architecture in the abstract. ideas not buildings

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/arts/design/25wood.html?_r=1&ref=design&oref=slogin

http://www.dezeen.com/2008/09/16/habitat-machines-by-david-trautrimas/#more-18017

http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=76244_0_23_24_M

http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/braided-urbanism-05.jpg

a conceptual proposal for an environment to host Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China

Cao Fei: RMB City, created for Second Life

There are architecture photographers that refuse to photograph anything from November up to February. In their view the long shadows and dimmed light intensity of the winter season compromises their work. The effect is that - in the architecture media - not only the sun always shines, but that it is also never winter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolist_Movement

current exhibitions at the gyeonggido museum of art

Superstar: A Mobile China Town is MAD's response to the redundant and increasingly out-of-date nature of the contemporary Chinatown. Rather than a sloppy patchwork of poor construction and nostalgia, the Superstar is a fully integrated, coherent , and above all modern upgrade of the 20th century Chinatown model. It's a place to enjoy, to consume Chinese food, quality goods and culture events; it's a place to create and to produce, where citizens can use workshops to study, design and realize their ideas.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3106/3207370917_1ba080d1e2.jpg?v=0

http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/evolodysto-ed01.jpg

One of three finalists in this year’s Evolo Skyscraper Competition Eric Vergne’s Dystopian Farm project envisions a future New York City interspersed with elegantly spiraling biomorphic structures that will harness cutting-edge technology to provide the city with its own self-sustaining food source.

http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/16/dystopian-farm-by-eric-vergne/

there's a conceptual skyscraper farm that i posted once, somewhere on here. it was done by seattle people and they really wanted to build it, somewhere around rebar if i recall correctly. lol chickens(hit) in the city.

The project explores how new forms of habitable infrastructure might be extrapolated from a geopolitical agreement – in this case, materializing architectural form from the legal interstices of the Oslo Accords. The result is a fantastic example of architectural speculation: genuinely massive – and impossibly cantilevered – bridges used as transport links, aerial housing, and skyborne agricultural complexes, all in one.

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/rentable-basement-maze.html

http://infranetlab.org/blog/2009/05/student-works-arctic-tecture-for-the-global-commons/

http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/we5.jpg

from

beyond architecture

more pictures at

http://www.fubiz.net/2009/06/02/we-love-to-build/