Modernist Architecture, Modern Building
One of the narrative threads of Modernist architecture since its seminal stages has been a preoccupation with the plane—witness Rietveld’s Schröder House of 1924, preceded by his 1917 chair.
Articles designs, buildings
Articles on buildings and architects
New architecture articles with useful information about buildings and the built environment around the world. Discover a wide range of building articles from across the globe.
Our architectural posts form a useful resource for architects, architecture students, engineers and property professionals.
In addition, we post significant contemporary architecture projects on this international website. We share internationally-significant architectural works information and images.
Ethical Architecture: Capitalist Building
Ethics & Architecture built environment discussion by Trevor Tucker: Let’s say we’re in tough economic times. Let’s pretend that once prosperous countries are going bankrupt. Rumours of war in the Middle East.
Architecture & Economics: Karolina Szynalska
Decadent postmodernism has never been fashionable in the homogenised country with the highest wealth per adult in the world. The architecture there has never had to aspire to social change. It did not have to dream about a better future
Skyscraper Building Design: Tall Buildings
Skyscraper Building Design, ‘Celebrity and the City’ – article for e-architect by Nigel Henbury, 24 Jan 2012 – Skyscraper Design, Tall Buildings around the World
Architecture Exhibitions – Professor Brian Carter
In a year characterized by extraordinary chaos and sweeping devastation across landscapes, economies and families alike perhaps it seems surprising to suggest that 2011 was the year of architectural exhibitions.
Global Built Environment, World Architecture
Global Architectural Environment article for e-architect by Manuel A. Marichal: Over time there have been many predictions about how the world would shape and how the environment and civilization crossover and coexist.
City Analysis, Built Environment: Szynalska
City Analysis, Architectural Discussion – article by Karolina Szynalska on 6 Dec 2011 – models of understanding, architectural analysis, city design
Interiorist Views: Interior Architecture Design
Views of an Interiorist, article by Frazer Hay, 1 Nov 2011 ‘Architectural Inheritance’ reviews Drents Museum, Assen: Netherlands architecture discussion.
Public Architecture in London: Karolina Szynalska
Public Architecture in London : Architectural article by Karolina Szynalska ‘Is beige the new white?’ Last week the current home of the Design Museum in London went on the property market.
Architecture of Spectacle – Brian Carter
This strange device, supposedly inspired by Buckminster Fuller and apparently developed to economize on material, also seems to hint at the roar of the crowd and the energy of the game within
Persistence of the Absurd: Stirling Prize Analysis
The idea of building for permanence–optimising materials performance, yet being flexible enough to accommodate change and adaptability over a lifetime, whilst minimising energy consumption is surely the ultimate holistic objective for any architecture
Architecture as Spectacle – Joyce Hwang
“Spectacle” is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “something exhibited to view as unusual, notable, or entertaining; especially an eye-catching or dramatic public display.”
Placebo Architecture: Architectural Welbeing
“Architecture implies building beautifully and well. Great architecture can be profoundly moving, can stir us more deeply than any other of the visual arts, for it is a three-dimensional art into which the beholder may enter and of which he may feel himself to be an integral part.”
Globalized Architecture: Globalization & Building
Nature is the first thing ignored during the age of globalization and can also be considered a victim of economic growth. The green movement has tried to present nature as the most considerable heritage of humankind; to revere the nature, to blossom in every single moment
Contextual Architecture: Roland Wahlroos-Ritter
The Hamburger Hof in Berlin is a sensitive yet audacious intervention into and renovation of an 200 year old building ensemble. The project continues the historic programatic mix of culture, crafts, housing and offices and inserts dramatic new volumes strategically to retain spatial qualities.
Cultural and Contextual Identity: Nigel Henbury
Cultural and Contextual Identity. A group of projects presented this week catch the eye, as expressions or solutions to different contexts across three continents and several climate zones.
Building Language, Architecture Dialogue
Building Language, Architecture Dialogue – discussion by Trevor Tucker – architectural language, photos, designs dialogue, architects projects news