It will open up a whole new world for you Around 5 years ago, before I even started university I went to a guest lecture on the mathematics of general relativity with a friend. The professor talked about one of the components in Einstein’s field equations. After 5 minutes of…

The reincarnation of cultural elements in modern buildings — Where modernism is evolved from the West, it was introduced to the East. This introduction in the 20th century marked the start of rapid urbanisation in a lot of Asian cities, including China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, building modernist skyscrapers one after another. Its steamrolling development left little to no…

Kengo Kuma’s defeated architecture as the future of architecture explained with the Asakusa Culture and Tourism Center. — Where developed in the west, modernist architecture was introduced to the East, to Japan in 1854 along with the official opening of the country. The 1868 Meji Restoration consolidated a Western system in Japan, including the western style of modernist architecture. As time progressed a new fusion between traditional Japanese…

Love, Hate, Love, Hate, Love, Hate, out of petals… It was a Saturday morning, I was sitting in the studio, holding my hot water bottle. Smoke gently rises, mixing with the dusty scene illuminated by the sun. There was no one there, dead quiet, just like the streets in UK…

Architect the Kengo Kuma way — Since humans settled down, lands and houses had been a sign of wealth. As we enter the 20th century, modern housing schemes and corporate advertisement constantly reinforced us with the idea that owning a house enriches our lives and make us rich, both physically and inside. Together with the push…

How Tange Kenzo fused the East and the West — Due to the difference in cultures and political structures, east of the world had always been a mystery. Where contemporary architecture evolved in the west, contemporary architecture intruded the east. Over the years architects from east-Asian countries, including Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and many more strive to merge the two…

Discovering New China — I interned in a Chinese architecture firm in Foshan, Guanzhou for 2 months in the summer of 2018. I have to admit that I wasn’t planning to write about this internship experience at first, it wasn’t the first time I visited China, neither is it going to be the last…

We have completely re-designed the home. — In case you were wondering, yes the subtitle was an Apple joke. You might have heard of the term “co-housing” from a lot of different places. It is said to be the next idea, completely transforming how we live our lives, with articles and ted talks praising how much it…

Look around you, bad architecture is everywhere. — Yesterday was a hot and sunny day, 23 degrees celsius to be exact, not something you would get in the north of UK. It was not a big deal since to me since I was not planning to go out, but after lunch I started to feel the heat (it…