Carlo Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa was an Italian architect, influenced by the materials, landscape, and the history of Venetian culture, and Japan.
Giant ant colonies
Anthills can be fairly unassuming on the surface. When excavated, not so much.
Bam
Bam is a city in Iran. According to legend, this earthen architecture city owes its existence to a magic worm. It was destroyed in an earthquake in 2003, but is being restored.
Vank Cathedral
Vank Cathedral is a cathedral in Iran. The interior is covered with fine frescos and gilded carvings and includes a wainscot of rich tile work. The delicately blue and gold painted central dome depicts the Biblical story of the creation of the world and man's expulsion from Eden.
Duchess Anna Amalia Library
Duchess Anna Amalia Library possesses a total of one million units. Since its profile is dominated by the educational concept of the era around 1800 and its collections from the time between 1750 and 1850 are particularly extensive, the epoch from Enlightenment to Late Romanticism is the major focus of the library’s work.
Wendingen
Wendingen was an art magazine that appeared from 1918 to 1932. The magazine gained recognition not only through its content but also by its remarkable square format and the striking typography of architect El Lissitzky, Vilmos Huszar and others.
Flak towers
Flak towers were large, anti-aircraft gun blockhouses used by the Luftwaffe to defend against Allied air raids during World War II. They were able to fire 8000 rounds per minute with a range of up to 14 km in a full 360-degree field of fire.
Pruitt–Igoe
Pruitt–Igoe was a large urban housing project first occupied in 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri. Living conditions in Pruitt–Igoe began to decline soon after its completion in 1956; by the late 1960s, the complex had become internationally infamous for its poverty, crime, and segregation. Its 33 buildings were torn down in the mid-1970s, and the project has become an icon of urban renewal and public-policy planning failure.
London
London is a unique film work about a unique city written and directed by architect Patrick Keiller. It concerns a series of journeys made by an unseen narrator and his companion Robinson to discover the spirit of London during the period immediately before and after the 1992 General Election. There is a wealth of detail pertaining to literature, history, architecture and a variety of locales and a highly original style with ironic wit.
Perspecta
Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal the oldest student-edited architectural journal in the United States, is internationally respected for its contributions to contemporary architectural discourse with original presentations of new projects as well as historical and theoretical essays.