Architecture is perceived in many forms throughout the world. Some describe it as an art form that defines our thoughts into spaces. Some say that an architect’s job is to…
Ada Louise Huxtable (first Architecture Critic of The New York Times, 1963) begins her discourse on Architecture Criticism by making the reader aware that the objective of criticism is unlike…
What does it mean when we talk about the ‘Theory of Architecture? As much as we’ve heard, architecture is the technical approach to curating any built structure. It is about…
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” – Jane Jacobs The conscious design of public buildings with the…
“Belle-Lettrism is to the majority of writing what architecture is to the majority of buildings.” -Naomi Stead Naomi Stead is a Melbourne-based architectural professor, scholar, and critic. She is the…
Mark Wigley – academic and architectural theorist, born in New Zealand and former professor and Dean of Columbia GSAPP, New York City, has authored a plethora of books on architectural…
Significance Of Architectural Criticism Architectural criticism has a bad reputation for being incompetent and not rigorous enough as critical writings in the fields of science and technology and the same…
Dubbed the leader of the group of neo-Marxist and neo-rationalist intellectuals in the Architectural Institute of the University of Venice, Tafuri’s analysis and texts were often described to be pessimistic.…
Industrial design competitions provide a wide scope of finding new ideas on how to improve aesthetics, ergonomics, functionality, and usability by incorporating additional knowledge and newer technologies from various fields…
Zaha Hadid, also known as Dame Zaha Hadid, was the first woman to have been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004. Having studied for a bachelor’s degree in mathematics…
About the architect and his work Controversial with his design, unapologetic for his behavior, and living life as he deemed fit, diving in every shade and era of architecture and…
Hugo Ball, often considered the founder of the Dadaism Art Movement once said, “For us, art is not an end in itself…but it is an opportunity for the true perception…
