Nerea, top left, at the final review of 3rd year design studio, student housing project for KIST campus Last week we caught up with one of last year’s students who…
The prestigious bi-annual INDEX: Award has announced the five winners of the world’s largest monetary prize in design, one of which–in the “Home” category–is architect Alejandro Aravena’s ELEMENTAL Monterrey project,…
Originally featured in Metropolis back in January, and their first major project receiving wide acclaim, MASS Design Group is a (pending) not-for-profit design firm founded by six students at Harvard’s…
The field of development-oriented architecture and design is a young yet booming area of practice, fueled by an increasing awareness of global problems and the drive to solve them through…
For those working on reconstruction in Haiti, researching buildings for aid or simply studying vernacular architecture, here is a great resource created by the building designer and landscape architect Patti…
Right on the heels of the $300 House initiative, the Indian company that brought us the world’s cheapest car has unveiled its design for a $720 flatpack home for India’s…
Don’t miss this wonderfully entertaining and knowledge-filled talk with the always endearing Francis Kéré at this years Design Indaba Conference which took place in February. In it, he talks about…
We came across an interesting project featured in this month’s edition of Domus Magazine: an Emergency Pediatric Clinic in Darfur by Italian architects Tamassociati for the Italian nonprofit Emergency NGO….
Though there doesn’t seem to be much on-the-ground coverage from Haiti’s Building Back Better Communities Expo that took place last week and which we covered in our last post, we…
Bangkok isn’t the only citiy threatened by climate change, and it’s sinking. Le Monde reports that Niramon Kulsrisombat, a town planner and teacher at the architecture department of the prestigious…