The Pritzker Architecture Prize – the formal ceremony for what is known throughout the world as architecture’s highest honour is awarded annually to honour a living architect or architects. The…
The city represents a layered complexity that appears to be irreducible to any ultimate principle or determination. In a modern city, theoretical and physical boundaries are ambiguous and undefined. The…
Architecture is synonymous with Frank Lloyd Wright. With a career spanning 70 years and 1000 structures, every architect that has ever practised in the modern era has been inspired by…
The Staatliches Bauhaus, popularly known as the Bauhaus, meaning ‘building house’, was a German design school operational from 1919 until 1933. The school offered a combination of craft courses and fine arts subjects. The Bauhaus…
Theories are scientific ideas based on multiple assumptions and principles, while urban planning is a strategy given to plan a city/area/space keeping environmental and political context in mind, it helps…
While learning design, we have always been taught that a staircase signifies ‘movement of the eye’. A well designed and placed staircase often becomes the first thing to draw your…
Adaptive reuse is a way of conserving resources and the historic value of an old building into a new one. This is done for environmental reasons, availability of land, preservation…
“The body knows and remembers. Architectural meaning derives from archaic responses and reactions remembered by the body and the senses.” These lines are drawn out from one of those usual…
Japanese architecture has always been a frontrunner. With its ideology deeply rooted in nature, culture, values and relationships, Japanese architecture exudes ideas of minimalism, authenticity, and aesthetic functionality. Throughout the…
The term ‘critical regionalism’ was first used by architectural theorists Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre in their 1981 essay ‘The Grid And The Pathway’. It was later reinterpreted most famously…
La Shed Architecture was born to innovate the relationship of citizens with architecture. A relationship in which calling an architect must become as natural as calling an accountant. A relationship…
MU Architecture is an office based in Montreal since 2010, founded by Charles Côté and Jean Sèbastien Herr. The office is specialized in architecture and contemporary design. International and multidisciplinary…