Architect
Architecture and Utopia. The forbidden City
Since Thomas More used the word “utopia” to name the imaginary commonwealth that he devised somewhere in the middle of the sixteenth century, this...
Architecture and mathematics. The Alhambra
“As we walk into the Alhambra, I’m immediately struck by the reflective power of the water. It seems as though the palace is built...
Composition
An appreciation of composition is particularly important when drawing buildings and cities. The abstract nature of architecture means that sketches have to be well...
Line and shade
Sketching the outline of objects can lead to rather featureless and abstract drawing. Although one may recognise the shape of a house, its value...
Medieval Cities and Gothic Cathedrals
In the context of our neat and predictable world, we may find attractive what defies regularity and appears to be a product of procedures...
Fortified Palaces in Early Modern Sicily: Models, Image Strategy, Functions
In early modern sicily the extra-urban fortified residence was a limited but important architectural phenomenon. starting from the last decades of the fifteenth century,...
Architecture takes control. Inventing Interior Space
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, panoramas were particularly popular in large European cities. Panoramas were specially built circular halls, which received their...
The magic of the city. Igmil-Sins’s House
Today, one in two people live in cities in a world shaped by the civilization created within them. Most probably, all readers of this...
Perspective
An understanding of perspective is essential in order to gain a full appreciation of the aesthetic quality of towns, and is necessary in order...
Categorizing the Architectural Utopia in the Genre of Science Fiction
First of all I would like to start with a definition what science fiction architecture is, and more importantly what it is not. I...
