The ninth largest country in the world, Kazakhstan, is all set to showcase its potential to the world. Ruled under the Soviet Union for 71 years, its independence marked the…
Confidence, consistency and hope are the keys to moving forward in an entrepreneurial career. The speaker of ArchGyan Podcast, Manish Paul Simon welcomed Varun Kapoor from +V Architects in Mumbai,…
Design is a genre that connects creativity with techniques. These techniques vary from hands-on to the digital range. Today, with the help of these digital techniques there are huge opportunities…
“I believe the successful city is like a fabulous party. People stay because they are having a great time” – Amanda Burden Amanda Burden, 77, is an American urban planner and…
Gardens by the Bay is one of the largest garden projects of its kind in the world and an integral part of Singapore’s “City in a Garden” vision and considered…
The Image of the City had set out to become the American urban planner, Kevin Lynch’s, most influential works in the twentieth century. A product of five endeavouring years of research…
Megastructures – The World’s Most Extreme Railway on YouTube is a story of the battle to construct a railway across one of the most unforgiving terrains on Earth. To lay…
In the year 2003, Germany decided to add a new World’s Greatest Concert Hall to its second-largest, musically rich city of Hamburg, the birthplace of Brahms and Mendelssohn. The site…
Yatin Pandya is one of the many celebrated architects in India who is also an academician, researcher, and author. Having graduated from CEPT University, Ahmedabad, he went on to pursue…
The 368 pages of Gaudi – The Complete Buildings by Rainer Zerbst takes its reader to Spain’s Catalan world adorned by colourful and shimmering mosaic textures, the skeletal forms of…
I am always looking for architecture literature. I started school thirsty for answers to questions I did not know I had. I went to my campus library to find such…
The book ‘ S,M,L,XL ‘ is a monograph written by Rem Koolhaas who is a Dutch architect, author, and prominent cult figure, and designer Bruce Mau. Books are often a…