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  • A Rook-House for Bobby Fischer - The former world chess champion expressed a desire for a rook-shaped house. This is a design for such a house. Plans and 3D computer reconstructions.
  • Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts - ALBA's research workshop is a multi-disciplinary space for research and creation aiming to face the city's problems and to define appropriate solutions. News, projects, guests and tutors.
  • Architects Design in Cyberspace - Illustrated article by Alfredo Andia and Claudia Busch on the designs by New York based architectural firm Asymptote on a virtual New York Stock Exchange.
  • Architecture and Planning Studio, University of the West of England - Innovatory technologies, notably 'glued brickwork' and panels of compressed straw bales, turn a campus building into a teaching resource.
  • Arcosanti - An experimental town in the desert of Arizona, built to embody Paolo Soleri's concept of arcology - the fusion of architecture with ecology. Theory, worksops, events, images, visitor information.
  • Boase - The winning project of the competition "The Future Home", promoted by the Danish Building Research Institute. The novel settlement will be built as an experiment.
  • Copenhagen Substitute - An interactive tour of Utopian designs by various architects. Devised by Dellbruegge and de Molls, it formed part of the exhibition "models of resistance" in Copenhagen May/June 2000.
  • Corrugated Construction - Architecture students at the Auburn University Rural Studio are designing and building what may be the first house out of bales of waste waxed corrugated board, commonly known as cardboard.
  • Curvilinear Surfaces - Aleksandra Kasuba explains how to install curved fabric structures (under tension) in environmental and architectural projects. Examples of her installations. Biography, bibliography.
  • Futuro - The history of the spaceship-like home designed in 1968 by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen as a ski cabin. Images and film clips from Sydney artist Paul McNeil, who bought one of the few produced.
  • Iceberg Project - Architectural experiments by James Cathcart, Frank Fantauzzi and Terence Van Elslander that dissect the projection of space and reveal the root relations of building based in specific situation and material.
  • Just-In-Time Infrastructure Prototype - Igor Kebelour presents a concept of domestic, working, public and mobile institutions merged into one. Includes model, analysis and discussion.
  • Kunsthaus Graz - London architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier explain their "friendly alien" design for a new exhibition hall in Austria. Plan, computer models, construction schedule.
  • Modular Dwellings - Mobile, low cost and functional - a new species of pre-fabricated structures designed by Edgar Blazona.
  • Oak Park Library - Lynn Boyden and James Weiner present a case study in replicable energy-efficient design - a new public library in Ventura, California.
  • Tent Design - Russian architect Anvar Khairoylline enthuses about the possibilities of tent structures. His profile, illustrated summary of his thesis and examples of projects using the principles of tent construction.
  • The Machine Age - A housing project at Lille. Yung-Yin Yen of Atelier Pochoy explains the concept of transforming traditional terraced housing into habitable cargo containers, customised and transportable.
  • The Steel Research House - An experiment in modern house design using light steel framing at the University of Nottingham, UK. Context, project outline and progress. Feedback form for comments.
  • The Translucent House - A prototype by Alfons Soldevila. Photograph parades show the building process from design to finish, and other buildings using translucence. A detailed description and theoretical background.
  • Zomes - Creating homes from a harmonious family of geometric forms. Includes definitions, symbolism, images of zomes, construction, history.
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