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07/12/2014

FREE is available in Nicosia at Nasis Books.

02/12/2014

Yeehaw! FREE gets a shout-out on the blog of the Texas Society of Architects/AIA

BI's “FREE: Architecture on the Loose” brings 23 contributors and 26 essays together to appeal to architecture and its wider cultural context.

12/09/2014

An in-depth review of FREE is featured on Domus!

One cannot limit the concept of freedom to the disciplinary confines of architecture, yet this book proves that architectural thinking is indeed a productive medium for contemplating what lies beyond its borders.

19/07/2014

Read about FREE via the Architectural Association School of Architecture's AA Conversations website.

There is implicit conflict in the word ‘free’. While culturally we celebrate the infinite opportunities afforded by the ‘freedom to’, the term also alludes to emancipation, a break from a captive state, or a ‘freedom from’. ‘Free’ is, at its core, an architectural concept. Architecture is a discipline directly engaged with shaping enclosure, of erecting and toppling barriers or—more explicitly—of extending and limiting ‘freedoms’.

02/07/2014

The winners of our ArchDaily giveaway have been announced! Congratulations to Tomas Moravec and Marko Racković! Thank you to everyone who entered.

30/06/2014

FREE is featured in the Australian Design Review.

03/06/2014

Enter the competition via ArchDaily's page to win a copy!

Want a free copy of BI Publications' first print edition, FREE: Architecture on the Loose? Read below to find out how!

is always limited by constraints, be they political, economic, social, environmental, structural, or aesthetic. When these boundaries are removed, the results can be amazing or disastrous.

Post an image of your favorite piece of free architecture—good or bad—in the comments section below, and briefly tell us what/where it is and why it is a useful example of unbounded work. The two most engaging commenters will receive a free copy of FREE: Architecture on the Loose (more about this publication at http://archdai.ly/SogMsI ). Good luck!

01/06/2014

Get a peek into FREE on ArchDaily!

http://www.archdaily.com/510553/bi-releases-its-first-print-publication-free/

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30/05/2014

Check out a great write up on FREE in the May/June issue of A10 'New European Architecture'.

27/05/2014

FREE is in the new Spring/Summer edition of PIN - UP Magazine!

17/05/2014

Get FREE in Paris at the Yvon Lambert Bookshop.

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06/04/2014

FREE is available at the RAW Gallery in Winnipeg.

19/03/2014

You can now pick up a copy of FREE at McNally Jackson Books in New York City.

13/03/2014

FREE is available at the Marfa Book Company in Texas.

08/03/2014

FREE can be found on the shelves of Farewell Books in Austin, Texas.

Farewell Books is a progressive new and used bookshop and art gallery in the city of Austin, Texas.

08/03/2014

If you are in and around Canada's West Coast, FREE is now available at vancouver special.

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04/02/2014

FREE is now available at NAi Booksellers in Rotterdam.

25/01/2014

FREE is available for sale at Pro qm in Berlin.

19/12/2013

FREE is featured on Archinect in their Screen/Print series.

For this issue, we’re featuring BI's inaugural publication, "FREE".

26/11/2013

There is implicit conflict in the word ‘free’. While culturally we celebrate the infinite opportunities afforded by the ‘freedom...

12/04/2013

BI is part of a panel discussion happening today at the Yale School of Architecture.

15/11/2012

AUTHENTIC...Corbin supplies the pills and Erandi brings Die Antwoord to the party.

Architecture’s legacy of replication and simulation calls into question the entire concept of authenticity. In fact, one could argue architecture is not visual at all, but instead it is the assembly of physical elements to produce a specific effect that is intelligible to the mind. The act of interp...

31/10/2012

GHOST...The restless souls of Vitruvius, Mies, Bucky and Kahn haunt us still...HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Implicit in Buckminster Fuller’s query of ‘How much does your building weigh?’ is an appreciation of lightness in architecture. Enabled by the capabilities of modern materials—notably the alternately invisible or mirrored qualities of glass—and haunted by the minimalist spectre of Mies van der Rohe,...

