Dan Hill, designer and urbanist, talks at Interaction ’10 about urban landscapes and the information that inhabits them. Dan loves to identify all of the data points that are embedded in cities and expose them through meaningful ways. In this video, he provides a wonderful tour of the many projects that he and others have worked on. After watching the video, it is difficult to ignore the pervasive bits of information that you once passed by without ever considering how exposing them might change people’s behaviors.

Alex Roman has created this beautiful piece that tries to “illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view”. The entire piece is computer generated and demonstrates a tremendous amount of skill. Alex used 3D Studio Max, Vray, AfterEffects, and Adobe Premiere in its creation. Alex also created the music which was done in Sonar & EWQLSO Gold Pro XP. Simply amazing!

In two short and very delightful videos by Maya, Mickey McManus defines both information and architecture. By first looking at the two separately, it is then when the true meaning of information architecture becomes apparent.

Miami architect Chad Oppenheim talks about the design of the COR Tower in Miami. Chad shares his view on sustainability and how sustainable architecture is being brought to the forefront of building design.

Frank Gehry, the worlds most famous living architect, speaks at Princeton and discusses what has gone into building his company and provides a tour through photographs of many of his projects. Filmed: March 6th, 2002

The hall is wood because it is psychoacoustic… people think it sounds better.
- Frank Gehry

David P. Billington, Professor at Princeton, speaks at MIT for the opening of the exhibit The Art of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy. Billington’s speech covers four Swiss engineers and a couple of their teachers: Robert Maillart, Othmar Ammann, Heinz Isler, Christian Menn, Wihelm Ritter, and Pierre Lardy. (Billington’s Talk starts 10 minutes in)

Architect Joshua Prince-Ramus takes the audience on dazzling, dizzying virtual tours of three recent projects: the Central Library in Seattle, the Museum Plaza in Louisville and the Charles Wyly Theater in Dallas.