These were the words of the year in architecture: Basic. Fundamental. Primitive. Ancient. If fashion had normcore — the flaunting of a bland, practical and Gap-like aesthetic, the plain sweatshirt as ...

Low-budget buildings for low-budget clients are usually low-excitement affairs. It's hard to infuse projects for social service agencies with a spirit of joy when the basic tasks of keeping the rain ...

To Sergio Palleroni, humanitarian architecture is nothing new. In the 1980s, long before public interest design became fashionable, Palleroni was working on sustainable architecture projects for the ...