Urbanism at UM

New Urbanism – the Anti-Europan.

Dutch housing projects are eminently respectable - it’s easy to find good examples like the high density patio-housing built at Borneo and Sporenburg (Amsterdam) or the housing developments 1 and 2 in Groningen by S333 (actually an implementation of the Europan 3 completions). It’s a demonstration of contemporary architecture paying[...]

Vertical Urbanism

Rapid urban growth is not a new scenario in developing countries. Cities historically have been centers for industry and commerce. Cities also attract rural population, who seek better standards of living and economic opportunities. This pattern in turn reflects a substantial migration of rural population to the cities. World demographics[...]

Form Informing Urbansim - Parametric Urbanism

[IMG Thames Gateway] Architects Zaha Hadid & Patrik Schumacher have chosen the Thames Gateway as a testing ground in which to evolve new ways of approaching large-scale urban developments. The Thames Gateway is an area stretching eastwards from East London on both banks of the river Thames;[...]

Walter Murch on acoustic urbanism, sound editing…

BLDGBLOG has a great interview with Walter Murch, who worked on the sound or editing or both for THX1138, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The… Walter Murch on acoustic urbanism, sound editing...[...]

Last Week at LaVillette

it is the last week on university and i have to finish my project. here is the first part for it - with my colleague i finished the model for urbanism which we will present this friday. but for the presentation there are still a lot of other[...]