“We designed a compact, directionless, self-contained building with flexible use potential.” – Marlies Rohmer (Architects) In its purest form, architectural space is a volume created by any carefully placed object…
Melbourne’s Eiffel Tower, as described by Mr. Danny Pearson, the Minister for Creative Industries of Australia, the new National Art Gallery of Victoria Contemporary building, is all set to be…
Tucked in the green blanket of Beijing, China, the Beijing sub-center library resembles a monumentally scaled pavilion, a civic space for the people to assemble. Following an international design competition…
August 15th marks our freedom from British rule—since India became an independent nation, raw and problematic but brimming with new opportunities and expectations. All eyes were on the nation’s newly…
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…
Japanese architecture is often thought of to be simple and minimal. However, Japanese architecture can be the opposite. Influenced by architectural legends like Le Corbusier, and, in the earlier years,…
“Architecture is a social act and the material theatre of human activity.”– Spiro Kostof. While flipping through our history books, it is evident that architecture is one of the only…
Liverpool is a city with a diversified urban pattern. Distinct architectural marvels adorn this city like jewels, with their respective impacts on the urban population and their microcosm. From neo-gothic…
“The present is the ever-moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.” – Frank Lloyd Wright, The Living City There has always been speculation about the possible…
Most people who own a television are familiar with the theories surrounding the pyramids and Stonehenge, everything from alien astronauts landing on our planet to mystery rituals being performed at…
“Modern architecture is not a style, it’s an attitude.” — Marcel Breuer Modern architecture is a movement that emphasized the function of the built form over its ornamentation. Modernist philosophy…
“All history is inescapably conditioned by a mode of beholding, and one can no more write an absolute history than one can achieve an absolute architecture.” — Kenneth Frampton Modern…