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+++ 08/05/1999 newsletter 1 +++

This is the first newsletter from http://www.smartarch.nl, the website about challenging green architecture and city planning.
It will shed light on additions to our website and it will contain announcements of activities, lectures and publications.

Contents of this newsletter
1/ is green smart?
2/ new additions
3/ coming up: smart materials
4/ and: lecture series Delft University of Technology
5/ how to subscribe/unsubscribe

1/ Ecological architecture and city planning is often not very challenging and more often than not outright boring. Maybe it is still way too easy to make 'ecological' designs. Because of its good intentions the designer can be satisfied too quickly with his work. Because of its political correctness a 'green' project escapes the cleaning knife that mercilessly displays flaws in other projects.
Nevertheless exciting things do happen. During the collection of the projects for the smartgrid section of this website some jewels where found. Projects like the Minnaert building by Willem Jan Neutelings for example or Design Centre Linz, Austria by Thomas Herzog & partners are examples of a new approach. Not only architects but also many technicians and designers from other disciplines are pioneering. The research done in the field of biomimicry by Julian Vincent for instance is discussed in the theory section of the website.

2/ For the coming series of projects in the smartgrid we invite you to suggest projects that will pale our somewhat dismal criticism. Ideas can be mailed directly to desk@smartarch.nl.
The Forum of the website is the place to hold those discussions, to make contributions, to give comments and to add links or references to other relevant sources (articles, books or websites).

3/ In the future a section on Smart Materials will be started together with the Netherlands Design Institute (http://www.o2.org), so the two websites will encompass the whole area (from industrial designing to city planning).
We plan to show the often unexpected solutions that arise from cross-disciplinary collaboration.

4/ What else will happen? In September, in co-operation with the Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Architecture) a series of lectures will be organised, for which several international experts and architects who are featured on the site will be invited.

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Smart Architecture Foundation
Jacques Vink, Marc Neelen, Piet Vollaard