Masters of old

Sanahin Monastery is an Armenian monastery founded in the 10th century in the Lori Province of Armenia. The name Sanahin literally translates from Armenian as "this one is older than that one", presum…

Haghpat Monastery, also known as Haghpatavank (Armenian: Հաղպատավանք), is a medieval monastery complex in Haghpat, Armenia. The monastery was founded by Queen Khosrovanuysh, wife of the Bagratid king …

The shabonos (or yanos) are the traditional communal dwellings of the Yanomami tribes of Southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. They are circular buildings with an open-air central area in the...

Vernacular architecture refers to designs which find their primary influence in local conditions: in climate, in materials, and in tradition. In a...

Completed in 1951 in Chandigarh, India. On August 15, 1947, on the eve of India’s independence from the United Kingdom, came a directive which would transform the subcontinent for the next...

In celebration of the life of Louis Kahn, who would have celebrated his birthday on this day, photographer Laurian Ghinitoiu has visited the Indian...

Swooping steel-clad walls support the cross-shaped roof window of Kenzo Tange's 1960s St Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo

In 1952, Italian architect Luigi Moretti wrote an editorial for the 7th issue of the Italian magazine Spazio, (which he directed and designed), titled “Structures and sequences of spaces”. In his...

PREVI (Proyecto experimental de vivienda), (Experimental Housing Project), was a strategic low-cost project for experimental mass housing in Peru, conceived to be adaptable over time. In 1966, the...

“To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state”, said Le Corbusier. “It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history...

PHOTO ESSAY BY EMANUELE RICCI

In 1977, the architect and monk Dom Hans van der Laan published his treatise Architectonic Space, Fifteen Lessons on the Disposition of the Human Habitat. This is a theory that seeks to capture the essence of spatial experience as a foundation for the des

Sei pilastri e un solaio prefabbricati in calcestruzzo armato sono gli elementi costitutivi della trama architettonica. Dagli stessi materiali di serie a basso costo ha origine il nucleo strutturale del Teatrino. Così la natura ormai prosaica del paesagg

Research center in Geneva. Reportage by Johannes Marburg Drawings courtesy of the Centre Pompidou