Even as a child, the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa was very aware of the fundamental element that would describe and underpin his work many years later: water. When he played and ran around the maze ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Gold writes about wellness design and related housing topics. The observation that “Water is life,” attributed to UNICEF ...

When one thinks of public spaces, the image of a pool rarely comes to mind. Public spaces are the center of civic life, places where most interactions, activities, and behaviors follow strict social ...

In a quiet, shady street in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, Koen Olthuis and the design team at Waterstudio are changing the world. From this deceptively nondescript headquarters, Waterstudio is designing ...

There's a lot that goes behind the easy access of clean tap water in homes across the United States. We dive into the deep end of how the process works and why not to take it for granted the next time ...

[Peter] We take this completely for granted. We walk over to our tap, we pour a glass of water, and we drink it ,and we don't know where it comes from. We don't know what's gone into producing ...

“After you walk on water, what can you be afraid of?” said Professor Jaime Canaves. Since 1989, architecture students in Canaves' methods and materials course gather around the lake behind the Green ...