Architecture is a subject that can be seen through many different perceptions. Some people like to think about it in a rational way, as a practical technique. Others prefer to…
Change; Whether in our daily routine or our career paths, as humans, we ache for change. As designers, we dream that our projects can contribute to that change. We aspire…
Art has been a vital part of storytelling for ages. It has been adapted from primitive cave drawings to intricately designed paintings through song, dance, and theatre, to the grandest…
Connection to nature, heritage, tradition and culture. Elements that seem basic for architecture to thrive but that need to be improved in so many practices and styles of the modernised…
An architectural concept known as functional architecture identifies the purpose of systems and how they interact. It specifies how the system’s many functions will work together to carry out its…
Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, a Parisian who razed his own city, was one of history’s most well-known and disputed urban designers. 125 years after his death, France is still…
Architect Steven Holl states that the impact of architecture on our lives is an intertwined relationship between the ‘idea’ and our ‘experience’. (Holl, Pallasmaa and Pérez Gómez, 2006) Human life…
Humans have always been fascinated with the power that our future holds. It’s like Pandora’s Box; we don’t know what will happen. Historians have written many books about the past;…
One of the human’s fundamental needs is shelter. Architecture is planning and curating this shelter. Architecture has been evolving since the beginning of mankind, people have lived in caves, learned…
In Husserl’s conception of phenomenology, philosophical enquiry rejects the rationalist bias that has dominated Western thought since Plato in favour of reflective attentiveness that reveals the individual’s “lived experience.” For…
Architecture is a canvas painted by people according to their distinct beliefs and trends that are well known. In every phase of transition that occurs in the world, people change…
Eugene Kohn, a co-founder of the firm Kohn Pedersen Fox, was an ambitious architect who paved the way for it to become, within a few years, a rival to long-established…