Could the medieval cities have fought the pandemic better than our modern city planning? Our history manifests that epidemics powerfully influence the “physical fabric” of cities around the world. Part…
Could medieval cities have fought the current pandemic better than the current city planning? The world as we know it today has been shaped by its own history generating a…
“Today Cities aren’t horrible. Cities are fundamentally unhealthy.” More than half the world’s population lives in cities, hubs for transnational business, and movement with the potential to amplify pandemic risk.…
“They are traditions, dear”, my mother said, as I rolled my eyes at her the umpteenth time that day. We were at a temple in my town, carrying out a…
Pandemic is showing us how different our new normal will be and how many changes are about to happen. Post pandemic time will be full of uncertainty and we will…
Of all things one must know to survive, the need to know where one comes from only torments the Human. We’re scrambling for theories in faith and science. And so…
To quote the famous architect Daniel Libeskind, “To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.” Heritage buildings act as doors to the past and contain…
It is a fact that the second major air polluting industry is the construction industry which contributes up to 8% of the total carbon dioxide emission of the world. This…
Namuh was eighteen, so was his friend, When they had come to visit a full- time monk, To gain the sutras, teachings of Mahayana. They had escaped the tiles of…
What is the history of the building, why is it interesting and valuable and how can it become part of a new identity? What is the next chapter in the…
