Architecture

Architecture

Autonomous building
An introduction on the subject from Wikipedia

ArchiSeek

Online architecture directory containing one the best collection of architecture links available on the Internet.

Comment: Archiseek is a sistersite of Archeire - Irish Architecture Online and Archbrit.com - UK Architecture Online.

Architecture for Humanity

Architecture for Humanity is a volunteer non-profit organization set up to promote architecture to seek solutions to social and humanitarian issues

ARCspace is an architecture and design magazine that features today's most creative projects as well as the most influential of the past.

Fazlur Rahman Khan

In step with the abounding vitality of the time, structural engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan (1929 — 1982) ushered in a renaissance in skyscraper construction during the second half of the 20th century. Fazlur Khan was a pragmatic visionary.

One of the foremost structural engineers of the 20th century, Fazlur Khan epitomized both structural engineering achievement and creative collaborative effort between architect and engineer. Only when architectural design is grounded in structural realities, he believed — thus celebrating architecture's nature as a constructive art, rooted in the earth — can "the resulting aesthetics … have a transcendental value and quality."

Architectonics BY Chris H. Luebkeman

Basic definition Pencil Towers and the History and Development of the High-Rise

http://earth-house.com/

A lot of resources regarding underground house and alternative designs such as:
Earth House Plans Design It Site Location Liquid Design Letters Skeptics Corner Underground Fears Air Quality Lighting Security Moisture Drainage Materials Guide Foundations Doors and Windows Appliances Floor to Ceiling Loo Whirled Pit Greenhouse Plants and Seeds Roof Garden Greenhouse Gears Water Guides Recycling Provisions Biosphere Root Cellar Food Storage

Nottingham Trent University, SCHOOL OF PROPERTY AND CONSTRUCTION

GREEN ROOFS & EARTH SHELTERED BUILDINGS

How Windows Work

Comment: Glass Properties, different glazing types, frame choice, etc .

U.S. Department of Energy
Comment: The non American citizens are not very familiar with this site rich in information related to passive solar energy usage and energy economies.

Landscaping for Energy Efficiency
Comment: Landscaping for Energy Efficiency is affordable in the poorer region but unfortunately ignored

Cooling Your Home Naturally
Summary: This fact sheet will provide you with information on how to reduce or replace the use of an air conditioning system by using non-mechanical ways to keep your home cool when it's hot outside

The Center for Universal Design

The Center for Universal Design is a national research, information, and technical assistance center that evaluates, develops, and promotes universal design in housing, public and commercial facilities, and related products.

Low cost technologies applied to third world dwelling construction is one of my life time interest.
A special section will be edited about this subject.

You are welcome send me reference on this topic

L'architecture visionnaire

Les architectes visionnaires du XVIIIe siècle néoclassique, Boullée (1728-1799), Ledoux (1736-1806) ou Lequeu (1757-1825), imaginent des cités et des édifices qui, avant de répondre à des besoins, incarnent des valeurs et des vertus. Ce sont de grandioses fictions architecturales.

Part of : Bibliothèque utopique de Gallica
Depuis les Sources de l'utopie jusqu'aux Architectes visionnaires en passant par les Voyages imaginaires et les Utopies socialistes, on trouvera sur ce site l'essentiel des textes classiques sur le sujet.

The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI)

"Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up the final moment."
Buckminster Fuller 1980

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Take an Art Break