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Grand Tour
June 01, 2013In the late Renaissance, around 1650, the Grand Tour became not only a tradition but almost a compulsory requirement for educated upper-class Europeans in search of art, culture and the roots of Western civilization. Some 200 years later, a system of railways that provided better affordability and faster travel times...
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droog features TD at the Salone del Mobile 2013 in Milan
April 09, 2013Droog Lab presents the Material Matters Media news flash by TD that explains how material scarcity drives innovation, next to Winy Maas’s visions for new urban luxuries , Erik Kessels vision for a society with space for a million identities and a beautiful future for nomads of the cloud...
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Global Style
April 01, 2013European architecture education was and still is based on Greek orders, a classical system of architecture comprising five types of columns: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan and Composite. As modernism came into being, European architects discovered what a narrow view of architecture history Western educators had had until then.
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EU Tube
February 01, 2013The first high speed train (HST) deployed in Europe was the railway between Florence and Rome in 1978. Since then, more than 6,600 km of HST tracks have gone into operation, and more than 11,000 km are currently planned for the European Union.
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Energy Landscapes 3.0 at Harvard GSD
December 15, 2012Energy Landscapes 3.0 /Fall 2012 The civilization of mankind can be described on the basis of the development of energy systems. With the shift from hunters and gatherers to settlers, a first energy system was introduced 10,000 years ago based on solar energy, compressed in crops and trees.
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World's Most Expensive Buildings
December 01, 2012Realizing the world’s most expensive building is a dubious achievement. Whereas most architectural schemes are appreciated for qualities such as space, shape, composition and/or materialization, the highest-priced building stands out solely for the size of the investment that went into a single project.
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Bouma Talks 2012 - We Have to Dream
November 07, 2012The this years Bouma Talks were dominated by reflections on the economic crisis in the Netherlands. Theo Deutinger raised in his lecture the human need for the belief in growth. It is undeniable that we also need to grow in the future, the question is only can we achieve non...
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Material Matters at the Dutch Design Week 2012
October 20, 2012While we are hit with glooming predictions of ever increasing material scarcity, our material culture—from the way we consume and dispose, to the way we produce and collect, to the way we design and develop business models— largely remains unchanged.