Recently, the California Court of Appeals in Simmons v. Ehm Architecture, Inc., No. D080702, 2023 WL 8888228 (Cal. App. 4th Dist. Dec, 26, 2023) (unpublished), held that an owner giving his ...

Rather than criticizing design itself, the report examines the structural flaw in the traditional architect-first model. Plans are created in isolation from construction reality. When theory meets the ...

Architectural design has always been a balance between creativity, technical precision, and efficiency. However, traditional planning methods often involve time-consuming revisions, manual drafting, ...

Roughly 4,150 years ago, in modern-day Iraq, a Mesopotamian king named Gudea commissioned a sculpture of himself. In it, he is depicted as an architect, with his hands clasped over a tablet showing an ...

When it comes to floor plans, programs such as AutoCAD, Revit, and Rhino usually spring to mind. That, however, doesn’t appear to be the case for Norwegian firm Vardehaugen. Based in Oslo, they are ...

Throughout history, drawing has been the essential medium of conveying architectural ideas, operating on multiple levels, from the practical application of serving the construction process to the more ...

In order to explain projects and design decisions properly, architects must use often rely on creative representation techniques instead of words. It’s part of the job. The quality of drawings - ...