Nicholas Soniprasad is a student at New York Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Design. Here he talks to us about his midterm project for ARCH-291 Parametric Design with professor Jason Van Nest. How did you create this project? I first sketched the design out on paper and then generated a 3D model in Rhino using […]
It’s blazingly hot outside and five summer fellows from the Tulane City Center are standing in a playground at a youth center in New Orleans. The architecture students diplomatically describe the playground’s design as “unintentional”: There’s no grass, trees or even much shade, and it’s surrounded by a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire. The […]
Snarkitecture, the Brooklyn architecture studio known for its monochromatic aesthetic, designed the “beach” as part of the National Building Museum’s interactive installation series. You could think of it as the answer to the annual Serpentine Galleries’ pavilion program, which taps an architect to design an imaginative outdoor structure. Last year Bjarke Ingels constructed a wooden […]
That Travis Price defines himself as a storyteller is not, on its face, unusual; “every architect is,” he acknowledges. But the stories that Price favors—mythological tales of bygone civilizations, like those of the Incas and the ancient Greeks—set him apart from his peers. For more than two decades, as a professor of architecture at The […]
Architectural education introduces students to a trove of reference materials that aim to influence how they think about design. But which ones are worth a coveted spot on the bookshelf? We asked six architects plus a few ARCHITECT staffers who studied architecture or engineering to share the texts they’ve held onto and why. José Alvarez, AIA […]
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