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Preservation of historical monuments stressed

LAHORE (Staff Rporter): Punjab Minister for Industries Shiekh Allaudin has said that the government is serious in preserving Pakistan’s cultural heritage and architects can play an important role in...

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"To confront populism, all architects should become classicists"

As surprise election fever grips the UK, buried on YouTube you can find an obscure promotional film for the only British political party with an architectural manifesto. The United Kingdom Independence...

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Mapping the Emotional Cityscape: Spaces, Performances and Emotion in Urban Life

We seek proposals for 20 minute papers, or panels of three papers, from any disciplines dealing with the city and emotion. Interdisciplinary perspectives and ECR/PhD students are particularly welcome....

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Sacrifice, Consumption, and the Public Good

Society for Values in Higher Education 93nd Annual Meeting

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New Le Corbusier Monograph Offers Exclusive Look at Today's Chandigarh

An architecturally powerful new capital for the state of Punjab was the joint dream of Indian prime minister Jawarharlal Nehru and architect Le Corbusier. They signed a contract to work together on...

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Delivery robots: a revolutionary step or sidewalk-clogging nightmare?

What Would Delivery Robots Mean for Public Space?

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Op-Ed: Cities Still Subsidize Everyone Else

Trump rode waves of anti-urban sentiment to the White House. But is some city smugness forgivable if urban economies subsidize rural places?

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Cameron Sinclair joins Airbnb to provide housing for 100,000 displaced people

Airbnb wants to provide temporary housing for 100,000 displaced people, and to help reach that goal, the home-sharing service has put together a team lead by designer and Architecture for Humanity...

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Architecture in the Basement

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If Cities Ruled the World

A discussion between Richard Florida, Jonathan Haidt, and the late Benjamin Barber about how how “rebel cities” can resist ...

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Who's Calling the Shots On Autonomous Vehicles?

As AVs trickle onto city streets, public leaders should set the rules of the road—before the industry does.

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Here's What Manhattan Sounded Like in 1609

A new virtual reality project reconstructs the city’s historic soundscape.

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3 mega AMRUT projects take off in Srinagar city

SRINAGAR:- The much awaited mega drainage scheme under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) took off here today with the launching of three major schemes for Srinagar city.The...

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The first Brexit: Submerged landscapes of the North Sea and Channel

The British Isles split from Europe several thousand years ago. Now, maritime archaeology is revealing a lost landscape on the seafloor

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CARTHA – The Limits of Fiction in Architecture

Almost three centuries ago, in 1721, the Austrian architect Fischer von Erlach published  A Plan of Civil and Historical Architecture. This book, a supposed comparative analysis of the world’s...

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Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism

Much of feminist architectural scholarship focuses on the enormous task of instating women’s experience of space into spatial praxis. Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism suggests...

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IAPEX-2017: Development projects ‘must not damage heritage’

 LAHORE: The government needs to ensure that development does not damage the cultural heritage of Pakistan and precautions are taken while executing construction near heritage sites.This was the...

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Brutalist Sydney Map celebrates the city's concrete heritage

The family of Brutalist Maps architectural guide books just welcomed its newest member into this world and extends the reach to Australia: Brutalist Sydney Map—launched this week by Blue Crow Media in...

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Govt plans world-class complex at Pragati Maidan: ITPO

New Delhi, Apr 27 (PTI) The exhibition-cum-convention complex being built at Pragati Maidan will have world-class features like skywalk connectivity with metro and seven modern exhibition halls.“The...

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"Reimagining the Iconic: Adapting and Adaptations of the Pictorial Image."

Session at Universities Art Association of Canada

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