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 ...

“The wind of change is blowing through this continent,” declared British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in the Ghanaian capital Accra in 1960. “Whether we like it or not, this growth of national ...

Tropical architecture, a term widely used in architectural discourse, lacks a consistent definition. The adjective ‘tropical’ relates to the zone between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, which ...

"This is a mood book, concise in its information and lavish in its photography. It celebrates the sensual qualities and vivid beauty that add up to the tropical architecture of one of the culturally ...

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 ...

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 ...

We pay a visit to London’s Victoria and Albert museum, where a new exhibition is dedicated to the architectural style. We also reflect on the work of Sri Lankan practitioner Geoffrey Bawa. Lucrezia ...

Undeniably, art deco is the typical design style that comes to mind when people discuss Miami’s architecture. In fact, Miami Beach deco has its own subcategory of the Roaring Twenties style, made ...

Though there’s been a design pivot to incorporate more indoor and outdoor living and more washed and stylistic use of concrete in recent years, tropical brutalism isn’t new. It’s a design style that’s ...