“Belle-Lettrism is to the majority of writing what architecture is to the majority of buildings.” -Naomi Stead Naomi Stead is a Melbourne-based architectural professor, scholar, and critic. She is the…
“They are not houses but homes where a happy community lives. That is what finally matters,” says B.V Doshi, the shaping hand behind Aranya. Strong recognition of relationships between humans…
As the world addresses him as the renowned museum architect, Renzo Piano was born in 1937 in Genoa, Italy. Piano acquired his architectural education from the Polytechnic University of Milan.…
Located between the Civic Centre and the Cultural Centre on Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is famous for its modern and deconstructivist…
“In architecture, it is not the final building that is important, but the process” -Tadao Ando The documentary starts by showing an almost empty street in Osaka, Japan located outside…
Breaking the myth of Starchitect As a young struggling architect trying to find my place in the world, the castle of my dreams came swiftly crashing down. I was not…
The design transformation of Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) to Brooklyn Queens Park (BQP) is an integrated proposal made by the Bjarke Ingels Group as an opportunity to rethink the future…
A long list of geniuses have starred in contemporary architecture: names like Rem Koolhaas, Enric Miralles, Peter Eisenman take the stage every night, startling the audience with their brilliant, innovative…
“You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with…
Born in 1967 in Santiago de Chile, the Pritzker Prize winner Alejandro Aravena is a leading advocate of sustainable development in contemporary architecture. He graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University…
Volume zero is a documentary based on the philosophy of what Charles Correa thought and how he implemented that in his work throughout. The documentary gives a brief idea about…
Unique in their appearance as the letters “V” and “M” from an aerial point of view, the VM Houses, a set of two adjacent buildings by JDS Architects and Bjarke…
