A true master is constantly developing his/her skills, and doesn't leave victory or failure up to chance. By learning new skills we force our tool box to expand in order to fit our new tools. The more skills you have the greater your creativity can be. By increasing our knowledge in certain skills we increase our brain halves' connection, instigating holistic thinking. Continue

CURATE THIS! 2010, the second installment of the CURATE THIS! exhibition series created by BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art, is evolving from a one city-wide event location into a global arts + cultural exchange event involving multiple venues located in multiple cities around the world. Continue

The form of this architecture was constructed to make light and shadows dance, by Anna Nakamura+Taiyo Jinno EASTERN design office. Continue

Architect Naoki Terada, the principle of TERADA DESIGN ARCHITECTS took interested in design as a child, due to the fact that his father is a graphic designer. Continue

Anna Nakamura and Taiyo Jinno, creators of, Anna Nakamura+Taiyo Jinno EASTERN design office, have had an interest in architecture since their twenties, as they were travelling through the world and exploring the architecture of the world and Japan. Continue

Architecture: José Marini Bragança, Helena Veludo. Armona is an island in RIA Formosa, Algarve. It is a place in a nature conservation area. This old fishermen’s island has had a savage urban occupation for 40 years and is designated, by government policy, to disappear within the next 15 years. Continue

The client is a traditional craftsman who puts the crest on Japanese traditional clothes. The workshop area and the living area are separated but also connected. The client and his daughter need to have their work and home under the same roof. The crest making is a delicate work and also a business. Continue

Max Strang, the principle of Max Strang Architecture graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Architecture at the University of Florida, in 1994. He received a Masters Degree at Columbia University, and an honor award for design excellence. Before establishing his own firm, he worked for architect Zaha Hadid in London. Continue

So many talk about being "blocked" in their creative work but few seem to be able to define what actually blocks them. I dug out five great blocks to creativity from Tom Monahan's book The Do-It Yourself Lobotomy. Here's the first one: Continue

BIG and a team of consultants has won the largest commission happened on the Faroe Islands for a 19.200 m2 Education Centre in Torshavn. Continue

Knut Hamsun, Norway’s most inventive twentieth-century writer, fabricated new forms of expression in his first novel Hunger. He went on to found a truly modern school of fiction with his works Pan, Mysteries, and Growth of Hamarøy near the farm where writer grew up. Continue

French designer Gwenael Nicolas established his own studio, CURIOSITY INC, in 1998. He was 18 years old when he wanted to become an art director for movies, but later realized that it was much more interesting to do architecture for real. Continue

Great Wall of Los Angeles Interpretive Green Bridge – Art Bridge, by wHY-Architecture. Continue

This project for the Herning Center of the Arts was worked on from 2005 to 2009 by Steven Holl Architects, in Herning, Denmark. Continue

Steven Holl Architects wanted to do experiments in porosity and decided to take on the Porosity project. Random porosity involves a non-linear repetition of individual components in varying scales, while recursive porosity employs mathematical strategies to generate infinitely complex patterns. Continue

Sometimes letting go off a problem will let your "subconscious" work it out for you. Getting great ideas don't always result from logical step by step thinking. Looking deliberately for ideas can sometimes inhibit the continual process that your subconscious is involved in. So we need to let the process take care of the problem. Continue

The intervention area is a remaining ground of 80 ha resulting from the urban intervention of the Barajas Airport in Madrid. It is a ruling plan of the Spanish yards. Continue

The 220,000 square meter pedestrian-oriented Linked Hybrid complex, sited adjacent to the site of old city wall of Beijing, aims to counter the current urban developments in China by creating a new twenty-first century porous urban space, inviting and open to the public from every side. Continue