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Farewell to Masters: Remembering the Architects We Lost in 2025

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 07:30:00 +0000

Every year brings new ideas, projects, and shifts in architectural culture, but it also marks the loss of voices that have shaped the discipline across decades. Architecture moves forward, but it also advances through absence. When figures who helped articulate its language and its ambitions disappear, they leave behind more than completed works or influential texts. Their absence becomes a threshold, a moment in which the discipline pauses to understand what remains, what evolves, and what continues to guide us. These moments of loss remind us that architecture is a long, collective construction, carried not only by those shaping the present but also by those whose visions continue to orient how we think about cities and landscapes.

The Cayala Paradox: How Are Private Districts Shaping Public Space Design in Guatemala?

Moises Carrasco — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ciudad Cayalá, a privately developed, mixed-use community on the outskirts of Guatemala City, is often described as a "theme park" of white lime-washed walls, red tiles, and cobbled plazas. A closer examination, however, reveals a more complex urban narrative. Its significance, however, lies in its capacity to create a safe and well-managed public space, proposing a modern reinterpretation of historic urban principles that mark the region's architectural and urban heritage. Behind the Antigua-style façades lies an urban experiment: a modern re-engagement with architectural elements like arcades, courtyards, and open plazas, which propose a privately-managed public space as a solution to urban challenges in the region.

Léon Krier, Influential Voice in New Urbanism, Passes Away at 79

Reyyan Dogan — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:30:00 +0000

Léon Krier, the Luxembourg-born architect and urban theorist renowned for his critical stance against modernist planning and his influential role in the New Urbanism movement, passed away on June 17, 2025, at the age of 79. Known for his uncompromising critique of modernist planning and his vision for human-scaled, walkable communities, Krier leaves behind a substantial body of built work, theoretical writing, and educational influence.

Architecture is Human: But Beauty is Found Everywhere

Duo Dickinson — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 03:30:00 +0000

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture. - Oscar Wilde

Spotlight: Léon Krier

Patrick Lynch — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 03:30:00 +0000

One of the most boldly dissenting voices of our time, architectural and urban theorist Léon Krier (born 7 April 1946) has throughout his career rejected the commonly accepted practices of Modernist Urbanism, and helped to shape the ideals of the New Urbanism movement. Through his publications and city designs, Krier has changed the discourse of what makes a city successful and returned importance to the concept of community.

A Different Kind of Architectural Drawing: Léon Krier's Sketches

Ella Comberg — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 08:00:00 +0000

When Louis Sullivan rang in the era of the skyscraper at the turn of the 20th century, the vertically soaring building—with its views and elevators—was unthinkably cutting edge. By the fifties, the dense downtown had experienced its moment in the sun and endless suburban sprawl began to surround the city. As early as the eighties, both the suburbs and the skyscraper felt oppressive in their own ways.