Interview: The Symbiotic Connection Between Film and Architecture Explored with Dr. Juhani Pallasmaa
With more than two dozen books, 300 essays in over 30 languages...
Architecture
With theatre dating back thousands of years to the Bronze Age, the...
Osaka-based writer Nader Sammouri explores the relationship between architecture and film as...
Architecture has long been used as a secondary character in films –...
For LWK + PARTNERS’ fourth installment of the Red Envelope journals, themed ‘ARCHITECTURE...
An analysis of the rise of female students of architecture in the...
Based in Santiago, Alejandra Celedón Förster is a Chilean architect, researcher and...
An exploration of the world’s tallest tower designed by a woman, and...
Pakistan’s first female architect is as determined as ever to continue improving the quality of life of her country’s most afflicted
Karwa Mosque: A Dome-less Islamic Prayer Space in Malaysia
In a suburb on a Malaysian island, a mosque designed by an emerging female architect, Eleena Jamil, challenges traditional Islamic design in Southeast Asia.
For LWK + PARTNERS’ third installment of the Red Envelope journals, themed...
Compact cities not only preserve the environment, but they also generate synergies across urban systems that are smarter and provide more equitable growth.
In Riyadh, context-driven architecture marks the city's development during the 1970s, 80s and 90s, but where does the architectural identity of the Saudi capital stand today as it tries to navigate between its contemporary foundation and its future?
Between reality and fantasy, the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul tells the real story of fictitious characters.
In July 2020, South Koreans were shocked to find out that a North Korean who defected to South Korea a couple of years ago fled back to North Korea through the impermeable demilitarized zone (DMZ) after supposedly committing a horrendous crime. This crossing was one of the very few known unauthorised crossings over the past 70-odd years, where a civilian transgressed the impenetrable DMZ.
For LWK + PARTNERS' second installment of the Red Envelope journals, themed 'In Between', the company's MENA managing director, Kerem Cengiz, offers an opening word on the meaning of the topic.
Iraqi academic No’man Bayaty explores Erbil’s Justice Tower, and provides insight into its architectural form and the urban challenges it poses.
In part six of Round City’s ARound: Najaf series, Iraqi architect and doctor Turath Jamil examines the city’s historic khans.
Large dense and sprawling cities are part of an inescapable global reality. Their advantages have long been praised ever since the Modernists argued for “town as a machine for movement”, but what of their disadvantages? If regulations have shaped the affluent cities in the advanced economies, what of the unregulated or under regulated cities across the world?
Conceived in 762, Al-Mansur’s ‘Round City’ was an incredible example of early urban design, setting the stage for the Islamic Empire’s golden era. While today, Baghdad has undoubtedly grown beyond the double-ring masterplan, its original layout was then the region’s largest construction project, providing a throne from which the Abbasid dynasty reigned.