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 […]
Starting from 2006, Pakistan has observed a major shortfall in the production and demand of electricity. Today, about 140 million people in Pakistan have no access to the power grid and suffer for more than twelve hours of load shedding daily. One of the major contributors towards the energy crisis in Pakistan is non-eco-friendly architecture, […]
Growing up in Israel and soaking up its architectural heritage, you get acquainted with sustainable thinking. In the early years of the country there was a heavy emphasis on efficient, site specific solutions, in an attempt to quickly populate the new, resourceless, country. This meant a rather high degree of sustainability-oriented thinking in early Israeli […]
Will and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez My name is Will, I’m 24 and originally from Lincolnshire, UK, and it was during my final year at the University of Bath that I became fascinated by how sustainable architecture could offer solutions to environmental issues. In 2050, there will be almost 10 billion mouths to feed while global […]
I studied at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), graduated in 2000. I did some collaborations with offices in BA, a short stage at MVRDV and some small projects. I’ve got a prize in 2003 in an international competition, luckly was not the last one. In 2007 I started NOA, my own practice from […]
I am Roald, an architecture student for the Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa. As a student, sustainability is often preached but less often practiced within our projects. This leaves little to be learned about sustainability if it is not required within projects. This is why I became part of the Focus2019 […]
Greetings my name is Nicholas, Nick for short. I’m a 25-year-old mature student studying architecture at London metropolitan university. I’m currently in year 2 of undergraduate and loving every minute of it. I enjoy the fast pace of learning and love making practical models using various techniques and materials. Furthermore, I’m enrolled at a college […]
I’m Ashley, from California. Im a current M.Arch 1 at Harvard GSD and Designer at as-is.us I did my undergrad at Pratt/UC Berkeley. In the past I have worked in the office of Atelier Bow-Wow in Tokyo, and as a Project Manager in stainless steel construction and fabrication. Can you guess the building I’m standing […]
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