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06 Jan 09

"Audio slideshow: Futuristic designs from the past " (BBC - Today)

Audio slideshow of Archigram:
"In the early 1960s, the avant-garde architectural group - Archigram - set out to find hypothetical ways of creating alternative buildings and cities for people to live and work in.

"Their ultra-modern visions drew inspiration from modular technology and early space capsules - as well as the natural environment."

news.bbc.co.uk/...7798086.stm - Preview

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09 Aug 08

How Buildings Learn | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration

PSFK's Piers Fawkes writes an entry that provides the links (now available on Google Video) to the BBC series, "How Buildings Learn," by Stewart Brand. In addition to the six parts (each ~30 min. long), Fawkes includes some choice quotes.

For those who know and appreciated Stewart Brand's book, this series is a great addition.

www.psfk.com/...how-buildings-learn.html - Preview

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Only 1 in 10 buildings are revisited by the architects after they’re in use.
Buildings change and change and change because all the people who use them have their own ideas - and that’s good… but we need a better understanding of the organic change that happens to buildings.
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- The central problem is that architects don’t want change - but change is inevitable. People who use them change how they want to use them - but we have to understand that.
- this lack of confidence that has been fostered in the population is a manipulation that has been caused partly by the media, largely by the [architectural] profession - and this endangers the fabric of society because if people lose confidence in themselves to that degree then the adaptation of the environment to common sense and everyday use disappears.