20th-Century World Architecture portrays, for the first time, an overview of the finest built architecture from around the world completed between 1900 and 1999. The unprecedented global scope of this collection of over 750 key buildings juxtaposes architectural icons with regional masterpieces. Project No 104 in the book is from Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Via Archnet
2/3 of the world population have no link to professional architecture, it means 4.400.000.000 of people has not relation with academic knowledge of architecture. This book tries to explain how this knowledge can come to everywhere of our planet and how it can support to improve the lack of quality of life for natural disasters or social conflicts of millions ...
2/3 of the world population have no link to professional architecture, it means 4.400.000.000 of people has not relation with academic knowledge of architecture. This book tries to explain how this knowledge can come to everywhere of our planet and how it can support to improve the lack of quality of life for natural disasters or social conflicts of millions of human beings. Via Archnet
The Resettlement Site, Uddakandahara, Yodakandiya , Tissamaharama, Sri LankaShortlisted for Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2010 cycleArchitect/Planner: Architecture for Humanity / Susi Jane PlattPhotos and information via ArchnetPhotos: Sultan BarakatSource:Source: The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, 2011.
The Resettlement Site, Uddakandahara, Yodakandiya , Tissamaharama, Sri Lanka Shortlisted for Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2010 cycle Architect/Planner: Architecture for Humanity / Susi Jane Platt Photos and information from Archnet
A dwelling amalgamated with its existing serene context over looking paddy fields…. The Hettihamu’s; a hard working couple associated with the corporate sector are nature lovers who wanted a home which was low key and close to nature. The design strategy was to create a journey which controlled a sequence of events that harmonized with its environment, incorporating the ...
Ada Louise Huxtable, who pioneered modern architectural criticism in the pages of The New York Times, celebrating buildings that respected human dignity and civic history — and memorably scalding those that did not — died on 7th Jan. in Manhattan. She was 91. Read Newyork Times article
This is my mate Sandamali's blog. Hmmm.... When was the last time I met her? Most probably 15 years ago. I think it was during my uni days (as a student). Being a self confessed lousy writer I have never ever written to her, though I have kept in touch with her through my mate Sujeewa, who as usual keep ...
Brazil is mourning the loss of one of the country's best and brightest creative minds, famed architect Oscar Niemeyer. Born into an elite family, Niemeyer was a lifelong Communist who stood up for social inequality in one of the most unequal nations on earth, though he held no illusions his work could create a more egalitarian nation. Wikipedia Obituary ...
Mason, Barrett, Gilmour (seated), Waters and Wright British rock band Pink Floyd famously opined, “We don’t need no education,” and maybe they were right. The band was founded by a group of architecture students—Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright—at the Regent Street Polytechnic, now the University of Westminster, which served as the band’s first rehearsal space and performance ...
Edited by Simon Sellars and Dan O’Hara, the book collects 44 conversations including his first published interview, with George MacBeth in 1967, and one of his last, a 2008 interview with James Naughtie. Other contributors include Eduardo Paolozzi, Jon Savage, Will Self, David Cronenberg, Mark Dery, Richard Kadrey, Iain Sinclair, John Gray, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Toby Litt and Hari ...
Residential: Single Residence - Ar. Jayadev, Cochin Project: Rithu, Cochin Highlights of Project: Integrated indoor-outdoor transition; simple lines; play of colours; ample natural light and ventilation. Residential: Multi-storey -Ar. Kiran Venkatesh of InFORM Archietcts, Bangalore Project: Housing Tower One, Hyderabad Highlights of Project: Green features; responsible living and social interaction spaces; strong massing and colour scheme; aesthetic of building ...
