Ancient architecture
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about ancient architecture
Project • By Paolo Pellegrini • Apartments
Acquasale Antica Dimora
A project that captures the identity of the place.
Realize Studio
Realize Studio
Realize Studio
Natural materials, warm tones, and essential graphic design make this space a small refuge where you can feel at home.
Realize Studio
Realize Studio
Realize Studio
Every detail is designed to leave a lasting impression, just as authentic places can, in a perfect balance between contemporary design and a timeless soul. More
News • News • 6 Jun 2024
Teğet designs visitor center for Neolithic Çatalhöyük archeological site
Istanbul-based Teğet Architecture has designed a visitor center for Çatalhöyük, a historic archeological site and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Konya Province, Turkey. The Çatalhöyük Visitor Center sits between the eastern and western mounds of the ancient city of Çatalhöyük — the Neolithic site dates back to around 7500 BCE and is one of the oldest known human settlements.
Egemen Karakaya
Egemen Karakaya
Çatalhöyük is located 60 kilometers (37 miles) to the east of the city of Konya, near the town of Cumra in south-western central Turkey. The archeological site’s excavation house has serviced the excavation area since the 1980s; consist... More
Project • By Johana Mendoza • Exhibition Centres
Waorani Community Equipment
Award: Honorable Mention
Ancient traditions are being lost with technology today, people have lost interest in learning about their origins. The Huaorani indigenous community currently does not have spaces to carry out their traditional ancestral activities, and the project arises as an opportunity to provide them with better spaces in which they can also interact with tourists, in addition to improving their economies.
Johana Mendoza
The concept comes from how to connect the natural environment full of vegetation and animals with an architectural element that allows native people to teach and exchange ideas with tourists from all over the world, creating an Amazonian workshop, so them can be able to make group meals, learn to make c... More
News • News • 16 Apr 2021
Nithurst Farm navigates between ancient and contemporary with its form and materiality
Shortlisted for RIBA House of the Year in 2019, Nithurst Farm is a new-build family house for the founding director of Adam Richards Architects. Located in the fields of South Downs National Park (UK), the house navigates between ancient and contemporary with its form and materiality.
Brotherton Lock
Wrapped in a thick brick exterior, the building incorporates arched brick window openings along its elevations that lend a sense of rhythm. This sense of motion is enhanced by the form of the house, which ascends in a stepped motion as it rises from a single storey entrance to a three-storey tower form. Blackened bricks along one window edge are inserted to emphasize the overall sense of motion.
Behind the brick, structural concrete wall... More