Italian architect Renzo Piano was born on September 14th, 1937, in Genoa, Italy. Although he was born into a family of builders, his ideas were all his own. Renzo Piano felt that nostalgia was a trap and not at all important. His feeling was, “It’s not what you have...
Green Building. First of all, let’s say that there are many events today that are the beginning of great things to come. As you probably already noticed, just about every company in every industry is starting to do something towards environmental causes and...
There are always new buzzwords that make something that has been around for a long time seem like it was just invented. Sustainable architecture is currently trending everywhere — from real estate sites to architectural magazines, we’re seeing how this practice...
The word sustainable seems to be the latest buzzword for just about every industry lately. Well, we have news for you — the lighting industry is so ahead of every other industry in this area that even though we didn’t necessarily talk about it, we were already...
Peter Zumthor was born on April 26, 1943, in Basel, Switzerland. He is a world-renowned award-winning architect, but he is also a conservationist. Peter Zumthor himself stated in an interview back in 2018 for dezeen.com, “Architects may be limited in their power to...
“Real wealth is ideas plus energy.” — R. Buckminster Fuller Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. You could say his creativity knew no bounds. Buckminster Fuller was born Richard Buckminster Fuller on...