Month: July 2017

Cohta Asano builds his new Fukushima home as a cluster of nine cuboids

July 31, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

The 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan was the first in a series of grave events that prompted Fukushima-based architect Cohta Asano to develop the complex design for his new home. Made of up nine overlapping cuboids, of all different sizes and proportions, the house has little in common with the other residential properties in Fukushima, many

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Canal House / The Ranch Mine

July 31, 2017 Rayen Sagredo 0

Initially built by native dwellers 2000 years ago and rebuilt for modern society over a century ago are 181 miles of canals that bring water to the desert city of Phoenix, Arizona. These canals often go unnoticed, as the city has largely turned their back on these assets until recently. Canal House is a new home inspired by the forms of the missions in southern Arizona on a left over, irregularly shaped vacant lot along the Arizona Canal. The Ranch Mine designed the home to be a beacon, glimmering in the sun with its rusted, corrugated metal roof, drawing focus to the life giving resource slicing through the gridded city.

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15 Clients You Will Encounter as an Architect (And How To Deal With Them)

July 31, 2017 AD Editorial Team 0

Ah, clients. Sadly, we can’t all be paper architects, dreaming up improbable futures (and even the members of Archigram eventually settled down to found studios that actually build stuff). As a result, we’re forced to work with people who often think that just because they’re paying for our services, they own us like slaves. They come in many different varieties, from the client that thinks that everything is an emergency to the client that obsesses over the design budget. The following infographic produced by “startup studio and accelerator” Coplex will help you diagnose your own clients—and more importantly, offers some tips on how best to deal with them to make your life easier.

“Archifutures” Represents a Vital Infusion of Oxygen Into the Arena of Architectural Discourse

July 31, 2017 AD Editorial Team 0

Publishing is a cultural project, first collecting and condensing ideas and then diffusing them. In the architectural sphere, it is a pursuit which has often struggled to tackle an inherent paradox: is a book, for instance, speaking to an audience entirely “in the know” or one completely fresh to the concepts, ideas, and figures which tend to envelop the discourse – often resonating like records on repeat.