Tag: Architect

I know many different engineers — many of them very good, some of them outstanding, but only a few of them have traits of good systems architects. Let me explain. Engineers' focus area is systems construction. They naturally need to become experts in answering a “how to build a sy...

I had just successfully made a three-pointer with the 15th sheet from my sketch pad into the dustbin in my room, whilst sitting at my drawing table trying to draw human beings for my anthropometrics sheet. Will I ever get this right? Why wasn't I born with Da Vinci's drawing p...

Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. According to Frank Lloyd Wright, we should always listen, believe and hear the truth rather than knowing the fact since many peoples… ...

I am Eirini. My life sort of became a lot more complicated this past year. I decided to leave my full-time job in Athens as an architect (to hell with financial security and all) and start a PhD in Architecture by Design. Not only that but although my PhD is about Athens, the program actual...

Significantly, my first encounter with Doshi and his Vastu Shilpa Foundation (The Art of Substance, aka Environmental Design), was not through any of the many architectural discovery tours I undertook in Asia in the 1980s and 1990s. It was through social work. I had been involved with a&nb...

Inearly 1916, Einstein presented his new theory of gravity, his life’s biggest breakthrough. It successfully explained the notions of space, and time, and how matter interacts and evolves in the universe. However, if the question of a complete description of our universe as a whole was raised ...

Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, holds a significant place in American history as one of the Founding Fathers and architects of American democracy. His contributions to the nation extend beyond his presidency, encompassing his role as a statesman, philosopher, writer,...