Chicago, the most important city in America, located on the shores of Lake Michigan in Illinois, is among the largest cities in the U.S. Famed for its bold Chicago architecture,…
Louis Sullivan (1856–1924), the American architect remembered as the “father of skyscrapers” and author of the dictum “form follows function,” gave the tall steel-frame building its first true architectural language…
Architecture drawing is a very first expression of an idea – A graphic manifesto of what an architect envisions. The very simple act of representation of a concept in a…
Fewer cities in the USA have a history as rich and tumultuous as Detroit. It is a city with a declining population and abandoned buildings but still somehow maintains its…
kinetic façade cost kinetic façade cost Architecture has always evolved what remained unchanged were the Facades. They were enhanced or beautified but were functionally and aesthetically frozen other than the wear and…
The cultural capital of Maharashtra, Pune is one of the oldest cities of the state, and is called the ‘queen of the Deccan plateau’. The city acted as a throne…
CLIMATE CHANGE: “I don’t think the planet will die. I think the earth is too powerful. She’s lived through hotter times, colder times, she’s lived with dinosaurs, without dinosaurs, she’ll…
Criticism is an exercise in the evaluation of the merits and demerits of an object or a practice. It is an interpretation of a piece of work- which could be…
Design thinking is a practical user-centric approach towards solving problems. It has been derived from problem-solving methods from diverse fields like engineering, architecture, and business. It is because of this…
Hassan Fathy (1900–1989), Egypt’s “architect of the poor,” proved that mud brick could be modern: his New Gourna Village near Luxor (1946–52) revived Nubian vaulting and passive cooling decades before…
Scotland is a country that makes up a small part of UK. Scottish architecture can be traced back from as early as Neolithic era and it has been changing ever…
The architecture of New York is beautiful yet complex as it has developed over the course of time. Before the 1880s, New York meant Manhattan Island, which was a seaport.…