“But aren’t architects paid well?” A question that is being asked a lot. There is a preconceived notion that architects are being paid well, simply because of how difficult it…
Ceramics designer, derived from the Greek word “keramikos” which means pottery, was the art of mixing clay and water, molding it into a particular shape, and later subjecting it to…
Jan Gehl is an urban design consultant and a professor of urban design at the school of architecture in Copenhagen, Denmark. He runs his firm and constantly researches and learns…
Adaptive reuse is when a building that is obsolete or unused, is restored and repurposed for a different purpose. For example, reusing a colonial villa into a modern-day cafe by…
The first thing that one finds on googling spaces for the elderly is a bunch of articles on how to build for the elderly, what to keep in mind and…
Architects have claimed to make buildings that change lives for years to come, whether it’s Winston Churchill’s very famous “We shape our buildings, and afterwards, our buildings shape us,” or…
Cafes are such a regular part of people’s lives that most people might not even realize it most of the time. However, there is a reason cafes are such inviting…
An architectural thesis is perhaps the most confusing for a student because of the range of typologies of buildings that exist. It also seems intimidating to pick your site program…
The SongEun art space designed by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron was the first building designed by them in Korea but one that truly makes a mark in…
