Oscar Wilde asserted that “progress is the realization of utopia.”. Breaking the barriers of engineering and creating fictional masterpieces is a journey of discovery and delight. The book “Dreamscapes &…
Author Christopher Alexander was born in Vienna in 1936, where he was raised in the United Kingdom. He began his chemistry and physics studies before moving to Cambridge’s mathematics and…
Spread over an area of a staggering 11,815 Sq.km, this city is relatively lesser known but is definitely and silently scripting its own progress story. Naturally, landscaped hills and forests…
We often think of traditional services as ancient and backdated or very rigid and set in stone, but, as we shall see in this article, that isn’t always the case.…
First life, then spaces, then buildings. The other way around only works sometimes. -Jan Gehl The 80-year-old Danish architect focuses on the idea of people-centric urban design in his book…
Located in the Madhya Pradesh state in India on the banks of the Narmada river, Jabalpur is a city consisting of an average population of 1,055,525 people. It is a…
The city housing The popular Khajuraho Group of Monuments, a UNESCO Heritage site is a small city in Madhya Pradesh. With its abundant architectural and cultural heritage, it attracts tourists…
Geographically, Kerteminde is situated on the northeastern peninsula of Funen. Its centrally located position in Denmark makes it easily accessible from all sides of the city. Kerteminde is a prototype…
The first formal architectural institution in Nepal, the Department of Architecture, Pulchowk Campus, has a long history of sharing architectural knowledge and expression in Nepal. The Central Campus of the…
“The walk from my apartment in Greenwich Village to my studio in Tribeca takes about twenty minutes, depending upon the route and whether I stop for a coffee and the Times. Invariably,…
Surveys on women in architecture and in positions of leadership began in the late 1970s. The statistics were not encouraging. Women made up 1% of registered architects in 1958. By 1988,…
Adrian Forty was the Architectural History Professor and the Built Environment faculty at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Forty, who is now a retired Professor, has been…