Architecture : Research Guide

Located at an altitude of 3,012 meters above sea level, in a transitional landscape between Andean high-altitude forest and the páramo ecosystem, Casa de Tierra explores ways of inhabiting an environmentally sensitive territory through a strategy of minimal occupation and low environmental impact.

The project begins with the complete demolition of a fragile and poorly built structure, replaced by a compact house designed for the son and his family. The first gesture is to define the largest possible inhabitable footprint while respecting the required setbacks and preserving the existing guava tree. From this limit, the house is organized as a clear and continuous structure.

Conceived as a threshold, the Burden Museum & Gardens Welcome Center establishes a formal entry to the Burden Museum & Gardens campus through a series of simple, legible forms—architecture deliberately embedded in the landscape to frame, heighten, and ultimately reveal it. The new 6,500 SF Burden Museum & Gardens Welcome Center—with 3,000 SF of covered outdoor space—serves as the primary point of arrival to Burden Museum & Gardens and the broader LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens campus.

The Centre Pompidou Francilien – Fabrique de l'Art houses the reserve collections of two institutions. The building has two faces, reflecting the paradox at the heart of its brief. One side is a vault: a sealed monolith that admits only carefully controlled natural light into its workshops, so that two of the world's greatest modern art collections can be conserved and restored in the best conditions.

Typological Drift: Emerging Cities in China documents the impact of the Chinese culture on the development of city types in China in the past four decades, leading to surprising urban realities that often escape normative urban theories. Result of a decade of research by Shiqiao Li and Esther Lorenz in the two large city-regions in China, the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta, this book offers frameworks of understanding of China’s urban realities from within Chinese thought and language. The book uses the concept of drift, which parallels one of the four rudimentary patterns of biological change: mutation, adaptation,

A Long View explores the celebrated residential design of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson through the lens of fifteen private residences across the United States and Canada. With a curated selection of homes completed between 2016 and 2026, the book shares the evolution of BCJ’s work across a wider range of geographical regions and fresh material expressions, led by an emergent group of design voices within the practice who are carrying forward its ethos of humane, deeply collaborative design.The homes presented here exist in diverse settings: from a rustic retreat in the wilderness of Ontario to the transformation of an existing Pittsburgh

Architectures of Ageing in Place provides curated critical perspectives, from a practice-based research point of view, of buildings that are purpose built and/or refurbished to accommodate housing and care needs of older people ageing in place in high rise/medium rise integrated communities.This book identifies design innovations, in line with policy innovations, that have been made across private and public sectors to accommodate wellbeing and quality of life of older people living in integrated communities, which continue to foster intergenerational dialogue and exchange, and advance social citizenship. Case studies from a diverse range of geographies are examined including Portugal, Singa..

Where rivers, reservoirs, and rainfall can no longer be relied upon consistently, water is increasingly being sought in the atmosphere. Fog, atmospheric humidity, and condensation each offer different ways of collecting it. When architecture begins to collect water from the air, surfaces, structures, and open spaces become part of the water system.

Set on a sloping hillside in Nuwara Eliya, in Sri Lanka's central highlands, Azenya Villas is a cluster of four compact holiday retreats among vegetable terraces and montane forest. Designed during the country's economic crisis, the project was driven by one idea: to keep construction costs as low as possible without compromising the experience of the place. The answer was a simple gabled form with a small footprint, extended vertically rather than spread across the land, and repeated to give the retreat a clear identity.

What happens to the space beneath a roof? In many houses, the answer is simple: it becomes an attic, a storage space, or a largely unused volume between the upper floor and the roof. Yet the same space can become a bedroom, home office, playroom, or additional living area if the roof and the room beneath it are considered together.

