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,…
Around the globe, there are several places that would be considered inhospitable for the human population to live and survive in. Yet in many parts of the world, humans have…
When built merges with the unbuilt, and there is no barrier between the indoor and outdoor, the structure ceases to dominate and becomes one with the surroundings. Neelai: The lakehouse…
The Nature of the Creative Journey The Creative Journey begins with a concept, inquiry, or curiosity. Ideas form softly, frequently unorganized, but with immense promise. The difficulty is to guide…
What’s a world without architecture? How different would our lives be without the built structures? To determine an answer to that, one first needs to acknowledge the fact that humans…
In today’s fast-growing cities, life often moves faster than the spaces we live in. Buildings rise higher, streets grow busier, and daily routines become tightly packed between concrete walls. In…
Architecture is the Real Problem! Rising sea levels, increasing global temperature, loss of biodiversity, more frequent and extreme weather events, reduced air quality, natural resource depletion, and so many more.…
In the past, cities took the approach of adapting to nature by adopting techniques that use natural materials and structures (e.g., organic and vernacular architecture) in the formation of an…
Imagine a building that grows from nature. A structure where branches draft corridors, roots knit foundations, and walls breathe through leaves. This is the idea of designing with nature’s Logic.…
According to Newton’s law of motion, an object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an external force. Likewise, our…
Healing architecture, in simple terms, can be perceived as a design philosophy where function follows form. The dichotomy of these architectural elements may raise the question of ‘what kind of…
Born as Friedrich Stowasser, 1928-2000, Friedensreich Hundertwasser was an Austrian-born artist, architect, and visionary philosopher. His work questioned this Conventional modernism by distancing himself from straight lines, standard forms, and…