Architecture & Urban Design
Exploration of architectural practice, urban environments, and design's role in shaping cities and communities.
Architecture and urban design shape how people live, work, and move through cities. This topic covers the practice of architecture, from career development to design methodologies, and examines how designers approach the built environment.
The community discusses evolving architectural careers, speculative design thinking, and the creative problem-solving that informs both individual projects and larger urban systems.
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Public Architecture and Design Extend UBC's Biodiversity Centre with a Brick Wing around a Garden Courtyard
On Vancouver's Point Grey campus, a pale brick addition gives researchers labs, collections and classrooms that open onto a planted courtyard.
Martínez Arquitectura, MEC Arquitectura and Fiallo Atelier Raise a Bogotá School over a Public Ground Linking Two Parks
In Bogotá's Kennedy district, a long brick school opens its ground floor to the neighborhood and climbs toward the eastern hills in terraced stairs.
Hardel Le Bihan Architectes Houses 10,000 Dakar Students Behind Wind-Tuned Terracotta Moucharabieh Screens
At Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, sixteen slim dormitory bars lean on orientation, night ventilation and patterned screens for comfort.
DARE – Design Arena + Research Wraps a 30-Year-Old Bangkok House in Curved Screens to Face a New Road
A three-decade-old suburban Bangkok home turns its back on a new public road, trading exposure for curved screens, a pond and a double-height core.
