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How to Effectively Market to Architects During COVID
In this article, we take a look at 6 ways to effectively market to architects during COVID.
Build Me Up: How Architecture Can Affect Emotions
How does architecture affect our emotions and what kind of design interventions can be made to help us survive the chaos of daily life?
How Architect Yona Friedman Used Math to Design Utopian Cities of the Future
Friedman left us with a lot to remember. Some obituaries commemorated his pioneering work — some of it with UNESCO — on self-sufficiency, empowerment and do-it-yourself architecture. Others have restated the influence his emblematic “Spatial City”
Green Buildings Must Do More to Fix Our Climate Emergency
Architects see buildings as a possible solution to the climate crisis.
Designing Structures That Become Local Landmarks
With proper design, a structure can become an icon and a representation of the people it serves. Local landmarks offer advantages in community, tourism, quality of life and navigation. Find out how!
Prisons and Asylums Prove Architecture Can Build Up Or Break Down A Person's Mental Health
Building design can offer therapeutic benefits for both psychiatric in-patients and prisoners. Or, it can result in vulnerable people – including those with severe mental illness – being held in custody, rather than receiving high quality, community-based care.
Project Highlight: Private Residence
Lue Svendson used Anamese Pottery exclusively for this private residence project.
Ashbridges Bay Skatepark’ progressive design and innovate solutions for better, more durable concrete will carry a whole generation of Toronto street skaters, and national and international visitors, into a creative, active, and imaginative future.
Top Three Universities of Breathtaking Architecture
We’ll list the three most beautiful universities in terms of architecture. Even if you don’t study at one of them, you should definitely go see them.
K House—An Exclusive Villa Resort Hotel Built in Sri Lanka
AIM Architecture and Norm Architects have completed an exclusive villa resort in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka
What Are Laminated Shingles & Why You Might Want Them
Once the sole domain of upscale houses, laminated shingles are fast coming into the American home market and are now being used in the roofing of most houses in pan America.
Challenges to Tackle in Restoring Buildings
This article seeks provide actionable advice for professionals who plan to tackle a restoration or rehabilitation project on an aging building.
Structural-Architectural Integration
Greg Corbett, Staff Architect at Mark English Architects in San Francisco, explained how one private home design needed refinement in order to reduce the amount of steel.
How will we live in Space?
SAGA is a new, but extremely ambitious studio which is creating harmonious homes in the most hostile of all places. Space.
The next step in sustainable design: Bringing the weather indoors
A building’s primary purpose may be to keep the weather out, but most do such an effective job of this that they also inadvertently deprive us of contact with two key requirements for our well-being and effectiveness: nature and change.
Visit These 10 Architecture Museums for Inspiration
We’ve showcased 10 different design museums from across the world that not only provide inspiration, but also offer social commentary on the development of architecture throughout the years.
5 Easy Ways Architects Can Build Better Cities
As an architect specifically, you're expected to consider how each decision you make impacts the environment not only physically but also socially.
An Architectural Designers Top 5 Virtual Reality Experiences
What are the “how-to” lessons we can leverage through virtual reality (VR) that could drive innovation and advance our built environment for the next 10, 100, or even 1,000 years?
What is a Mansard Roof and What Advantages/ Disadvantages It Carries
What exactly is the Mansard roof? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using this roofing style? How did it come into existence? We will answer all these questions and more in this article.