His use of open landscape, pavilions, student hostels and the incorporation of traditional Kandyan architectural elements into a modernist framework exemplify his ability to merge tradition with ...

Prof. Rowlands and her group plan to visit the UNESCO heritage sites in Anuradhapura, Kandy and Galle, several of Geoffrey ...

Intimate, because of the way thin strips of metal and salvaged timber cocoon occupants within light, airy and minimalist pavilions – inspired by Kandyan architecture – that practically float above the ...

That’s the view from Ryan Battick’s chair as principal architect at his firm, Mosaic Architects. Battick’s perspective is shaped by decades in the profession. After a stint working for an ...

Brutalist architecture in the United States is a monument to collective postwar optimism and reassurance that the city and federal governments are in authority. Conceived as an embodiment of ...

Buildner has announced the results of Buildner's Unbuilt Award 2024, the inaugural competition in an exciting new annual series celebrating architectural design that has yet to be realized.

“It’s this incredible synthesis that really defines the early modern world, which is a story about contact,” says Kishwar Rizvi, a professor of Islamic art and architecture at Yale University.

With the fall of the Kandyan Kingdom, the Kandyan Convention, ceremonially signed on March 10, 1815, completed the annexation of the island to the British Empire. This brought an end to the rule ...

It is an example of Barragán’s signature “barroco agazapado” style, which applied international modernist principles to vernacular forms of Mexican architecture while making liberal play of ...

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The Ministry of Culture has launched the “National Policy for the Preservation of Modern Architectural Heritage of the UAE’’ during a ceremony held at the National Theater in Abu Dhabi, with the ...