Retrofit Construction: Products for Architecture After the Blank Site
The architectural default should ask how we can work with what already exists. Products, in turn, sh ould embrace this logic of adaptation.
The architectural default should ask how we can work with what already exists. Products, in turn, sh ould embrace this logic of adaptation.
These projects prove that the axonometric drawing is far more than a representational convention.
A quiet rebellion amongst designers is elevating the humble wall into an inhabited architectural ele ment rather than a cosmetic one.
When done right, sketching is the most agile form of architectural drawing — one that convincingly n arrates an architect’s thoughts as they unfold.
Because not every architectural idea should wait for a client, a permit, or a construction budget.
If architecture no longer asks ‘what if,’ how might it interrogate reality with wit instead?
As metal costs soar, architects favor regional materials such as brick, concrete, ceramics and bambo o in value-engineered systems.
Architects are experiencing something quite paradoxical: the more omnipresent AI becomes, the more t ightly they clutch their craft.
Architecture school promises one career, but practice quietly offers many more.