Articles tagged "Opinion"

If you possess the following qualities, architecture could well be your perfect profession.

The section truly is the mother of visual storytellers.

What is it about the destruction of famous buildings, bridges and statues that both filmmakers and a udiences find so attractive?

Suburbia, the scourge of contemporary urban planners everywhere, is about to be turned on its prover bial head thanks to avant-garde firm MVRDV. The Dutch firm is partnering with housing developers Traumhaus to transform a former US Army barracks in Mannheim, Germany, and it has taken the opportunity to carry out a rigorous reexamination of our…

Assemble’s 18-strong collective of activists-cum-architects reminds us that the disciplinary rigidit y of architecture is a construct existing solely in the minds of architects.

Architects gravitate towards those with whom they can share their love for certain coffee blends, po st-structuralist thoughts, and words like "bifurcation" and "juxtaposition".

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, global firm Gensler asked its team of talented architects, u rban planners and researchers for their personal insights and opinions on how design innovation can create more livable cities. The resulting articles feature on the firm’s dedicated blog at gensleron.com. A recent feature by Peter Weingarten— a native New Yorker…

The American presidential race heated up to boiling point this week. Further primaries were held to decide which candidate will be nominated for both red and blue sides of the political divide. In New Hampshire — viewed as a key state in predicting which White House hopeful will ultimately triumph — a certain Donald Trump…

Can sporting infrastructure help catalyze social cohesion and provide the economic stimulus for wide r urban renewal? Or are most architectural exploits pertaining to this typology merely follies of cultural exhibitionism, destined to become the societal burdens of tomorrow? In the latest issue of renowned French journal L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui — one of the oldest architectural publications…