Architecture drawing is a very first expression of an idea – A graphic manifesto of what an architect envisions. The very simple act of representation of a concept in a…
Fewer cities in the USA have a history as rich and tumultuous as Detroit. It is a city with a declining population and abandoned buildings but still somehow maintains its…
kinetic façade cost kinetic façade cost Architecture has always evolved what remained unchanged were the Facades. They were enhanced or beautified but were functionally and aesthetically frozen other than the wear and…
The cultural capital of Maharashtra, Pune is one of the oldest cities of the state, and is called the ‘queen of the Deccan plateau’. The city acted as a throne…
CLIMATE CHANGE: “I don’t think the planet will die. I think the earth is too powerful. She’s lived through hotter times, colder times, she’s lived with dinosaurs, without dinosaurs, she’ll…
Design thinking is a practical user-centric approach towards solving problems. It has been derived from problem-solving methods from diverse fields like engineering, architecture, and business. It is because of this…
Hassan Fathy (1900–1989), Egypt’s “architect of the poor,” proved that mud brick could be modern: his New Gourna Village near Luxor (1946–52) revived Nubian vaulting and passive cooling decades before…
Scotland is a country that makes up a small part of UK. Scottish architecture can be traced back from as early as Neolithic era and it has been changing ever…
Hans Hollein (1934–2014), Austria’s 1985 Pritzker Prize laureate, declared “everything is architecture” and proved it at every scale — from the tiny aluminium-fronted Retti candle shop in Vienna (1965) to…
Renaissance. The word itself means re-birth. Re-birth of the Greek and Roman architecture. Renaissance is considered to start in the 14th century followed by the Gothic architectural style. Many reasons…
Whether you call it Seoul as in “se-oul” or Seoul, as in “soul”/”sole”, the economy in the south Korean capital has been booming for decades now. In recent years, the…
A landlocked country in Eastern Europe, Belarus has emerged out of its dark historic past of war and destruction. Many architectural treasures and structures have survived to be great spots…