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Creating homes from a harmonious family of geometric forms. Includes definitions, symbolism, images, and construction.

A prototype by Alfons Soldevila. Photograph parades show the building process from design to finish, and other buildings using translucence. A detailed description and theoretical background.

An experiment in modern house design using light steel framing at the University of Nottingham, UK. Context, project outline and progress. Feedback form for comments.

A housing project at Lille. Yung-Yin Yen of Atelier Pochoy explains the concept of transforming traditional terraced housing into habitable cargo containers, customised and transportable.

Finnish architect Matti Suuronen designed this UFO shaped dwelling in 1968, initially for use as a ski-cabin or holiday home. Desxcription, photographs and QuickTime movie clips.

Russian architect Anvar Khairoylline enthuses about the possibilities of tent structures. His profile, illustrated summary of his thesis and examples of projects using the principles of tent construction.

The former head of the Munich Experimental Design Unit, Argentinian architect Patricio Pouchulu, displays his portfolio of futuristic designs, including those for major competitions.

Lynn Boyden and James Weiner present a case study in replicable energy-efficient design - a new public library in Ventura, California.

Mobile, low cost and functional - a new species of pre-fabricated structures designed by Edgar Blazona.

Over 4 days in Paris designers, architects, artists, and landscape planners will share architectural experiments with the public. Descriptions, goals and participants.

London architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier explain their "friendly alien" design for a new exhibition hall in Austria. Plan, computer models, construction schedule.

Igor Kebelour presents a concept of domestic, working, public and mobile institutions merged into one. Includes model, analysis and discussion.

Aleksandra Kasuba explains how to install curved fabric structures (under tension) in environmental and architectural projects. Examples of her installations. Biography, bibliography.

Architecture students at the Auburn University Rural Studio are designing and building what may be the first house out of bales of waste waxed corrugated board, commonly known as cardboard.

An interactive tour of Utopian designs by various architects. Devised by Dellbruegge and de Molls, it formed part of the exhibition "models of resistance" in Copenhagen May/June 2000.

The winning project of the competition "The Future Home", promoted by the Danish Building Research Institute. The novel settlement will be built as an experiment.

An experimental town in the desert of Arizona, built to embody Paolo Soleri's concept of arcology - the fusion of architecture with ecology. Theory, worksops, events, images, visitor information.

Innovatory technologies, notably 'glued brickwork' and panels of compressed straw bales, turn a campus building into a teaching resource.

Illustrated article by Alfredo Andia and Claudia Busch on the designs by New York based architectural firm Asymptote on a virtual New York Stock Exchange.