April, 2000
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CADCAM concrete blocks installed
concrete blocks cast onsite from CADCAM milled formwork have been installed on WAG’s Kenworthy Rd job
HOW CAN ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTALISM IN ARCHITECTURE BE RETHOUGHT?
ECOLOGY
We were recently asked to talk about selling sustainability at the RIBA Small Practice conference. We described how we have been most successful at making clients “see green”, when we have been able to build up a complex discussion around, and understanding of, the idea of ‘value’ with the client. Ideally this includes: 1. Discussing [...]
DEMOGRAPHICS/PROGRAMME
Attentiveness to shifts in social demographics (large scale changes to the way people live, work and enjoy themselves) defines an important component of WAG’s thinking., whether at a strategic urban level, speculating about the possibilities that remain for public space today; at a programmatic and entrepreneurial/activist level, imagining new architectural projects that might now be [...]
What might a contemporary theory of architectural pattern be?
PATTERN
Frequently under-theorised, pattern is a surprisingly mobile intellectual concept, whether used by sociologists, anthropologists and urbanists to grasp complex cultural forms, or by mathematicians, physicists and cyberneticians to analyse configurations of matter, energy and information, or by cognitive theorists and psychologists to reveal the organisation of the human mind.
Our research into the use pattern in [...]
