Alec Boreham

The Venice Architectural Biennale, as the name implies, is part of a duo of expo type fares that are held in Venice, Italy every year,...

St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, UK. Today's building, constructed by the astronomist, scientist and architect Sir Christopher...

It's a beautiful morning in London, 21 degrees, lots of sun and I am on my bike for the first time since I caught COVID a month ago. I am...

Renzo Piano is a well known post modernist Italian architect, born in Genoa, Italy in 1937, his style is bold, industrial, high tech and...

History of Current Building Today's St Paul's Cathedral, which sits on a religious site that saw its first building constructed in AD...

Philip Johnson can be credited as an architect that championed the development of the International style and further design and...

"Architecture is the art of space" Marcel Breuer Marcel Brewer, born in 1902 in Pécs in southwestern Hungary was known as a champion of...

“The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our...

The English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham drew up plans for this unique and theoretical building. The word Panopticon...

Eclecticism is defined within architecture as a movement active and popular in the 19th and 20th Century. An eclectically influenced...

As part of my learning process, I am trying to create my own guide that I can use to analyse and criticize buildings. When a building is...

Le Corbusier was an architect that has been credited as a pioneer of the modernist movement of architecture in the 20th century and his...

This building, designed and built by Mies van de Rohe and Lilly Reich, was intended as the German Pavilion for the Barcelona...

The Bauhaus School was formed by Walter Gropius in a time of turmoil for many countries, recovering from mass destruction and suffering from

There are many notable architects that have shaped and led the way our buildings look and feel today through philosophy, concepts, use of...

In all aspects of design, creativity and art, there will always be varying opinions on what is perceived as good and ugly design.

Hagia Sofia is one of the most famous Byzantine buildings in the world, its name means "divine wisdom' and was constructed between 532...

For many centuries, the form of a building communicated its purpose and function. There was an explicit correspondence between its outer...

Alvar Aalto can not be described as an Architect alone, he was a designer of many genres, His furniture, glassware and fabrics are seen...

Post modern architecture was predominantly a reaction to and reversal of the Modern Architectural movement which was dominant from the...

Louis Sullivan was an American Architect that has ended up through popular culture to be known as the father of skyscrapers or the father...

There are many different Architectural Styles that have emerged over the many thousands of years of Human Construction, I have decided to...

There are a number of design processes that various institutions have drawn up to allow the designer in many disciplines not just...

There have been many advances in building construction over the centuries, many include mechanical innovations and advances in building...