Referencing a quote by Indian author and political activist Arundhati Roy “Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us”. As…
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the global tourism sector. Lockdowns, Travel restrictions, and safety worries caused a crucial decline in business. For an extended period,…
Being an architecture student does come along with many challenges and for us to face them every day. Although many of these are actual challenges or probably difficulties we are…
I think we’ve established that Architecture is a course cut out only for the passionate. As a student myself, I entered the course filled with motivation. In my head, the…
As 2019 came to an end, architects all over the world celebrated the passing of another year, only to spend the better half of the next year reminiscing, longing for…
Prison Architecture – So far, the pandemic’s impact wasn’t only on our daily routine and how we live but also on the places we live in. Whether on the urban…
“PM Modi announces 21-day lockdown as COVID-19 toll touches 12” – The Hindu. “Post-pandemic recovery is uneven” – BT (Business Today) “The virus that shut down the world” – The…
History is a witness to all the major events that led to the cultural, political, and architectural advances that contributed to the evolution of the world. But it is interesting…
In 2002, Blur Building came into being that was designed by Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio which was one of the iconic masterpieces that served no purpose. “It looked like…
Prison Architecture Prison facilities house hundreds of inmates in tiered blocks of single- and double-occupancy cells, some even five levels high. Some have practically no solid walls or floors between…
The Podcast here derives a conversation between Chitra and Vishwanath Srikantaiah. Both work in their interdisciplinary firm Biome Environmental Solutions Pvt. Ltd. focusing on environmentally friendly architecture, water conservation and…
The practice of reusing an existing/historic building for a purpose different from the one for which it was built or planned is known as adaptive reuse. It is a strategy…
