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Live interview with architect Harriet Harriss as part of Virtual Design Festival

May 18, 2020 Calum Lindsay 0
Harriet Harris, dean of the Pratt Institute School of Architecture in New York

Harriet Harris, dean of the Pratt Institute School of Architecture in New York, will speak to Dezeen in this live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch above from 2:00pm UK time. Harriss, who recently became the second female dean of the school, will speak to Dezeen’s founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. Harriss, who

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10 horror films and television shows where the haunted house is the star

May 16, 2020 India Block 0
Dezeen 10 horror movie architecture roundup

Here are 10 of the best horror films and shows where the haunted house plays a starring role to watch while you’re trapped at home during lockdown – if you dare.   The Haunting, 1963 Some houses “are born bad” warns the ominous narrator of The Haunting, a 1960s adaption of Shirley Jackson’s novel The

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Live interview with Standard Architecture as part of Virtual Design Festival

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Standard Architecture will speak to Dezeen in this Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch it here live from 5:00 pm UK time. The founders of the Los Angeles-based architecture and interior design firm, Silvia Kuhle and Jeffrey Allsbrook, will discuss their work with Dezeen’s founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs.

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“There is a practical side to Archigram, it’s not just funny drawings,” says Dennis Crompton

May 14, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0
Monte Carlo entertainment centre by Archigram

In the final instalment of our exclusive Archigram video series for VDF, architect Dennis Crompton explains that the avant-garde architecture group didn’t just want to create conceptual projects and almost realised a building in Monte Carlo. Archigram was an experimental collective of architects that became famous for its radical architecture concepts in the 1960s and

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“We already had an office before we finished school” says Francine Houben in VDF lecture

May 13, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Francine Houben at Architects, not Architecture

In our final lecture as part of Virtual Design Festival’s collaboration with Architects, not Architecture, Dutch architect Francine Houben talks about her influences and the founding of Mecanoo. The Architects, not Architecture talks give well-known architects a chance to discuss how they got where they are today. For Houben, it started with a childhood of

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Live interview with Ben van Berkel as part of Virtual Design Festival

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UNStudio founder Ben van Berkel will speak to Dezeen in this Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival today. Watch it here live from 3:30pm UK time. The Dutch architect will discuss the work of UNStudio with Dezeen’s founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. Van Berkel founded the studio together with Caroline

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We entered the Pompidou competition “against my will” says Richard Rogers in VDF lecture

May 13, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

In the second talk as part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with Architects, not Architecture, architect Richard Rogers discusses his reluctance to enter the Centre Pompidou competition and liking the Lloyd’s building. The idea behind Architects, not Architecture is for architects to discuss their path, influences and experiences. In his lecture in November 2017, Rogers

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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
Instant City by Archigram

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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Live interview with architect Virginia San Fratello

May 12, 2020 Calum Lindsay 0
Architect Virginia San Fratello leads architecture studio Rael San Fratello

Architect Virginia San Fratello will speak to Dezeen today in this live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape, as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the talk live from 5:00pm UK time. San Fratello leads Oakland-based architectural studio Rael San Fratello alongside co-founder Ronald Rael. Amongst the studio’s work is a group of 3D-printed earth structures intended to

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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
Plug-In City by Archigram

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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