Dezeen announces contributors to Dezeen 15 festival dezeen.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dezeen.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Recommendations are independently chosen by Reviewed’s editors. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. As more Americans are vaccinated, social gatherings can once again start to fill up your agenda albeit in small numbers. But after such a long stint of alone time, you, like me, may be feeling the panicky stirrings of stranger danger. To help you reacclimate to face-to-face encounters, coffee table books can be the.
Architecture and the future of Earth
On Earth Day, we dig into Beatrice Galilee’s new book, to see how architecture can help - but also harm - our world
The way we build things is going to change. That’s the clear message from Beatrice Galilee’s bold new book, Radical Architecture of the Future. This new title takes in some of the most promising, innovative and startling responses to the way mankind shapes the planet. Far from limiting the title to simple house building, the book takes in tech, art, agriculture, sex and protest, to truly question how we make our built environment, and how we might make it better. Of course, many of these future schemes focus on our natural environment, and on Earth Day, we’d like to share a few of these.
Culture
Our pick of Belgium’s best activities – online and off – for the coming week
Full Circle international club hosts a talk with Australian philosopher Roman Krznaric (
pictured) who will run us through the basics of his latest book,
The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World. The club will also soon welcome American anthropologist Gabriella Coleman for a discussion on the influence of the far-right on social media. Coleman has been rescheduled from a planned appearance last month. The talks are online and in English.
Krznaric: 28 January 19.00, Coleman: 9 February 19.00
Opera Ballet Vlaanderen were meant to be staging
Radical architecture: is this the built environment’s future?
Radical architecture: is this the built environment’s future?
A new book by Phaidon and curator, convenor and author Beatrice Galilee hails the radical architecture of the future through community-focused designs, site-specific and virtual installations, photography essays and traditional architectural projects
Ocho Quebradas House, Elemental, Los Vilos, Chile, 2013.
Photography: Cristobal Palma
R
adical Architecture of the Future is a bold title for a book that brings together work that is overwhelmingly real, instead of seductively rendered. The thread that binds this collection of often wildly dissonant projects together is not simply radicalism, but the recognition that contemporary architectural design must engage with the very people it is designed to serve. To showcase these ideals, author Beatrice Galilee has assembled a broad sweep of contemporary design, spanning from community-focused designs, b