Alvar Aalto is a world-known Finnish architect, sculptor, artist, and furniture designer. Despite this diversity, he never considered himself an artist - he believed that architecture obligates its ...
Looking at those soaring skyscrapers shaping the skylines of cities around the globe, have you ever wondered what started this? Well, it all started in Chicago; the small town that started with a ...
Following in the footsteps of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer was a modernist architect who contributed to redefining architecture after World War II. Brazil will always be ...
The design of high-rise Buildings using diagrid structures is trendy nowadays. Many of the prominent towers around the world have utilized this technique, which furtherly contributed to their unique ...
Michael Graves was a legendary American postmodernist architect and designer. He was born in Indianapolis, studied at Cincinnati University, and afterward, he took on a teaching position at Princeton ...
Gothic architecture is a style that blossomed in France and spread throughout Europe from the 12th till the 16th century. It was the successor of Romanesque architecture and the predecessor of ...
During World War II, the German aircraft bombed an area in the heart of London that comprised a Roman wall called the Barbican. The 35-acre demolished area was once a historic site from the Roman ...
Paolo Soleri is Arcosanti’s visionary architect, urban designer, artist, and philosopher who was mentored by Frank Lloyd Wright. Soleri, who was born and studied in Italy moved to the States after ...
Is there anything Ai Weiwei can’t do? The man is an artist, a radical, and a human rights activist. He is also extensively active in the fields of architecture, sculpture, photography, and ...
Postmodernism: The Movement That Said "Less is a Bore" Ever looked at a building and thought, "Wait, is that serious?" You're probably looking at postmodern architecture—the design movement that ...
Who doesn’t know about Lego? You have probably built one or two or a hundred models from these plastic interlocking blocks as a kid (and maybe not just as a kid). The manufacturers of these toy ...
Contemporary architecture is all about ‘newness’. That is what the word ‘contemporary’ implies, doesn’t it? So, it is mainly about creating new forms that have nothing to do with historical context ...
