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Builders knew how to keep people cool in hot, dry climates thousands of years ago. It’s time to get that knowledge back.
Humans aren’t the only species to consider when constructing new buildings. This course teaches students to take animals into account as well.
The formula for winning based on previous prizes means it’s likely a big name will win for a project in the south of England.
Many houses of worship no longer need as much space as they once did, or struggle to keep up with the bills. For some, redevelopment to include housing provides a new way to live out their mission.
Michigan Central Station stood abandoned for decades as a symbol of Detroit’s decline. A major investment by Ford has breathed new life into the structure – and, residents hope, the city.
Anti-camping laws are the centerpiece of the ‘hostile design’ strategies cities use to push the unhoused out of public spaces.
Anti-camping laws are the centerpiece of the ‘hostile design’ strategies cities use to push the unhoused out of public spaces.
Turning excess office space into apartments isn’t a panacea for the housing shortage, but it’s producing thousands of new units yearly and is more sustainable and economical than new construction.
Access to nature is provenly beneficial. Yet the UK’s urban green spaces are poorly funded and are vulnerable to local government budget cuts.
Mosques with walls, barriers and separated entrances all send a clear message to Muslim women: that these spaces are not designed to include us.
Fashions in architecture are, more or less, generational. So, the reappraisal of brutalism – a once-reviled style of architecture – is now virtually complete
Students in windowless rooms are reporting anxiety, depression and fatigue. A professor of architecture says developers need to let the light shine in.
The pursuit of ‘vanity height’ in skyscrapers is driven by aesthetic appeal and the status of being ‘the tallest’. Redefining how we measure building heights can help cut the environmental cost.
In our new research into the careers of Australian architects, a significant portion of respondents felt anxious, distressed, overworked, exhausted and underpaid.
Changing work habits and shifting environmental priorities demand new models of urban redevelopment. Architectural ‘exaptation’ uses the past to reimagine the future.
Architectural models are an effective way of showing the public what new major buildings will look like.
Incorporating nature via biophilic design has interested architects and landscape architects for a long time, but its benefits for neurodiversity are not very well-known.
We could make our hot cities cooler with white roofs and light roads. But progress has been glacially slow.
The style was redefined by newly independent nations of the 20th century, who wanted to create an identity detached from their colonial past.
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Director of the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT, RMIT University
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Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of History of Art, Vanderbilt University
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Chair Professor of Architecture, UNSW Sydney
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Architectural Technologist and Urban Designer, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Urban Design, Lancaster University
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British Academy Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Adjunct professor of architecture, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Practice, University of Technology Sydney
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Transformation Fellow + Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Queensland University of Technology
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Head and Professor of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art
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Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Architect and lecturer, University of Liverpool
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Associate professor of Architecture, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Architecture and SARChI: DST/NRF/SACN Research Chair in Spatial Transformation (Positive Change in the Built Environment), Tshwane University of Technology
