Architecture is born from materials. Between structure, light, movement, and comfort, materials profoundly shape our experiences. But materials also change over time, new ones are created, and a wide ...

Advances in biotechnology and material science are opening new material opportunities, with the potential of fundamentally changing the connection between the built environment and the natural world.

Located an hour north of Sydney in the Hunter Valley wine country region, The Hangar is home to Air Action, an aviation museum with a collection of vintage fighter planes to admire and even take rides ...

You may have heard the saying “If it’s not grown, it’s mined.” It’s as true for construction materials as it is for anything. The challenge for architects as climate crisis accelerates is to shift the ...

Materials Hub has information like connection detail in its recommendations. Screenshot courtesy of Acelab Material Matters Many technology companies and service providers have tried to tackle ...

PlasticFree is a new database for architects and designers, that aims to help them find plastic-free building materials for projects from architecture to furniture design. From hemp to corn fiber, ...

From Architectural Record, July, 1928. Read a PDF of the original article here. Perhaps the greatest difference eventually between ancient and modern buildings will be due to our modern machine-made ...