Naomi stead is an architectural academic, scholar and critic based in Melbourne, Australia. She has taken on various research fellowships, starting from being a research fellow in ATCH, 2009. Currently,…
Learning how to design is a deeply intimate affair. For starters, it requires you to recondition how you think and unlearns all that you have taken for granted throughout your…
It is believed that pandemics throughout history have played an important role in shaping our cities. Today, when the world is fighting against the COVID-19 public health crisis, Indian cities…
Born on the 3rd of May 1931, Aldo Rossi was an extraordinary Italian architect and designer who achieved great recognition in the fields of theory, drawing and architecture. His vast…
It is not quite often that the world symbolizes a person’s work with a whole movement and style in architecture, and the ones whose work has been, are legends of…
Tensegrity, originally a portmanteau of tensional integrity, was coined by the famous Architect Buckminster Fuller, in the 1960s. It is a structural principle consisting of members, wherein isolated components exist…
Vault, a structural member consisting of an arrangement of arches, commonly forming a ceiling or roof, in building construction. There’s been vaulting in ancient Egypt, mainly for drains. As an…
For a long time now, design has been perceived as a means to solve problems – to create solutions, in the form of a product, space, a system, a model,…
Over the course of time, the world has been riddled with multiple wars that have caused damage and destruction in their wake. Many cultural structures across Europe and Asia were…
“….the open space here, due to its central location, naturally invites people to sit down and interact…” says a famous designer about their work. “….due to the novel technological advancements…
Interior design has come into the light in recent years with the inherent need in society to create and have a unique home. Earlier, as it was combined with the…
Architects are often at a loss at understanding how they compare with others in the field. Competitions allow for both architects and students to compete at a global scale through…