There’s no question that climate change is intensifying. If we’re not experiencing a record-breaking deep freeze in the winter, we’re dealing with scorching heat waves. One of the most serious ...

Architecture has long been intertwined with the historical narratives of colonialism, where European powers imposed their styles and ideologies upon colonised regions, often disregarding local ...

From Costa Rica, architect Bruno Stagno not only reflects on how responses to the environment can be the main basis for inspiration and identity in architecture but also proposes going a little ...

Britain exported the architectural style to West Africa and India, but local practitioners adapted it for a different climate and a new kind of politics. By Emily LaBarge The critic Emily LaBarge saw ...

A new book by Gestalten is taking readers on a tour of architecture that exemplifies the Tropical Modernist style. Named “Concrete Jungle” the 304-page hardback spans lush landscapes the world over, ...

As curator of the 2023 Venice architecture biennale, the Ghanaian-Scottish architect, Lesley Lokko, has chosen to highlight the African continent as “the laboratory of the future”. But as well as ...

Roberto Burle Marx is to Brazilian landscape architecture what Pelé is to football—a 20th-century icon. His botanical genius shaped this lush estate in the hills of Rio.

CEPT University Foundation Hall, Lecture Hall and Kund / CCBA Designs. Photo © Ashish Bhonde, Ramprasad Akkisetti Unlike isolated civic buildings, campuses offered ...

The prevailing story of tropical modernism in the Global South has long overlooked the contributions of local architects and engineers, writes Mohamed Ismail. Growing up on Mount Makiling in Los Baños ...

Tourists flock to Miami Beach to stroll the streets lined with the city-defining art deco design. But the wave of permanent transplants to the city is staying for the tropical modernism that has for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The home’s contemporary lines stand in soft counterpoint to the landscape's tropical fullness, creating the kind of tension Burle ...