Editor's blog

  • New for 2012

    January 1, 2012 | Bruce N. Wright
    Updating the magazine is the chance to rethink, improve. Read more...

  • Green grows the optimization

    November 1, 2011 | Bruce N. Wright
    Concepts like net-zero building or low carbon footprint are leading design today, so it was only a matter of time before the Olympic Games jumped on the bandwagon. Read more...
  • CHIP exterior

    Innovative from the start

    October 13, 2011 | Bruce N. Wright
    A team of students from SCI-Arc and Caltech push the envelope (literally) for a solar house prototype. Read more...

  • On regenerative landscapes

    September 7, 2011 | Bruce N. Wright
    There’s a lot of hype these days about saving the environment, promoting species diversity and slowing global warming. “Regenerative” or “restorative” design currently is a hot topic in landscape architecture. Read more...

  • Kapoor and Isozaki = red mobile concert hall

    August 18, 2011 | Bruce N. Wright
    When it comes to art installations by British artist Anish Kapoor, you can be sure that it will be created in his signature blood-red color. Read more...
  • Photo: Jakob Inc.

    Yes, but is it fabric?

    July 1, 2011 | Bruce N. Wright
    Look closely at the picture; the mesh is made of stainless steel. Would you normally consider this a fabric? Read more...
  • Photography by Walter Herfst. Photo courtesy of the Serpentine Gallery.

    The opposite of transparent

    June 28, 2011 | Bruce N. Wright
    Internationally acclaimed Swiss architect Peter Zumthor’s design for the annual summer Serpentine Pavilion is now complete, and it could not be farther from the usual lightness and folly-inspired confections seen in recent years gracing the lawn of Kensington Gardens in London. Read more...
  • NFLATABLE, designed by Leon Lai and Eric Tan of PinkCloud.DK. Image courtesy of PinkCloud.DK.

    Here today, gone tomorrow?

    June 14, 2011 | Bruce N. Wright
    I have often written about the advantages of temporary structures in Fabric Architecture magazine, and several recent announcements about new designs only serve to underscore this notion. Read more...

  • Space! The next frontier?

    April 22, 2011 | Bruce N. Wright
    Who would guess that spacesuits and architecture have anything in common? You could not be faulted if this caused some confusion. After all, architecture is a technology of ground gripping “hard” materials and spacesuits are a rarified “hard” science of trajectories and protective coverings, n’est pas? And the further notion that “soft” spacesuits, haute couture and the design of brassieres have a genetic link with fabric architecture is even more far fetched, you might think. Read more...

  • Tents are from Mars, caves are from…

    April 13, 2011 | Bruce N. Wright
    Why is it that people cannot get past the concept of fabric structures as permanent or durable structures? Read more...