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…
Sven Fristedt occupies an important place in the history of Swedish textile design, particularly through his expressive patterns created from the late 1950s onwards. Born in Sweden in 1940, he…
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…
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…
In a world where design is often associated with exclusivity, Niels Gammelgaard spent his career doing the opposite. For three decades, the Danish designer quietly shaped how millions of people…
For centuries, the fundamentals of architecture have been stability; buildings are expected to stand upright, offer clear visuals and communicate a sense of logical order through balance, symmetry and predictable…
Casablanca has been widely called the “Art Deco city”, since it has been an open air laboratory for architectural experimentations. But its history is more nuanced than this plain simplification.…
As architecture gradually descended into obsession with harmonised forms, unyielding permanence, rigid orders, Vitruvian symmetries, and the glass-curtained grids of modernism, an emerging mind from America’s suburbs rejected that discipline…
The Sacré-Cœur de Casablanca has been popularly called a cathedral, though it served as the principal Catholic church of a Protectorate-era city. Designed by Paul Tournon, it took more than…
The Oyo State Cultural Centre sits hidden, almost in isolation, among the thick vegetation atop the Mokola hill. The building isn’t seen until it is seen. As the road climbs…
To me furniture is not simply an object which takes up space; it is more like a participant in human life. It stands as a sign of presence, of memory…