In the northeast corner of Cal Poly’s San Luis Obispo campus, the wind whistles through more than two dozen perplexing structures nestled into a grassy canyon. The structures have unorthodox designs, ...
Ancient Roman architecture is seen as a part of classical architecture and generally builds off of the three classical orders—Ionic, Corinthian, and Doric—which were developed in ancient Greece. Later ...
Jan Golembiewski is affiliated with Medical Architecture, a firm specialising in architectural psychology. In 1966, a British planner called Maurice Broady came up with a new term for the ...
A decade that lurched in with a listless and faltering financial recovery now struts out, as far as architecture is concerned, in triumph. Not since the 1920s has there been anything like the flurry ...
FAVELAS, named after the Brazilian creeping plant ’favela’ have existed in Brazil since the late 19th century. Wretched areas of closely packed dwellings were planted in the cities, on the outskirts ...
Especially in a pandemic, these structures give architects room to play with materials and form. The architect Valerie Schweitzer based her pavilion on her “poetic idea of a structure that could ...
Brooklyn-based Pop Chart Lab—makers of such visual compendia as the chart of 500 beers, pasta permutation map, and The Great Gatsby as an infographic—has turned its sights toward architecture. “The ...
Not all buildings are created equal. While many add value in terms of aesthetics and economics, some are just so horrid-looking that they easily ruin what could have been a picturesque city skyline.
It can take decades for a significant building to rise up from concept to rooftop and years more for the public to fully appreciate it as architecture worthy of civic pride. The National Museum of ...
Chattogram is home to many architectural relics from the British colonial era, the Sultanate period, Hindu zamindari estates, Islamic tradition and European culture ...