Architect
The Business of Spy Technology: How the Industry Is Booming*
In today's technologically advanced world, the business of spy technology is experiencing an unprecedented boom. From covert surveillance devices to high-tech gadgets, the industry...
Zaha Hadid Strategy Of Design
When noticing the complex presentation of Hadid’s works from the early 1980s to mid-1990s, anyone might face a difficulty to understand her way of...
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...
