Articles by Lidija Grozdanic

“If a diagram is done right, it can engage the viewer as much as any perspective rendering.”

The structure was designed by students at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design as part o f their Habitation in Extreme Environments course, led by Rok Oman and Spela Videcnik of OFIS arhitekti, manufactured by London-based structural engineering firm AK II and transported in segments by Slovenian army via helicopter.

Enrich creates alternate, often surreal realities by manipulating architecture to his digital will.

Assemble’s 18-strong collective of activists-cum-architects reminds us that the disciplinary rigidit y of architecture is a construct existing solely in the minds of architects.

Architects gravitate towards those with whom they can share their love for certain coffee blends, po st-structuralist thoughts, and words like "bifurcation" and "juxtaposition".

These eight examples of modern mountain houses provide all of the coziness and warmth of traditional structures, but do so with a modern twist and minimal environmental impact.

Columbia, Md.–based manufacturer SolarWindow Technologies recently unveiled their innovative solar t echnology that could turn every skyscraper into a solar collector.

“Plecnik is, in a way, a hero for most of us, especially in the way he branched out from the moderni st mainstream, developed his own expression, took ideas from local architecture, and designed everything from door handles to urbanistic proposals. We try to follow a similar logic,” the architects told Architizer.

Where better to address the issue of housing shortage than in one of the world’s 50 most densely pop ulated cities? Located in Seoul’s largest district, the Songpa Micro-Housing functions as a small urban village in which the line between individual living units and semi-public and open-program spaces are blurred, adding significant social value to the reconfigurable blocks of the complex.