The need to carefully tread the earth during all human interventions is now well known. Being design friendly to the mother earth is now at the forefront of the thinking of creative designers leading to inventive products. Such designs often use by-products of the industry, reducing the amount of waste, or harness new sustainable materials or production […]

Rural wilderness of rapidly globalizing Sri Lanka is fast becoming an image of a romantic past; glimpses of a forgotten time when the colonial travellers were mesmerised by the lush green of the Island’s dense jungles, encountered its  wild beasts and strived to conquer a secluded hilly kingdom called ‘Kandy’ fiercely protected by a “moral” […]

Paolo Soleri, the visionary Italian-American architect and theorist who built the famed urban setting ‘Arcosanti’ in the Arizona high desert, died on the 9th of April 2013 at the age of 93. Soleri dedicated his life to promoting an art of living that re-establishes the all-important relationship between human beings and the environment they live in.

Pablo Picasso has changed the way in which we experience art, changed our perceptions of what ought to be depicted by art and created a third dimension to the seemingly two dimensional canvas.

Inspiration can be defined as an influence on a person to do certain things, which qualifies the person to think anew. It could also be identified as a divine influence or a sacred revelation because it touches the intellect.

Architectural design has always been inexplicable through logic and indescribable through words, yet been a successful intuitive rational solution for many complex design problems throughout the times.

The term climate responsive architecture not only signifies a built environment, which complements its surroundings but also an environment which complements those who dwell in it.

It is not only in theory but in practice, that architecture is a complex form of art. It is complex in its nature as it entails planning, creative designing and executing a three dimensional space, reflective of its function.The creator must have astute observations of the surrounding environment, the cultural and functional needs and the […]