Articles by Serra Utkum Ikiz

Recycling rhetoric falters when synthetic systems cannot be separated from rubble.

What if timber’s real potential isn’t just strength or carbon metrics, but also its ability to creat e buildings that breathe and respond to their surroundings?

People around the world are cynical about this choice. After years of housing problems and economic stress, simple white feels lazy.

Can Nano Banana Pro change the way we design buildings? Is it a tool for liberation, or the announce r of the end for the ArchViz profession?

Responding to environmental pressure, these speculative projects replace utopian rhetoric with spati al logic and environmental reality.

Architects keep prototyping the future, but can we debug the world with design alone?

A+Awards juror Khushnu Panthaki Hoof helped realize Doshi’s final project, guiding its evolution fro m dreamlike sketch to carved, light-filled chamber.

What once organized activity now shapes meaning; at its best, mixed-use design tells the stories tha t cities live by.

Renewal projects, whether modest restorations or large-scale expansions, expose the fragile line bet ween preservation and innovation.