Nature-inspired architecture | Austris Mailitis | TEDxRiga

With the budget 10 times smaller than average - how do you make a country's World Expo pavilion rank amongst the Top 10? How do you make Shaolin monks fly? And how do you architect a sacred place for Latvians? You turn to nature.
Austris Mailītis is a Latvian architect working in the fields of architecture and art. He is an author of multiple large scale projects including Latvian Pavilion at the Expo 2010 Shanghai, Latvian National Open-air Stage in Riga and Shaolin Flying Monks Temple in China. He has been an architect of Latvian expositions in Venice Art Biennale in 2013 and 2015.
Austris Mailītis is a winner of numerous national and international awards. In 2011 he won Architect’s foot prize for his contribution to development of architecture in Latvia.
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[@Alice-ft4ie]

Really loved that you can see the inspiration of metal design construction from his parents backyard to his architectural concepts. The leaflet was an innovative solution and its struck a cord with me for some of the natural concepts I have in mind. Thank you.

[@rrajdeep02]

not able to connect with the title of the video

[@maureenk1635]

So lovely!

[@cloudxavier50]

Very good. Architecture should be simple like this.

[@superdude1408]

this is not simple architecture :D

[@casheddy8922]

cool stuff

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[@tomoeagentlight]

Great presentation even though I can hear so much of saliva and tongue moving in his mouth.

[@LockDoPop]

hahaha totally x'D

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Ch冤枉我。

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[@mukeirabluetemple6950]

This idea is literally copied from Ned Kahn Architects.... Without giving adequate credits. I'm sorry, but being an artist myself, integrity is quite an important value