Journal
Articles, notes, and research on architecture, people, and the environment.
An archive of texts exploring architecture, people, place, traditional building, and the environment. Notes and observations gathered through practical seminars, workshops, and expeditions.
SEPTEMBER 2026
·Field Notes
We are pleased to share an important new chapter in the development of Adgili Platform: in 2026, INTBAU Georgia was established and is hosted by Adgili Platform, bringing Georgia into INTBAU's international network of chapters.
By Adgili Platform · 4 min
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JUNE 2026
·Essays
Modern seismic design has largely pursued resistance — adding mass, stiffness, and reinforcement. Yet across repeated earthquakes, failure has often come not from insufficient strength, but from an inability to accommodate motion. An essay on Flexible Rigidity across Japan, Kashmir, Peru, and Georgia.
By Sandro Kenkadze · 12 min
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MARCH 2025
·Research
A dissertation on the evolution of vernacular architecture in Georgia's remote mountainous region of Tusheti — defensive towers, winter dwellings, fortress houses and communal graves — and what these typologies can offer contemporary heritage conservation and sustainable design.
By Anastasia Dombrovskaia · 45 min read
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JULY 2026
·Essays
For nearly two decades, Swiss architect Roger Boltshauser has been reimagining rammed earth. His Kiln Tower for the Brickworks Museum in Cham realises, for the first time at full scale, a Prestressed Rammed Earth structural system — a synthesis of a thousand-year-old technique with contemporary engineering.
By Anastasia Dombrovskaia · 10 min
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JULY 2026
·Research
CobBauge is a Franco-British research project that adapts the traditional earthen techniques of Cob and Bauge into a modern dual-layer wall system — ecological, energy-efficient, and code-compliant. A study in how ancestral knowledge can meet contemporary engineering.
By Anastasia Dombrovskaia · 9 min
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