Inspiration: Collections

While Pisa’s off-kilter landmark is probably the most famous of its kind, there are many fascinating tilted buildings in the world.

     Los Angeles profoundly shaped the modernist movement, but the City of Angels holds far more tha n its historic legacy. From Pierre Koenig’s iconic Stahl house to the Eames House and the transformation of the Los Angeles Basin, the city has continuously sought a new aesthetic, one where progressive forms and spatial multiplicity coexist.…

Contemporary architects are finding space for new constructions among medieval sites.

Each of these mosques has its own contemporary twist.

Closely linked to layering and light quality, these ephemeral elements provide new ways to think abo ut thresholds, shading and enclosures.

Since the Modernist period, architecture has had the combination of service and living spaces as one of its core considerations. Functionalist architects, following in the tradition of machine aesthetics, sought to celebrate the spaces that allow for the operation of a building. This philosophy was epitomized by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier’s body of work —…

This complex country is home to some incredible building projects.

The towers showcase diverse ideas examining the city’s programmatic and spatial conditions.

Since Swiss-French modernist architect Le Corbusier wrote his seminal “Five Points Towards a New Arc hitecture” in 1926, the discipline has seen countless interpretations of modernism and an ever-diversifying range of trends throughout the postmodernist period. The following series of contemporary homes all follow at least the very first of Le Corbusier’s foundational principles: the supports.…