I continue my Great Structures Week with focus on structural engineering innovations from ancient Rome. I am drawing these posts from The Teaching Company course, “Understanding the World’s Greatest ...

Ceramic fragments and figures found at the Neolithic site of Mureybet, in Syria's Middle Euphrates valley, indicate that clay and fire work date back to the 7th millennium BC. This means that dealing ...

Especially in a pandemic, these structures give architects room to play with materials and form. The architect Valerie Schweitzer based her pavilion on her “poetic idea of a structure that could ...

Pretentious as it may sound, we can say with certainty that bamboo is one of the most promising materials for the future of the construction industry. Neil Thomas, principal engineer at atelier one, ...