Architecture Slides
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Ancient Architecture
Architecture begins not with shelter but with ceremony. The first monumental buildings predate agriculture; they predate writing; in some cases they predate the wheel.
Architecture / a brief structural history
From the megalith to the megacity. Thirteen sheets tracing how humans have shaped, stacked, vaulted, and printed space — and what each era carried forward into the next.
Architecture
From megalithic standing stones to parametrically generated towers of glass — humanity's most public art form and most essential technology, forged at the intersection of shelter, structure, beauty, and meaning across ten thousand years.
Art Deco Architecture
A Visual Journey Through
Bamboo Architecture
Bamboo is a member of the Poaceae family — the true grasses — not a wood at all. With over 1,400 species distributed across tropical and temperate Asia, Africa, and the Americas, it is one of the most ecologically diverse plant genera on earth. Its hollow, segmented culm achieves a strength-to-weight ratio that rivals structural steel, while requiring no pesticides, minimal water, and no replanting after harvest.
Brutalism
Brutalism is the most aggressively unloved style in the history of modern architecture, and also one of the most photographed. Half its buildings have been demolished or scheduled for it. The other half are listed monuments and Instagram backdrops.
Classical Architecture
For two and a half millennia, "to build well" in the West has meant something close to: build the way the Greeks and Romans built. The argument is not yet over.
CPUs and Architecture
A central processing unit fetches an instruction from memory, decodes it, executes it, and writes the result. Then it does the same with the next instruction. It does this several billion times a second, on a die smaller than a fingernail, dissipating less power than a light bulb.
Deconstructivist Architecture
Against Order, Beyond Form
Gothic Architecture
Romanesque churches are thick walls with small holes for light. Gothic churches reverse the proposition: thin stone screens framing immense windows. The wall, structurally, dissolves.
Housing Crisis
A global emergency decades in the making — why millions cannot afford a place to live, and what history, economics, design, and policy reveal about a path forward.
Islamic Architecture
An Architectural Heritage Spanning Fourteen Centuries
Japanese Architecture
From Sacred Groves to Metabolist Megastructures — 1,400 Years of Building Philosophy
Landscape Architecture
Landscape architecture is the only design discipline that improves over decades. A garden completes itself in 30 years; a park reaches its character in 50; a designed forest becomes its imagined self in a century. Most landscape architects never see their best work.
Modernist Architecture
Modernism is the architecture that decided history was over. From roughly 1910 to roughly 1970, an international generation of architects argued that the new materials of industry — steel, glass, reinforced concrete — required a new architectural language without historical reference, applied ornament, or regional inflection. They were partly right and partly catastrophically wrong, and the buildings they made now...
Parametric Architecture
When Algorithms Shape Space — Computation, Craft, and the New Complexity
Renaissance & Baroque Architecture
The Renaissance is the rebirth of classical architecture. The Baroque is what classical architecture does once it has stopped being self-conscious about it.
Skyscrapers
A skyscraper is not a tall building. It is a tall building made possible by three specific 19th-century inventions — the steel frame, the safety elevator, and the central HVAC system — that together permitted occupied space to rise hundreds of metres above the ground.
Sustainable Architecture
Buildings are responsible for roughly 37% of global energy-related greenhouse-gas emissions — about 27% from operating energy and 10% from embodied carbon in construction materials. The decarbonisation of architecture is not a sub-discipline; it is the central design problem of the next forty years.
Vernacular Architecture
Vernacular architecture is the architecture of the people who would live in the result. It is built without architects, refined over centuries by trial and adaptation, sourced from local materials, attuned to local climate, and shaped by the social patterns of the community that builds it. Until 1964 it was largely invisible to the discipline of architecture; since then it has been one of the discipline's...