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Ana Lisa

Ana Lisa Alperovich-O'Brien is a freelance curator, journalist and tutor at the Design Academy Eindhoven teaching sustainability, biomaterials and bio design. She specialized in sustainable design & architecture and loves reporting from global design week events and writing architecture features. Born in Buenos Aires, she spent her 20s in London where she attended Goldsmiths University. Check out her website and Instagram.

Stunning bridge-like pavilion seems to float ethereally above a lake in Argentina

[gallery_extend] The rectilinear building rests on two textured concrete walls above a former road. Thanks...

Adorable cat-shaped kindergarten is purrrfect for learning and playing

[gallery_extend] Children attending this kitty-kindergarten must be thrilled to go every day, learn...

Design Academy of Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Masters Show, recycled materials, felted hair, dyslexia, locally made, post-craft, Sarah Daher, Vegetalize, Carlo Lorenzini, Disruptive Fundamentals, Andrea De Chirico, Superlocal, Simone Post, Post-Vlisco, Jongha Choi, From 2D to 3D, Guilhem De Cazenove, Felt Like a Sheep, Sarmite Polakova, Pine Skins, Corinne Mynatt, Design by Syntax by Design, Alix-Marie Bizet, Hair Matter(s), Louisa Zahareas, Screen Mutations, Vicky Katrin Kuhlmann, Sorry, I Am an Image Thinker, Moritz Pitrowski-Ronitz, Talking Digital, Mahafrin Rustomjee, Enter in Solemnness, Dutch Design Week 2015

Design Academy of Eindhoven tackles real-world problems through innovative thinking

[gallery_extend] Sarah Daher's Vegetalize Brazilian designer Sarah Daher's 'Vegetalize' focuses on...

China’s new Folk Art Museum is topped with repurposed roof tiles that filter natural light

[gallery_extend] The new folk art galleries stand in a former tea plantation at the Academy's campus...

+31 Architects’ tranquil new houseboat is moored on Amsterdam’s Amstel River

[gallery_extend] +31 Architects' latest houseboat floats very close to an earlier project from the studio,...

Jo Nagasaka, Schemata studio, home renovation, House in Hatogaya, old wooden structure, Japanese architecture,

Schemata studio renovates an old Japanese home while leaving its wooden skeleton intact

[gallery_extend] Located in Saitama prefecture, this beautiful home was built by an architect following...

Sandcastle Matt builds stunning Neo-gothic structures out of sand

[gallery_extend] https://vimeo.com/2498915 Somerville-based Matt Kaliner lectures on urban sociology...

SustainRCA showcases innovative materials and new ways of living

[gallery_extend] AwiaHene (Sun King) by Nana Asafua Dawson Nana Asafua Dawson's AwiaHene (Sun King)...

Mirale Loonen, Jan Hein van Melis, underground, 70s-style restaurant, Retro Fondue Restaurant, vintage tensils, renovated Philips factory, Europe's largest indoor skate park, Strijp-S, Eindhoven, orange elements, organic food,

Old Philips factory turned into a charming Retro Fondue Restaurant in Eindhoven

[gallery_extend] Formerly known as the Tijdelijk Restaurant (Dutch for 'Temporary Restaurant'), this...

RCA Graduates tackle important environmental issues with innovative designs

[gallery_extend] On Tension by Sven Ladiges Danish designer Sven Ladiges took inspiration from the...

London Design Festival, Central Saint Martins College, Designjunction, Alex Asseily, Goodwin Hartshorn, DiscoDisco, Louise Tucker, Pren Handwoven Lighting, Stephen Johnson, Play seats, Decode, no-glue-no-screw, synthetic dough, Vezzini and Chen, hand blown glass, bone china, Shinya Kobayashi, C-syoku, japanese crafts, We Do Wood, FSC bamboom, Wrkbnch, BOX*C, Oak, Malafor, Places and Spaces, Droog, Eoq, zero-waste, Dub Pendant, Isokon Penguin Donkey, Shin Azumi, Donket 3, Jo Armitage, LED light, Knit by Curver, Franklin Till, Mema Design, Fan Lights

12 Sustainable furnishing finds from Designjunction

[gallery_extend] Pren Handwoven Lighting by Louise Tucker British designer Louise Tucker showcased...

Designersblock, Rory Dodd, Piers Roberts, London Design Festival, Sayoko Shibuya, Blue lamp, Yulia Badian, Constanze Schweda, Kirigami, Taz Pollard, Frank Milani, Popcord, Shai Albojm, 80s calculator watches, Alex Barratt, Josh Ino, Cloud Envy: 2015, Jordan Soderberg Mills, Charlotte Mary Pack, Yuki Uebo, Speakers’ Corner Ring, Kristina Schultz, 100 days of need and greed, handmade ceramics, recycled jewelry, London, felt lamps, endangered animals sculptures

Brilliant artists turn ordinary materials into extraordinary furnishings for Designersblock

[gallery_extend] Silkfest by Yulia Badian Austrian designer Yulia Badian creates hairy, marine-inspired...

Urban Campsite, Amsterdam beach, IJburg, Airbnb, Franka To Lintel Hekkert and Ronnie Kommene, Bedbug, Studio Plot, Carved wooden, Frank Bloem, Kite Cabin, Arjen Boerstra, Attic, Boomhuttenfest, Solid Family, Vince Vijsma, Trampotent, Refunc, IBC shrink-wrap house, Rob Sweere, Upside down you turn me, mobile festival, crazy camping site, Mud Projects, Val Ross, Robbert van der Horst, Universe 7, Atelier Van Lieshout, Tribal toilet tower,

Cosmically-cool Urban Campsite colonizes a deserted beach in Amsterdam

[gallery_extend] Urban Campsite changes location every year. This year it was situated east of the Dutch...

K-Studio, natural materials, Greece, Scorpios, Mykonos, Lambs and Lions, Michael Schickinger, Annabell Kutucu, Cycladic architecture, seaside hotel,

Bohemian island hotel with fresh natural furnishings offers simple leisure in Mykonos

[gallery_extend] Scorpios sits on its own peninsula on the south of the island, overlooking the deep...

Israel design, Ami Drach, Dov Ganchrow, curious tools, Man Made, Paleolithic tools redesigned, 3D printing, Paleolithic stones,

Drach and Ganchrow recreate ancient Paleolithic tools with 3D printing

[gallery_extend] To make the Paleolithic-inspired tools, Drach and Granchrow reached out to Hebrew University...

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