A building with a unique shape sits between a neatly landscaped foreground and a sunny blue sky, the drama of size and shape finely captured across the glossy pages of…
February 2025. A small crowd gathers in the old city of Mosul to watch a tilted stone spire rise once more over the rooftops. Officials, UNESCO’s Director-General and residents who…
Architectural criticism serves as an essential bridge between spatial design and human experience, evaluating environmental psychology and the user experience. Architectural critique does not imply superficial judgment of style and…
The year 2021, unlike its tedious predecessor, could only be described as good and eventful. The year had seen the rise of the Squid Game phenomenon, Suez Canal memes and…
What happens when a movie stops using architecture as a backdrop but gives it an active role in the story? The Menu (2022), directed by Mark Mylod, is less a…
In some movies, architecture is scenery, but in others, it plays an important role. Cloud Atlas is one of the movies wherein architecture becomes an expression of time. Directed by…
The audience does not remember Movies and series only by their characters and events, but also through the spaces that contain them. Considering this, we should mention very famous examples:…
Spatial Recall: Memory in Architecture and Landscape is an interdisciplinary collection of essays, edited by Marc Treib. The book investigates how built environments and landscapes record, store, and transmit human…
Architecture conveys different stories about the same thing to different individuals; at times, it evokes a sense of nostalgia, and at other times, sadness. In the case of a memorial,…
Traditionally, architecture and urban design have focused on buildings and spaces of outstanding visual, historical, or symbolic interest. Monuments, civic buildings, heritage buildings, open squares, and architecturally distinguished projects often…
Buildings rarely have only one life. But when an architect gives an existing building a new function, what happens to the lives that came before it? Old factories become galleries,…
1. How societies shape the built environment Our global cityscapes are always an evolved manifestation of their history and culture. For example, Paris has both modern and historic buildings. The…