Tiny Homes, 3D-Printing Black Panther, Green New Deal, and Woodstock Gehry: February 2019 on Archinect


With this tumultuous year finally coming to an end, let's take a look back and dig through some of the most stand-out news and feature stories on Archinect during the month of February.

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN CULTURE

↑ Tiny homes are fitting symbols of economic precarity

We didn't expect "tiny-houser millennials" to be a thing one day either, but in 2019, they just seemed to be everywhere. The scope of motivations behind the movement is anything but tiny though.

↑ Architect Julia Koerner blends design, technology, and fashion to help Black Panther win an Oscar in best costume design

Black Panther, released in 2018 and Oscar-awarded in the following year, moved the cultural needle in so many regards. Contributing to the Academy Award-winning costume design by Ruth E. Carter was Austrian-born and LA-based architectural educator and designer Julia Koerner. Archinect's Katherine Guimapang had the chance to sit down with Koerner and chat about Wakanda, Zulu attire, parametric design, and ...

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