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Posthuman Architecture: Designing for/with posthuman subject

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Architecture continued with an human-centric approach for a long period of time. The actions for the built environment are carried out by people and for people. The posthuman perspective is a wider understanding of bringing human, non-human; living, non-living; nature, and technology together.

The use of waste materials in the construction industry

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Global material crises are approaching. The consequences of recklessly consuming resources are already being faced. It is foreseen that in a not-so-distant process, the days will come when reuse and transformation will be not just a choice but a necessity.

Louhi Chairs: Productions of intelligence without intentions

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As designers, Contingency Plans have always been fascinated by the omens and prodigies that abound in the concept of “impossible” structures. To that effect, hundreds of utopian/ideological architecture and urbanism proposals have been produced and terms such as visionary or paper architects have been coined.

An overview of Antoni Gaudi’s philosophy and works

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Antoni Gaudi was an architect who changed the face of architecture and is considered the pioneer of Art Nouveau or Catalan Modernist architecture style. The masterpieces designed by Gaudi are an inspiration to every architect or individual in the design.

10 unique underwater architecture around the world

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Architecture has no bounds it is only limited to one’s thought process. Architecture is expanding into all layers of our biosphere, from building on the land to reaching the sky, up on the tree, under the earth, and now moving towards the water.