Amid times where the streets are silent and interaction is frozen in quarantine, the balcony has emerged as an unlikely architectural hero providing the inhabitants an escape. An underrated extension…
The scopes of an architect are largely discussed but little is done for its implementation. Due to the pandemic, small scale projects and architectural firms have suffered immensely, therefore hitting…
There seems to be a unique form of architecture and design aesthetics that defines every decade. Will the design trend of this decade be characterized by our adaptation and response…
The characteristic of architectural education is spending nights and days in the design studio, exploring various design ideas through group discussions, collaborative team works, hands-on workshops, remote learning, and in-person…
This is not the first time cities stand at the forefront of fighting a pandemic due to high disease transmission risk. Wider streets, new sewage systems, and health requirements helped…
As the world battles with the coronavirus outbreak, social distancing, physical distancing, isolation, quarantine, masks, shields, etc. are the words at the tip of our tongues. With close to 1.380…
Urban planning with the tremendous growth in the COVID’19 cases every day, it is becoming more difficult to self-guard one’s self from becoming prey to the pandemic. The outbreak of…
In the world, cities ubiquitously have one thing in common, they bring people together. Socialization has enduringly been the norm rather than the exception, the hallmark of city life, supporting…
An anomalous upheaval set off by Covid-19 in the social and economic lives of the people brought the whole world to a standstill with the end of this suffering unknown.…
We are well aware for the fact that a pandemic has risen and taken hold of every aspect of life, it is definitive that the pandemic will be over soon…
“If history has lessons to impart, they are to be found by excellence in [such] recurring patterns.” – G.W Trompf, The idea of historic recurrences in western thoughts – Since the COVID-19…
Last summer, I found myself wandering through the massive crowd, amongst the many tourists of the British capital, following the flow of people through the metal piles of the Serpentine…