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From Design Fiction to Design Futures: The Changing Role of Architecture in Cultural Production

Ankitha Gattupalli — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:30:00 +0000

When Archigram published their fanatical vision for pneumatic cities and walking megastructures in the 1960s, they seemed to be designing buildings. Beneath the surface, the avant-gardeists were pushing culture through radical alternatives to lifestyles and forms of organizing in the city. Laboratories found themselves between the lines of copy on Domus or Casabella magazines, propositions doubling as blueprints for the civilizations to come. From Gropius's Bauhaus in 1919 to Arcosanti's desert experiments in the 1970s, architecture operated as a form of cultural prophecy. Built form was the argument. The drawing was the vision. Today, we live in a world that remarkably resembles what the starchitects of the 1900s imagined - modular construction, interconnected digital cities, and automated systems. Yet contemporary architecture rarely proposes culture with the same totalizing confidence.

Scroll & Stroll: How Social Media Is Rewriting Architectural Cultural Tourism

Jonathan Yeung — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 07:30:00 +0000

Historically—like other cultural forms—architecture has been documented, shared, and promoted primarily through print. Books, journals, and magazines carried the discipline's arguments and images, and because architectural practice relies so heavily on visual communication, printed journals created a bridge between academic publications and commercial magazines. Through the postwar decades, beautifully produced volumes curated a collective point of view, signaling what the field broadly considered discussion-worthy or exemplary.

Social Media-Friendly Design: Is Architecture Adapting to Viral Trends and Algorithms?

Enrique Tovar — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 07:30:00 +0000

I saw it on Instagram! It's a phrase we often hear in various contexts, from the latest restaurant recommendations to the trendiest hotel in town. The window to observe and expose ourselves to the outside world now sits in our smartphones. This doesn't necessarily mean it's all doom and gloom. Still, it reflects that we're constantly flooded with data and information segmented by algorithms, all in a super easy-to-consume format. In today's world, it takes only a few seconds to form a lasting impression of a building and its atmosphere—and those first impressions matter more than we often realize.

Architect's Guide to Effective Branding: 7 Steps for Architecture Firms to Follow

Bryon McCartney/ Archmark — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 03:30:00 +0000

Branding for architects isn’t just about having a beautifully designed logo. In fact, when it comes to promoting your architecture firm, a distinctive brand is fundamental to communicating what makes your firm unique and different.

Aesthetic Trends and Accessibility: Interior Design in the Age of Social Media

Ankitha Gattupalli — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 04:00:00 +0000

“How to give your home: Dark Academia vibes” reads the title of a popular YouTube video targeted at homeowners fascinated by the aesthetics relating to liberal education and the arts. A subculture born in the age of social media, Dark Academia is one of many internet aesthetics that have gained prevalence in the last decade. Image-based platforms like Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest, and TikTok have amplified internet aesthetics, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social media allows users to support and create their own trends that rapidly amass a following. Today, the creation of aesthetic trends lies in the hands of the general public and will dictate the way interior design trends develop.

The Second Studio Podcast: Interview with Eva Hagberg

The Second Studio Podcast — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 03:30:00 +0000

The Second Studio (formerly The Midnight Charette) is an explicit podcast about design, architecture, and the everyday. Hosted by Architects David Lee and Marina Bourderonnet, it features different creative professionals in unscripted conversations that allow for thoughtful takes and personal discussions.

Make Way for Maximalism: Gen Z Says Less is a Bore

Ankitha Gattupalli — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 07:30:00 +0000

With the onset of the 2020s, Gen Z is noticeably claiming their place in the world with bold perspectives and even bolder aesthetics. Gen Z proudly experiments with their identities, having grown up on an opinionated internet and through confusing lockdowns. They're bringing in a culture shift with organic shapes, colorful elements, and clashing patterns dominating art, media, fashion, and interior design. The trend is pushing away once-reigning minimalism, shouting Venturi's Less is a Bore.

Architecture, Memes, and Social Media Influencers

Kaley Overstreet — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 04:00:00 +0000

According to a Harris Poll/Lego survey that questioned children across the United States, UK, and China, nearly one-third of children aged eight to 12 want to be a “YouTuber” when they grow up. That’s three times as many children who said that they wanted to be astronauts just a decade ago. The implications of how this generation of future influencers and content creators has a significant impact on the architecture and design profession begs the question- are we on the cusp of experiencing the rise of architecture influencers?

