The term Wabi – Sabi is the mergence of two separate concepts of Wabi and Sabi. Wabi is roughly translated as “poverty”. It describes the life of a peasant, hard,…
The concept of space in architecture Space is defined as the area within and around an enclosure. It is one of the most important elements of design in architecture. A…
The Sudano-Sahel region is a belt that stretches from the western coast to the eastern coast of Africa, with the Sahara to the north and the tropical deciduous forests to…
‘Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus’ The quote well differentiates between the gender personalities. The reactions and responses of both the genders, whether to routine things or…
The way we build our buildings in the current times is stupid. We mined valuable resources out of the earth and schlep them on fossil fuel-based ships all over the…
Unhampered by the continually changing day and night cycles, and healthily receptive to any crisis, is an unusual creature, whom we refer to as an ‘Architect’. The magnitude of work…
Characteristics of Utopian Architecture Utopia is derived from the Greek ou-topos “no place” or “nowhere”. A utopian society is an idealistic one with no problems, issues, or end in sight.…
In reaction to restrictive ideals and simplistic, minimalistic forms of Modernism, Post Modernism was a movement that emerged in the 1960s, described first in a book called ‘Complexity and Contradiction…
Contemporary architecture is based on the idea that is shared by all those who practice it: the wish and the will to design and build things that are different from…
Less is more sound like a cliché but has been the essence of the minimalist school of design which has become a way of life over years. Who does not…
Metamorphosis, they say, when that butterfly flaps its wings out of the cocoon, when that tadpole finally frog-jumps, and when an architecture student finally graduates. Well, identifying an architecture student…
Though man evolved from the same species that would have possibly had identical behaviour and characteristics at the dawn of time, today we live in a world where every single…
