James Shen / People's Architecture Office Save this picture!© PAO What’s important in making a home is location, because a home is our link to our communities. A home must provide comfort, security, and belonging. Where we live is tied to our connections to family, friends and ...
Curtain walls were actually two walls. Masons cut and fitted the stones or bricks of each wall and cemented them together with a limestone mortar. The builders filled the spaces between the walls with stone fragments, small rocks and mortar fragments (rubble). As the wall grew higher, the bu...
"Our responsibility as architects is not just to design but also to bring architecture to society and to create an awareness about urban issues and contemporary architecture within the people who inhabit it," says Dolores Victoria Ruiz Garrido, author and director of the program. What i...
This time, I made sure we stopped by the tourist office where we picked up a map of where to walk, because the first time Maggie and I were hopelessly lost – we had no idea which roads to take to see the traditional housing architecture that is incorporated into the rest of the more...
Climate friendly urban planning plays a key role in climate change mitigation and adaptation and allows for sustainable development of living conditions for future generations. It has been long understood that measures such as urban greening, planted facades and roofs or highly reflecting building ...
-traditional-society-says-you-should way, Imma bet there’s at least a drop or two of go-getter blood running through your veins. And lemme tell ya, ain’t nothin’ makes you feel like the master of your own fate the way managing business affairs while driving down the interstate does!
These developments are bound to reshape the traditional architecture of multilateralism and global governance. This means a growing voice for the new actors. But one should not think only in terms of emerging powers, or even states; the Multiplex World concept also implies the rise of non-state...
I would like to show you how architecture has helped to change the life of my community and has opened opportunities to hope. 我想向大家展示,建筑是如何帮助我们,改善了家乡人们的生活,并且打开了希望之窗。 I am a native of Burkina Faso. According to the World Bank, Burkina Faso is one of th...
wrote one parent, “We’d like to see more of the museum itself and the beautiful architecture”. Many parents and kids watching voiced their hopes for comparable broadcasts, permitting them to almost experience areas outside of China minus the costs or hassle of travelling. But not everybody...
These new outlooks on consuming and eating habits have, obviously, reflected on city planning and architecture. As opposed to a chaotic and unfeasible urban reality, some projects strive to bring green into the cities, combining architecture, technology, and environmental education. ...