Clever, Decorative, Egalitarian, Improvised, Organic, Sincere, Urban, Whimsical

Banal, Bubblicious, Cartoonish, Catastrophe, Expansive, Fantastic, Feminist, Lyrical, Medieval era, Monumental, Sincere, Social realism

The name of the architectural offices of Vastu-Shilpa Consultants, "Sangath," translates into "moving together through participation." The workspace's appellation is telling, as is the title of the group itself; Vastu Shilpa means "design of environment." In case it's not already painfully obvious, t

Environmental architecture, Functional, Modernist architecture, Organic, Political, Pristine, Sincere

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, like so many influential artists, cannot be easily classified. While he had a defining influence on modern architecture, and especially the evolution of the skyscraper, he was more interested in intensifying an individual's experience of a space than in using architecture as

Bauhaus architecture, Cool, Minimal, Modernist architecture, Sincere, Spare, Spiritual