To eliminate – or at least greatly minimize – the work of quacks and amateurs in highly respected professions like architecture, societies need strong systems of licensure. Licensure helps ensure ...
Forget candy, forget honey. Books are the sweetest substance ever sold. Books hold information that helps us learn. And learning is crucial for the proper growth and development of the human race. In ...
"I hate being an architect. I actually hate architects." Rem Koolhaas Rem Koolhaas: The man is not ordinary, you realize as soon as you glimpse the piercing eyes, the arched high-brows, and the ...
The core of the built environment is based on ergonomics and the study of the human scale, with the purpose of creating a safe, comfortable and inspiring habitat for mankind. But what happens when ...
A recent article in The Guardian by Anita Taylor, the director of the Jerwood Drawing Prize and dean of Bath School of Art and Design, states that, “Drawing remains a central and pivotal activity to ...
There is more to architecture than concrete buildings with foundations. Constructions might have been born from the need for protection, but architecture is more than just that. It is also about ...
Animal Architects and Their Homes Vogelkop Bowerbird Do the most primal urges need to have a primal setting, or, do we prefer to set the stage ourselves in honor of an act which is also a ritual, ...
"The first rule of Architecture is to be born rich, the second rule is, failing that, to marry wealthy"- Philip Johnson Although intended to be light-hearted, this quote succeeds in painting a ...
Made from less drama and more realism, architecture documentaries and movies can also leave a viewer mesmerized with delight, just as a Hollywood action film can leave him breathless. The main idea ...
People have always got used to seeing TV towers as antennas with hierarchical lattice metallic wireframes. the Canton Tower is the first parametric TV tower ever designed. What is the Canton Tower ...
BIM implementation in Shanghai Tower: China recently witnessed an architectural revolution especially in skyscrapers and stadium construction. China outdid its expectations and has the largest number ...
Architects create visions of what they think could be architecture. A host of systems and processes amalgamate to bring these visions to reality through the built form. From the stages of ...
