9 videos collected
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Dutch artist Theo Jansen demonstrates his amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures, built from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His "Strandbeests" (Beach Creatures) are built to move and even survive on their own.
In this energetic talk, industrial designer Ross Lovegrove expounds his philosophy of organic, "fat-free" design, and offers insight into several of his extraordinary products, including the Ty Nant water bottle and the Go and Moroso chairs. He reveals the two sides of his work: Yes, he's the pragmatic designer of beautiful, functional objects whose forms are inspired by nature. But he's also a bit of a maverick, who envisions an electric car that multitasks as a street lamp, and installs a DNA-inspired flo
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Speaking at TED in 1990, the not-yet-legendary architect Frank Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his work to date, from his own Venice Beach house to the under-construction American Center in Paris. In this 50-minute slideshow (before TED's 18-minute limit), Gehry explains the site-specific nature of his buildings -- context he felt was lost in the discussions of his then-controversial work. In this candid and funny talk, he exposes his own messy creative process ("I take pieces and bits, and look at it, an
Despite a love and fascination for Rome dating to his days as an architecture student, David Macaulay found the path to his book Rome Antics took some unusual (and frustrating) turns. Through failed pop-up designs, scribbled out title possibilities, surreal sketchbook pages (think "Piranesi meets Escher"), and rambling story lines, MacAulay details each step of his winding journey towards completion of his illustrated homage to the city.
