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CONTENTS FORUM AID 3.08

  • Editors note
  • Filtered
    • Smart textiles, Elle Kunnos in New York and design as a perversion. In short: the new black.
  • Products
    • Lamps like Venetian blinds, cupboards with secret compartments and blocks instead of furniture.
  • The Robot Tamer
    • Greg Lynn advocates digitally doped architecture. He has replaced pens and rulers with software and robots. And he builds houses of colourful blobs. Text: Sam Sundberg. Photo: Amanda Friedman.
  • Utopia
    • More Scandinavians visit New York in computer games than in real life. And the perfect city is made from ones and zeros. We have met one of the gaming world’s star architects. Text: Anders Rydell
  • Graduation 2008
    • Natale Hugvik sketches telepathic ways of moving. Johan Amborn’s chair is thrown onto the compost heap and Karin Matz builds with bargains found on eBay. We list ten newly graduated talents to keep an eye out for in the future. Text: Helena Ingelsten. Illustration: Jillian Tamaki.
  • Luxury for Elephants
    • Norman Foster’s biggest clients demanded beds on the floor, a spa-like quality to the walls and soft corners throughout the entire luxury villa. The Elephant House in Copenhagen was a great challenge for the star architect. Text: Klas Ericsson. Photo: Christoffer Rudquist.
  • Back to Nature
    • Architecture photographer Håkan Ludwigson and nature photographer Jan Töve have filled 17 pages in this issue with innovative architecture and Scandinavian nature, which have similar traits. Photo: Håkan Ludwigson and Jan Töve.
  • Reviews
    • Our merciless critics praise and revile fresh architecture.
  • Columns
    • Anders Rydell: “The small robots operate rather like living Lego” Natalia Kazmierska: “As soon as we leave familiar surroundings we look for the nearest altar”
  • Confessions
    • What you didn’t know about Ilse Crawford.
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