Category Archives: Architecture

The Sketch Virus

We came across with João Boaventura’s sketch frenzy in social media during the coronavirus lockdown days.
Accepting one of the many online challenges available nowadays, Boaventura, an architect practicing for more than 25 years, drew one or two sketches per day during 30 days.

Once the 30 day period passed, he kept on drawing as if he was infected with some kind of virus that made him sketch in a compulsive way!

Expandability and variability versus façade demands and legal constraints at vertical residential schemes

© Chapman Taylor http://www.chapmantaylor.com Istanbul/ Madrid,  April 2020        “Strategies for optimizing the planning and rationalization of the building process characterize the architecture of the boom years” .  While in the 1960s and 1970s great attention was paid in planning to the adaptability of a building to changing user requirements, at Büyükyali we were facingContinueContinue reading “Expandability and variability versus façade demands and legal constraints at vertical residential schemes”

Composing Architecture is like Cooking!

Unexperienced architects are full of creativity and energy to apply their current ideas and knowledge, when they leave the Universities and they begin to offer their services on the market. However, when they have their first encounter with clients they usually are confronted with a series of problems that they were not trained for. ReadContinueContinue reading “Composing Architecture is like Cooking!”

Coronavirus Made Visible

As the name says, public space is where the members of society move freely and can express themselves in civilized liberty. It’s a common patrimony that all of us, as citizens, use and take care of. MARKS ON THE GROUND During this new pandemic people have been globally required and, in some cases, imposed limitationsContinueContinue reading “Coronavirus Made Visible”

Welcome to ARKollective

THANKS FOR JOINING JOINING US! ARKollective is a sharing platform in the shape of a blog that wants to display the ideas of those who think about architecture, design and how they impact our lives in society. We are starting with a small group of experienced architects who question what became normal – but is farContinueContinue reading “Welcome to ARKollective”