Practice: Details

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.”

“For as long as architecture has been reduced to a service to society or an ‘industry’ whose ultimat e goal is only to build, there have been others who imagine it instead as a field of intellectual research: energetic, critical, radical,” states Giovanna Borasi in her essay “Another Way of Building Architecture.”

The witty juxtaposition in the “What We Design vs. Where We Design” meme reveals a fundamental truth about the work of architects.

Understanding what software works for you and your workflow.

Ever caught yourself referring to Brunelleschi’s Dome or Gehry’s Guggenheim when you weren’t talking about design?