The design commune has witnessed a tremendous inflow of new tools and technologies in the last few years. New software, platforms, and even coding languages have infiltrated the ever-evolving design ...
Many projects and research that lie within the domain of responsive architecture, dynamic architecture, or kinetic architecture, tend to follow a non-linear approach towards design. Notably in many ...
“Adaptation is the evolutionary process whereby a population becomes better suited to its habitat. This process takes place over many generations, and is one of the basic phenomena of biology.”– On ...
The power of the human brain to perceive and understand everything around us is limited. However, these boundaries are being pushed continually, and our “perception bubble” is continuously extending ...
There have been many discussions in the current discourse over tool development and customization by architects and designers. An equally important argument here is the testing of the tools. This ...
With the evolution of the human race and continuing development of science, man has been exceedingly inquisitive towards exploring the unexplored and answering the unanswered. The continuous urge to ...
Architectural Design with Parametric Design
Parametricism as an epochal phenomenon in the history of architecture has defined many rules for the current designers and for future practitioners to ...
Ivan Edward Sutherland, ‘Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System’
Computational pioneer Mark Weiser stated in 1991 that ‘The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They ...
on ‘White Light and Black Shadow’ by Louis Kahn
In today's world of instant-gratification, hyper-information, and visual-masturbation (especially in the web/blog culture of Architecture and Design), ...
There is an apparent paradox between the Modern Architecture Movement and the women’s role in it. Although Female Architects Have Always Contributed to Shaping The History of This Industry, it was ...
"Architecture does not exist, what exists is the spirit of Architecture" - Louis Kahn
While in Rhinebeck, evacuated from New York City due to Hurricane Sandy, I received a 5:45am phone call from ...
GreenGen energy plant Massive power stations are not usually considered within the realm of architectural discourse, but they hold all of us, including the architecture we create, within their sphere ...