This paper evaluated a knowledge gap regarding the origin and historical development of
green roofs as an evolving human invention. Forty-three cases from different parts of the …

The city has always held the promise of utopia, the intimation that it be the spatial form within
which a harmonious and wholesome society could take shape, as the emanation of a civic …

Around the time that the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao opened in 1997–a memorably
sinuous building designed by the office of architect Frank Gehry–journalists coined the term …

This study explores the recent emergence of traditional Korean houses and hanoks as
markers of cultural capital in Seoul, South Korea. While the ownership of detached houses …

Unravelling their own cultural legacy into global garments, Italian luxury label Etro
accommodates unique design and rich patterned textiles by extending the robe's design …

One of the most remarkable Brazilian architects in the 20th Century, Italian émigré Lina Bo
Bardi (Rome 1914—São Paulo 1992) has recently been “rediscovered” and her …

The question of what architecture is answered in this book with one sentence: Architecture is
space created for human activities. The basic need to find food and water places these …

A lo largo del siglo XIX, en Estados Unidos se produjo un intenso y profundo debate
identitario. En él, políticos, literatos, reformistas, economistas o científicos aportaron multitud …

From Rei Kawakubo and Hussein Chalayan, to Nicolas Ghesquière and Virgil Abloh,
countless fashion designers claim an influence from architecture in their work. However, the …

Since the establishment of ecocriticism, the traditional Western dualistic categories of
spaces and places have become objects of increasing pluralistic refigurations in light of the …