Urban Farm

Nicely stated: Urban Agriculture project: "The Urban Farm Project aims to create an agricultural food hub in the heart of the city. Its story is centered on local food production, distribution and education. It is a shared vision to strengthen our city’s food strategy and bring local food issues to the forefront. The proposal’s multi-story tower and landscaped podium showcases a unique mix of programs centered on food that includes a new space for the Greater Food Bank of Vancouver, a vertical urban farm, a farmers’ market as well as academic and research spaces related to food science. In whole, it serves as an organized central hub that aims to improve local food issues such as distribution, equity and education. The synthesis and organization of this complex program and the requirements of multiple stakeholders were central to MGA’s initial work task."

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culinary illustrations

Strips of eggplant and small grains join lengths of cooked pasta to create this image - Anna Keville Joyce - food stylist. 

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Coolhaus Icecream

Coolhaus Entepreneur .... and the wise words of advice of matching Food & Architecture...yet another perspective: 

"How has your architecture background played a role in Coolhaus?

It has been a massive help: architecture is a great background for creating a brand identity and using visuals to tell a story. Architecture is also client/project driven, just like the service side of our business. Also, my technical design skills and training have helped with packaging design, web design, and creating many other marketing collaterals. It has also allowed us to fold-in a whole other audience to our brand: we have a tremendous following amongst the food/ice cream loving community AND the design community. How many dessert companies can say the same?"

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Cuisine and Architecture

"Like architecture, Architect Raj Rewal says, Indian food is also an amalgamation of elements from regional cultures, “If you look closely Moghul architecture is different from the Persian architecture. It has elements of Buddhist architecture. There is very little use of ceramics which is common in West Asia,” says the veteran architect whose design of Ismaili Centre in Lisbon has withstood the test of time. “Similarly you can found Indian elements in colonial architecture. (Edward) Lutyens talked of supremacy of western arts, science and culture but when he designed Rasthtrapati Bhawan he ended up drawing from Sanchi’s Stupa. When it comes to cuisines there are multiple elements at play according to climate and local concerns,” notes Rewal and gets busy with lamb and naan."

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urban informatics

"The N.Y.U. researchers see an opportunity to take a quantitative, comprehensive look at a community, run experiments, and make discoveries. Dr. Kontokosta observed that the concept of “sustainability” has been narrowly defined, mostly focused on water and energy consumption so far. “Sustainability has really been a measurement problem,”he said.

But with a broader array of measurements in a community, he said, a far wider range of observations becomes possible. An example, Dr. Kontokosta said, might be measuring noise, air quality or social interactions, and seeing how those correlate with educational achievement.

Combining measurements of the environment, physical systems and human behavior, said Steven E. Koonin, director of the N.Y.U. center, will open the door to understanding and modeling communities in new ways. “The real gold will be in combining the data science and the social sciences,” Dr. Koonin said.

One result, he said, will be to change traditional disciplines. Civil engineering, he said, has traditionally centered on physical systems rather than human behavior. In the future, Dr. Koonin said, there may be careers in “human-centered civil engineering” or “civic engineering.” Architects and interior designers, he said, study how people interact with buildings and rooms, but without much quantitative information. “Quantitative design,” he said, may be a career of the future."

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Greenhouse design

Nothing says food and architecture like a good 'ol Greenhouse...

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Architecture 4 Food

Architecture housing food - A topic all on it's own, perhaps even a blog all on it's own. There are a number of pinterest sites for such a thing. The environment in which we consume. The space that holds the act. Food and Architecture...feast for the eyes and mouth.

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Architecture as Package

Architecture as packaging - packaging food in architecture

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Fast Food - architecture

Interesting note on the use of "fast food" used to describe architecture...This one used for China and it's ever expanding housing market, some of which are not built to proper safety standards.

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Play with your Food

Just for fun...because eating is fun

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Pecans and Design

"...the foresight of farmers who installed sophisticated irrigation systems and in part to the arid climate that helps ward off crop disease, the pecan business has been booming in the farmland around Las Cruces."

Food production, climate and infrastructure. No surprise this is working. These are called acequia's in Northern New Mexico...centuries old irrigation canals dug and continually maintained to this day.

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Hunts Point

"...planners, design engineers and financial analysts, they created a proposal for resilience that included shoreline flood protection, open spaces for the community, safe routes for trucks and an emergency maritime food distribution network."

Looking at FOOD and the CITY with the greater lense of design, economics, culture...

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