My relationship with architecture goes back to my toddler days when solving jigsaw puzzles and playing with Lego blocks was my top game. As I matured, it transformed into an…
Frank Gehry once cited, “I don’t know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.” We as architects have been designed to take approvals and affirmations, be…
All individuals function on a precedent set of values and principles which are subjective to his or her education, physiology, and upbringing. On the same lines, all architects have their…
For many moons, education has been the essence of a society. It uplifts, liberates, and builds the character of society. Since the time of Ramayan and Takshila education has been…
A capable design will always be easy to comprehend if a visual and expressive sketch is available. Sketching is to architecture, what stethoscope is to a doctor, and hence is…
What is Vernacular Architecture? According to its etymology, “verna” means native and “architecture” is to design buildings, thus vernacular architecture is an architecture style that is built to meet the…
The firm had initially received the proposal to design a community center in the county area of Xiuwu, Henan. It is a vast rural area that spreads across 630 square-kilometers…
Felix Candela, an architect by training but an engineer and a sculptor by choice. He was the forerunner of thin shell structures popularly known as ‘”cascarones”, astonishing us with its…
The Architecture of India has been inspiring generations of architects for a very long time, then be its traditional architecture or the paradigm of modern architecture. The architects in India…
Pritzker Prize Laureate, Tadao Ando had once said that “You cannot simply put something into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land,…
Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, is slowly becoming the most tourist-oriented place in the State, not just because of its snowballing high tech architecture and lifestyle but also…