With every New Year, hops in the celebrated trend of goal setting and aiming for something new and better, looking forward to the enhanced version of you. A similar case…
“We grapple with the paradox that tomorrow is not promised, but we make plans anyway.” -Lin Manuel Miranda The recent years have marked an inflection of catastrophic events – the…
In all phases of our education, we have heard and realized the truth in the saying ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’. Even as architects, we always progress in our…
Architecture is a process and result of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or built environments. A big part of designing indulges in figuring out what a good building is. The…
Facades are the cover to a building, and contrary to the famous quote (Don’t judge a book by its cover), most people tend to judge a building by its outer…
‘Exhibitions are nothing, if not a space for an enhanced and new experience, the sharing of culture, mingling of views, and imparting of knowledge.’ Zygmunt Baumann describes the human race…
In the age of minimalism, we give importance to the lighting of a space and often neglect the other part that is tied to it – the shadow. It is…
In a discussion on how public amenities in our towns or cities are related to questions of gender and citizenship, public toilets are a good case in point. One should…
With the rising modernism in three-dimensional form and planning of architecture, the human mind gets confounded by the maze of connectivity and circulation. The movement and experiences of a person…
Analysing the role of architecture in the lives of people, Simon Unwin had concluded: “Perhaps the curse of architecture is that essentially it is about making frames, but some architects…
Architecture, for the longest time, has been one of the factors affecting the human psyche. However, has the human population always been aware of this fact? Before we delve deeper…
Architecture around the world, during the beginning of the 21st century, has been drastically modernizing with the evolution of technologies. A country like the United Arab Emirates has witnessed an…