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Fourth Door’s relational approach to architecture, sustainability and the built environment and the wider culture, opens a different door onto the whole field of architecture, sustainability and the built environment.
Encompassing in-depth themed sections in Fourth Door Review, pan-European features and reporting in Unstructured, Fourth Door’s dedicated wood and timber culture Annular, alongside research, resource and archive material in Further
Denmark’s Seaweed materials Island: Laesø
Earth & Utopia: Hassan Fathy - Earth builder
Building with Fire – ceramicist Ray Meeker’s fired buildings
Ground Up Architecture features
Architecture - East/West section
Francis Kéré - Burden of Dreams
Aga Khan Foundation - the Foundation supporting humanitarian architecture
Shelter After Disaster - What is needed, what isn't by Bill Flinn and Charles Parrack
CENDEP - Post grad studies emergency studies by David Sanderson
Auroville's post-tsunami health centres by Suhasini Ayers
Environmental Exchanges - Peter Clegg on Richard Feilden and FCB's humanitarian work
Anna Heringer's Journey to the East
Handmade school 2.0 - ZWS Berlin in Bangladesh
Design Like You Give a Damn 2 - AfH's second volume reviewed
The BFI Design Challenge Awards
Cinnamon Girl - Rozita Rahman's intern adventure on TYIN Cassia Co-Op project
WRKSHP in Northern India – Clem Blakemore
Japan-ness in Wales - Ruthin Craft Centre's Sustaining Design exhibition by Michael Nixon
Shigeru Ban - Renegade Starchitect
Unfinished Revolution –
New Timber architecture from Finland's forest culture, including the Sajos Sami cultural centre, Haltia nature centre and Kuokkala, the Nordic world’s first attempt at a full scale gridshell
Oulu’s new northern architectural scene, Finland’s leading edge Design & Make Wood Program, and Helsinki’s ‘Newly Drawn’ generation
New Timber architecture from Finland's forest culture, including the Sajos Sami cultural centre, Haltia nature centre and Kuokkala, the Nordic world’s first attempt at a full scale gridshell
Oulu’s new northern architectural scene, Finland’s leading edge Design & Make Wood Program, and Helsinki’s ‘Newly Drawn’ generation
Passivhaus comes to Britain -
Architype. Bere Architects and the AECB's long march to Passivhaus
Peter Zumthor at the Serpentine, the Stuttgart 21 rail station controversy and Adaptable Futures research from Denmark's Vand Kunsten
Architype. Bere Architects and the AECB's long march to Passivhaus
Peter Zumthor at the Serpentine, the Stuttgart 21 rail station controversy and Adaptable Futures research from Denmark's Vand Kunsten
Rewilding the Structural, Reweaving the Sculputural -
The Sussex Gridshells ten years on and their overlap with regional land art and art basketry culture
The Downland Gridshell ten years on, performing the downland, the natural structures of Red Earth, Walter Bailey and Chris Drury and Anne Marie 'O Sullivan's Cluster art basket project
The Sussex Gridshells ten years on and their overlap with regional land art and art basketry culture
The Downland Gridshell ten years on, performing the downland, the natural structures of Red Earth, Walter Bailey and Chris Drury and Anne Marie 'O Sullivan's Cluster art basket project
Tale of two regions - Graubünden and Vorarlberg's Alpine regionalism
Jürg Conzett's - bridges of thin air
Concrete, colour and craft - – the case of Valerio Olgiati
A river runs regionally - Graubünden and Vorarlberg's Alpine regionalism explored
Kaufmann Country - Vorarlberg's timber dynasty
New generation housing - Christoph Kalb Frohlingstrasse by Robert Fabach
Passivhaus's active Vorarlberg origins
Vorarlberg & Graubünden in Unstructured
Further architecture features
Timber Construction Manual book review by Steve Johnson
Smart by Design – Holland's Smart Architecture Foundation by Jacques Vink
Timber Space Frame – FCB's Earth Centre's canopy
A European Timberbuild Renaissance – the Nordic world as exemplar for a future timber architecture
African beehive architecture – Swaziland's traditional beehive structures
The Beehive Metaphor – Beehive structures in architecture past and present
Gridshelter – the Weald & Downland gridshell by Nic Pople
Amsterdam's Doors of Perception conferences with John Thackera
Ambient, technolace and hologram interior architecture & design
Helena Hietanen’s fibre-optic technolace: Angel hairs in the ambient
Brian Eno Ambient lightworks
Sculpting the luminous- the radical holography of Dieter Jung
Chris Drury’s empty vessels - Land art on the Sussex downs
Complete article available
A Fourth Door land art feature
Complete article available
A Fourth Door land art feature
Forest House - Steve Johnson's organised tree house dream
Sound Gallery – the Copenhagen Square wired for sound-sculpting
Photo credits: 1) Jongoh Kim,
2) Kere - Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk,
3) Kurt Hoerbst, 4) Laura Egger,
5) Beat Buhler, 6) Erieta Attali,
7) Rumah Asuh & Yori Antar,
8) Case Architecture,
9) AfH,
10) Helen Hoyer