Appreciating the thoughtfulness of historical architecture design.

🏛️ The Timeless Genius of Rome’s Pantheon 🏛️ Quick Summary: Built nearly 2,000 years ago, the Pantheon still stands as the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome. Its oculus not only provides light but also reduces structural stress—an ingenious design far ahead of its time. A masterpiece of architecture and engineering that continues to inspire modern construction. —- 🟪 Questions: 🟪 How did ancient builders achieve such precision without modern machinery? What materials and techniques made this dome last for centuries? Could we design something today that rivals its longevity? #GeneralContractor #CommercialConstruction #Construction #AEC #AncientEngineering 🎥 : Instagram (daily_learningfacts) | Educational Purpose Only —- ✅ Click Follow To See More! ✅

Interest in earth architecture is re-emerging in contemporary construction, in part due to its environmental impact, or rather, lack of - buildings made of earth can typically boast greater thermal mass and produce fewer carbon emissions during their material extraction, production and construction. However, earth architecture comes with its limitations - particularly in most urban and retrofit contexts. So how can architects maintain the essence and benefits of earth architecture in a contemporary, accessible way? Read our latest journal piece on Clayworks Rammed Earth Finish here: https://lnkd.in/e2YrufE8

Interest in earth architecture is re-emerging in contemporary construction, in part due to its environmental impact, or rather, lack of - buildings made of earth can typically boast greater thermal mass and produce fewer carbon emissions during their material extraction, production and construction. However, earth architecture comes with its limitations - particularly in most urban and retrofit contexts. So how can architects maintain the essence and benefits of earth architecture in a contemporary, accessible way? Read our latest journal piece on Clayworks Rammed Earth Finish here: https://lnkd.in/ea_2Gygv

BOOK LAUNCH—Lecture and Signing Katya Crawford and Kathy Kambic celebrate the publication of their new book, The Design Competition in Landscape Architecture, with a lecture and conversation with Baker Morrow. Monday. September 15, 2025 | 5:00 pm George Pearl Hall Auditorium | The University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts The Design Competition in Landscape Architecture is the first book devoted to helping professional and academic design studios comprehensively plan for successful competition entries. Divided into five sections, the book provides an overview of the history and development of modern design competitions, includes interviews with world-renowned landscape architects and designers, offers a pedagogical approach to competition studios as part of a college curriculum, showcases award-winning designs from landscape architecture faculty and students (including built projects), and reflects on future directions for landscape architecture design competitions. Crawford and Kambic’s writing shines a spotlight on the critical role competitions play in school and practice and highlights how competitions help give shape and identity to the places in which we live. Event details and author bios: https://lnkd.in/gPZv_Ny4 #landscapearchitecture #landscapedesign #designcompetition

“The notion of style has little sway in architectural discourse today. Architects hesitate to define their work through a personal style, perhaps resisting the modernist trope of the ‘hero architect.’ Architectural historians have long viewed style as a problematic concept associated with determinism, Eurocentrism, and racism, and no longer employ it as a historiographic principle. Design schools, too, challenge the traditional narratives of architectural history surveys, prioritizing cultural diversity, social and environmental justice, and bottom-up building practices over conventional stylistic epochs. By and large, style is seen as out of step with the pressing preoccupations of our time. But as Mari Hvattum explains, style is not an outdated concept nor an isolating one—it is a prompt to consider one’s place in history.” In the latest for JAE Online, adjunct assistant professor of architecture and urban history Clelia Pozzi reviews “Style and Solitude: The History of an Architectural Problem,” written by Mari Hvattum. Head over to https://lnkd.in/gNd3aCSr to read her insights. (Image Credit: Gerd Danigel, 1990) #JAE #BookReview #JAEOnline #Architecture #JournalOfArchitecturalEducation #UrbanHistory

Illinois Tech College of Architecture welcomes Peruvian architect Kevin Malca as the 2025 Jeanne and John Rowe Fellow. His research investigates how indigenous practices—such as the water-harvesting “qochas” of Peru’s Quispillacta community—can shape ecological and sustainable approaches to contemporary architecture. Through teaching and a funded research project, Malca will examine the ways ancestral knowledge informs modern design, offering new frameworks for thinking about architecture as an interconnected cultural, ecological, and social system. https://lnkd.in/gWNBWuKC

I am pleased to announce the publication of my latest research in Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research, a leading interdisciplinary journal focused on architecture, urban design and planning, and built-environment studies. This visual ethnographic work documents how Cairenes adapt residential balconies to meet everyday needs, using street-level mapping, photo documentation, and resident interviews across three contrasting contexts—informal, old urban, and new planned neighborhoods. It finds assertive, resident-led modifications alongside functional chores, passive observation, and festive personalization, revealing recurrent needs and calling for balcony designs that support multiple uses and incorporate resident input. I extend my sincere gratitude to my mentor, Dr.Ahmed Sherif, for his generous support throughout this project. 👉 Read the article: https://lnkd.in/dMSMuFEb #ArchnetIJAR #Architecture #BuiltEnvironment #DesignResearch #Scholarship

Architecture as Script // Rem Koolhaas 🟠 Soviet constructivism showed that architecture could reinvent daily life. 🟠 From Malevich to Leonidov, it wasn’t about form, it was about roles and relations. 🟠 To design a room is to write a scene. Architecture is scriptwriting. Moscow in ’67: a revelation that architecture wasn’t just buildings. To place a kitchen here, a staircase there, is to author human interactions. ——— #art #architecture #creativity

Textbooks can only take you so far. If I had to give one piece of advice to architecture students, it would be this: 📌Walk through buildings, don’t just read about them. When you step into a space, you notice things no photo or plan can capture: The texture of materials under your hand How light shifts with every step you take The emotions a space silently evokes That walk teaches you more than theory ever could what works, what doesn’t, and what you’d want to do differently in your own designs. Every building you visit is a free masterclass. So, if you get the chance, explore, observe, and feel the spaces around you. That’s where real architectural learning begins. [real talk, life as an architect]

The executive order states that, in the District of Columbia, classical architecture (inspired by Greek and Roman styles, with elements such as columns, friezes, and harmonious proportions) will be the "preferred architecture" for federal public buildings. DETAILS: https://lnkd.in/einM2NQF