The end of World War I ushered in a paradigm shift in global attitudes and practices. Despite its dreadful outward look, World War I saw the introduction of beautiful constructivist architecture. To ...
Warning ! Graphic content inside Architects are dreamers. From the inception of architectural education and various levels of practice, architects are always challenged to push boundaries and ...
Of chairs and smart phones A week ago, I received an email from my editor to write on the topic of relating chairs to smart phones. My reaction? I was stupefied and quite disoriented to be honest. ...
A “burst” in architecture activity is what we would entitle the scene of the Architecture industry in the last fifteen years. Almost all developed cities and those with emerging economies have their ...
Beauty, in architecture, lies in the performance and behavior of architectural structures and façade elements as a component. The structural form should have an aesthetic appeal while being ...
I've had tens of chances to visit Palmyra over the course of my life, but, being a local citizen, never did as I took its existence for granted. Today, the danger hovering around the ancient city is ...
It was an opening at the Berlinische Galerie four years ago. No sooner did I enter the gallery, I was struck by a giant walk-in installation. Walls and floor were clad in carpeting, upon which data ...
Are you an aspiring architect who is interested in Industrial Design and you dream of designing your own furniture? Fear not, for you are not alone! For decades, architects around the world have ...
‘To work within a tradition requires a certain acceptance of the limitations it brings; but if these limitations are understood to be inevitable consequences of man’s position within nature but ...
On the 2nd of December, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation released the list of the 6 finalist, out of one thousand seven hundred and fifteen applicants, for the proposed new Guggenheim Helsinki ...
In architecture, we are in ‘search of new triumphs’. But for the Next Big Thing to happen, merely looking for it is not enough. Today, Architecture calls for ‘research’ that takes a diligent dive to ...
PART 1 of 3: Surrogate Bodies: architecture individuation: digital tissues, bodily investigations and architectural entities. “... the project herein, while actively dissecting a digitally ...
