In the year 2003, Germany decided to add a new World’s Greatest Concert Hall to its second-largest, musically rich city of Hamburg, the birthplace of Brahms and Mendelssohn. The site…
Yatin Pandya is one of the many celebrated architects in India who is also an academician, researcher, and author. Having graduated from CEPT University, Ahmedabad, he went on to pursue…
The 368 pages of Gaudi – The Complete Buildings by Rainer Zerbst takes its reader to Spain’s Catalan world adorned by colourful and shimmering mosaic textures, the skeletal forms of…
I am always looking for architecture literature. I started school thirsty for answers to questions I did not know I had. I went to my campus library to find such…
The book ‘ S,M,L,XL ‘ is a monograph written by Rem Koolhaas who is a Dutch architect, author, and prominent cult figure, and designer Bruce Mau. Books are often a…
We make theories to explain the world around us. “Theory building develops out of our need to make sense out of life.” – W. B. Walsh, Theories of Person-Environment Interaction:…
Caught in a funk? Looking for inspiration? Well then, why don’t you watch Abstract on Netflix, if you haven’t already! As cited by Netflix, this show is cerebral and inspiring.…
Significance Of Architectural Criticism Architectural criticism has a bad reputation for being incompetent and not rigorous enough as critical writings in the fields of science and technology and the same…
Alain de Botton, a Swiss-British philosopher and author of bestselling books like Essay of love, How Proust can change your life, The Architecture of Happiness, Religion for Atheists, Status anxiety;…
Dubbed the leader of the group of neo-Marxist and neo-rationalist intellectuals in the Architectural Institute of the University of Venice, Tafuri’s analysis and texts were often described to be pessimistic.…
‘Guðlaug Baths’ designed by Basalt Architects is open to the public, democratic, a community favourite space that has a free entry. This Testament is a positive effect for single architectural…
Frank Gehry is deemed one of the most important and influential architects of our time. His signature architectural expression and his iconic creations like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and…