Framing as a concept A young architect told a little college story about her journey in architectural studies. Her first college project was a farmhouse for an actress. Along with…
There’s a strange familiarity about walking around a gallery nowadays. The fact that there’s a controlled atmosphere, with the blank walls determining what art should be shown, seems like a…
Many of the currently established theories began with hypotheses. Modern mathematics has established that spaces with more than three dimensions are mathematically possible, so do not rule out the existence…
Architecture is often discussed through the discourse of creation. Architects create buildings, cities, identities, and experiences. The discipline is framed in terms of invention, originality, authorship, and visual expression. Buildings…
Our careers eventually teach us how little we can learn alone. An architect learns from his seniors why a particular detail will fail before it is even built. He learns…
For decades, a sustainable building was measured by what it avoided: fewer emissions of deadly gases, less water use and lower energy bills. As the climate crisis deepens, that standard…
Architecture students are taught to question everything – from a site’s history and a user’s needs to the logic of a building. Yet, when it comes to their own designs,…
A heritage city is often imagined through its monuments. Agra is visualised by Taj Mahal, Khajuraho is its collection of 10th- and 11th-century Hindu and Jain temples and Delhi often…
Architecture is meant to be felt, heard and not just seen. You are taught to look at the buildings, renderings, photographs, facades, sketches until you start believing that is what…
Some places in a city stay with us without us quite knowing why. Not because the place was beautiful or that it held high value; quite the opposite, actually -…
I pass this building every morning on my commute from Lalbaug to Lower Parel. It’s wedged between the bigger structures, narrow and exhausted-looking. The original brick is exposed in patches…
The skyline of the city, the roads, the marketplaces, and the speedy development of the city have all been used to describe Mumbai. But there were times when the coast…