Manifestos and How to Use Them
Architects often struggle with explaining the relevance of what we study and practice. We can talk about the different modernist movements or the latest applications of 3D printing until the cows […]
The 200 Year Birth of the International Style in 5 Minutes
It’s 1780 and throughout your life, you’ve listened to your grandparents go on and on about how everyone has lost their faith — religion isn’t what it used to be. That’s because […]
Designing Cities for Happiness
Architects and urban designers have been doing some strange things recently. They’ve been asking people to drop their wallets on the sidewalk, they’ve scanned brains, and they’ve outlawed personal cars in busy […]
Dear Everyone, It’s Time to Share the Secrets of Architecture with You
Architects are a sorrowful bunch that love to lament about their low pay, long hours, and stressful lives. On top of poor working conditions and compensation, architects are cursed to […]
Yeezy Thinks Architecture is Cool
“I hang around architects, mostly—people that wanna make things as dope as possible,” Kanye West, 36, in an interview with BBC Radio 1. First of all, Kanye, If you’re reading this, […]
A Story of Crazed Tyranny, Massacre, and Revolution
In all the bloody revolutions of history, no civilian building has played such a large role as the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania. The story begins in 1981 with […]
Do Architecture and Philosophy Mix?–or–My Consternation Regarding Phenomenological Epistemology
Architects are notorious for speaking a ridiculous language known to some as ‘archispeak.’ Some of it can be attributed to smart people trying to economize their words, some of it […]
