To all the architects, designers, and students out there: What’s the first thing you do when you start designing a building? A site analysis, isn’t it? A study of environmental…
Architects and planners are the torchbearers for social innovation and the designers of the future. Their scope of work extends far beyond the scale of buildings. Subjects such as community…
The design and construction industries are growing exponentially, and their impact on our environment is staggering. To mitigate these effects, the practices of sustainable design and green building techniques have…
The word sacred is most often not associated with a religious connotation. Since time immemorial humans have searched for and defined ways to embody a sacred experience, a way in…
We, humans, have a very typical and absurd trait of seeing humans as everything else but humans. This trait is prevailing in our world since the dawn of the human…
We all have bucket lists, some may have destinations where they can go and relax while some may have things they want to experience once in their lifetime, but this…
Mood-boards are a fundamental transition between an initial thought to the first draft. A picture is worth a thousand words and a collage of a visually stunning collection of ideas,…
Site analysis or site study is the most important part of the initial design process. It applies to architectural design as well as urban design projects. Context study, as we…
We all want to land our dream jobs and lead our perfect lives but what happens after you land your dream job. No one can deny it is a very…
A global pandemic has made us all reimagine our lives restricted within the confines of our houses. Domestic architecture or housing, in general, has never been more important to us.…
For some communist monuments of Eastern Europe, the time has stopped in 1989, when the Soviet Union started its gradual collapse. While urban and social fabrics adapted to regime changes,…
Once upon a time, the prince and the pauper, fairs and protests, old and young, shopping and work, reading and playing, were two sides of the same coin, a coin…