Articles by Ross Brady

Besides defining the stereotypical manner of dress for architects, black can have a powerful effect when used in actual architecture.

The importance of collaboration between architects and other professionals has been stressed repeate dly in educational curriculums recently. Despite a well-intended push, however, substantial change has been slow to pick up in this area, and the majority of today’s architecture students continue to receive the same relatively cloistered educational experience that has fed the profession for…

Architects: Research materials for your next project through Architizer. Manufacturers: Sign up now to learn how you can get seen by the world’s top architecture firms. Whether written or verbal, the way architecture projects are described to an audience often comes together as an afterthought relative to the rest of the effort put into them.…

It’s hard to think of a color more strongly associated with cutting-edge architecture than white.

If there’s one word that describes the Abedian School of Architecture at Bond University in Qu eensland, Australia, it’s “open”. With very few interior walls, there’s nothing but air between the majority of its studios, lecture halls and pin-up corners. All these spaces occur over, around and on top of each other, slipping past themselves through…

Since purple is seen so infrequently in architecture, it tends to attract attention whenever it's us ed, but it should be wielded carefully.

The latest craze in pop culture has just been handed to us from an unlikely source: Pokémon, the dec ades-old Japanese media franchise, has hit the jackpot with its extraordinarily popular mobile game Pokémon GO. A perfect storm of 90s nostalgia, gimmicky but impressive tech and social media share potential, the game has been hailed for…

In recent years, the mainstream principles of urban planning have undergone a significant shift. Aft er decades of proselytizing by various special-interest groups, many urban planners seem to have begun embracing the notion of mixed-use, walkable development as a model fit for widespread adoption. The proliferation of this wisdom is a great leap forward in the…

Architectural ensemble says a lot about us, because the buildings that make up a city reflect the at titudes, beliefs and values of the people who live there. It should be no surprise, then, that the popularity of the Grand Theft Auto series of video games — some of the most commercially successful of that medium…