Vivid colour, abstraction and minimalism are simple words describing the work of American artist Ellsworth Kelly. Kelly was a painter, sculptor and printmaker. The artist’s pieces featured abstraction and minimalism…
Yatin Pandya, the founder of FOOTPRINTS E.A.R.T.H. (Environment Architecture Research Technology Housing), is an author, activist, academician, researcher, and practicing architect. He has written over 200 articles published in national…
“The way we build new cities will be at the heart of so much that matters, from climate change to economic vitality to our very well-being and sense of connectedness.”…
The Swiss architect Giuseppe (Peppo) Brivio is mainly associated with the ‘Ticino school’, despite the term being widely contested. Canton Ticino is a mainly Italian speaking region of Switzerland, and…
With a dynamic and varied career spanning over seventy years, the Aaltos are arguably the most prominent Finnish modernist architects. From interior design, furniture, architecture and even urban scale planning,…
“I have a dream that architecture can bring something to contemporary society. Architecture is how people meet in space.” In a bold world, Kazuyo Sejima whispered her way through subtlety…
Kengo Kuma is a world-renowned architect who runs the Kengo Kuma and Associates practice, an architecture office he established in 1990. His designs combine craftsmanship, materiality and sustainability creating impactful…
Tadao Ando is often regarded as the architect who best embodies the minimalist approach, which emphasises clean lines and fundamental features. He is the only architect to have won the…
“Smart is a way of being, not a technology” Roberto Masiero, an architect and professor of architectural history born in 1944, is a scholar of the arts and sciences within…
Far from philosophical terms of beauty, the Swiss architect Livio Vacchini’s approach to architecture significantly runs counter aesthetic with his critical action toward it. Each of his designs embodying contemporary…
Silvia Gmur – The Woman We’ve come a far way from shunning conversations about successful women, and so it is that this article introduces a woman who could have started…
Giovanni Battista (Tita) Carloni was a Swiss-Italian architect and politician. His birth town was Rovio, in the district of Lugano, Switzerland. He was born on 24th June 1931. He had…