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Restrictions have challenged architects to come up with innovative home designs that maximize floor area over a small site

Tron's neon-like lines of light remain hugely popular in design today.

“In the Spanish language the word Husos has at least three different meanings,” Diego Barajas and Ca milo García of Madrid-based practice Husos Architects explain of their namesake. “One is time zones. It also means a spindle, a tool used in weaving … particularly beautiful in its material delicacy, traditionally linked to domestic life. And phonetically,…

"Even though classes have only just begun, what’s expected of us in terms of critical insight and ra te of production is staggering."

Considered the world’s largest collection of premier boutiques for home building and renovation, Lux eHome at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart will host the Chicago Design Summit. This residential design summit — the Midwest’s largest — will showcase 31 innovative programs, CEU seminars and events featuring industry luminaries, 11 strategic media partners and over a dozen notable editors,…

The wide array of digital design tools available to architects today can sometimes be a double-edge sword. While the variety of software is enabling architects to customize their workflows, having to switch from program to program can cause bottlenecks, hinder efficiency and make collaboration unnecessarily cumbersome. Prior to the creation of BIM, architects generated 3D…

Stenciling goes all the way back to the beginning of art history, predating even the paintbrush. Cav e paintings from 35,000 years ago feature hand tracings of prehistoric humans made with blown pigment. Through the millennia, the technique has waxed and waned in popularity and prestige, perhaps reaching its apex during the Edo period in Japan…

Given the proliferation of digital tools and time-saving software now available, some believe archit ects no longer draw or sketch as they used to. With this visual series, we are out to prove otherwise by delving into the sketchbooks of designers, revealing some hidden gems in drawing, painting and sketching along the way. To be considered…

When starting out in a young firm, understanding architectural fees and knowing how much to charge i s crucial, yet the information offered on this subject is incredibly fragmented and inconsistent.