Practice: Details

While it is far from pretty, this building’s responsiveness to present and future programmatic needs may turn out to be a theatrical masterstroke.

In his 2012 compendium How Music Works, David Byrne postulates, “The gathered masses in sports arena s and stadiums demanded that the music perform a different function — not only sonically, but socially — from what it had been asked to do on a record or in a club. The music those bands ended up writing…

Make your renderings look like they were produced on camera.

We go right back to basics and ask a fundamental question about one of architecture's favorite drawi ng types.

When considering which architect might have the biggest presence in the consciousness of today’s cel ebrities, you would be forgiven for picking the most famous names in contemporary design — the likes of Gehry, Hadid and Libeskind must surely be most familiar to those in the upper echelons of stardom, right? On the contrary, it is…

Exploring the relationship between water and urban life, ‘Blue Urbanism’ focuses on the ways archite cture can facilitate how we perceive and value our ties to the sea. Taking case studies from across the world, this series will take a critical look at the ways contemporary cities are evolving alongside the environment. Coastal cities will fundamentally…

In anime, all the information behind a building’s design can be simplified into a single frame.

Updated August 9th 2016. Donald Trump’s architect Mr Tesoro asked for some clarifications to b e made to this article to better reflect his standpoint. We have included his words at the foot of the article. Further updates will be made as necessary to present an accurate portrayal of each party’s opinion. If you ask architects…

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…