Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 16 2008 | architecture, design, science, video
click to playQuoted: http://www.ted.com - Architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "All children, all species, for all time".
A tireless proponent of absolute sustainability (with a deadpan sense of humor), he explains his philosophy of "cradle to cradle" design, which bridge the needs of ecology and economics. He also shares some of his most inspiring work, including the world's largest green roof (at the Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan), and the entire sustainable cities he's designing in China.- Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 16 2008 | architecture, science, video
click to playQuoted: William McDonough draws a parallel between the designers of Nazi gas chambers and current buildings.
- Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 16 2008 | science, architecture
- Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 16 2008 | science, architecture
NASA Advisory Council
- Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 21 2007 | housing, history, news, architecture, collection
Quoted: Photographs and information of the implosions of all of the implosions we have been to.
- Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 21 2007 | architecture, photography, collection, art, housing, urban, WOW!
This is one of the most interesting collections of images I have ever seen. WOWWWWWWW.......
Quoted: Public Housing / Tenements / Commie Blocks / Projects / Housing Estates Citytalk and Urban Issues
- Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 26 2007 | art, architecture, incredibly beautiful
woooooooowww.
Thanks Rekon. 
Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 29 2007 | books, art, architecture, gender
Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe
by Helen Hills
- Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 29 2007 | women, art, books, architecture, religion, gender
Invisible City
The Architecture of Devotion in
Seventeenth-Century Conventsedited by Helen Hills
- Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 27 2007 | travel, architecture, history, prison, museum, quakers
"The facility was operated under the Pennsylvania System from 1829 to 1913. This system, used by the Quakers, was designed to force the incorrigibles sent there to look inside themselves and find God. In reality, the system which placed inmates in complete solitude, drove many a sane man to madness."
"Prisoners at Eastern State had a toilet, table, bunk and Bible in their cells, in which they were locked all but one hour a day. When the prisoners did leave their cells, a black hood would be placed over their head so they could not see any other prisoners as they were guided through the halls of the prison. Interaction and any form of communication between inmates was forbidden.
Inmates lived a life in mundane solitude and would only get a glimpse of sunlight, known as "The Eye of God" which came through a slit in the prison ceiling."
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