Architecture.
City.
Society.
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu
Foto: Laurian Ghințoiu
Not everybody knows, but the Bauhaus ensemble in Dessau, comprising the famous main building and the professors’ quarters is not just a museum, but the headquarters of an international academy that teaches post-university courses on design and research.
Text, photo: Cătălina Frâncu
Beneath our feet lie all sorts of textures, all sorts of materials: some harder or easier to maintain, some more expensive or cheaper, some simpler or more refined.
The BIG SEE Festival returns on May 21-22, 2026, to Portorož, Slovenia, as the leading architecture and product design platform in South-East Europe, bringing together architects, designers, brands, and decision-makers from across the world.
Two women started their architectural practice in the early 1920s: Henriette Delavrancea-Gibory, in 1925, in Bucharest, and Eileen Gray, in 1926, in France, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.
The „Casino Constanța Exhibition Center” project, designed by our coleagues from Zeppelin Design, was awarded at IF DESIGN AWARD 2026 – Interior Architecture / Installation, on which occasion we are publishing online the article in which we presented it in Zeppelin magazine #176.
Níall McLaughlin received the Royal Gold Medal this year, following the unanimous vote of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) jury. It does not surprise us. With over 30 years of practice, McLaughlin not only designs by closely following his principles, but also teaches successive generations of students a different way of doing architecture.
The neighborhood is beautiful but a bit strange. It’s part of the extended historical center, yet very peaceful: the usual rows of Prague houses are mingling with large parks, clinics and former abbies such as Emaus. In the former garden of the monastery four prisms above a plinth house the Prague Institute of Planning and Development, and, on much of the ground floor, the CAMP, one of the most alive architecture institutions in Europe.
The interior design for an apartment in a newly built residential development in northern Bucharest started from the need to provide character and warmth to a somewhat generic space, as handed over by the real estate developer.
The single-family house remains the most desired and prevalent form of dwelling.
Even before AI, there was talk about the redundancy of books. What is the point of books now that we buy PDFs/EPUBs/etc. from Amazon, download them from Sci-Hub, Libgen, etc., and never actually read them?
An inclusive approach and good architecture in an area of the country with very few public space projects create iconic developments. The Mahmudia project is primarily for the local community, yet it has all the potential to attract people from all over the country.
In the context of this year’s theme, Intelli-gens, the question posed by Carlo Ratti – the curator of the Venice Architecture Biennale – is: how do we rethink the way we practice architecture in an altered environment?