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...
Architecture’s new ‘ecosophy’*
The expression ‘environmental consciousness’ describes an awareness of, or sensitivity to, the environment (Oosterman : 2008). This developing outlook comes in a variety of...
Structuralism
In the 1950s a group of architects broke away from the mainstream modernist organization CIAM and began to take architecture in new directions. These...
Townscape
The townscape movement emerged after the Second World War as a way of looking at how towns grew organically and how planners should respect...
Metabolist architecture
The Japanese group known as the Metabolists proposed a new kind of architecture based on values of adaptability and change. Their visionary designs included...
Archigram
The British group Archigram formed in the 1960s as a forum for architectural discussions and ideas. Its projects existed mainly on paper, but its...
What is Architecture
On the significance of architecture, in the western world, remain today , the concepts inherited from the past that rotate, in different ways and...
Organic Architecture
You may be familiar with the term 'organic' from the produce aisle of your grocery store. When it comes to architecture, however, 'organic' means...
Progress in engineering as a challenge for architects
The innovations and the development of engineering that gave an impetus to the Industrial Revolution also prepared the ground for revolutionary changes in the...
Dissonance between the engineering potential and the academic tradition
The development of innovative technologies opened up undreamt of possibilities for the creation of space and building in architecture. However, despite the enormous transformations...
