The vast technical advancements of the 21st century have unavoidably led to drastic alterations in today’s architecture. One of the well-known architects who has helped to create unusual, inventive architecture…
Developed in the mid-20th century as a reaction to the functionalist approaches that dominated design, structuralism in architecture introduced a paradigm shift that focused on the underlying systems, patterns, and…
Once Zaha Hadid said, “there are 360 degrees then why stick to one?”, as bold as the statement it truly speaks many languages of styles in architecture. Predominantly curves in…
Deconstructivism Deconstructivism is an architectural style from the 1980s that challenges traditional building concepts by using fragmented forms, complicated geometry, and non-rectilinear shapes. It is influenced by deconstructionism, which aims…
It is improbable to fathom the impressions of postmodernism in the architectural discourse without first comprehending the negation caused by the supposed chastity of modernism and its ideologies of mass…
“All aesthetics, of whatever kind, are a movement forward, not backward. An artwork is never negative. By the very fact of being an artwork, it is constructive.” An excerpt from…
Project details Location – Muscat, Oman Client – Muscat Municipality Architects – Snohetta, Norway. Contractors – Oman Shapoorji Company, Oman Contractors (curved roof canopy) – Central Industry Group,Netherlands. Structural Engineers…
Amidst the ‘city within a city’ MGM Mirage City Center project, Polish – American architect Daniel Libeskind designed the shops at Crystals which is a retail and entertainment space that…
The world of architecture comes with its own unique lexicon, comprehendible only to those schooled in its workings. Most budding architects will initially have to integrate certain words and phrases…
A style of architecture that arose as an absolute contrast to the Russian movement of an architectural style called constructivism during the world war. Deconstructivism is a postmodern architectural subset.…
The rules of classical architecture were broken by a series of drawings by Russian avant-gardists who came about during the First World War. They were known as Russian Constructivists, defying…
In this ever-changing profession of Architecture, there is always some new, dazzling style to follow or an innovative new trend to look forward to. Architecture, as we all know, is…
