Can sensitive urban planning and the use of “slow” architecture help slow down the fast-paced lifestyles in metro cities? The relationship between the pace of life and urban planning has…
Distinguished Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo is a unique character. She founded her brand, Comme des Garcons, in 1960s Tokyo. Although Kawakubo never formally trained as a fashion designer, her…
“Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.” -Frank Llyod Wright The 21st century…
India is a country with diverse cultures, traditions, and architectural styles. Like no other country in the world, India boasts heterogeneity from caves to conventional residential dwellings to skyscrapers. Each…
A practical book about architecture and urban design. It is concerned with certain designations of design that often turn out badly and dazzles that visions alone are adequately not. Ideals…
Staggering numbers of random, predictable building typologies built wherever land was available by whoever got there first were characteristic of the early days in the Kowloon Walled City. Hundreds of…
The illumination giant, Artemide, representing the design prowess of Italy at a global level was founded by Ernesto Gismondi in 1960 in Pregnana Milanese, Italy. Born on 25 December 1931…
Being a child I was staring at glass skyscrapers reaching up to the sky and dreaming about designing similar forms in the future. Back then I did not know much…
Everything you should know about Architecture: Consider a well-known phenomenon in nature, that is the growth of a tree. We know how it starts as a sapling that is nurtured…
The following list of books related to light in architecture that every architect should read covers the subjects about designing with natural and artificial light, ranging from interior design, through…
New traditions meet old habits As an agile, multi-disciplinary design outfit keenly interested in creating healthy, future-focused and genuinely collaborative workplaces, Foolscap Studio undertook to revitalise their own studio as…
Architecture is shaped by innovations and design; it needs to constantly evolve with the ever-changing dynamics and needs of the people. With the onset of Covid-19, a disease that has…