The Dongola Architecture Series (DAS) is a biannual book series that offers unique insight into Arab culture through the lens of its most iconic contemporary architects, and attempts to grapple with ...

This article discusses the value and purpose of drawing in its relationship to the design process and understanding architecture. The authors base much of their discussion on their own experiences in ...

IF building many houses could teach us to build them well, surely we ought to excel in this matter. Never was there such a house-building people. In other countries the laws interfere,—or customs, ...

Last Saturday, as the midday sun beat down on the rooftop terrace of Ca’ Guistinian, the Grand Canal palazzo where the Venice Biennale has its headquarters, winners of this year’s architecture awards ...

In May 2000 JPL awarded four 18-month contracts to TRW, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Ball Aerospace to study possible architectures for the Terrestrial Planet Finder. The studies were undertaken with ...

THE first of these three books suffers from the too prevalent custom of assigning a title to a book that conveys the idea of a greater scope and value than the contents can candidly be said to justify ...

You’re restoring a house to its traditional roots and want every detail to be just right. Wouldn’t it be great if there were some sort of renovation cheat sheet — a list of instructions that would ...