In Ordino, at midnight, against the dark backdrop of the mountains, Jean Nouvel’s slate-clad sculptural houses at La Querola caught fire and burned in a violent blaze that destroyed almost…
When architectural design was floating in the streams of cold, bloodless calculations of the human mind, it was a philosophy birthed from the fevered palpitations of the human heart. The…
In the contemporary world, real estate is designed not to house life, but to park global capital. Urbanscapes across the continents are defined by glass boxes and concrete structures that…
Architectural ideologies and Core beliefs Two true visionaries – Rude and Olsson-Une, though primarily involved in one of the biggest furniture brands known globally, IKEA – also made their mark…
Above the verdant lawns of Poissy, near Paris, a phantom ship hovers: The Villa Savoye. The undisputed holy grail of modernist architecture, Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret completed…
For decades, a sustainable building was measured by what it avoided: fewer emissions of deadly gases, less water use and lower energy bills. As the climate crisis deepens, that standard…
Architecture students are taught to question everything – from a site’s history and a user’s needs to the logic of a building. Yet, when it comes to their own designs,…
The rapid growth of housing construction in India has made standardisation an important tool for addressing cost, construction efficiency, infrastructure provision, and the scale of urban housing demand. However, standardising…
A heritage city is often imagined through its monuments. Agra is visualised by Taj Mahal, Khajuraho is its collection of 10th- and 11th-century Hindu and Jain temples and Delhi often…
A painting can make you feel that something is right, even before you can explain what it is. The same happens when you enter a building and instinctively know where…
Architecture is meant to be felt, heard and not just seen. You are taught to look at the buildings, renderings, photographs, facades, sketches until you start believing that is what…
The greatest of all architecture has always been defined as that which has outlasted the civilisation that built it. Buildings which remain as ancient witnesses to history are hailed as…