Architects Beyond the Traditional Practice: ArchDaily Editors Talk

Dima Stouhi — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 07:30:00 +0000

Graduating with an architecture degree is often met with the expectations of working a 9-5 job at an office. However, the reality is that many fresh graduates are venturing into diversified careers and exploring fields such as architectural photography, writing, rendering, set design, and project management. In this Editor's Talk, ArchDaily's Founder and Editor in Chief, Director of Software Product Development, Managing Editors, and Social Media Editor share their experiences of graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture then finding themselves exploring different, yet very complimentary career paths post graduation, proving that there is a lot more to the architecture practice beyond designing built spaces.

"TikTok-itecture": Is This the New Digital Media for Architecture and Design?

Kaley Overstreet — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 07:30:00 +0000

In a world that was once so obsessed with architecture that was “for the ‘gram”, the rise of TikTok is creating a shift in how we experience and consume architecture. It's no small trend either, nearly 950 million TiKTok videos utilize the hashtag #architecture, frequently to describe buildings in various cities or a specific architectural style that the video creator is familiar with. Does this mean that the era of the "instagrammable building" over, and is TikTok the new way to connect across generations and locations to explore the possibilities of architecture?

Street Art in the Digital Age: Photos, Documents, Urban Agency

Andrea Baldini — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:00:00 +0000

How do street art practices resonate through the digital world, and how do we trace such resonance back to the street? More generally, what happens when the sensor-imbued city acquires the ability to see – almost as if it had eyes? Andrea Baldini (Nanjing University) reflects on the role that the Internet, and social networks, in particular, have had in boosting the circulation of graffiti and street art and, in turn, their communicative and denouncing power.

Building Images: A Video on How Social Media is Changing Architecture

Dima Stouhi — Sun, 05 May 2019 06:00:00 +0000

Before social media took over, buildings were published on magazines, edited and refined according to their architects’ preferences. Nowadays, magazines are left on the sidelines for a much more influential platform, one that is not totally controlled by the architects. Digital communication has changed the way people view and interact with architecture, providing architects with new insights on how to design their structures.

The Most Important New Tool for Architects: Instagram

Collin Abdallah — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 09:30:00 +0000

In the current iteration of our digital age, Instagram is king in the social media. Boasting 1 billion (yes, with a "b") active monthly users, if you are a business and not on Instagram, you are missing out.

Why the World Needs More Architecture Memes

Kaley Overstreet — Sun, 27 May 2018 07:00:00 +0000

In the modern age of sensationalism, consumerism, and widespread fake news, it's easy to understand why we feel the need to express ourselves through memes—the abstract photographs, video clips, and gifs that are manipulated in various ways to express thoughts on certain matters or situations that are relatable to people across the globe. Memes often expound complex yet concise sentiments which, in a way, closely resemble the way that we communicate in real life.

4 Best Instagram Hashtags To Follow If You Want to See Great Architecture

Amanda Pimenta — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 08:00:00 +0000

The hashtag officially became part of the Oxford English Dictionary in 2014, and whether you tend to use them or not, they are a pretty unavoidable internet tool that helps users connect related internet content. Maybe you’re hashtagging photos to get featured on a certain account or to poke some fun at yourself (see Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon)? But serious ArchDaily readers have been using “#” to group beautiful photographs of architecture for the better part of a decade. When Instagram announced that it was possible to follow hashtags, die-hard taggers found a way to discover and like new content without actively seeking it out.

This Unique Instagram Showcases the Bizarre Variety of Japanese Public Restrooms

Collin Abdallah — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 09:30:00 +0000

When looking back on the rich history of Japanese architecture, some of the things that immediately come to mind are complex wood joinery, hipped roofs and intimate experiences with water. Today, Japan is on the cutting edge of architectural innovation in many different buildling types—skyscrapers, office buildings and micro-housing to name a few. However, this Instagram account chooses to highlight an extremely unappreciated building type—public restrooms.

The Most Popular Architecture Offices on Facebook

Niall Patrick Walsh — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 08:00:00 +0000

The world's most followed architecture office Facebook pages, reaching millions of design lovers with a single status update.

Architecture Marketing 101: How Basic Concepts Can Help Your Practice

Lidija Grozdanic for Archipreneur.com — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published by Archipreneur as "How to Grow Your Architecture Firm Through Marketing."