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…
Architecture is often perceived, analysed, and commemorated for its scale. We explore and learn it as a singular output through plans, sections, elevations, materials, and details. Buildings, however, do not…
“We seem to have forgotten that architecture is a practice. Let me repeat, architecture is a practice. It is not theory, it is not talking, and it is not meetings!…
Think about the places where you learned something without being asked to learn it. Perhaps it was a library where you picked up a book simply because its cover caught…
Whereas traditional universities generally expand horizontally and require vast spaces, here in Bangladesh’s capital city, Dhaka, a university has been built vertically in a dense urban area, in a way…
The Heritage School is one of the best examples of climate-responsive educational architecture in Pune, located in the lush green area of Ambi. The campus, which was designed by Madhav…
Reclaiming Human-Centred Learning in Architectural Education Human-Centered Architecture: Putting people at the heart of design_©Joana Sá Lima,2024The profession of architecture is facing major changes due to rapid technological progress, globalisation,…
An endless all-nighter before a 9 AM jury, tables filled with drawings, iterations, norms’ data, reviews, and presentation materials, is often an everyday, fast-paced reality for architecture students. And yet,…
A pioneering Pakistani architect, urban historian, and educator, Prof. Dr Neelum Naz is widely recognised as the first woman in Pakistan to earn a PhD and complete a post-doctorate in…
Makoko exists at the edge of convention. Located by the Lagos lagoon, in Nigeria, Makoko is an informal human settlement and is home to over 300,000 fishermen who struggle to…
Women in Architecture is a story as rich and inspiring as the few celebrated names through which architecture has been told, and as transformative. Women across the globe have a…
A few months ago, a publication wrote a piece asking where the influencer architects were. Well, they already exist, and they were frustrated. They responded very quickly, with many accounts…