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Archigram’s Instant City concept enables “a village to become a kind of city for a week” says Peter Cook

May 13, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

Architect Peter Cook explains Archigram’s concept for a temporary city that can be set up overnight in the third instalment of our exclusive video series with the radical architecture group for VDF. Developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Archigram’s Instant City concept is a transportable kit of parts that can be quickly assembled

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Archigram’s Plug-In City shows that “pre-fabrication doesn’t have to be boring” says Peter Cook

May 12, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

Architects Peter Cook and Dennis Crompton discuss Archigram’s influential concept for an elevated city of capsule homes in the second instalment of our exclusive video series with the radical architecture group for VDF. Developed between 1963 and 1966, Plug-In City is a conceptual city comprising personalised pre-fabricated homes that are inserted into high-rise megastructures. The

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“At first, almost nobody took any notice of Archigram” says Peter Cook in exclusive Dezeen interview

May 11, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

In the first of a series of video interviews with former members of Archigram for VDF, architect Peter Cook recounts how the influential avant-garde architecture group rose to prominence in the 1960s. Archigram was an experimental collective of architects that became famous for its radical architecture concepts drawing from the emerging technologies and consumer culture

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Cities “are swamped by the exotic shapes you can make with a computer,” says James Wines

May 5, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

Pioneering architect James Wines laments the predominance of digitally created forms in architecture and calls for more buildings that “reach out to people” in the first of a series of talks VDF is broadcasting in partnership with Friedman Benda. “All cities are becoming exactly alike,” Wines told curator and historian Glenn Adamson in New York

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Watch talks by Paola Antonelli, Liam Young and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg from Dezeen Day at VDF

April 30, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

Today we are streaming the entire Dezeen Day conference as part of Virtual Design Festival, including talks by Paola Antonelli, Liam Young, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and more. Dezeen Day was Dezeen’s inaugural international architecture and design conference. Six months after the event took place, we are broadcasting all the talks, panel discussions and conversations from

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Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera premiere film exploring the visual landscape of Covid-19

April 22, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

Our VDF collaboration with The World Around concludes with the premiere of a new film by Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera, which charts the global impact of coronavirus on spaces across a wide range of different scales. Called The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19, the 13-minute film explores the coronavirus pandemic through a montage of images

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Cameron Sinclair and Facebook’s Margaret Stewart feature in the third instalment of The World Around symposium

April 22, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

Architect Cameron Sinclair and vegan fashion designer Mats Rombaut are joined by Facebook’s director of product design Margaret Stewart in the third part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day. The World Around’s Earth Day 2020 symposium, which we are broadcasting today as part of Virtual Design Festival, features talks, presentations,

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“It’s hard to yearn for a return to a pre-pandemic normal” says Design Earth

April 22, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

El Hadi Jazairy and Rania Ghosn of collaborative architecture practice Design Earth discuss how to engage with the climate emergency in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic in this interview with architecture writer Carson Chan, which forms part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day. The World Around’s Earth

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Part two of The World Around’s Earth Day symposium features Aric Chen and Thomas Thwaites

April 22, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

Thomas Thwaites lived as a goat on all fours with prosthetic limbs

Curator Aric Chen and designer Thomas Thwaites discuss their work in the second part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around, which also features short films by Kalyanee Mam and Apichatpong Weerasthakul. The World Around’s Earth Day 2020 symposium, which we are broadcasting today as part of Virtual Design Festival, features talks, presentations, films

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Kunlé Adeyemi and Nelly Ben Hayoun feature in the first session of The World Around symposium

April 22, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

Our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day kicks off with a series of conversations with designers including Nelly Ben Hayoun and Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi. The World Around’s Earth Day 2020 symposium, which we are broadcasting today as part of Virtual Design Festival, features talks, presentations, films and essays by

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