Architecture is closely connected to the place where it is built. A building in a hot desert cannot respond to its surroundings in the same way as a house in…
It is midnight in a city that won’t cool off; the trapped heat sends out waves that reflect how the architecture is working against the climate and environment. It’s not…
“Integration of the old and new is not a design challenge for us… they both find a distinct place in our design process.” – Sonali Rastogi (Godrej GBCS, 2015) Sonali…
While architecture is often defined in terms of buildings, it also includes other important components that make up the city: interstitial spaces between buildings, including streets, ramps, walls, bridges, and…
Temporary structures have recently become an important part of the urban fabric as quick bottom-up approaches have proven successful in bringing people together. Despite being regarded by some as band-aid…
The role of architecture in films and television shows often goes unnoticed. The architecture dictates the narrative of many movies and series. One can easily guess the character’s mood or…
Curating Art Architecture and cinema might seem like two entirely different fields, but the beauty lies in their power to bridge disciplines, connecting people, spaces, time, history, and culture. This…
As architecture gradually descended into obsession with harmonised forms, unyielding permanence, rigid orders, Vitruvian symmetries, and the glass-curtained grids of modernism, an emerging mind from America’s suburbs rejected that discipline…
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…
The exchange of goods between people is certainly not novel in today’s world, where it has been a form of social interaction from the primitive era to the present. Yet…
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…
Tree of closeness: it’s the flat, corrugated iron roof welded onto the house to stop the water from leaking through in that one spot they knew about for years and…