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William Chambers, Pagoda of Kew Gardens, London, 1757-62
The English turned to Oriental models to replace the geometric gardens of French and Italian derivation; alongside neo-classical and Gothic buildings, the landscape garden came to be enriched by tea houses, pagodas, and small bridges. In this context the Pagoda at Kew Gardens exists between transgressions and impulses, [...]

Arriving late in Italy, modernist trends were first accepted only by the restricted group of decorative artists - designers, furniture manufacturers, ceramists - active within the orbit of the magazine Emporium or in the arts and crafts society Aemilia Ars. The great exposition of decorative and modern art held in Turin in 1902 marked [...]

The rigid classicism of the Escorial, the spirituality of the Counter-Reformation, and the centralization of the state provided the themes for Spanish architecture throughout the 17th century. So it was that classical harmony gradually gave way to a more accentuated hierarchy of individual elements thanks to the sculptural elaboration of walls, the use of a [...]

Haus Trub is designed by Agps Architecture (Marc Angehl, Sarah Graham, Manuel Scholl, Reto Henninger, Hanspeter Oester). The design of Haus Trub in Horgen, Switzerland took inspiration from conceptual artist Gordon Matta-Clark who enlisted remnants from abandoned buildings. In his method of art making, Matta-Clark sought out a culinary analogy. He experimented with [...]

Cylindrical dwellings with conical thatched roofs are widely spread in Africa, grouped round cattle kraals in the south or scattered in farms in the east. Beautiful examples of mud architecture can be found in the West African savannah. The Kassena of Burkino Faso hand-mould their huts like pottery, linking them with curving walls. Such compounds [...]

Throughout the history of civilization India has commanded a central position in the world trade routes, which acted as arteries for the exchange of ideas and information between East and West. Indian lotus pattern motifs, for example, can be seen in the famous Persian palaces of Persepolis (5th to 6th centuries se) and evidence of [...]

The art of tea preparation is a time honored tradition in Japanese culture. The mobile ichijyo architecture is dedicated to this procedure. One can dedicate oneself to this meditative procedure in a very small space, to be more precise, in a single transportable room. Toshihiko Suzuki’s design strongly reminds one of a simple paper lantern. [...]

b. Karlsruhe, 1766;
d. Karlsruhe, 1826.
Friedrich Weinbrenner was the dominant figure within the German school of Neo-Classicism at the beginning of the c19. After studying mathematics and architecture at the Academy in Vienna, Weinbrenner travelled to Berlin and Italy, returning in 1797 to take up the position of building inspector in Karlsruhe, where his influence became [...]

b. Kirkcaldy, Fife, 1728;
d. London, 1792.
Robert Adam is unquestionably Scotland’s most famous architect and one of the most celebrated of British architects. He formed a fertile repertory of new ideas on a visit to Italy (1754-8), and at his return to London he was determined to become the leader of classical revival in England in [...]

ABC House is located at Kertajaya Indah Regency Block, Surabaya, Indonesia. ABC House is short for ?A Brother?s Connecting House?, reflecting the client?s brief for the design of two houses for his sons? families on a 600-square-meter site. The structure, with a gross floor area of 500 square meters, consists of two symmetrical houses [...]