分类目录归档：architect
For much of the past century,
architecture was under the spell of a famous doctrine.
"Form follows function" had become modernity's ambitious manifesto
and detrimental straitjacket,
as it liberated ar
Every weekend for as long as I can remember,
my father would get up on a Saturday,
put on a worn sweatshirt
and he'd scrape away
at the squeaky old wheel of a house that we lived in.
I wouldn't even c
Isn't it fascinating how the simple act of drawing a line on the map
can transform the way we see and experience the world?
And how those spaces in between lines, borders,
become places.
They become p
My mom has always reminded me
that I have the same proportions as a LEGO man.
(Laughter)
And she does actually have a point.
LEGO is a company that has succeeded
in making everybody believe that LEGO
I am an architect.
And this picture shows the city that I come from,
Beijing, China.
And old Beijing is like a very beautiful garden,
you can see a lot of nature.
When I was a kid,
I learned to swim i
More than 10 billion people.
Over 7,000 languages spoken.
90 million songs, 42 billion fruit trees,
900 zettabytes of data,
90 million beehives,
six million dentists,
142 million square kilometers of
you
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it's time to start designing for our
ears architects and designers tend to
focus exclusively on these they use
these to design with and they designed
for them which is why we end up sitting
in
thank you very much I have a few
pictures and I'll talk a little bit
about how I'm able to do what I do all
these houses are built from between 70
and 80 percent recycled materials stuff
that was head
Earthquakes have always been a terrifying phenomenon,
and they've become more deadly as our cities have grown,
with collapsing buildings posing one of the largest risks.
Why do buildings collapse in
In 1978, Diane Hartley was writing her undergraduate architecture thesis
when she made a shocking discovery.
Her paper focused on the Citicorp Center, a skyscraper in midtown Manhattan.
And after we