I am obsessed with soil and water, the veritable stuff of life. This is somewhat unusual for an architect, especially one educated in the South in the late 1970s when the solution to nearly every ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. In this week's reprint, author Jacob DiCrescenzo explores the Emotional Experience of architecture, after having tackled in a previous article the ...

Continuing our quest to redefine how architecture is perceived nowadays and exposing the different notions out there, ArchDaily gave space for its users to answer four fundamental questions: "What is ...

Section 1. Purpose. The Founders, in line with great societies before them, attached great importance to Federal civic architecture. They wanted America’s public buildings to inspire the American ...

The Namib Desert Beetle has a neat trick for slaking its thirst in desert conditions. The beetle’s shell is lined with small bumps that draw and condense atmospheric moisture into droplets of water, ...

Some spaces feel easy the moment you step into them. They’re not styled to impress, not packed with things for the sake of visual interest, but they’re balanced in a way that makes daily life more ...

Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary building style for cathedrals from the late 12th to the 16th century. It evolved from its heavier, rounder ...

I’m at the Open Group Conference in San Diego this week, and the organization just released TOGAF Version 9, the next generation of its enterprise architecture framework. In looking into it, I’ve ...

Last February, a media tempest swept over the design world when the White House debuted a proposed executive order mandating the use of “traditional” architecture in the construction of all new ...