Craft – Lost or Found?
The team at arch2O shared their thoughts about what has become of craft in contemporary times. ‘Craft’- Is it a word that has been silenced over shouty tags such as ‘digital’, ‘manufacture’, ...
HUB — Architectural Styles – Theory & Icons
How was Modernist Design Brought to the US
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 ...
Bigness to Size-Zero: Measuring Architecture, rightly
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 ...
Frank Lloyd Wright’s School of Architecture Losing Accreditation!
Established by the legendary architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, the 82 years old school of architecture is now facing loss of accreditation to grant a Master of Architecture degree. Why? Well according ...
INTERVIEW WITH Wolf D. Prix- Coop Himmelb(l)au
Born in Vienna in 1942, Wolf D. Prix is an architect, educator and CEO of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. He studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, the Architectural Association of London, ...
INTERVIEW WITH Ben Van Berkel – UNStudio
Arch2O has recently interviewed Ben Van Berkel, co-founder and principal architect at UNStudio (founded in 1988), an international architectural firm that presents itself as a network of specialists ...
Raymond Loewy – a Legendary Designer
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 power of open-source in design: Blessing or Curse
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 ...
INTERVIEW WITH Fernando Romero – Fr-ee
Fernando Romero was born in Mexico City, 1971. He graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico city) and went on to work with Rem Koolhaas at OMA (1997-2000) most notably as head project ...
Material Computation: Towards a performative architecture
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 ...
Responsive to Adaptive – The shifting trends in Architecture
“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 ...
learning from the vernacular at VITRA design museum
learning from the vernacular at VITRA design museum