Archinect - Untapped

Culturo-Economic Values in Architecture

2020-12-23T00:36:49-05:00

Let us mull over the extravagance in large-scale buildings; admittingly, overinvesting in monumental buildings has persisted throughout the ages and continues to proliferate even today at every corner of the globe as long as the world's economy grows manifolds daily. We regard these buildings as monuments of cultural significance; however, we celebrate them with little understanding or questioning of the impetuses that bring them into existence. Consequently, it affects how we perceive them and the meaning we attribute to them. While the contemporary architecture of large-scale buildings claims to celebrate exuberance, most of the public's mind is stuck with an image of this type of architecture as a celebration of opulence, far from the fact. Architecture is a form of thinking. It applies to any domain that can take advantage of a holistic approach to understanding, synthesizing, and representing any situation that poses an issue to solve. Historical evidence points to the preva...

New Frontiers

2020-12-13T22:21:00-05:00

We live in unprecedented times of challenges; however, more often than not, with each challenge comes an opportunity. This goes to say that the field of architecture abounds with untapped opportunities. Our area of expertise has the potential to engage with the world’s most pressing issues. Our expertise permeates a broader range of cultural, environmental, public health, and social equity issues. What is so special about an architect’s training that makes it relevant to engaging many global problems? The simple answer is our dexterity to synthesize complex issues and resolve them to a discernable form. In the profession, we lightly understand this exercise as conceiving, where our work, at its core, engages in problematics. We ultimately deliver tangible forms, such as appealing visuals, which can spark a public debate or rally the needed support for their realization while at the same time enticing scientists' and engineers’ talent and imagination to develop relevant practical sol...