Russia’s history of mass housing development can be divided into several distinct periods, each manifested by its own specific type of residential building.…
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About a month before he unveiled his eighth album Ye in June, Kanye West re-entered architectural conversation with the unexpected and mostly unexplained announcement that he intends…
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You wouldn’t think it looking at Mexico City today—a densely populated metropolis, where empty space is hard to come by—but decades earlier, following a devastating…
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Chicago Architecture Foundation’s New Home, the Chicago Architecture Center, to Open in Late August
The Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) has announced the opening date for their new home, the Chicago Architecture Center (CAC). Set to open August 31 of…
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In 1906, American architect Stanford White was murdered on the roof of a building he had designed sixteen years earlier. The now well-known story goes…
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For most recent graduates, it quickly becomes evident that what you learn in architecture school is not necessarily enough to become a confident architect. Some things…
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10 Unconventional Plywood Projects That Show The Bright Future of 20th Century Materials
Sold in standard 4 foot wide sheets since 1928, plywood has been a staple of conventional construction for nearly a century. Dimensionally strong, easily cut,…
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The Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy was one of the most influential thinkers, designers and art educators of the first half of the twentieth century. His experimentation…
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This summer a brand new class of eager architectural hopefuls are preparing to start their lives in design at architecture schools around the world. Entering…
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Indigenous co-design—a more specific form of the general concept of co-design in which an architect collaborates with a stakeholder community—is a collaborative design…