Keeping the Façade Is Not Enough: Measuring the Environmental Value of Building Reuse
Six publications examine building reuse through retained materials, programme fit and life-cycle evidence, beyond the appearance of a preserved façade.
Architecture
Contemporary Architecture
Architecture considered through its spatial, cultural and technical dimensions. This section examines design ideas, building traditions and the relationship between individual works and the conditions in which they are produced.
Explore architectural projects and building studies, connect them with cities and urbanism, and follow the questions developed in architectural research.
The Man Who Draws the Tree From Above
An architect writing under the pen name Ibrahim Fawakherji sets down his own history while still in his early forties,…
The Frozen Date
Imagine you could stop time on the afternoon of the fourteenth of July, 1789, in the instant the crowd poured…
World Architecture Day 2026: A Platform for Architecture Still Being Written
On World Architecture Day 2026, ArchUp reflects on architecture as a living field of writing, evidence, housing, memory and urban responsibility.
Proud to Be an Architect
Architects fulfill an essential role in society by creating the physical spaces where all human activities occur. Drawing from a…
The Consulting Pyramid Is Collapsing From the Bottom Up
Advancements in technology and artificial intelligence have collapsed the distance to information, undermining authority based solely on status. In professional…
The Resident Builds What They Inhabit: Tension Between Mobility and Stability in Camping House
The Camping Trade-Off Between Freedom and StabilityCamping is built around a quiet trade-off: the freedom to be anywhere in exchange…
The Louvre’s Stretch Marks: An Architectural Reading of a Museum That Never Sleeps
A critical architectural reading of the Louvre as an aging body under the pressure of memory, visitors, maintenance, and the billions of steps that pass through it.
Jeronimo Faria Lima: Silk-Screen Printing on Glass as a Tool for Shaping the Façade’s Visual Identity
The Site as a Starting Point for the Architectural ConceptJeronimo Faria Lima is located at a sharply contrasting urban intersection:…
Casa Estil·li: Transforming a Deteriorated Adobe Granary into a Residence with an Independent Timber Roof
Reading Architecture as a Cultural Act: Between Preservation and ReinterpretationThe project begins with a critical view of the act of…
Functional Organization as a Generator of Form: The Dunant Health Center in Bordeaux’s Deschamps-Belvédère District
From Isolation to Integration: Redefining the Threshold and the PathThe healthcare sector is currently shifting toward a collaborative model between…
Temple Quarter Enterprise: Architectural Transparency as a Tool for Breaking Boundaries Between Institutional Interior and the Street
From the Mail Sorting Office to the Civic Threshold: Space as a Medium of ConnectionTemple Quarter Enterprise Campus occupies a…
The Degree That Forgot the Building: Why Architecture School Fails Construction
Modern architectural education prioritizes design theory, formal aesthetics, and visual representation over practical construction knowledge. University faculty often lack extensive…
Space Architecture: The Discipline That Tests Every Assumption
Space architecture applies architectural design to off-Earth environments, including orbital facilities and planetary surfaces on the Moon and Mars. Unlike…
Astra: Could This Make You a “Maestra”?
AI design agents mark a shift in architectural practice by autonomously executing spatial tasks, massing, and circulation from design briefs….
The Pattern That Nature Also Solved
Islamic geometric patterns share deep structural and generative mathematical logic with natural systems like quasicrystals, plant growth, and cellular structures….
The Yards, Covent Garden: The City That Whispers
The Yards is an urban design project occupying over five acres in London’s Covent Garden. Rather than acting as a…
Floating House in the Mekong Delta: Adaptive Housing
Spatial Adaptation to the Rhythm of WaterArchitecture in the Mekong Delta responds to seasonal fluctuations in water levels by transforming…
Between Two Films
Media and professional industries face a major shift as artificial intelligence automates routine production tasks. While automated systems make generic…
Before You Draw the House, Study the Pack
Residential architects must understand a family’s social structure to design effective homes. Drawing from behavioral ecology, household dynamics often reflect…
The Bank That Hired a Geomancer
Feng shui combines practical environmental design with metaphysical superstition. While the Compass School relies on unproven astrological calculations, the Form…
