What is Architecture? Architecture is a broad term where the process extends from sketching simple lines on a piece of paper to creating magnificent monuments that stand tall for ages.…
Architecture plays a major role in nation-building. It makes a country viable, stable, and prosperous, and encourages a strong sense of national identity. It could restore a functioning market economy,…
A question every person, architect or not, has asked themselves before- what will architecture of the future look like? We probably will not be living in space stations like the…
Galveston is a coastal Tourist Hotspot and port located on Galveston Island and Pelican Island off the Southeast Texas coast. The area of 209.3 square miles (542 km2) has a…
Beginning the second decade of the 21st century we anticipated it to be the year of new aspiration, goals, and achievements unaware of what awaited us. As the world gets…
Race and Urbanism – In a Nutshell During the 1920s, brokers consciously leaned towards integrating a then ‘white neighbourhood’ of Compton. Housing contracts in the US prohibited Blacks, Jews, Asians,…
Being an architect or even pondering about being one is a responsibility in itself. A lot of things go into consideration when one considers architecture as a profession. It does…
Every act of design is an act of advocacy. It is an advocacy of the ideals, beliefs, frameworks of the social being that is the designer, and advocacy of what…
After the end of colonial rule in India, the government had one ambitious plan- to revive the economy through rapid infrastructural development in the housing sectors. The first Prime Minister,…
18.3 degree Celsius in Antarctica!! Deforestation that was equivalent to 8.4 million soccer fields over the past decade in the Amazon rainforest!! These unbelievable facts are the reality of our world…
Norway; a mid-sized, cold climate, European country (with a lot of fjords). It’s also a global leader in sustainability. Sustainability is built into Norwegian culture. From shopping to eating habits,…
Theories of urban governance determine the procedural variations of urban political systems and their influence over outcomes and policy formation. Through public-private partnerships, the process of governance regulates, coordinates and…