Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2013 was awarded to Japanese architect Toyo Ito. A seven-person jury, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, selected Ito for the annual award, making him the sixth Japanese architect to receive what is considered the field’s highest honor.Toyo ItoPritzker Price
Mathematical Excursions To Architecture (Repost)The world's greatest buildings provide a window on great math and great design.By: Alexander J. Hahn, Inside Science Minds Guest ColumnistMathematics and architecture are two sides of the same golden coin.On the one side is mathematics, and its capacity to enhance the understanding of architecture, both aesthetic aspects such as symmetry and proportion, and structural aspects ...
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 LankaVia Archnet
Vladimir Putin, widely regarded as the man who guided the post communist Russia away from anarchy and economic disaster will be seeking a third term for the presidency of Russia. Asked at a press conference on 14 February 2008 whether he was the richest person in Europe, as some newspapers claimed; and if so, to state the source of his ...
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 ...
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.
I fill up a place, which may be better… when I have made it empty. — William Shakespeare (the William Shakespeare) When you are stuck, walk away from the computer and draw. It will teach you how to see. — Gerard Huerta (typography designer) There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds ...
Safdie Architects was recently selected to design a new mixed-use development in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The 69-storey mixed-use project will be the first for Moshe Safdie in Sri Lanka, and is expected to be the tallest residential building in Colombo when it is completed. The 69-storey mixed-use development is in the city center and will face Beira Lake, with ...
While cleaning our place I found this! Done at a time when my wife was employed there at the D.C.L. (Design Consortium Limited) It was her first job as were for few of my other batch mates, soon after we finished our B.Sc. (Built. Env.).
වාස්තු විද්යාව සහ ජ්යෝතිෂය from Young Asia Television on Vimeo. Architect Anura Dayaratna on "වාස්තු විද්යාව සහ ජ්යෝතිෂය". This discussion is in Sinhala.
One of the most complicated things for people to grasp is understanding that true design doesn't happen in physical form. The process of design is solving a problem, that means identifying it and coming to conclusions about the entities that surround that problem. Let's start here; design has happened for hundreds of years. To iterate again and force focus, ...
Sagara has published a new book on churches of the Kalpitiya peninsula in Sri Lanka. This is Sagara's second book, his first being "Dwellings of Faith"
Recently we has very interesting seminar under the theme "Coming of Age - A mid century architectural conversation on community, shared values and possible horizons" at Moratuwa university. Apart from seeing quite a few interesting projects from different parts of the world we had the opportunity (and time) have a lively discussion at the ...
A short turn off from the Kundasala Road just outside of Kandy and you will come upon a strange sight: the unfinished Vihara of Galmaduwa. The Galmaduwa viharaya is an impressive building of strange architecture. As its local name suggests, it is basically a pavilion built of stone and brick. But a high gopuram gives it a Hindu identity. ...
