“We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us,” Winston Churchill Communities across the globe are intriguingly vivid and yet share common grounds where they share, care, and interact.…
While storytelling and narrative have been interchangeably used, when it comes to architecture, writing and filmmaking there are several differences between the two. Great architecture has to tell a story.…
The Oxford English Dictionary defines “Ethnography” as ‘the scientific description of different people and cultures, with their customs, habits, and differences’. It was a concept-based method which was used by…
Architecture is incomplete and meaningless without its inhabitants; they share a unique relationship with each other. For example, a house designed for a particular family can never be used by…
India is one of the most unequal countries in terms of wealth distribution, according to the World Inequality Report. Our country continuously battles this inequality, yet it is constantly divided…
The practice of architecture has a direct impact on a person’s comfort levels. And the degree of comfort level provided by a space/place is directly proportional to the amount of…
Light Is Always Experienced Experiencing architecture is a sensory and emotional experience. Our body and senses “feel” the space almost instantly, even before we begin to consciously analyze its various…
“The hands want to see; the eyes want to caress.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The five senses were understood to form a hierarchical system from the highest sense of…
What do cities’ metal spikes, studded window sills, and uncomfortably-shaped seats have in common? By controlling for behaviors like loitering, these elements target the homeless and impoverished—in other words, those…
Since the commencement of the civil war in Syria in 2011, there has been a mass destruction where 5,00,000 people have died, many have been displaced and fled from the…
In the memory of the horrendous murder of 65,000 Austrian Jews in the holocaust, the Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial rests in Judenplatz, Vienna. Designed by one of the leading artists of…
For many moons, education has been the essence of a society. It uplifts, liberates, and builds the character of society. Since the time of Ramayan and Takshila education has been…