What is a material? How can we say what a material is? That’s a very difficult question to answer. It is easy to say, “That’s wood, that’s metal, that’s pewter,...Read More

In this conversation, architect, researcher, and educator Paolo Cascone, and contributor Maddalena Laddaga reflects on the ideas and practices developed in his book African Fabbers Atlas: Manual of Synthetic Vernacular...Read More

The Straw Thermae pavilion was conceived to commemorate Referinghausen’s transition toward energy autonomy. Installed during the village’s 750th anniversary in 2019, the project reflects a shift away from fossil fuel...Read More

Responding to growing concerns about indoor air pollution, the project develops a residential model that prioritizes continuous natural ventilation. The design evolves as a system of eight distinct volumes arranged...Read More

Civic Centre 1015 is a public facility that brings together an adult education centre, a language standardization consortium, and spaces for local associations on a triangular site in Barcelona’s Parliament...Read More

In this conversation, the Bangalore-based architecture studio ShoulderTap reflects on the domestic project as a small but consequential part of the city’s larger transformation. As Bangalore densifies under development pressure,...Read More

The Room of Silence reactivates a former goat stable through a community-driven transformation into a collective gathering space linked to Korbach’s renewable energy agenda. Instead of reconstructing the damaged roof,...Read More

In this conversation, the role of architects and architecture in processes of green gentrification is brought into question. Isabelle Anguelovski reflects on how projects are often framed through forms of...Read More

Folded Rooms Garden is a residential experiment in Bandung that rethinks the domestic interior through landscape, section, and permeability. Rather than organizing space through conventional partition walls, the project develops...Read More

In this conversation, the Bangalore-based architecture studio ShoulderTap reflects on what it means to practice architecture as a predominantly female-led office within a still male-dominated discipline. For them, feminism is...Read More

Set at the entrance of the BoaVista Palhano condominium in Brazil, this small-scale recreational intervention redefines the playground as a landscape for collective play. Occupying a garden shaped by the...Read More

Set within the landscape of the Anapo River valley, Pantalica Speculations begins from an absence of evidence. While Pantalica is known for its more than 4,000 rock-cut tombs dating to...Read More

In this conversation we explore governance aspects of green gentrification. Isabelle Anguelovski reflects on the commodification of land as one of the central challenges cities face in trying to prevent...Read More

Located within the compact urban fabric of Bangalore, Brick House is a residence designed for a family of three. Its distinctive presence is defined by an earthy brick envelope and...Read More

Intermediate House is defined by conditions of mediation: between public and private, open and closed, interior and exterior, mobile and fixed, light and shadow, natural and artificial, industrial and handcrafted....Read More

In this conversation, the Bangalore based architecture studio ShoulderTap, reflects on domestic architecture and how it is defined less by enclosure than by the careful calibration of thresholds. In their reading, privacy is not only created spatially, by “closing a...Read More

Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) 2024 ‘RESOURCES FOR A FUTURE’ delves into the principles of resourceful diversity of architecture, which is instrumental in shaping a safer and fairer future. Escalating global...Read More

How do environmental changes reshape urban desirability and, in turn, drive gentrification? In this conversation, Isabelle Anguelovski traces the evolving links between environmental transformation and displacement, moving from green to...Read More

In this conversation, the Bangalore-based architecture studio ShoulderTap reflects on narrative as a method embedded in the domestic design process. In their practice, architecture does not begin with form, but...Read More

Empty architectures is a photographic project that showcases a number of abandoned buildings and constructions scattered across the island of Mallorca. The series documents different building typologies: from a hospital...Read More

The typical courtyard morphology of the Turin grid, introverted and closed, gives way to a system that is open and accessible to the entire community. Drawing on the post-modern theories...Read More

Can research demonstrate a direct link between greening and gentrification? Isabelle Anguelovski addresses this question by presenting green gentrification as a measurable urban phenomenon. Drawing on a comparative analysis of...Read More

Creating NEBourhoods together is one of six Lighthouse Demonstrators launched in 2022 with European Union funding under the New European Bauhaus initiative. Across ten projects in Munich, the program tests...Read More

Forestone Cabin is a 20 m² experimental wooden dwelling designed and built by the 2025 cohort of IAAC’s Master in Ecological Architecture and Advanced Construction, as part of the Bio...Read More

The “Open Chapel” in Hillerhausen, Germany, stands as a powerful symbol of collaboration and serves as a transformative perspective-changer, inspired by the “Open Mind Places” in the nearby village of...Read More