Articles by Maya Sorabjee

These awe-inspiring projects reveal a softer, more organic side of Brutalism.

Sustainable, cheap and locally produced, baked brick is treasured in Vietnam for both its cultural s ignificance and its environmental qualities.

Le Corbusier's principles live on through modern interpretations.

Public repositories tend to work best when rendered abstract, allowing flecks of individual remembra nce to color in their volumetric outlines.

Breuer worked both individually and alongside his mentor Walter Gropius to build private residences across the country, using them to test methods of construction and to play with softer building materials.

When asked whether she considers herself the “architect for the agnostic” in her designs for cultura l spaces, Annabel Selldorf, principal at Selldorf Architects, weighed the suggestion of art as religious experience. “We create and assign spaces to enable the experiences of such transcendence,” she proposed, “and traditionally art and architecture have done this in unison.”…

Whether rising from deserts, riverbanks, mountains or forests, the houses in this collection all emb ody this mediation, embracing in their own ways the uneven topography of the landscape.

Large monuments have been around for as long as human civilizations have. There are a few theories a s to why mankind often chooses to build so big. One of them suggests that it’s conspicuous consumption: the demonstration of prosperity by intentionally wasting resources on big, uninhabitable things. A more popular notion is that of collective…

In contemporary architectural projects around the world, traces of Mies persist in form and material details, lines of architectural poetry that allude and confirm his timeless adage.