tion, giving £10m funding to aerospace firms.
Small business minister Anna Soubry opened the £60m Aerospace Research Centre and National Centre for Net Shape and Additive Manufacturing in Coventry on 22 June, which is based at the existing Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC).
The MTC is one of nine centres across the UK which is designed to help companies take technologies developed in academic research institutes and bring them to market, and the one in Coventry will now take a special interest in 3D printing.…
t a truly comprehensive, anticipatory, integrated approach to solving the world's complex
problems.
"We are coming to an era the likes of which we've never seen before, we're in the whitewaters of human history. We don't know what lies ahead. Bucky Fuller's ideas on design are at the core of any set of solutions that will take us to calmer waters.”
– David Orr
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dchildren with the efficacy of his masterpiece of Napolean's 'sojourn into Russia' and lent out on various occasions his first there books but have yet to get a copy of Beautiful Evidence.
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indeed about game changers to end ALL [IN]equality; such that a BIG STATEMENT - to present y[our] project and its specific concrete design plan/purpose to make the 'connessione' no one else is making between inequality and how time is measured and has been used as a weapon historically - IS of paramount importance !!!
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racteristics of the modernist movement — rationally articulated pure spaces, innovative usage of new materials such as glass-curtain walls in facades, horizontal windows and an absence of ornamentation.
The global design for all elements is a spatial conception presided over by the interrelation between the interior and exterior by means of the glass wall, principles soon adopted and developed internationally in housing projects.
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Within a short walking distance of Jack Pritchard's Isokan Flats
in Lawn Road, Ernö Goldfinger's 2 Willow Road was always
intended to be a family home. The Goldfingers initially wanted
to buy the site of 2 Willow Road as a way to invest some of
Ursula’s wealth in a home, and to give Ernö a chance to
demonstrate his skill and vision as an architect. Architects had fewer opportunities to design their own houses
in the 1930s than after the war, and these were mostly in the
countryside. For modern architects like Goldfinger, building
flats was a more socially conscientious exercise than
building an individual house.
Yet Goldfinger’s plans for a block of flats with studios were
initially rejected by the London County Council in 1936. He
then had to reconcile the demands of construction, space,
and social life with the guidelines from the authorities, whilst
retaining its concrete frame. The final design was then submitted
at the end of 1937, but the situation was far from resolved.…