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Peter Barber is designing a city every day for a year

London-based architect Peter Barber is developing 365 urban masterplans, in a project called One Year 365 Cities, to prove that it should be possible "to design a city in 10 minutes".

Peter Barber is sketching a city every day and sharing the results on the Instagram account One Year 365 Cities

"One year 365 cities is an attempt to design a city a day for a year," Barber, founder of Peter Barber Architects, told Dezeen.

He said the inspiration behind the idea was a statement by American theorist Lewis Mumford.

"The idea arose from Lewis Mumford's assertion that modernism has 'failed to produce even a rough draft for a decent neighbourhood', and from...

Could open source architecture be the moderniser of construction?

The ‘why redesign the wheel’ argument is more likely to be heard from clients and contractors than architects protective of their bespoke designs. Many architects will be surprised to learn that Bryden Wood not only publishes details of its work but insists in its contracts that designs should be openly available and not vested in the client.

Bryden Wood’s Circle Reading private healthcare hospital was delivered using 80% DfMA.
Bryden Wood is not your average practice. It offers ‘operations consulting’, ‘process facility design’, M&E services and more alongside architecture and has a twenty-year history of designing complex operational facilities such as behind-the-scenes operations at airports.

‘We do a lot...

Aga Khan Award for Architecture

It aims to identify and reward architectural concept that successfully address the needs and aspirations of Islamic societies in the fields of contemporary design, social housing, community development and improvement, restoration, reuse and area conservation, as well as landscape design and improvement of the environment.

It is presented in three-year cycles to multiple projects and has a monetary award, with prizes totalling US$ 1 million.
 
The rigor of its nomination and selection process has made it, in the eyes of many observers, one of the world's most influential architectural prizes. Uniquely among architectural awards, it recognizes projects, teams, and stakeholders in addition to buildings and people.
 
Projects that receive...

Burning Man

The late summer event is described as an experiment in community and art, influenced by ten main principles: "radical" inclusion, self-reliance, and self-expression, as well as community cooperation, civic responsibility, gifting, decommodification, participation, immediacy, and leaving no trace. The event takes its name from its culmination, the symbolic ritual burning of a large wooden effigy ("the Man") that traditionally occurs on the Saturday evening of the event.

First held 32 years ago in 1986 on Baker Beach in San Francisco as a small function organized by Larry Harvey and Jerry James who built the first "Man", it has since been held annually, spanning from the last Sunday in August to the first Monday in September (Labor Day).

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