Patricia Brizzio
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Patricia Brizzio graduated from Cornell University with a B.Arch. and a double concentration in Theory and Technology. She taught architecture at Cornell and has been an invited critic for architecture and urban design at Cornell, Parsons, Pratt and Columbia University. She worked at Skidmore Owings and Merrill in New York, firm for which she is still a Design and Strategic Consultant.

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Dressed For Success: Interiors By Famous Fashion Designers

Posted February 9, 2011 | 20:59:21 (EST)

From the runway to the room, well-known fashion designers are stamping their stylish visions as they move beyond haute couture and into the realm of interior design. There is a growing trend of fashion designers doing extravagant interiors with their own distinctive signature for luxury hotels and restaurants. In 2010...

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Design To Fabrication: When 3D Becomes Our Daily Reality

Posted January 25, 2011 | 16:17:09 (EST)

Computers and the digital technology available today have revolutionized architecture through new design, documentation and construction processes, as well as driving the development of new fabrication and construction methods. With the advent of new digital tools that allow us to work with parametric designs, more abstract notions, and complex geometries,...

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Food for Thought: Can Design In Food Reach New Potentials?

Posted January 12, 2011 | 01:29:05 (EST)

Food is percolating into many contemporary discussions, becoming an important subject among art and design circles. As evidenced in recent designs and exhibits, research and projects being done at architecture schools, and articles in design magazines and blogs, there is a food boom permeating every area and scale of design....

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Architecture 2011: What's coming and what to expect next

Posted December 23, 2010 | 15:10:58 (EST)

Most countries were shaken by the global economic downturn of the last years, and so was the architecture world. As Jacob Slevin points out in his article 10 Best Architecture Moments of 2001-2010, architecture was moving ahead this last decade with great momentum until the markets...

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Enlighting Works: Remarkable experiments with light in Art and Architecture

Posted December 6, 2010 | 14:20:51 (EST)

Robert Irwin's Way Out West exhibit, at The Pace Gallery, inspired this slideshow of some of the most important experiments with light in art, architecture and design. Together with James Turrell and Doug Wheeler, Robert Irwin was a pioneer of the Light and Space movement that began in Southern California...

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From Transport To Mouse Clicks: Design INformation (PHOTOS)

Posted November 21, 2010 | 09:44:31 (EST)

Some radical forms of mapping, representation and analysis are being developed through a cartography that renders visible the fast-growing amount of data and information that we are gathering today. These massive data sets challenge the traditional knowledge production and design paradigms.

Everything, from the clicks of our mousses, to...

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