram, Invisible Networks and Ubicomp

By Anne Galloway | Published: Saturday March 28, 2009

I gave an informal presentation on my research to some fabulous engineering/art/technology students this morning. I started out by talking about Archigram’s take on mobile cities, and specifically Peter Cook’s…

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