Articles by Eirini Makarouni

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.

Dissect the qualities that elevate an AI-assisted rendering from a visual representation of a buildi ng to a standout explanation of design.

What Mies and Aalto understood early on is resurfacing: furniture can carry architectural ideas when buildings cannot.

Architects are pairing impressive imagery — renderings, photographs, etc. — with equally striking dr awings. Their weapon of choice? Annotation.

Forget en-suites and open-plan kitchens. Plant parents have become a new client demographic, and tod ay’s house tours are guided by chlorophyll.