Architecture is for the people and its foremost purpose is to provide a functional, healthful, safe, and pleasing environment. It is the profession where learning processes continue lifelong (Praveen Kumar…
Dirty, disgusting, sloppy- typically, these are some of the nicer adjectives that strike us when we are reminded of an Indian public toilet. We have all been compelled to use…
Architectural documentaries and films an insight into the mind and work of starchitects, design movements, and even concepts tackling the world and our cities. They narrate ‘real’ stories of design…
The sex industry has always been a part of the city and human history and is said to be the oldest profession in the world. However, the urban fabric areas…
This article focuses on waste management and food scarcity as global challenges, and how architects can contribute to eradicating them. ‘Climate change’ is a term that is constantly summoned upon…
What do you get when you take two polar extremes and fuse them into a single entity? A Pandora’s Box of possibilities and potential that is exciting to explore and…
This article explores different career options related to architecture that an Architecture Degree opens up for confused architects who yearn for more than just drafting. The process of architecture school…
The Dawoodi Bohras are a very close-knit community, and thus, the entire community settled down in one part of the town between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. When…
Every pedestrian in metro cities hopes for “A city for pedestrians”. Living in such jam-packed cities, where the roads are choked with traffic, parking lots are filled with cars and…
This article explores Kochi, the coastal city of Kerala, its streetscape, culture, and architectural beauty. Reaching the Ernakulam railway junction early morning, we started in an auto-rickshaw towards the boat harbor.…
If you have been to Delhi, you might have seen and most likely been a part of the swarms of cars presumably lined up on roads as wide as Olympic…
One such principle is Serial Vision which was elaborated and discussed in the book ‘The Concise Townscape’ by the one who coined the term, Gordon Cullen. Architecture has the power…