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Tadao Ando is considered the architect that best represents the minimalist movement, which is made of pure shapes and essential elements. He is the only architect to have won the discipline’s four most prestigious...

Architect, historian, architecture critic and teacher Kenneth Frampton was awarded the Career Golden Lion in May 2018 during the exhibition Venice Biennale of Architecture, in recognition of his great cultural...

Vertical gardens are nowadays very common in our cities, where this peculiar treatment for walls is used both on public building façades and for private property projects. Since Parisian botanist...

Born in Athens in 1937, Elia Zenghelis is world-renown not only as an architect but also for his long career as a teacher. The Greek architect studied Architecture at the...

Human beings have always dreamt of a free society in which to live in harmony and justice with others. Throughout the centuries, several intellectuals have wondered how to create a...

A city that spreads chaotically using more and more land: we can thus summarise in brief the urban sprawl phenomenon, also known as suburban sprawl. This peculiar urban phenomenon occurs...

Architect and theorist Steven Holl is definitely one of the most interesting figures within the contemporary architecture landscape. Born in Brementon, Washington, in 1947, he graduated from the University of...

Portuguese architect Manuel Aires Mateus has established himself throughout the years thanks to a number of remarkably important architectural interventions, both at the national and international level.