Category: learn about architecture

Brave Women of Architecture!

Women have not always been welcome in the field of architecture. It is a sad truth. A new web project, Pioneering Women in Architecture, is a well-designed site that focuses on a handful of women who were brave and strong-willed enough to push through the boundaries created to keep women and others out of positions […]

A Sort of an Architect…

Sometimes someone trains as an architect and does not design any  structures at all. Sometimes he or she thinks about the built environment and writes about it and never builds anything. Big and small ideas can come from people trained in architecture. Some of the ideas are about building up and some are about unbuilding. […]

Pink Houses in Sweden

Artist Olek wanted to create a work (or two) that would recognize the difficulty of so many displaced people in the world without housing. So she designed two projects in Kerava Sweden and another in Avesta Sweden Olek worked with a team of women to crochet large pink squares and then the team assembled the […]

A Century of I.M.Pei

Ready set go…blow out those birthday candles, Mr. Pei! This famous architect turned 100years old earlier this year. He was born in 1917 – and has been living as a famous architect for many of those years. Let’s look back at where the world was at in 1917… World War I is taking place and […]

Mini Homes in the Future

What do you think houses will look like in the future? Will you live in a pod? In an inflatable structure? In a box with furry sides and windows? Who knows!! Some architects are playing with ideas about small housing units for future living. Collaborations between designers have created “micro-dwellings” that include a variety of […]

SOMe Work by SOMe Firm Named SOM

SOM. What is that? In the heads of architects and architecture firms, SOM is SOMewhat of a big and familiar name. SOM stands for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, one of the biggest and busiest architecture firms in the entire world. They have completed over 10,o00 projects in over 50 countries, (according to Wikipedia.) The firm […]

Maudie’s House

We just saw a movie titled “Maudie,” about an artist who lived up in the far tippy northeast of Canada in Nova Scotia. Life was cold and harsh and Maudie was in ill health for most of her life. But that did not stop her from becoming a very well known painter. “What does this […]

Fallingwater Colors

In Mill Run Pennsylvania, a house of stone, concrete, steel and glass straddles above a stunning waterfall. The house is named Fallingwater and it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright from 1936- 1939. The Kaufmann family hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design this National Historic Landmark building as a weekend getaway home. There is a whole palette […]