Yasmeen Lari, one of the most renowned architects of Pakistan and a RIBA award winner, is known for her community-driven and participatory architecture. Her work is especially associated with resilient…
Net-Zero Building Net-zero, also known as carbon neutrality, is the act of cancelling out greenhouse gases produced by human activity, by reducing existing emissions and implementing methods of absorbing carbon…
Cities have long been understood as consumers, like vast engines that inhale natural resources, transform them into buildings, infrastructure, and commodities, and eventually exhale waste. But this extractive model is…
At a time when the gap between built space and the user needs is ever-increasing, with cities becoming more complex, one forgets how inhabitants are no longer passive users. Participatory…
“The city of Mumbai does not wake up in a hurry; it makes itself up.” As April reaches Mumbai, something magical takes place in reverse. With temperatures that cap above…
Architecture has always been one of the most powerful storytellers of human movement, of trade, migration, conquest, curiosity, and cultural exchange. While much of architectural history is narrated through the…
When Christopher Alexander, along with Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, published A Pattern Language in 1977, they proposed something that architecture had long forgotten: that the built environment must grow…
Stood in striking isolation amidst the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Fort Jefferson is one of the most ambitious architectural feats of 19th-century America. Located within the Dry…
Community can be defined as a group of people coming together with specific characteristics they share as a commonality. Similarly, architecture amalgamates the science and the art of designing and…
Architecture isn’t just the aesthetics of walls, windows, structures or anything. It’s the design of well-being and livelihood. Architects design a home considering lots of aspects, such as sun position,…
While a birth certificate, address proof serves as a formal record of an individual’s existence, their identity, but it is the architecture that physically embodies the essence of a community.…
Located at the confluence of the Sava and the Danube, the Belgrade fortress is known to be the oldest urban space in Belgrade, tracing back to the establishment of the…