CAUBA9 and the Municipality of Pinamar invite entries for the National Ideas Competition for the revitalization of Avenida del Mar, an initiative aimed at promoting an urban, landscape, and public space proposal for the section between Quintana and Del Juncal streets. The competition is promoted by the Municipality of Pinamar and organized by the College of Architecture and Urbanism of the Province of Buenos Aires – District 9, with the sponsorship of CAUBA and FADEA. The proposal seeks to address Avenida del Mar not only as vehicular circulation infrastructure, but as a piece

Join us for this signature event to learn about World Monuments Fund (WMF) work safeguarding the world’s irreplaceable heritage and engage with a global community of heritage experts and advocates. The World Monuments Summit is WMF’s annual flagship forum, bringing together leading voices in cultural heritage to address the most pressing challenges in preservation. Held each October in New York alongside the Hadrian Gala, the Summit considers preservation not only as safeguarding the past, but as a foundation for adaptation, renewal, and the future. At a time of conflict, climate change, rapid urban transformation, AI, and geopolitical uncertainty, the

Join us in celebrating the organic creation Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO: Borrowed Earth on Saturday, October 24, beginning at 2 PM in the Sculpture & Architecture Park at Art Omi.Borrowed Earth is a newly commissioned work from Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO that embraces impermanence, participation, and the quiet transformation that comes with age. Constructed from rammed earth—a technique rarely used in this region—the work is made from locally sourced soil. Its form is elemental: a composition of columns, at once architectural and inseparable from the landscape. As the seasons shift and weather takes its toll, the columns will slowly erode, gradually blending

Organized by Casa da Arquitetura and curated by Brazilian architect and urban planner Fernando de Mello Franco, the fourth edition of SHIFT – International Seminar on Architecture and Sustainability will take place from October 16 to 17 in Matosinhos, Portugal. Under the theme "Continuities — Socio-ecological recomposition through landscape design," the event brings together architects, researchers, and experts from various countries to discuss the role of design in transforming territories and addressing contemporary environmental and social challenges. The fourth edition of SHIFT – International Seminar on Architecture and Sustainability begins with a central question: how can design..

On October 1, the exhibition Humanist modernity: Maciej and Stanisława Nowicki, opens in the Center for Architecture in New York. Alongside the opening, the Center will host a public talk and a guided tour led by the exhibition’s curator, Kacper Kępiński, Deputy Director of NIAiU.Humanist modernity presents the work of Stanisława Sandecka-Nowicka and Maciej (Matthew) Nowicki, two significant figures in the history of American and Polish architecture. The exhibition takes its title from a concept the two architects developed in the 1940s: modernism as a human-centered approach to design, concerned with understanding who a building is really for and how

Architects and design teams from Bulgaria and around the world are invited to participate and propose their vision for the development of one of the oldest and largest schools in Bulgaria.On October 5, an open international architectural competition will be officially announced, with the goal of developing a concept design for a new academic wing at 18 Comprehensive School “William Gladstone” – one of the oldest educational institutions in Sofia. The competition aims to expand the school in order to provide opportunities for the development of educational resources and to transition students to a single-shift schedule. The contest is part

The project involves the renovation of a 1970s detached house located in a residential neighborhood close to the sea. The design draws inspiration from local architectural characteristics—pitched roofs, bold geometric forms, and touches of color—which are reinterpreted through a contemporary language.

The Mortar House transforms a dark, fragmented 30-year-old corporate office into a light-filled, shared workplace for two overlapping work cultures, using exposed brick arches, stained glass, custom furniture, and renewed connections to daylight and greenery to support different ways of working. It challenges conventional office planning centered on cabins, seat count and hierarchy, exploring instead how light, materiality, movement and exchange shape the everyday experience of work.

Four ward facilities (ward office, public works office, healthcare center, city tax office) have been brought together on the site of a former elementary school. The local government facilities and the private sector facilities have been arranged around an open space with the aim that it can continue to be used for the Bon festival dances and sports that were performed at the elementary school site.

This week, questions about housing, safety, and the future of cities came into focus, from the impact of natural hazards to architecture's role in shaping more inclusive urban environments. The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, observed on October 13 under the theme "Resilience Starts at Home," highlighted these questions just days after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Panama, damaging buildings and prompting evacuations nationwide. Beyond disaster preparedness, the week's developments also reflect broader efforts to address housing needs, give existing buildings new purposes, and create spaces that support education, culture, and public life.