Synagogue and Museum: 3rd International Congress on Jewish Architecture
Call for Papers, Call for Posters
View ArticleDenise Scott Brown on the unknown history of architecture and planning at the...
Interview by the Architect’s Newspaper
View ArticleRSA 2017 - When Theory Fails? Artistic Practices in the Early Modern Period
Despite recent critiques, art historians have maintained the assumption embedded in Giorgio Vasari’s Vite that art theory preceded and hence defined art practice in the early modern period. Arguably,...
View ArticleCapturing Hong Kong in the 'Blue Moment'
For just a few minutes a day, the sky cloaks the entire city in a glowing, azure tint.
View Article6 architects design ‘the house of tomorrow’
Rethinking the British home for a new show at the RIBA
View ArticleHow to Live in a Micro-Apartment Without Going Crazy
New York's micro-apartments seen through the psychological lens
View ArticleUNESCO backs heritage listing for Le Corbusier-designed art museum building...
A UNESCO advisory panel has recommended putting the main building of the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo and 16 other buildings designed by Le Corbusier on the world body’s list of cultural...
View Article"Architecture's odd couple": The Year Jane Jacobs and Le Corbusier Discovered...
Book except from "Becoming Jane Jacobs" (Penn Press, 2016), by Peter L. Laurence
View Article‘Architecture’s Odd Couple’: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson
“When architects get jealous, it always means there’s something special going on,” said Ulrich Franzen, a brutalist architect who died in 2012. He’s one of the large cast of characters who enliven Hugh...
View ArticleWada tips for architecture school
Nashik: Traditional door-size windows with two-level panes, wooden pillars, ventilators, and a large building of two or more storey with groups of rooms arranged around open courtyards are the special...
View ArticleURBAN SANITATION A DISTANT DREAM: "India can take a cue from Brazil" says...
Providing improved and more widespread sanitation facilities in urban India has become a major challenge for policymakers and implementers.
View ArticleStudies in Material Thinking, issue: Between Sensuous and Making-Sense-Of
Studies in Material Thinking, in collaboration with organisers of the conference Image Matter: Art and Materiality (Manchester Metropolitan University, November 2015), is calling for contributions to a...
View Article6 Key Themes at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
1. Biomimicry & The FutureFor some, the resolution of societal ills will always be found in new technologies: they are, after all, simpler to achieve than social transformation. The Israeli...
View ArticleArchitectural models on display at SEDA
The fifth annual display by students of Navrachana University's (NU) School of Environmental Design and Architecture (SEDA)
View ArticleArchitecture as film: MoMA acquires Living Architectures (Ila Bêka and Louise...
In mid-April, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) acquired all 16 films produced by the Italian-French duo, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine.
View ArticleSunken Cities review – archaeology dressed up as action movie
This frustrating show about the ‘lost worlds’ of the Nile Delta has too much Indiana Jones nonsense – and not enough genuine wonders
View Article2 Bangaldeshi projects shortlisted for Aga Khan Award
Two projects from Bangladesh are among the 19 shortlisted for this year’s Aga Khan Award for Architecture.The projects are – Bait Ur Rouf Mosque, Dhaka and Friendship Centre, Gaibandha.In an...
View ArticleThe Iconography of Ancient Philosophers of the 17th Century in Italy
L'iconografia dei filosofi antichi nell'arte del Seicento in Italia
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