Kyu Che is an interdisciplinary environment designer involved with architecture, design, and the visual arts. Following his education in Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley, he gained professional expertise working with leading architecture firms in the San Francisco Bay Area. Disillusioned by the disharmony of contemporary building practice, he launched Symbionic Design Studio in 1997 to pursue an independent private practice parallel to exploring alternative artistic and environmental visions of architecture
As we say goodbye to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, let's take a look back at the glories of Olympic architecture from the past, and look forward to even more innovation to come. The competition for the honor of hosting the Olympic Games is an intense, worldwide fight, but with that prize comes the tremendous responsibility of building a complex of structures to support the games.Every Olympic city has risen to the challenge, putting its best design and creative minds into the limelight for all the world to see. Some of the efforts have been more successful than others, and a few of the host countries have spent decades paying off the debt incurred by such architectural ambition. Hit continue to see our picks for the Top 10 best Olympic buildings in history
Designed by Samer Eid Architect, the Toyota Exhibition Pavilion design concept was inspired by the splines of cars and it’s expressed as a combination of Toyota and Lexus, very challenging, right?. Adopting Steel Skeleton + Wire Mesh Membrane as the structure, this hybrid pavilion is very impressive and so futuristic
A new hi-rise in miami’s design district takes green architecture to a new height. The residential/commercialspace integrates the greenest in green: wind turbines, photovoltaic panels and solar hot water generation
Dezeen has launched a new blog in conjunction with the International Design Forum in Dubai, dedicated to architecture and design projects in the Arab world and news about the forum, which takes place in Dubai next month
The Urbantine Project is a competition aimed at emerging designers and architects, with the winner getting £10,000 to create a structure which will be showcased in the outdoor spaces at The Truman Brewery as part of Tent London 2007. For those who don't know, Tent London is a multi-faceted design destination happening during the London Design Festival in September. This project will be one of six main events happening as part of this show.Specifically, the brief is to design a structure that responds to issues of rapid change in the 21st Century workplace. Shown above are examples of 'fast architecture' from the competition web site. It's not often you get someone to pay you 10K to build a wacky clubhouse, so take advantage of their generosity. The deadline is July 16 and info and applications are available at their web site
pieceHomes premiered at Dwell on Design last month with seven modern prefab designs that take full green advantage of factory-built construction. Created by LA-based Davis Studio Architecture + Design, pieceHomes hold the promise of thoughtful integration of materials, technologies, and site considerations with both custom and standardized modular architecture at affordable prices
The project-based design investigations and proposals documented in this book were undertaken within the framework of the design thesis streams offered in final year of the undergraduate Bachelor of Architecture program at RMIT in Melbourne. They represent the culmination of five years of undergraduate study within the professional architecture degree. The final year design thesis structure is divided into consecutive pre-major project and major project semesters. A number of pre-major design studios are offered that provide students with a framework to engage with different design research methodologies and design questions relevant to a useful range of areas of architectural enquiry. Some pre-major groups are more directed in their focus on certain research methods and some are more facilitative, providing a framework for students to develop their own positions. Students ballot for a place in each group based on their interests and affinities. Pre-major design studio teaching teams involve a mix of academic staff and practitioners who take a group of students through the initial process of defining and testing the focus and scope of their individual major project design proposals. Supervision of each student’s final major project design thesis involves a mix of individual or group supervision by staff involved in the pre-major semester. One role that this book plays is to provide a published archive of the spread of exemplary major project design thesis outcomes produced over the past two years. Documentation of each student’s design project proposals incorporate exegetical text and other representations such as diagrams that outline the research questions and investigations and selective frame the relevance of their design response to these concerns. This approach to undergraduate scholarship foreshadows and provides a pathway to the model of project-based design research undertaken in the postgraduate Masters and PhD programs offered within the School of Architecture + Design. The RMIT Architecture program has for the past fifteen years fostered a postgraduate mode of study and assessment relevant to the discipline where research embodied within integrative design outcomes is selectively framed and communicated through exegetical text and representations
