Inspiration: Collections

Name each of these buildings and their architects from drawings alone.

The wood used to make the concrete molds is often sandblasted to exaggerate the impression of the gr ain left on the concrete.

The noodle bar is a distinct typology that has come to represent a space to share the culinary histo ry and build on the legacy of the noodle.

Their album investigates the profound link between the human experience of the built environment and musical association and affect.

Architects prize the gabion wall, traditionally used as a landscape material, for its bold, textured look

Mirrors have had a place as a building material for a long while, from the Hall of Mirrors in Versai lles to the John Hancock Tower in Boston. Speaking to the later example, the glassy material is especially popular as glazing on windows and other external walls, as a rather attractive skin. Its characteristics – luminance,…

Large-scale projects and masterplans are reshaping urban morphology. What do these redevelopments lo ok like at the scale of architecture?

Under most circumstances, entire buildings, sections within, and individual rooms are designed speci fically for how they are intended to be used — generally speaking, how it all fits together. More uncommon are spaces with a primary purpose based on experience or observation. That is to say, an architectural construct that is not designed for efficiency…

As the story goes, during the recess between world wars, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed a startli ngly modern home for a Jewish businessman and his new wife in Czechoslovakia. The Villa Tugendhat, a building of dramatic vertical and horizontal lines marked by a large room with floor-to-ceiling windows, managed to survive many instances of…