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RMIT Architecture

The campus of RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia is a microcosm of the city’s exuberant architectural tectonics. The school’s facilities

On a backpacking trip across Europe, I pinched pennies, stayed in cheap hostels, and skimped on meals to save up

“Right angles don’t attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man. What attracts me are free and

Check out this 100+ hour hand drafted section perspective I did as part of the Illinois Institute of Technology’s historical

Another brutalist building in danger of demolition! Architects around the world have voiced their support for the preservation of Bertrand

I was recently in Venice and made the pilgrimage out to see Carlo Scarpa’s legendary Brion-Vega Cemetery. “I would like

PART 2 CAR PARK & TERMINUS HOENHEIM-NORD vs THE MONUMENT TO THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL ZAHA HADID: BUILDING ON A CONSTRUCTIVIST

PART 1 CONSTRUCTIVISM AS AN ANTIDOTE TO STIFLING MODERNISM MODERNISM: A PARADIGM FOR NEW-FOUND MODERNITY At the beginning of the

The Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center by Harry Weese is an intriguing typological study, a prison taking the form of a

Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier. More photos after the break.

Jorn Utzon’s famous Sydney Opera House. Known for its iconic exterior shell, the interiors and material detailing are also quite

In 2009 I made a train trip north of Delhi to visit Le Corbusier’s famed city of Chandigarh- one of