Practice: Details

It’s no longer enough to end up with a great design anymore. The methods of how one gets there are a lmost equally important.

The varied texture, color and shape of brick causes architects to continuously explore new and unexp ected applications that harness this versatile material.

It's time architects and visualization artists transform the art of rendering into something other t han a service industry.

When specifying thermal insulation, be sure to consider the following: the building type, climate, s tructural and non-structural building systems, building code requirements and environmental concerns.

Works by Tadao Ando, SANAA and James Turrell provide highlights across Naoshima.

Studying architecture is a test of mental and physical resilience and requires a willingness to go b eyond comfort zones.

After some 20 years of teaching, Prof. Blagojević of the University of Belgrade — one of the Faculty of Architecture’s most distinguished teachers — has been denied promotion to tenure in a rather questionable way.

With its emphasis on all things visual, Tumblr has emerged as one of the most engaging platforms for observing architecture, ranging from the historic to the surreal. The upload-based social network is a haven for image-hoarders everywhere, with each Tumblr carefully curated to indulge a very specific craving, be it endangered Brutalism or decadent interior…

“Architects should sketch. I am convinced of this,” says Bob Borson of MMB Architects. “I haven’t ev er — I mean EVER — personally met an architect who I thought was a good designer who didn’t sketch.”