In 1972, a housing complex in St. Louis, Missouri was demolished with controlled explosives. Pruit-Igoe, designed by Minoru Yamasaki in the early 1950s and built with the full architectural confidence…
Published in 1997, Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture compiles over 120 major architectural works from the late 20th century to explain the evolution of architectural thought. While the book…
In a unique fusion of conceptual design and retail culture, Nik Bentel has collaborated with Lidl to release a trolley-inspired handbag. Bentel, known for changing commonplace objects into surprising artefacts,…
Postmodernism did not arrive in India as a declared movement. It filtered in quietly, settling into campuses, housing colonies, cultural centres, and the expanding edges of cities. In Indian Architecture,…
From the post-industrial and World War era to today in the 21st century, we have seen a significant commercialization and commodification of various fields and sectors to keep pace with…
Architecture is a language civilizations have used for centuries to convey their social, economic, and political worldview. The buildings people build say a lot about the people who make them.…
The way an artist uses a brush and a sculptor transforms a mere clay into a sculpture. An architect tries to design a space in the same way an art…
Alicia Imperiale’s New Flatness: Surface Tension in Digital Architecture presents an engaging study of how digital technologies have transformed the relationship between architectural representation and built structures. The core of…
Many of us have observed that storytelling is a trending activity on social media, where creators narrate the concepts or values that art embodies. This helps in finding the right…
Arata Isozaki, a visionary Japanese architect and the recipient of the 2019 Pritzker Prize, the highest honor for an architect, wasn’t just a master in designing spaces but also in…
Architecture as a Dialogue with Time Architecture is often considered as a silent art. But if you listen closely, you will hear it speak – a whisper of the civilizations…
Nothing in the world has an origin without a precedent. From the evolution of various species in nature to the development of human civilization, all progress comes from the point…