Mental health issues among architecture students rapidly rising, survey finds
Survey comes shortly after ONS figures show student suicides in England and Wales are at their highest level since 2007
View ArticleA Year in the Metabolist Future of 1972
Article by Ana Luisa Soares and Filipe Magalhães on Failed Architecture website
View ArticleHEC urges no-compromise policy on quality of higher education
Islamabad—The Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan organized 6th meeting of all the Accreditation Councils to discuss various accreditation issues pertaining to different disciplines,...
View ArticleConnecting to the location
The dominant feature of an area should be reflected as works of art in the design of buildings, feels architect Kapil Gupta.
View ArticleICEGOV2017: 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of...
Building Knowledge Societies – From Digital Government to Digital Empowerment. 7 - 9 March 2017, New Delhi, India
View ArticleLetter from: in search of progressive architecture at the Venice Biennale
There were even multiple unapologetic articulations of zombie utopian determinist sentiments. In the words of the exhibition curator, as relayed in the catalogue, “I have a lot of sympathy for the idea...
View Article»Monumental Strategies of (Sub)urban Riots«
Monumental Strategies of (Sub)urban Riots is a project initiated by fellows Gal Kirn and Niloufar Tajeri, which focuses on the phenomenon of (sub)urban riots in the West, such as those that took place...
View ArticleCOOL: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned City
While “summer in the city” may conjure up images of sweaty subway cars, New York’s summer reality is actually a lot cooler than one may think. More and more electricity is being consumed for...
View ArticlePeople, Places and Possessions, 1350-1550
This interdisciplinary one-day symposium will bring together academic researchers and representatives from the heritage sector, to consider the value of objects, places and spaces for understanding the...
View ArticleWhy Democrats and Republicans Need to Talk About Affordable Housing
The lack of affordable housing in the U.S. should be a top priority for any incoming administration. Where’s the discussion?
View ArticleJakarta Urges Its Rural Migrants to Go Home
Indonesia’s government has resurrected its “Return to Village” movement.
View ArticleA New App Explores the Powerful Workings of Skyscrapers
Designed for kids, “Skyscrapers” is a sweet tonic for high-rise malaise.
View ArticleTrump to Cities: You're Dead to Me
Donald Trump invokes the darkest days of urban decay and crime to appeal to his base.
View ArticleThe Tower at Dubai Creek Harbour: Wind tests completed on UAE’s future...
Anyone who has stood atop a skyscraper, be it New York’s Empire State Building or Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, can attest to the power of nature at such heights.Not only is the wind strong, it also behaves in...
View ArticleZombie Utopia, FUD: Fooled by smartness
....The vast majority of so-called smart cities are the same old cities but with a ‘smart solution’ tacked on. This could be, say, the layering of data capture devices such as sensors and CCTV cameras...
View ArticleFrank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture names Chris Lasch as Director of...
The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture has announced Chris Lasch will be join the faculty as Director of Academic Affairs. In addition to working with Dean Aaron Betsky to support the...
View ArticleTropical Modernism: Lina Bo Bardi, solo exhibition by Veronika Kellndorfer.
Architecture is “an adventure in which people are called to intimately participate as actors.” -Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992)
View ArticleThe unsmart city: Gurgaon remains a tragic case study in how not to urbanise
The morass in the millennium city is a result of wild-west capitalism, with the state remaining blind to private interests overruling public goo
View ArticleSnow ghosts: Haunting images of derelict Soviet infrastructure
Danila Tkachenko is a Russian photographer whose series Restricted Areas crystallises the tendencies of many artists working on themes of the post-Soviet space. As Calvert 22’s Power and Architecture...
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