AA Files is the Architectural Association School of Architecture's journal of record. Launched in 1981 by the AA School's then chairman Alvin Boyarsky, the journal appears twice a year and is sent out ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since a lot of the computing-related reading I'm doing right now is in dead tree format, I thought I'd share some of the more general-interest parts of it with you guys. I got the idea to do a ...

The Mars Society is conducting the ambitious two-phase Mars 160 Twin Desert-Arctic Analogue mission to study how seven crewmembers could live, work and perform science on a true mission to Mars. Mars ...

On May 28, Beirut-based firm 109 Architectes unveiled Notes on a Tree at the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture. The interactive installation is part of the GAA Foundation’s annual “Time – Space – ...

One feature of the big data revolution is the acknowledgement that a single database management system architecture cannot meet all needs. For instance, if you need a system that can reliably process ...