Shadow is one of architecture’s quietest design instruments. It does not occupy a room like a wall or announce itself like a roof form, yet it changes how…
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A project description often succeeds or fails in its first few lines. Before a reader studies the plans, diagrams or material photographs, the opening…
Architecture is usually presented through drawings, models, renders and spoken explanation. Yet every built environment is experienced through sound as well as…
A graduation project becomes more convincing when its design decisions respond to the rules, pressures and opportunities of a real place. Local zoning laws are…
A polished digital portfolio can display a remarkable amount of architectural work. High-resolution renders, animated walkthroughs, parametric diagrams and…
Showing several design directions can demonstrate range, research and creative confidence. It can also leave an audience unsure about what they are looking at,…
Across Nagoya, traditional machiya sit quietly behind newer streetscapes, their timber frames, narrow plots and tiled roofs carrying traces of an earlier urban…
A temporary courtyard installation for NAGOYA Archi Fes has a particular responsibility. It must attract people in an active public setting, communicate an…
A strong graduation project has to communicate more than a compelling form. It needs to show how its ideas respond to sun, wind, rain, heat, landscape,…
A graduation project is encountered in time. Jurors arrive at the site plan, locate the main approach, identify the public edge, and then move through…