Architecture & Design
Discover inspiring architecture & design ideas, innovative buildings, and creative spaces shaping the future of the built environment.
Standard Garage Size: 1, 2 and 3 Car Garage Dimensions and Garage Door Sizes
Why 20 by 20 feet is the usual two-car minimum, where it stops working for full-size pickups, which garage door sizes manufacturers build,...
Sinan Ozen7 Mins read
Stair Section Drawing: How to Draw and Detail a Staircase Section
How to draw a stair section from cut line to headroom check, what each part of a staircase section shows, and three typical...
LA Editorial Team14 Mins read
Chalmers Researchers Urge Architects to Build Material Reuse Practice Into Design
A Chalmers and KTH study urges architects to start projects by cataloguing reusable materials, citing a Bruges pavilion as proof of concept.
LA Editorial Team3 Mins read
Parsons Study Finds Plastic-Heavy Materials Throughout a US Manufactured Home
Parsons researchers say plastics dominate a Minnesota manufactured home's surfaces, raising health concerns.
LA Editorial Team3 Mins read
Stuttgart Researchers Test Timber-Concrete Floor Slab System
Stuttgart engineers load-tested a timber-concrete floor slab designed to rival concrete while cutting embodied carbon.
LA Editorial Team3 Mins read
Types of Architectural Styles: A Complete Guide to Identifying Each Era
Architectural styles include classical, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, Modern, Brutalist, Postmodern, and Contemporary.
LA Editorial Team7 Mins read
SUPERPRAXIS Builds Small Mycelium Shelter in Bariloche, Argentina
SUPERPRAXIS built a tiny mycelium shelter in Bariloche, Argentina, from fungal blocks grown on local food and timber waste.
LA Editorial Team2 Mins read
Postmodernism Architecture: What It Is and Why It Still Divides Architects
The movement that put pediments, pastel colors and classical columns back on office towers between 1966 and 1990, seen through its founding texts,...
Furkan Sen7 Mins read
