Nari Gandhi (1934–1993) was India’s most uncompromising organic architect: an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin who returned to Maharashtra and built by hand, on site, without working drawings…
The future of design lies in exploring of ways to accommodate people of different backgrounds and cultures and thereby creating a sustainable environment for all. This holistic approach towards design…
Design philosophy is of major importance as it the foundation for the whole design process. While one may argue in the today’s commercial world, design concept and the thought process…
Along with great buildings and designs, there also exists a lot of written material by architects and critiques that puts forward a theory and thought process making us think, analyse…
Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) was Brazil’s greatest architect, a 1988 Pritzker Prize laureate who bent reinforced concrete into sensuous curves and gave a young capital, Brasília, its unforgettable civic monuments. Over…
Industrialization is often seen as a process of mass production that leads to the mass decline of the environment, the air quality and thus a decline of urban life. No…
Ecology and sustainable architecture are the subjects that Ar. Chitra Vishwanath loves to explore, and the same can be seen in the various simple and complex aspects of her designs. She…
The architectural heritage of Mumbai is quite synonyms with its famous street food ‘Bombay Bhel’. Like ‘bhel’- an impromptu mixture and layering of varied flavours and tastes; the architecture of…
‘Heritage’-this word surely paints a series of pictures in our mind; pictures of monuments, cultures, places of worship, iconic buildings and many more. While we might think that we are…
Architects around the world have always inspired us not only with great design and planning but also through their ideology of spaces and design philosophy, imprinting in us a vast…