Researched with the help of UDRI and originally published in Indian Architect & Builder Magazine’s Oct’18 issue, this article sheds light on how people of surrounding settlements are being affected…
The first name that probably pops up in everyone’s mind when we talk of women architects is none other than Zaha Hadid. Someone always opens to experimentation, trying new ideas,…
Manuelle Gautrand, the first female and also the first French architect to receive the European Prize for architecture. She believes that ‘Innovation is always based on disobedience’. Born on July…
With a career spanning across 40 years with more than 800 buildings spread in California and Hawaii, Julia Morgan was the first female architect to receive the AIA Gold Medal.…
Nuclear attacks happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and there lived a 14-year-old kid who wondered how those lost homes would be rebuilt! His name was Arata Isozaki. Born in Otia…
Humble, just as his building materials made of earth, Architect Laurie Baker is truly The Gandhi of Architecture who believed in life and architecture that is simple & true to…
With the dawn of the modern era, when architecture saw the coming of minimalist principles, Frank O Gehry sought to break the rules. Then the world witnessed the coming of…
The future certainly looks very uncertain but where we were in the past and where we are today is a true reflection of where we would be in the future.…
The monumental palaces, tombs, and mosques of the Mughals need no introduction. These buildings came with grandeur, magnificence, lavishness, and a dominating visual character. But it is the gardens the…
I interned at BV Doshi’s Vastu Shilpa Consultants from December 2015 to May 2016, as my semester requirement for my graduation course. I had applied with a lot of hope…
The recent earthquake of 2015 in Nepal led to approximately 755000 buildings being destroyed and the death of around 9000 people, with many others injured. The earthquake of 7.6 magnitude…
Water bodies, the breathable spaces that majorly encompass the void in the urban fabric are naturally the key to healthy living environments. Right from the birth of the waterbody, it…