We are a communicative species. When one decides to work in the subject area of architecture, one realises quite quickly what two main factors contribute to whether one is successful…
At the end of every chapter, it makes sense to review lessons learned, reflect on errors and accomplishments, consider then continuing that way, or take a different path. Having finished…
Balkrishna Doshi is a renowned Indian architect who has gained international recognition for his significant contribution to India’s post-colonial modern architecture. In 2018, his life’s work was honoured with the…
Born in 1967 in Santiago de Chile, the Pritzker Prize winner Alejandro Aravena is a leading advocate of sustainable development in contemporary architecture. He graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University…
Usonian architecture embodies an architectural philosophy developed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1930s that seeks to provide families with affordable housing based on modern principles. With his single-story houses,…
The term anthropology is composed of the ancient Greek word “anthropos = human being” and “logos = speech, knowledge, teaching”. The semantics of the term indicates its meaning. Anthropological studies…
To understand the importance of the train station in the United States of America as a building type, one must familiarise with the country’s Railroad Era and its significance in…
Mumbai, India’s financial capital, is home to the second most extensive collection of the Art Deco art movement, second only to Miami. Historically and visually, the movement’s style starting in…
A landscape describes the visual characteristics of a natural composition. These properties vary from continent to country to region due to weather and climate conditions and shape their respective character.…
The small Decade Café, designed by local design studio TOUCH Design, is located at No. 93 Chifeng Road of Tianjin, close to the busy Binjiang Road Commercial Street in Tianjin,…
CEBRA Architecture In 2001 architects and founding partners Mikkel Frost, Carsten Primdahl and Kolja Nielsen founded the Danish architecture office CEBRA, joined by Mikkel Hallundbæk Schlesinger in 2017. Headquartered in…
Note: The listing of religions or associated elements in the respective sentences as nouns, sacred building types or adjectives was done in alphabetical order to avoid objectivity and hierarchisation. Adjaye…