As much as Americans weren’t willing to embrace the socialist program with which the European modernist movement had been associated, they started creating their own way to detach the European ...
Architecture, throughout history, has been weighed by a ‘contextual’ magnitude and standardized ‘dimensions’ of length, breadth, depth, or height. The measure of architecture, back then, initialized ...
What design philosophy was Raymond Loewy best known for? Being a design student myself, I would walk around the studio and be fascinated by the myriad of objects and designs on people’s desks: ...
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), ...
