Italian design studio @super.sedia, founded by Markus Töll, creates furniture where every detail is shaped individually, guided by a constant dialogue between an idea and its immediate realisation. Growing up in his father’s metal workshop in Bressanone, Northern Italy, Töll was exposed to tools and materials from a young age, an experience that... See more
Rio is not known as the safest city. There are favelas 4 situated on the hillside. Yet there is a lot we can learn from them.
The architectural design of favelas is not planned. For decades, people helped each other with constructing the unit next door (on a whim it seems!), resulting in a complex and intricate... See more
During this formative time, she developed the roots of what one historian has called her “ecosocial” interpretation of the built environment, which considered architecture and the built environment to be an extension and manifestation of human ecology.5 This preference for the social led her to elevate Buckminster Fuller’s ecological utopianism... See more