People in the profession love pointing fingers at architecture schools. But are we talking about unhealthy dynamics in the workplace?
‘Come and see this white wall,’ she says with excitement, ‘there, there it changes colour, can you see it?’ I...
Medieval churches speak the language of divine number and sacred geometry.
The classical forms we associate with refinement are in fact allusions to the most primitive origins of western civilization.
Interested in architecture? Interested in sex? Read more about the curious relationship between them.
Virtual Reality could realise architecture’s loftiest aspirations. But at what cost?
Amidst so much talk about the architecture we live in, we often forget about the architecture we die in.
The student accommodation market in Cardiff is not unlike the ones in other cities and towns of Britain – as all universities will not provide students with housing after they finish first year,students have to turn to the private sector – be it the landlords transforming residential properties into homes of multiple occupation and renting them through student letting agencies or large, privately-owned halls. However, neither of these of these options are without faults – while HMOs disrupt and push the communities in areas close to universities to the suburbs, private halls are often financially out of most students’ reach as they are marketed as as luxury accommodations and their architecture is often out of context with both its immediate and wider surroundings.
What role does architecture play in Tolkien's work? What can students of architecture learn by reading him? Read to find out.
What does the most groundbreaking archaeological discovery in recent history tell us about the origins of human civilisation?
The ruins of lost civilizations tease us profoundly. We sense the residue of the meaning they once held, but we can no longer understand what that meaning was...
