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The "Did You Know?" video, which has been making its viral rounds through various social networks. Breathless, admittedly amazing facts, prepare to meet a firehose of information. ("What does it in-form?" is another question...)

Tags: youtube, education, technology, google, internet, video on 2009-04-01 and saved by 34 people -All Annotations (3) -About

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Susan Sontag chatting with Philip Johnson in NYC's Seagram Building. Johnson makes NIMBY noises about how his view will be blocked when a surface parking lot across the way finally gets redeveloped. Too funny. (This video is from ...?, the 60s.)

Tags: video, philip_johnson, susan_sontag, seagram_building, nyc, architecture, nimbyism on 2009-04-01 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Portal page to Greg Lynn's TED talk.

Tags: greg_lynn, ted_conference, architecture, calculus, video, symmetry on 2009-01-18 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (2) -About

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Questioning symmetry:
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Greg Lynn talks about the mathematical roots of architecture -- and how calculus and digital tools allow modern designers to move beyond the traditional building forms. A glorious church in Queens (and a titanium tea set) illustrate his theory.

Greg Lynn is the head of Greg Lynn FORM, an architecture firm known for its boundary-breaking, biomorphic shapes and its embrace of digital tools for design and fabrication.

Who says great architecture must be proportional and symmetrical? Not Greg Lynn. He and his firm, Greg Lynn FORM, have been pushing the edges of building design, by stripping away the traditional dictates of line and proportion and looking into the heart of what a building needs to be.
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Tags: exchange_morning_post, greg_lynn, ted_conference, architecture, calculus, video, symmetry on 2009-01-18 -All Annotations (3) -About

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Video demo of how VIVACE works (the device developed to mimic how fish harness energy from water currents).

Tags: mit_techreview, vivace, biomimicry, hydropower, video, energy, vortex_hydro_energy on 2008-12-03 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Stunning imagery of the brain's neural structures. Must-see. Also includes a couple of links to video/ time-lapse imaging.

Tags: brain, neuroscience, neurogenesis, mit_techreview, imagery, video on 2008-10-28 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Thanks to a pointer from Roland Tanglao, here's the complete video archive of Gil Penalosa's recent talk at SFU on Walking, Bicycling and Public Spaces.

Tags: gil_penalosa, sfu, urban_design, bicycles, cycling, video on 2008-09-08 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Short video clip produced by CEOs for Cities, which asks, "How much is it worth, to live two miles closer to work?" The answer(s) is (are) astonishing, when you take those 2 miles and make them cumulative, for the whole US. That said, imagine what it does mean, then, if we build cities that are walkable, that engage people in public transit, that shave those 2miles off people's commutes/ daily drives?

Tags: ceos_for_cities, automobile, cars, driving, video, walkability, urbanism on 2008-04-24 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Fascinating presentation by David Heinemeier Hansson, the Ruby on Rails guy and developer at 37 Signals: advice on start-ups, life, the universe, and everything.

Tags: david_heinemeier_hansson, start_up_school, video, 37signals, entrepreneurship, hackertv on 2008-04-22 and saved by 13 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Casey Reas delivers a lecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna on programming & process for visual designers.

Tags: casey_reas, wmmna, programming, visual_arts, design, video on 2008-04-18 -All Annotations (0) -About

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A brief article by Christopher Hume on the Leslie Street Spit, which includes a fascinating video, "Celebrating the Leslie St. Spit," by Greg Smith and Catherine Farley. Before settlement, the area (a wetlands) had an abundance of wildlife. This was then basically obliterated as Toronto took it over for industrial and port-related uses. Ironically, those uses required a seawall, and while waiting for various bureaucratic wheels to turn to allow construction, the city started dumping rubble from construction/ excavation sites. This in turn created a new "Spit," and when economic conditions changed (no need for a seawall after all), the rubble-filled/ built-up area was eventually recolonized by nature. Today it's another wildlife preserve... Neat.

Tags: toronto, leslie_spit, christopher_hume, thestar, video on 2008-04-14 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Michiel de Lange posted keynotes and slides online from the recent Mobile City conference.

Tags: mobile_city, reference, locative_media, video, cities, architecture on 2008-04-06 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Architektur Video dot DE links to a film from Kaden & Klingbeil Architects who are building the first 7-story multifamily apartment block constructed from wood (i.e., NOT concrete). (See http://www.architekturclips.de/kadenfilm/kaden.html)

As you can see from the still photos included here, the construction system includes lots of steel I-beams and rivets, and overall looks *very* different from the usual 4-story and lower wood-frame construction one finds in North America. Overall, the method represents energy savings and environmental advantages, too. As for wood as fire hazard, everything is clad in thick fire-resistant material -- I bet this insulates against sound, too.

Fascinating. The video (http://www.architekturclips.de/kadenfilm/kaden.html) is narrated by Tom Kaden, architect, in German.

Tags: architecture, architekturvideo.de, berlin, video, wood_frame_construction on 2008-03-04 -All Annotations (0) -About

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This is a really useful video from Zaha Hadid Architects, which models the effect and appearance of a new casino & concert hall in the middle of Basel's old town centre. In particular, I love how it shows the pedestrian and motorized traffic flows, and how the new building will work with these. Also of interest is the integration of new architecture into old urban fabric. And finally, I like what Hadid has done with opening the ground level up for pedestrian through-fare. That last aspect in particular can be very tricky, sometimes leading to ugly, sterile plazas, but here the architecture seems to give the right sort of enclosures and parameters to make the space attractive, so that it will continue to be used rather than avoided.

Tags: architecture, architekturvideo.de, basel, casino, video, zaha_hadid on 2008-02-25 -All Annotations (0) -About

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The Toronto Star put up a video of Christopher Hume explaining the 3 finalist contenders for re-making Jarvis Slip, a T.O. d/t lakefront public area.

This makes me think of how important speech (vs. the word as read) is when thinking about any issues, and of how important the speaker is (his/her manner/ abilities at conversation). Hume has done an excellent job on other videos posted to the Toronto Star, explaining the city's architecture for downloadable walking tours.

Tags: architecture, christopher_hume, jarvis_slip, public_space, toronto, video, waterfront on 2008-01-23 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Four and a half minute video of Santiago Calatrava's planned "Chicago Spire" (also called "Fordham Spire"), which will be the tallest residential building in the world. Looks beautiful -- as does Chicago.

Tags: architecture, chicago, cities, santiago_calatrava, skyscrapers, video on 2007-12-29 -All Annotations (0) -About

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