Architecture has always been a fascinating field, with its changing manifestations while facing the real world at the same time. The spaces people live in play an important role in…
“If you think of Brick, you say to Brick, ‘What do you want, Brick?’ And Brick says to you, ‘I like an Arch.’ And if you say to Brick, ‘Look,…
Diébédo Francis Kéré’ is an African architect who was born in 1965. He belongs to Burkina Faso which is one of the world’s least educated and impoverished nations. There is…
The term Bauhaus means ’construction house’. It originally referred to the school of design which merged the former Grand Ducal School of Arts and Crafts and the Weimar Academy of…
The Pritzker Architecture Prize, world’s the most prestigious award in the architectural community, that motives and encourages professionals to build their work by demonstrating qualities of talent, vision, and commitment. …
“The way we build new cities will be at the heart of so much that matters, from climate change to economic vitality to our very well-being and sense of connectedness.”…
The Swiss architect Giuseppe (Peppo) Brivio is mainly associated with the ‘Ticino school’, despite the term being widely contested. Canton Ticino is a mainly Italian speaking region of Switzerland, and…
The Bauhaus Ideal Then and Now is a book captivating readers with a visual guide on the Bauhaus movement or what the writer, William Smock, calls the Bauhaus ideal. The…
Silvia Gmur – The Woman We’ve come a far way from shunning conversations about successful women, and so it is that this article introduces a woman who could have started…
Giovanni Battista (Tita) Carloni was a Swiss-Italian architect and politician. His birth town was Rovio, in the district of Lugano, Switzerland. He was born on 24th June 1931. He had…
“Certainly, architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and structure, materials and texture, lie…
Alan Buchsbaum was a central figure during the mid-’60s to the mid-’80s in three successive design movements- super graphics, high-tech, and postmodernism. The architect is known for his unique, free-flowing,…
