As morning sunlight pours over the sleeping town, its guests strolling its cobbled streets observe more than pavement and buildings. Corner after corner turned, window after window of cafe glimpsed,…
Old-trendy malls, those huge, concrete, fortress-like temples of consumption, are all too familiar, dying on the vine as consumers bypass them and head straight to the Internet. However, on a…
Eating Architecture (MIT Press, 2004) is an anthology of essays that explore the intersection of food culture and design. Editors Jamie Horwitz and Paulette Singley gather nineteen essays, arranged in…
David Easton (1937–2020) was an acclaimed American designer of interiors and architect with high-class neoclassical design, earning him general renown. Louisville, Kentucky, born in 1937, he grew up on a…
Kathmandu Valley’s sheer architectural patrimony represents a living synthesis of two great Buddhist and Hindu traditions. Kathmandu Valley’s seven sites of monuments – three Durbar Squares (Hanuman Dhoka in Kathmandu,…
Architectural advancements are revolutionizing how we design buildings to fight climate change at a lightning pace. Architects now use AI, robotics, IoT sensors, and novel materials to save energy and…
As Nepal heats up with Terai cities baking at 40°C plus and Kathmandu getting hotter summers poor city dwellers feel the heat (Jagan Chapagain, 2024). Even in cramped slums or…
Architectural “miracles” leave us in awe when vision and engineering collaborate to make the impossible possible. Beginning in the earliest ages and continuing through today’s digital age, architects and engineers…
Interiors can greatly contribute to the health of the mind via their environment as they can aid in bringing tranquility and lessening stress. Architects have given far greater attention to…
Peter Greenaway’s The Belly of an Architect (1987) is a story about Stourley Kracklite, an American architect whose health and marriage disintegrate. This coincides with a showcase in Rome celebrating…
Funerary architecture came into the frame when different cultures started believing in the life after death, which is the governing idea of the religion of the Egyptians (Basis of Hope),…
Patan Durbar Square in Lalitpur (once called Patan) at the center of the Kathmandu Valley bears witness to the political authority and civic life of the Malla rulers who controlled…