Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture

About this talk:

How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. At TEDSalon in London, Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society: radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and drawing energy from the sun.

About Michael Pawlyn:

Michael Pawlyn takes cues from nature to make new, sustainable architectural environments

Why you should listen to him:

Michael Pawlyn established the architecture firm Exploration in 2007 to focus on environmentally sustainable projects that take their inspiration from nature.

Prior to setting up the company, Pawlyn worked with the firm Grimshaw for ten years and was central to the team that radically re-invented horticultural architecture for the Eden Project. He was responsible for leading the design of the Warm Temperate and Humid Tropics Biomes and the subsequent phases that included proposals for a third Biome for plants from dry tropical regions. In 1999 he was one of five winners in A Car-free London, an ideas competition for strategic solutions to the capital’s future transport needs and new possibilities for urban spaces. In September 2003 he joined an intensive course in nature-inspired design atSchumacher College, run by Amory Lovins and Janine Benyus. He has lectured widely on the subject of sustainable design in the UK and abroad.

His Sahara Forest Project, covered in this TEDTalk, recently won major funding >>

Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pawlyn_using_nature_s_genius_in_architecture.html

William McDonough on cradle to cradle design

(Subtitles in 20 languages)

William McDonough sobre el diseño "de cuna a cuna"

Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "all children, all species, for all time."

El arquitecto y diseñador de enfoque ecologista William McDonough se pregunta cómo se verían nuestros edificios y productos si los diseñadores tuvieran en cuenta a "todos los niños, todas las especies, indefinidamente".

About William McDonough:

Architect William McDonough believes that green design can prevent environmental disaster -- while also driving economic growth. He champions “cradle to cradle” design that considers the full life cycle of a product, from its creation with sustainable materials to a recycled afterlife.

Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/william_mcdonough_on_cradle_to_cradle_design.html

Rachel Amstrong: ¿Arquitectura que se repara a sí misma?

Venecia, en Italia, se está hundiendo. Para salvarla, Rachel Amstrong dice que necesitamos superar la arquitectura hecha de materiales inertes y hacer arquitectura que crezca por sí misma. Ella propone un material "no del todo vivo" que se hace sus propias reparaciones y, además, captura el carbono.

Fuente:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/spa/rachel_armstrong_architecture_that_repairs_itself.html

¿Cómo transformar la ciudad? Pisco/Medellín: Precedentes de Cambio

Nota de Prensa

Espacio Expresión, asociación sin fines de lucro presenta el libro

¿Cómo transformar la ciudad?

PISCO/MEDELLIN: Precedentes de Cambio

de Claudia Amico Tudela, Natalia Castaño Cárdenas y

Juan Sebastián Bustamante Fernández

el cual será comentado por Tito Fernández Dávila, Juan Tokeshi y Littman Gallo este 19 de julio a las 7pm en la Sala Alameda ABC (Piso 2) del Hotel Doubletree El Pardo by Hilton Lima.

La publicación describe los procesos desarrollados durante el Encuentro Internacional organizado en agosto del 2009, el cual logró logró una serie de propuestas para el desarrollo urbano de Pisco mediante un enfoque interdisciplinario y la participación de arquitectos, urbanistas, profesionales de todos los ámbitos, estudiantes, comunidad y autoridades pisqueñas. Desde una mirada retrospectiva, el libro analiza una serie de importantes experiencias que al día de hoy permiten concluir sobre el futuro urbano, cultural y social de una población que desintegrada que sin embargo, aspira a mejores oportunidades de cambio.

Espacio Expresión quiere compartir con este evento su experiencia en la transformación de una realidad de conflictos, a través de una nueva forma de ver, hacer y entender la arquitectura.

Espacio Expresión, con el significativo apoyo de Cementos Lima, CASAS y el Hotel Doubletree El Pardo by Hilton Lima, agradecen su asistencia.

Fuente: nuestra amiga Claudia Amico, Directora Investigación y Propuestas Urbanas, Espacio Expresión, camico@espacioexpresion.org

Mitchell Joachim: “The City Car”

World Science Festival 2008: Future Cities (Excerpt) from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

We stand at a crossroads. Cities must change radically to achieve long-term sustainability. Energy, food and water sources, transportation systems and basic infrastructure, must all adapt to emerging pressures from climate change, dwindling resources and growing urban populations.

Mitchell Joachim is an architect and urban designer as well as a partner in Terreform, a New York–based organization for philanthropic architecture and ecological design. His design of a compact, stackable “city car,” developed with the MIT Smart Cities Group, won the 2007 Time Magazine Best Invention of the Year.

http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/video/future-cities