Basalto Collective is a Zurich-based platform founded by Mexican designer Paulina Reséndiz in late 2023. At first glance, it could be grouped with the wave of design spaces that promote
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Logroño (Spain) is not the sort of city that typically anchors the international festival circuit. It is neither a capital nor a metropolis. There is no skyline theatre, no high-voltage
An essay drawn from Renzo Piano’s reflections on Centre Pompidou, tracing how it resisted museum intimidation, made emptiness an urban icon, and treated renovation as a cycle of care.
Paris can make architecture feel like a conversation that began long before you arrived. On Île Saint-Louis, the city’s surfaces carry their own chronology: stone worn smooth by weather, stucco
A reported longform on Werkstätte Carl Auböck across four generations, from Vienna Bronzes to Bauhaus modernism, MIT networks, postwar America, and a living archive that challenges the assumptions of industrial production.
Kahn never treated the house as minor work. In the house he kept architecture close to its beginning, in the room he clarified its limits, and in the window he tested whether those limits could meet the world.
Most people meet Luis Barragán through color. Pink becomes the entry point, then the conversation stalls at palette. I prefer starting with a more ordinary and more demanding idea that
Rediscovering African vernacular architecture: Timeless lessons in sustainability from Built By Hand
Rediscover African vernacular architecture through *Built by Hand*: earthen mosques, kasbahs, rondavels and rock-hewn churches reveal climate-smart, low-carbon building intelligence. From Djenné to Lalibela, and from Kéré to Kamara, this essay traces how community-led traditions can inform Africa’s fast-growing cities and a regenerative architectural future.
Africa’s megacities are set to dominate global urban growth this century. Explore what’s driving the shift, why housing and infrastructure are under strain, and how new planning and architectural prototypes point to an emerging urban vernacular.
Enrique Lastra’s work rarely announces itself with spectacle. It does something quieter and harder to fake: it makes the public ground feel considered. In Mexico City, where pavements carry protest,
