Old Houses, New Architecture
Renovation gives a house the possibility of accommodating new ways of living without erasing the architecture that preceded them.
Building Within the Existing City
Residential architecture within an established city is rarely an autonomous object. Its scale, façade order, material weight, entrances, courtyards and roofline are read against structures
Houses Beyond the Familiar
A house is usually recognised through a familiar set of elements: walls, roof, windows and an entrance arranged around domestic life. In
Community Spaces Made for Gathering
A place to gather needs surprisingly little: shade, somewhere to sit, a reason to stop. These seven community spaces, from Accra to Suzhou, are
Philipp Broinger
In a world of change - demographic, digital and climatic - certainties we once took for granted are falling away. This makes places where
Brick Houses Between Tradition and Innovation
Brick carries an unusual continuity in architecture: one of its oldest building materials remains capable of producing distinctly new spatial and constructive solutions.
Museums Revived
A museum does not have to start from an empty site. In these six projects, a museum is made or remade from what was
Bathing, Heat and Public Life
Bathing architecture is defined by thresholds: between exposure and privacy, heat and cold, enclosure and landscape, individual retreat and collective use. In the projects gathered
Contemporary Learning Environments as Social Infrastructure
Educational institutions are commonly defined by programme: kindergarten, primary school, secondary school, vocational school or university. Yet the architecture of learning increasingly has to accommodate