11/10/2012

We are currently accepting submissions for our online publication.

BI is currently seeking proposals for its online publication. If you are interested in joining the discussion, please send brief essays for consideration to [email protected]. Individual and joint entries, on a chosen topic, are both welcome.

04/10/2012

VAGUE...Jack retraces On Kawara's peripatetics and Erandi tries on Rei Kawakubo's loose fitting designs.

Since Jan. 4, 1966, On Kawara has created paintings of various sizes, colors and fonts, showcasing the date of their creation. These paintings are refreshingly devoid of content, serving as, if anything, a ritual reaffirmation of the progression of time or a fixation on modern sans serif typefaces. ...

19/09/2012

CANT...Gaby realizes the impossible and Oana connects ‘what has been left behind and what is actually here and now’.

Impossible isn’t what it used to be. Once, the possible in architecture was largely defined by technical limits. Designers who challenged the physical world risked catastrophic failure. When the vaults of Beauvais Cathedral collapsed in 1284, the entire Gothic enterprise lost its nerve to build high...

09/09/2012

PAST...Sean travels back in geological time and Viviane uncovers parametricism's progenitors.

To travel across the islands of Hawaii from Southeast to Northwest _ Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai _ is to travel backwards in geological time. The islands, born of molten lava, formed in a linear sequence as the Pacific Plate slowly shifted across a stationary hotspot in the Earth’s mantle. As the isla...

15/08/2012

CARPET...Jack mixes it up with Francis Bacon, Agamemnon and Aziz Ansari while Tiffany champions experimentalism.

‘How do you make any event classy on a budget? Red carpet. […] Oh, what’s this in my shoe? Red carpet insole. Everywhere I go, I’m walking on red carpet.’

08/07/2012

CONTROVERSIAL...Sean watches Melrose Place blow-up and Jean-François checks out a meta-referential situation.

Dr. Kimberly Shaw: ‘Well, that makes bomb number three. Don’t you love the smell of sulfur in the afternoon, Sydney?’

03/07/2012

GIRLS...Rachel and Erandi watch TV.

Following the 1963 release of Mary McCarthy’s The Group, a novel presenting the lives of eight Vassar girls who just graduated from college, Norman Mailer published a rather cruel review. He wrote, in the New York Review of Books, ‘She [McCarthy] has eight well-to-do young ladies moving through the ...

22/06/2012

SHOPPING...Jack explains why Prada is looking rough and Erandi notices Rei Kawakubo channeling Wagner.

Richard Wagner’s concept of Gesamtkunstwerk echoes in the indefinite space between art and consumerism. Encouraging cohesive lifestyles, its spirit can be found lingering at even a geographic scale.

26/05/2012

LATE...Rachel looks at the world of David Weiss and Erandi heads to the salon with Vidal Sassoon.

—David Weiss (1946-2012) Between 1987 and 2001 Peter Fischli and the late David Weiss took some 3,000 photographs, images that came to form their Visible World project. The photographs, arranged on long light tables that stretched across the exhibition space at New York’s Matthew Marks Gallery, ...

15/04/2012

PUBLISH...Sohrab investigates the internet's ability to strip content of context and Erandi tests the limits.

In his book You Are Not A Gadget one of Jaron Lanier’s criticisms of current digital culture, specifically the thing we call Web 2.0, is the paradox that a tool that is marketed as something to enable human creativity and individuality has actually done the opposite. The set of checklists and ‘Likes...

09/04/2012

FIT...David makes room for more and Kari works out.

When Imelda Marcos fled the Philippines for Hawaii in 1986 she left behind a collection of two to three thousand shoes (no exact number has ever been agreed upon) in her closet at the presidential palace. The story was immediately seized upon by popular media around the world as a symbol of the extr...