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…
Most of us have spent the last few years, especially since COVID, creating an environment to ensure that we look professional on camera while working from home. For most of…
The three necessities of living are food, clothing and shelter. While those are the basic physical needs for survival, mental needs- those that drive human beings to live socially and…
Rethinking What We Call ‘Informal’ Galleries, craft studios, cultural centres, and digitally driven innovation hubs are the most visible and celebrated forms of the creative economy in policy and media.…
While designing for urban centres, cities are often classified into buildings that stand and streets that divide them, into solids and voids. A city serves as a stage for performance,…
Bridging the Gap Between Design Education and Lived Construction One of the world’s oldest university botanical gardens, where observation, ecology, and learning are deeply intertwined. Architects do design housing. Yet…
Prologue: The Modern Prometheus “The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.” ― Rem…
For generations, the image of education has been four walls, a blackboard and rows of desks, as knowledge is a commodity dispensed from one individual, the teacher, to another, the…
In the twenty-first century, not only has urbanization increased rapidly, but human settlements have also been displaced by various major factors. According to the Global Humanitarian Report, millions of people…
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light,” Le Corbusier While this famous quote highlights the artistic nature of architecture, in today’s sense it…
Design thinking is often associated with visualisation, sketching, rendering, and digital models, yet at the same time, designers engage with a more immediate and embodied source of knowledge: touch. Designers…