A little while ago I had the pleasure of reading a book named materials for sustainable Cities, whilst reading it I had discovered many ways that we as conscious people could build our buildings using sustainable materials for example wood, rammed earth, hand made bricks, Adobe bricks, bamboo and so on. This sparked an interest […]
The object of the book, “Willi Weber, Simos Yannas-Lessons from Vernacular Architecture-Routledge (2013)” is to look at one of the most quoted, but least well studied, characteristics of vernacular architecture: its physical relationship with climate and site. It highlights the skill shown by primitive builders in dealing with climatic problems, and their ability to use […]
Exploring more meaningful sustainability through materiality I have had endless conversations – both in practice and education – which reveal an uneasy relationship between architecture and power. Many on both sides of the fence are of the opinion that the architect’s role has been compartmentalised and thus neutered. We have watched the evolution […]
I believe that to explain or try to give my interpretation of sustainable architecture, one must contemplate what would have happened to architecture, to public space, and to its existence, had it not been for the concept of sustainable architecture. it would not have been perceived as an important milestone in our lives. For […]
The New Net Zero by William Maclay and Maclay Architects is a visually appealing and very informational piece of literature about how we have the resources to build a “Net Zero” building or house. Maclay talks about how our current climatic situation is something that could rival eras like the Dark Ages, the Industrial Revolution, […]
First off, I would like to express my gratitude to be here. CritDay exposes us to so many talented students, architects, designers, thinkers and doers from all over the world – it is not only a great source of inspiration, it reflects current techniques, design methods and thoughts on society or what society could be […]
As each year passes by and the number count continues, a city rises and so do the number of people in it. With a rise in a city’s population, there is a growth of competition and every other man in today’s cities ends up in a rat race for survival. As this goes on every […]
There are other terms about sustainability that my lecture told me back in the uni-life, he said that sustainability is a nonsense thing, and it is not possible to do in such a way. Why? Let us think about how human being to deal with their life, especially architecture. Most of the architectural […]
Greetings, My name is Niko, I come from an ex-USSR country, Georgia. Soviet Union era left us with copy-pasted suburbs of crumbling concrete apartment blocks, designed for everybody while keeping nobody in mind. This resulted in a kind of informal urbanism and self-construction. So-called “kamikaze loggias” of self-built extensions popped out insecurely from the […]
My name is Hamza Shaikh and I am currently doing my Part 2 MArch at the University of Westminster and building my own Design Brand called Two Worlds Design. I completed my Part 1 at University for the Creative Arts’ Canterbury School of Architecture where I really evolved as a design student and realised […]
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