Category: learn about architecture

In the world of architecture, the Pritzker Prize is a huge award. Architect and designer, Andrea Stinga, built these models and made this video. What we really like about the video is how the basic form of each structure is visible. This way we can see what makes these winners. Each one is so unique […]

Hemp is a natural plant and a natural building material that has been around since ancient times. It is a strong plant with deep roots – so deep that it can’t be grown like a household plant in a pot inside of your living room. Instead, farmers are planting hemp all over the globe – […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]