“I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.” ― Gaston Bachelard The inner life of houses reflects the…
Bamboo: Tradition of the Future exposes bamboo as an underrated hero of construction. In place of a dreamy documentary of the material, its objective centres on attaining an accessible production…
The possibilities of architecture lay in its capacity to represent what it truly means to be human. So, can modern architecture be responsive? It might be the equivalent of asking…
Inside TED’s infinite library of “ideas worth spreading” is What if the poor were part of city planning? featuring Indian urban planner Smruti Jukur Johari. The title takes a stand…
In 2016, Bjarke Ingels and his wife Ruth Otero bought a 26-foot-long decommissioned ferry boat. They saw it as an opportunity to take on life aboard and the challenge to…
Thousands of years ago in India, the Vedas were traditionally passed down through generations as orally recited verses until they were eventually translated as sacred literature between 1500 and 500…
The metropolis is the place for the absent-minded masses in a frozen state of conformity, as Benjamin puts it, an architecture “consummated by a collectivity in a state of distraction.”…
April 4, 2020. Today, many architects tend to focus on beautiful designs rather than on long-standing city problems. Only a few projects have been able to make a real impact.…
The world has been facing unprecedented humanitarian crises, relentless population growth, unforgiving violent wars and grave natural disasters. The long-standing adversities have become a test for architecture to go beyond…
From the unvarying fifties’ sleek aesthetic transitioning into the mid-sixties’ cultural revolution and psychedelic excess arriving at the eccentric seventies’ wild parties ⎯ this piercing period of political, economic and…
In the 16th century, when curious individuals wanted to get to the bottom of the world’s mysteries, they started to recollect unusual objects: sculptures and paintings, exciting items, horns, feathers…
“To mount the skies it is not necessary to have the most powerful of motors, one must have a motor which, instead of continuing to run along the earth’s surface,…
