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(Snapchat: #paarchitecture) A Monumental Scaffolding of Poplar Wood at Rice Gallery by Ben Butlerby Kate. Poplar wood was chosen for the installation because of its malleability and abundance, which gave Butler the ability to fiddle with a material that seemed…

Xeriscaping. Stop the Wind. Wind and drought go hand in hand. That’s because wind causes plants to lose moisture from their leaves, forcing them to pull up additional sources of water from the soil. Plus, strong winds can even blow…

The pale-green panels fronting the O, Pfau’s piece, with 55 units and a café, reads like a horizontal single volume. “The two buildings are reciprocals,” Vasquez says. He and the architects tell us more.

A Notebook for Visual Thinkers 144 pages of varied and unusual graph paper (including some new grid designs), interspersed with engaging charts and infographics — from knot tying to logic expressions — for right- and left-brainers alike. If your designs,…

The Visuelt type specimen is produced as continuous concertina over 4 feet in length. It presents the Visuelt type family, originally created for the Visuelt Competition with Bielke&Yang. Designed by The Entente Published by Colophon Foundry, 2017First edition, printed in…

In the eastern Netherlands, resourceful recyclers 2012Architects have built a house almost entirely out of locally sourced scrap, from old billboards to broken umbrellas. Photo by Mark Seelen, via Dwell. #architecture #design #sustainability