Every day we walk by dozens of buildings and don’t really see them. A local school, a bus stop, a small terraced house or an old post office can often…
Not all locations have to be experienced. Sometimes locations are learned through stories first. A hill is considered sacred even before it’s climbed. A forest is seen as scary even…
There is something quietly unsettling about modern cities. We live closer to one another than any other generation before us, yet we tend to be the most isolated generation as…
When a city earns UNESCO World Heritage status, it is celebrated as a global triumph. Jaipur’s Old City—with its distinctive grid-based planning, havelis adorned with intricate jali work, and narrow…
It takes the soul of humanity to construct beautiful, peaceful cities where everyone lives in peace, yet nothing stops the urge of the same human breed to tear them down.…
Collection, segregation, treatment, and safe disposal of waste, along with additional processes and organizations, make up a city or country’s waste infrastructure. Each of these steps is crucial and forms…
Architecture extends beyond the art of designing, it is of great significance because it reveals how spaces, buildings and urban plans influence, and reflects social relations and ideologies. India’s architectural…
A speculative meditation on human existence, the psychology of place, and what architecture silently does to us by imagining a world in which it never existed at all. “We shape…
Social housing is about more than the shelter itself. It’s about the little things. A place to drink coffee and watch nature. A place to sit down and read a…
Walk through an unauthorised colony on the edge of any Indian city, and you are looking at decades of decisions made without a single architect in the room. Walls get…
Why Storytelling? Stories have always been captivating, haven’t they? We grew up avidly waiting to be told one every night before we could float away in our own versions of…
The Question of Authenticity “Heritage is not designed, it is lived, layered, and remembered. So what happens when we try to build it from scratch?” There is something inherently contradictory…