February 2025. A small crowd gathers in the old city of Mosul to watch a tilted stone spire rise once more over the rooftops. Officials, UNESCO’s Director-General and residents who…
Architectural criticism serves as an essential bridge between spatial design and human experience, evaluating environmental psychology and the user experience. Architectural critique does not imply superficial judgment of style and…
The year 2021, unlike its tedious predecessor, could only be described as good and eventful. The year had seen the rise of the Squid Game phenomenon, Suez Canal memes and…
In some movies, architecture is scenery, but in others, it plays an important role. Cloud Atlas is one of the movies wherein architecture becomes an expression of time. Directed by…
Spatial Recall: Memory in Architecture and Landscape is an interdisciplinary collection of essays, edited by Marc Treib. The book investigates how built environments and landscapes record, store, and transmit human…
Traditionally, architecture and urban design have focused on buildings and spaces of outstanding visual, historical, or symbolic interest. Monuments, civic buildings, heritage buildings, open squares, and architecturally distinguished projects often…
Buildings rarely have only one life. But when an architect gives an existing building a new function, what happens to the lives that came before it? Old factories become galleries,…
1. How societies shape the built environment Our global cityscapes are always an evolved manifestation of their history and culture. For example, Paris has both modern and historic buildings. The…
Some places in a city stay with us without us quite knowing why. Not because the place was beautiful or that it held high value; quite the opposite, actually -…
Casablanca has been widely called the “Art Deco city”, since it has been an open air laboratory for architectural experimentations. But its history is more nuanced than this plain simplification.…
While architecture is often defined in terms of buildings, it also includes other important components that make up the city: interstitial spaces between buildings, including streets, ramps, walls, bridges, and…
Temporary structures have recently become an important part of the urban fabric as quick bottom-up approaches have proven successful in bringing people together. Despite being regarded by some as band-aid…