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Traditional Solutions, Modern Projects: Wooden Screens for Sun Protection and Ventilation

Throughout history, sunshades--light-weight screens typically made of interwoven wooden reeds--have been the go-to method of sun protection and temperature control for dwellings across civilizations, especially those located in tropical and Mediterranean climates. While offering protection from the sun's heat and rays, sunshades also allow air to permeate, making them an effective and economical cooling system for interior spaces. 

Patagonian Houses: A Visual Registry of Traditional Houses in the Far South of Argentina

© Thibaud Poirier© Thibaud Poirier© Thibaud Poirier© Thibaud Poirier+ 13

Argentina's Patagonia region is a vast swath of land that spans the provinces of Chubut, Neuquén, Río Negro, Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego, and even parts of La Pampa, Mendoza, and Buenos Aires. Although it is the largest region within the country, it is also the least populated and, therefore, markedly rural and isolated. This isolation forms the basis for Thibaud Poirier 's “Houses of Patagonia”, where he offers a visual registry of the houses found throughout the region in an attempt to capture the similarities that define the region's architectural style.

Short Film Explores the Standardization of Traditional Japanese Housing in Osaka

Created by Japanese architectural historian Norihito Nakatani, the film "A City of Columns" explores the distinctive dwelling culture of nagaya, a housing typology that flourished in the Japanese early modern period. The video depicts one of the few remaining nagaya neighbourhoods in Osaka, revealing the standardization embedded in all aspects of this form of housing and documenting how architectural elements transition between different spatial configurations.

Toyosaki Nagaya. screenshot from "A City of Columns". Image Courtesy of Norihito Nakatani SeminarThe nagaya modular structure. Screenshot from "A City of Columns". Image Courtesy of Norihito Nakatani SeminarToyosaki Nagaya. Screenshot from "A City of Columns". Image Courtesy of Norihito Nakatani SeminarThe nagaya modular structure. Screenshot from "A City of Columns". Image Courtesy of Norihito Nakatani Seminar+ 6

HANGSUK· TRICHANG LABRANG Boutique hotel / Kong_architects

Main gate © Le feng
Main gate © Le feng

GIF. Image Courtesy of Kong_architectsLight yard in“回“area © Le fengWood structrue in the building © Le fengTibetan brackets. Image © Le feng+ 27

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拉萨市, China
  • Architects: Kong_architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  2300 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018

Ornament, Crime & Prejudice: Where Loos' Manifesto Fails to Understand People

This article was originally published on CommonEdge as "African Architecture: Ornament, Crime & Prejudice."

Revolutionary Nature: the Architecture of Hiroshi Sambuichi

Naoshima Hall. Image © Sambuichi Architects
Naoshima Hall. Image © Sambuichi Architects

Our world revolves. Not just literally, as it does around the sun, but in nature’s every aspect. Seasons cycle into each other (though more erratically each year), waves trace and retrace the beaches with the shifting tide, flowers open, close, and turn to follow the path of the sun. Even we are governed by these circular natural systems. Maintenance of our circadian rhythms, a human connection to light, is so essential to our health that it is a required element in many contemporary building codes. 

Galicia Publishes a Guide to Colors and Materials Of Its Traditional Architecture

Last October 23, in the small Galician city of Ares (Spain), the "Guide of colors and materials" was publicly presented, with which the administration of the Galician community - in collaboration with the Galicia College of Architects (COAG) - aims to establish aesthetic criteria and recommendations in the search for a better image and urban quality of Galician populations. 

This document is composed of fourteen volumes and its publication was made possible by a laborious process in which, for a year, architects, historians, and graduates of Fine Arts, had analyzed more than 3,800 buildings in rural, urban and peri-urban areas, as well as in industrial properties in the four Galician provinces.