Architect
Streets, lanes and footpaths
Our movement through towns is normally along streets and roads, and hence our perception of the quality of place is shaped by what we...
Towns, townscapes and squares
An appreciation of landscape – the aesthetic quality of the countryside – has been part of our culture for at least two hundred years,...
The Art of Fine Line Tattooing: A History and Evolution*
For centuries, tattooing has been a way to express oneself and artfully decorate one's body. Nowadays, an incredible range of techniques provide endless possibilities...
Architects and Creative Work
"You could not help getting this sense of hope that architecture was ultimately poetry and art, transcending accommodation, shelter, and program." This statement...
Speyer Cathedral*
The beautiful Speyer Cathedral belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage Site and is almost the only representative of the old Romanesque style in architecture...
Green architecture
Architects are responding in different ways to issues surrounding carbon emissions, energy consumption and climate change. The resulting green architecture is partly about adopting...
Deconstructivism – an architecture of fragmentation
Many buildings of the last two decades of the 20th century seemed to make their effect by means of fragmentation—they were structures that seemed...
From Vitruvius to Green Architecture
The ancient Greek writer Plutarch records an incident from the Spartan king Leotychidas’ visit to Corinth. The king was led to a room for...
African and Oceanic Art, Picasso and Le Corbusier
In 1906, various Parisian artists individually claimed to have “discovered” important artistic attributes in African sculptural artifacts. Who made this discovery and how it...
Alternative architecture
The search for sustainability takes people on long journeys. For some, the only way to live is to build outside the normal constraints of...
