Resources to help you find materials, perfect design details and master the tools you need to create better buildings.
From striking oversized geodesic luminaires to modern furniture with a whimsical twist, Tom Dixon’s creations have been a fixture on the American design scene yet didn’t have much of a home base in the U.S. to show its wares in person. (New Yorkers in particular had to wait until their city’s ICFF trade fair to…
“Harder, better, faster, stronger” could be the saying of design-build. This form of pro ject delivery allows a property owner to contract with one entity to design and construct a building. Proponents say there are many advantages to the method. Design-build is best known for achieving greater efficiency — and ensuring cost savings — over traditional…
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.
Cyborgs used to be the stuff of fantasy. The term — a portmanteau that combines the words “cyberneti c” and “organism” — was coined in 1960, but the basic idea was around long before that. Since the 1818 publication of Frankenstein —a novel in which a mad scientist utilizes the then-novel technique of channeling electricity for…
When architects design their own home, to call it “a labor of love” is something of an understatemen t, and Architizer’s cofounder and CEO Marc Kushner understands this better than most. The practicing architect — a founding partner of Manhattan-based firm Hollwich Kushner — is currently in the midst of a highly personal project, planning the…
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…
This app takes a lot of the grunt work out of the otherwise tedious task of surveying existing build ings.
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…