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Here are some photos of Het Eemhuis (2013) in Amersfoort, Netherlands, by Neutelings Riedijk Architects , photographed by Matthijs Borghgraef . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos  archidose

Mark your calendars: On Saturday, July 14, from 3 to 5pm, SuperPuesto opens at the Andrew Freedman Home Garden, 1125 Grand Concourse between 166th and McClellan Streets, in the Bronx. The temporary pavilion by artist Terence Gower is being erected in concert with the Bronx Museum of the Arts' Beyond the Supersquare exhibition, which explores the "indelible influence of Latin American and Caribbean modernist architecture on contemporary art." The pavilion is actually located across the street and one block north of the museum. [Terence Gower, SuperPuesto , 2014. Pavilion: wood, concrete, hardware, vinyl tarpaulins, 18 x 66 x 48 feet overall. Courtesy of the artist and Bronx Museum of the Arts] Pavilion description from the Bronx Museum of the Arts : SuperPuesto applies the sharp, clean forms of modernist architecture to the rudimentary building technology of the puesto , the traditional market stalls found throughout Latin America that have become the face of ...

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Atelier Bow-Wow: A Primer edited by Laurent Stalder, Cornelia Escher, Megumi Komura, Meruro Washida, with photographic prints by Lena Amuat, published by  Walther König , 2013. Paperback, 252 pages. ( Amazon ) Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momojo Kajima of Atelier Bow-Wow are in a unique position among architects for being able to bridge the apparently irreconcilable poles of popular culture and high culture. While in regards to the former they may not be as strictly popular as fellow countrymen Tadao Ando and the SANAA duo, they find inspiration in the everyday and have written books on everyday, if idiosyncratic, buildings ( Pet Architecture ); the name Atelier Bow-Wow also exhibits their sense of humor. On the other hand, the duo is very serious about their designs and research, carrying out much of the latter with the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the University of Tsukuba. This serious side of their work comes through in the deeply nuanced definitions that pepper th...

Here are some photos of the Building for Environmental Research & Teaching (2014, renovation and expansion) at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, by Toshiko Mori Architect , photographed by Hassan Bagheri . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos  archidose

Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering edited by Michael Bell and Craig Buckley, published by  Princeton Architectural Press , 2014. Hardcover, 272 pages. ( Amazon ) The Materials Project , led by Michael Bell, is considered one of Columbia GSAPP's "Flagship Projects." Starting in 2007 the school hosted four two-day conferences focused on a material category: glass (2007), concrete (2008), metal (2009) and plastic (2011). A fifth conference, on light, was planned, but it's looking like that one will never happen, perhaps because light is the most immaterial of architectural materials. Each conference resulted in a companion publication that collected the scholarly papers that covered the spectrum that Bell and his fellow organizers set up: architectural theory on one side and engineering on the other. [U.S. Pavilion at Expo67 in Montreal by R. Buckminster Fuller | image source ] The latest book's focus on plastics comes across even be...

This article originally appeared on  World-Architects  but has since been removed so it is being archived here, sans illustrations and without any further editing. Next month the FIFA World Cup gets underway in Brazil, which will also play host to the Summer Olympics two years later. With so much attention being lauded on the South American country around these events, World-Architects spoke with the authors of the recently published Architectural Guide Brazil to look beyond the sports venues and get a sense of the country's architecture. Writing a guidebook on a city’s architecture is one thing, but covering a whole country is something else entirely. How did the three of you manage such a feat, especially considering how the projects range over a fairly large period of time, not just, say, the last decade or so? Anke Tiggemann: When Philipp Meuser of DOM publishers told me – just before my first private travel to Brazil – that he planned an architecture guide about the cou...