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Christopher Brown knew since the beginning of his design education at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo (California) that he was going to start his own architecture practice before the age of 35. And he did, establishing Arkitek in 2012, at [...]
photo credit: Tanzia Islam Hagia Sophia was built in 537 A.D. as a Greek orthodox church and later converted into a mosque in 1453 A.D. A number of times this structure has been converted into a church and a mosque [...]
Picture source: Internet* Demolition of heritage is becoming the daily news of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. One of the fastest growing densely populated cities in South-Asia is now losing its historical identity every day. During the past four months, [...]
Photo credit: Ira Efremova Dr. Claudia Perren, an architectural critic and writer is joining the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau from August, 2014 as the 1st female director*. She is going to be the successor of Professor Philipp Oswalt who was employed [...]
Photo Credit: http://www.3csc.it/foto/foto_2025.jpg I was surprised and a little dismayed to discover that even today a large segment of the population does not give importance to the global warming phenomenon or, even worse, do not even believe that global warming [...]
In the frame of the annual event of the CRGS center for art, architecture and design of the University of Monterrey, Mexico City based architect Carlos Garciavelez was invited to present his Casa-Flex, a recently optimized prefabricated housing system stackable [...]
India s boom economy is leaving its modern heritage to crumble in favour of generic glass towers and shopping malls. India is experiencing the positive and negative effects of a hyper-inflated capitalist boom. A new middle class hungry for consumer [...]
photo by Mauro Caria Why has the City Council of Auckland promoted the new Unitary Plan? Let’s start with a simple syllogism.The assumptions are that: -Once again, this year, Auckland is one of three cities in the world with the [...]
Photographed by one of the protesters on 21.02.2014 Protest is going on in Bangladesh right now! ai???No wall-On Kahnai??? is the statement of the protesters – who are trying to protect one of the most important modern monuments of Bangladesh [...]
Photo: @ Moreno Maggi Photographer I met Massimiliano Fuksas in Vienna in 1996. I was attending rational-mondialist Anton Schweighofer s Technische Universit t as part of the Erasmus Program which has moved generations of vociferous students across the continent converting [...]
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