World Architecture – Global Design Resource: e-architect about us information
About us – Architecture Resource
Founder: Adrian Welch, architect ; Managing Director: Isabelle Lomholt
e-architect
World Architecture
Contact e-architect:
Architecture news is welcome at info(at)e-architect.com
Isabelle Lomholt and Adrian Welch:
About e-architect.com
The e-architect resource has over 44,000 pages of architectural information + building news. We passed the 30k mark in October 2020.
e-architect.com features building news, events, competitions, photos, jobs, awards and products. We feature a range of building types from houses to skyscrapers, plus major landscape and interior projects.
We don’t just carry news, i.e. we are not an online magazine: on e-architect buildings can be searched by country, city and type.
Directors
About us – this architectural website is run by Isabelle Lomholt + Adrian Welch.
Isabelle Lomholt
BSC (Hons) – Managing Director and Editor
isabelle(at)e-architect.com
If you prefer to contact e-architect in Danish please call / e-mail Isabelle
Isabelle Lomholt was born in Bath, England, and attended school in Denmark from 1974 to 1987. She completed her Architecture degree in 1995, attending North London University.
After a year-out working as an architectural assistant in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Isabelle attended East London University from 1996, where she did a MA / Diploma in Architecture.
Adrian Welch
B.Arch (Hons) ; Dip Arch ; ARB – Founding Editor
adrian(at)e-architect.com
Adrian Welch was born in Kincardineshire, Scotland and attended school in Scotland from 1975 to 1989. He completed his Architecture degree in 1992, attending Manchester University.
After a year-out working as an architectural assistant in Manchester Adrian attended The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, from 1993 where he did a Diploma in Architecture.
He has worked for architects such as Eva Jiricna, Sir Terence Conran, Richard Murphy, RMJM and Sutherland Hussey – in London, Hong Kong, Edinburgh, Manchester, Cambridge, Kuwait and Dubai, including working as one of the three Project Interior Architects on the Stirling Prize-winning Scottish Parliament Building by EMBT/RMJM.
Adrian is the founder of e-architect and our three related architecture websites.
Daniel Lomholt-Welch
Daniel grew up in Haddington, East Lothian, before studying architecture at the University of Edinburgh. He completed his final year of studying for a masters program in Summer 2024.
He is especially interested in studying sacred space within modernist architecture. Daniel has travelled extensively, with a keen eye for architectural gems along the way.
Georgina Gray
Georgina grew up in Dumfries and Galloway living on her family’s dairy farm. She graduated from Newcastle University in 2018 with a BSc.
During the pandemic, Georgina completed her master’s at Northumbria University in January 2023. When she has not got a broken leg she likes to be active, skiing, playing golf and doing plenty of walks with her dog Max.
David McManus
David McManus was born in Scotland and attended school in East Lothian, Scotland from 1998 to 2011. David studied HND Interactive Media (Web Development) at Edinburgh College.
He produces architecture posts and develops IT aspects such as the best plugins to use. He was instumental in tranistioning the website from joomla to the WordPress platform.
Joel Solkoff
Joel Solkoff, USA, was a regular Guest Editor at e-architect, posting unique content – architectural articles on disability access design issues + mobility in buildings. He created a series of posts on key American built environment issues. Sadly he passed away in 2023.
Theo Stewart
Theo Stewart is an assistant editor at e-architect, developing and publishing architectural articles on key new buildings. He posts property updates and performs general administrative duties. Theo was born in Scotland and attended school in Dumfries.
Cole Dean
Cole Dean is an assistant editor at e-architect, helping the editors to develop architectural articles on key new buildings across the globe. He sources interesting projects to post and performing general administrative duties. Cole attended school in Haddington, East Lothian.
External Writer:
Louise Vine
Louise Vine from Houzz, was a regular Guest Editor at e-architect, posting architectural articles on residential refurbishments and interesting new property interiors. Houzz is an American website and online community focused on architecture, interior design, decorating, landscape design and home improvement.
Introduction
After starting in Edinburgh in 2000 this online architecture resource is now one of the top globally in terms of traffic plus number of pages and images ranked. e-architect was registered on 13 Nov 1999 (per our WHOIS records).
Adrian Welch:
e-architect is one of the world’s largest architecture websites. e-architect is run by Adrian Welch and Isabelle Lomholt. Adrian and Isabelle both trained as architects but their strong interest in architecture led them to focus their energies on an online architectural resource rather than practicing.
The principal website is www.e-architect.com but the first website was edinburgharchitecture.co.uk set up in 2000 followed by glasgowarchitecture.co.uk two years later, and e-architect in early 2006. The initial concept was to provide information on new buildings that would be helpful for not just local architects but a wide range of locals and tourists. Over time as connections were made this successful model was expanded and now includes all major cities in the world.
The principal difference between e-architect and other architecture sites is that we don’t just carry news: on e-architect buildings can be searched by country, city, type or by architect. For example you could find information on Wembley Stadium via our England, London, Football Stadium or Foster + Partners pages.
e-architect.com features building news, events, competitions, photos, jobs, awards and products. We feature a full range of building types from homes to offices, landscape design to interior design.
To give an idea of range we cover buildings from the USA to Papua New Guinea and from China to the Faroe Islands.
e-architect also has facebook, twitter, linkedin, youtube, instagram, tumblr and pinterest pages.
We also run architecture tours across the world, starting in 2000, now with over 80 cities offered. Our clients are mostly architects offices on annual trips. Tours are tailor-made for groups, we don’t have daily walks or allow individuals to join tours.
Our policy is to focus on getting regular news about the most interesting buildings and on building up a useful, wide-ranging architectural resource. The news is updated daily 7 days a week. e-architect has around 2,200 pages on architects.
photo © Adrian Welch
Architectural Agenda
Of course we have strong views on architecture, but our policy is to focus on getting regular news about the most interesting buildings and on building up a useful, wide-ranging architectural resource.
We select projects that interest us. So we might cover an intriguing house design but not a major commercial development. We show buildings sometimes that are stimulating even though we may not like the project. We aren’t here to promote any specific style or approach to architecture, we show an eclectic range of work that read over time builds up a picture of current architectural status and direction.
We try and maximise the visual aspect of architecture. Architects tend to be highly visual people and we try and show many images for each project, it is not always possible to do this depending on our sources, but the intention is always there. We have a house style for image processing and for text presentation, but again we sometimes can’t access the raw materials to make this happen consistently.
But back to views and agenda. We both trained as architects in different universities and have views that sometimes differ. We have expressed these since 2000 via numerous articles in other press, lectures and of course online at e-architect. Some links below show a small selection of these.
e-architect Editor Adrian Welch meeting Shimon Peres, former Prime Minister of Israel and joint winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize:
photo courtesy of vibe israel
World Architectural Resource
Website: e-architect YouTube
Architecture Tours – Selection
Contact e-mail: info(at)e-architect.com
The site is maintained daily by Isabelle & Adrian who both trained as architects.
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Architectural Awards
Architecture Awards
A recent selection:
e-architect was selected as a recipient of Best Design Media Award at the 2019 A’ Design Awards (designaward.com), the World’s largest and most influential design accolade.
The selection was made by thousands of award-winning designers who have voted e-architect as one of the best design publications to follow, admire and get inspired by.
Contemporary Architectural Designs
Website: e-architect YouTube studio
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