Journal

Local Architecture in a Globalized World

Globalization brings faster and more streamlined knowledge-sharing and integrative solutions, but also the risk of standardization and homogenization. In the preface of Beyond the West, Tracy Lynn ...

Eat, Sleep, and Breathe Bauhaus

A time of groundbreaking design during housing shortages, spellbound by a vision to usher in a new, affordable Modernism architecture began to combat densely packed inner-city. Time travel back in ...

Human Life In The Changing Face of Chongqing

In 1968, China embarked on a journey of reform that saw its once closed-off Communist society open-up to the rapidly globalizing world around it. This transformation of mentality, economics, and cu...

The Tales Of North Korea’s Mass Games By Dan Medhurst

Secretive, mysterious, and oddly satisfying, photographer Dan Medhurst gained access into North Korea's Mass Games and what he shot was like a scene resembling a dystopian fiction. So we took this ...

Six N. Five On Designing Realism And Its Imperfections

Six N. Five have been turning heads through their forward-thinking 3D work and aesthetic. Like a René Magritte painting, their work speaks to you. Director Ezequiel Pini talks us through the rise o...

The Neon Nightcrawler

It's only one year until we've reached the date the original Blade Runner was set. Although we know 2019 won't quite be the same as the film portrayed, photographer Tom Blachford has decided to sho...

The Monocle Guide to Building Better Cities

How do we make better cities – places that work for people of all ages and backgrounds? How do we make cities that provide the obvious essentials – great transport, good places to work – as well as...

A Home that Masters the Modular Concept

The Mono Cabin is an ideal option for someone who enjoys the bare necessities of life. With a footprint of just 106 sq ft, it is small enough to avoid needing a building permit and is finished and ...

Meet Isay Weinfeld

From one side of the globe to the other, Isay Weinfeld is one of the most sought-after architects of our contemporary era. An inimitable force in the realm of combining modern elegance with tropica...

Abandoned Spaces by James Kerwin

There is an arresting stillness in the photography of James Kerwin. The Norwich-based photographer explores abandoned buildings and the empty spaces.