A walk in the woods or a peek outside the window can sometimes be a great inspiration source when we're struggling with generating ideas.
Here are 21 glimpses of nature caught by known photographers, click on their names or the photos to see their portfolios.
Hirano Aichi was inspired to become a photographer at the age of twenty, when he snapped a shot with his father's camera of a Shinto shrine. To him the scenery looked more realistic in the finder shone than it did in reality. "I want you to think about the power of one shot. There are a lot of excessive expressions in the synthesis captured by digital photography."
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32 drawings, sections and elevations on this week's drawing exposition.
2010 Shanghai Expo Hong Kong Pavilion Concept Design Competition
Collaborators: Ida Sze, Billy Chan
Site Area: 20m x 30m
Image credits: Ida Sze & Billy Chan
The theme of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo is “Better City, Better Life”, and the special theme for the Hong Kong Pavilion is “Hong Kong - a city with unlimited potential“. A concept design competition that received some 80+ submissions. "Our submission was awarded the First Prize, and formed the basis for the final design and execution by the government and another architectural firm."
"Our design is driven by the functional needs of the pavilion, that is how to provide the required exhibition space and other facilities within a limited space and with a height limit; and to make the Hong Kong Pavilion, which is much smaller in size than the other pavilions, to still have its own attraction and uniqueness."
"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course." - Peter Drucker
Things have changed, as Peter Drucker stated: "we are becoming knowledge workers." Organizations are morphing and work positions are changing perpetually. The old habits: "our schools" are no longer effective, they no longer help or prepare students for work life. Originally created by the Germans, right after the beginning of the industrial age, our schools were there to shape people in to good factory workers. This seems very counter-productive for today, but at the same time the big corporations we have exist based on this paradigm. So a big change in the way we school, will not happen by itself and it will not be frictionless. Teachers are forced to follow dead curricula and this force ends up in the students head, who later are to take standardized tests. This is a total "car crash", not to be overly dramatic but this is the opposite of innovation and creativity. We need to let teachers guide their students through their ingenuity. Lets give our teachers the benefit of the doubt and trust their intelligence. Read More...
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. —Albert Einstein
Seeing and looking for connections helps you with the creative process. Read More...
Woo Nam Jai
The urban nature along with this site which is connected with the Woomyeon-mountain and an urban park (as the natural greenery area) is the ideal place for an environment that can satisfy a residential and recreational purpose which is desired by most urban people.
In order to secure the maximum area of the south-facing garden, in the irregular polygonal shaped site, the main building is laid on the northern part of the site along with the irregular boundary line.
Commissioned by the FRAGMENTAL MUSEUM to envision an urban outdoor structure/installation experimenting with the nature of performing art spaces, OFF and EXYZT designed BUFFER SPACE - a large-scale empty room with only the sky as its roof and a technically efficient wire frame scaffolding envelope, which integrates lighting and audio/video systems that sense and respond to the public.
Edward Suzuki, the establisher of Edward Suzuki Associates lnc., has a goal to bring happiness through his design. His office is consistent of seven employees and was founded in December 1977.
Architect and designer Setsu Ito was introduced to his current profession as his father who is a sculpture artist constantly told him about how great architecture was and brought home architecture and design books.
After 5-6 years of my experience in my great master’s studio, I felt it was time to do it myself. In 1995, when I was 31 years old the great masters helped me construct my strong backbone. And from 1997 with my partner Shinobu Ito we establish our new studio together.
Opposed to the previous project “WITH”, this house is located on an urban area in Kanagawa, Japan. When constructed there were already 3 houses built in the North, East, and West, less than 1 meter away from a property line.
In the past 60 years, as information technology progressively have changed in Japan, our housing industry has rapidly become adjusted to it. This “forced adjustment” to our society has caused a transformation to our traditional lifestyle, and the housing space has been often talked by “nLDK” ; n (number of private rooms) L (living) D (dining) K (kitchen). The concept of nLDK is to describe how much value your house has. The spatial flexibility and relationship (private and public) among n, L, D, and K are separated and lost, and as a result, “function” started to walk alone. Read More...
ARMONA HOLIDAY HOUSE – FARO ALGARVE | 2009
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. Read More...
This year, the Isay Weinfeld architecture firm constructed the Santo Amaro residence in São Paulo, Brazil.
This deluxe residence consists of a 1275 m2 area and is surrounded with green nature.
Nature can't be bypassed in the Santo Amaro residence as the green life is exposed in virtually all corners of the house.
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