Urban green infrastructure is often framed as a design and planning issue: cities need more parks, trees, wetlands, green corridors, and open spaces to address environmental issues related to global…
Human’s City What makes a city? High population density, advanced infrastructure, formal administration, and economic vibrancy. When you think of a city, the first thoughts that might occur are tall…
Global warming and climate change are two of the serious problems plaguing the 21st century. The oxygen levels are dropping; the ocean levels are rising; the ozone layer is depleting,…
An Illusion “All the world’s a stage,” Shakespeare wrote. But what happens when the stage itself becomes commercialised or a commodity? In the Anthropocene, who gets to design the stage…
Regenerative urbanism is a planning approach that treats the city as a living ecosystem rather than a machine to be optimised. Though conventional sustainability strives to limit harm, regenerative urbanism…
A new chapter in open air theatre performance architecture has arrived in the city of New York as Studio Gang completes the Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center for Hudson Valley…
The Question of Authenticity “Heritage is not designed, it is lived, layered, and remembered. So what happens when we try to build it from scratch?” There is something inherently contradictory…
Climate change is one of the most critical challenges the world faces today, bringing sudden and drastic environmental shifts that directly impact ecosystems, cities, and livelihoods. And yet when I…
Architecture is often viewed as an art of visual geometry; however, we encounter the essence of space through the heaviness and tactility of matter. According to phenomenological thinking, we do…
Mother Nature, embodied by the Earth, was bestowed with beautiful dense forest-lands that reached approximately half of the land area, along with other very important landscapes such as deserts, glaciers,…
Cities are constantly changing due to economic upheaval, population increase, and infrastructure development. These processes typically result in fragmented, underutilized places known as urban voids. Abandoned industrial sites, vacant plots…
Contemporary global challenges are increasingly shaped by issues of global sustainability, rapid urbanization, and industrial growth. These interconnected forces intensify major environmental problems such as climate change, energy shortages, and…