Throughout my life, going out to get even the most diminutive thing meant using vehicles. Usually, walking was never an alternative. If you are from India, you must be familiar…
Richard Rogers is most famously known for his modernist and functionalist designs in Europe. The Italian-British architect is the man behind some of the exceptional works of contemporary architecture including…
As architects and designers strive to design futuristic structures—with more technology, more complexity, and more sustainability—energy consumption becomes a crucial factor to consider. ‘Sun, Wind & Light: Architectural design strategies’…
First published in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas is a book written by architects and writers, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, and co-authored by Steven Izenour. It inspired a…
Rem Koolhaas has perhaps been one of the most influential architects of the Post-Modern Era. With Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) being one of the most profound and followed architecture firms…
The Architectural Heritage of Sri Lanka brings together measured drawings from the Anjalendran Studio, text by David Robson, and photographs by Dominic Sansoni. The book takes a comprehensive look at…
William Hollingsworth (Holly) Whyte was born in West Chester Pennsylvania, in 1917 and graduated from Princeton University in 1939. He was an American sociologist, urbanist, people watcher, organisational analyst and…
Product Design Books, The professions relating to the design and concerning visual aesthetics should be supported by not only academic documents; but also, it needs visual inspirations to enhance and…
“House, Form and Culture essentially said that we cannot just look at what architects do, we must look, for instance, at vernacular design, spontaneous settlements and so on.” — Amos…
Published in 1997, Metabolism in Architecture is a collection of the author’s significant works in architecture and theoretical writing from 1960 to 1975. puts light on Japanese culture and architecture. The…
In his much-acclaimed and equally criticized book, ‘The Four Elements of Architecture’ the author, Gottfried Semper talks about the origins of architecture from an anthropological point of view. He puts…
“..address the unequivocal social and cultural power architecture possesses to produce representations of the world through exemplary forms of built reality.” -P.V. Aureli, The Possibility of Absolute Architecture. Architecture holds…