Architectural criticism serves as an essential bridge between spatial design and human experience, evaluating environmental psychology and the user experience. Architectural critique does not imply superficial judgment of style and…
The year 2021, unlike its tedious predecessor, could only be described as good and eventful. The year had seen the rise of the Squid Game phenomenon, Suez Canal memes and…
Aura Venckunaite is a Chicago-based architect and educator whose work connects architecture, fashion, and material culture. She holds both her bachelors and master’s degree in architecture from the University of…
Industrial design is a process of problem-solving through research and analysis, studying human behavior, science, and technology to develop products that quietly improve people’s everyday lives. An Industrial designer is…
Future Cities are often imagined through autonomous vehicles, intelligent buildings and glowing digital networks, but the most important transformation may be less visible. The cities of the coming decades could…
Architecture trains designers to think beyond objects – to consider space, scale, movement, atmosphere and most importantly, the people who experience them. But what happens when that way of thinking…
Architectural design has always relied on translation. A client’s expectations become brief, then diagrams, geometry, drawings, visualizations, specifications, and construction documents. Although digital tools support this process, information is often…
Architecture and fashion may seem to exist as parallel design fields, each with its own rules and regulations, but on closer look, they intersect in more ways than one. Architecture…
Product design is the art and science behind creating functional and aesthetically appealing objects, merging innovation, usability, and sustainability. It consists of a wide range of objects, from handcrafted objects…
Drive past any growing skyline, and it’s hard to miss. Cranes stitched between half-finished towers, hoardings wrapped around entire city blocks, the constant low hum of a mega-development taking shape…
The tale of architecture has always been a struggle against a single, invisible force: Earth’s most trustworthy companion, gravity. For thousands of years, the greatest structures, ranging from the great…
At 8:30 on a Monday morning, a city appears to be doing what it has always done. Cars move through intersections, trains arrive beneath crowded platforms, cafes open their doors…