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»I’d Take Squeaky Floors Over Click-Lock Laminate Any Day.« Living in a listed building requires a compromise or two, but for the artist Shane Brox, it’s well worth the trouble.
Dorte Mandrup is regarded as one of Denmark’s greatest living architects. Meet her in our podcast, where she talks about how openness and privacy, care and community have been translated into architecture at the Center for Health in Copenhagen.
Can amateurs save architecture? Get to know Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, who create place-based architecture rooted in reuse, traditions, and lived life – as a counterpoint to history-less assembly-line architecture.
The City Repeats Itself in Peter Funch’s Photographs of Life’s Hidden Patterns
Meet star photographer Peter Funch as he works on his photo series from New York – and gain insight into his photographic practice, where time is bent to reveal the invisible in everyday urban life.
Photo: Mira Filmes A Village is Emerging in the Amazon, Showing How Nature and Architecture Blend Together
»Living in the forest isn’t about preservation. It’s about our existence,« says Chief Nixiwaka Biraci Brasil Yawanawá. In the western Amazon, together with architect Marcelo Rosenbaum, he has rebuilt his village – a place where nature and architecture merge in a living vision for the future.
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Photo: Sandra Henningsson Jan Gehl: Good Cities Should Feel Like One Big Hug
If you want to learn what makes a good city, learn it from Jan Gehl. The architect, researcher and urban planner has devoted his life to understanding what makes cities good for people – and how we can design cities that invite life, play and community.
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DAC Magazine is the Danish Architecture Center’s online magazine with articles, podcasts, and videos about architecture and the stories it holds.
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