Since, olden times architecture is what is required by people from temples, schools, parks to houses. Architecture is what revolves around the people. But, in modern times, some decisions are…
The Oyo State Cultural Centre sits hidden, almost in isolation, among the thick vegetation atop the Mokola hill. The building isn’t seen until it is seen. As the road climbs…
How the cities of literature, cinema, and speculative design have always been more than stories they are blueprints for the real, rehearsals for the possible, and warnings about the probable.…
You ought to notice what the sun is doing to your room today. Not in any dramatic way. Just look at the floor for a moment. There is probably a…
Architecture is often understood through buildings themselves—their façades, materials, structures and forms. Yet buildings are rarely experienced as isolated objects. People move between them, pause beside them, gather around them…
A woman gets down from the local train at Andheri station at 8:30 a.m., keeping one hand on her handbag while she uses the other to lift her kurta as…
Half an hour before her video call at 9 a.m., Meera is not worrying about her hairstyle. Instead, she is moving the lamp around because the angle is incorrect, the…
Imagine a street on an ordinary Tuesday morning. People are walking to work, buses are moving through traffic, shops are opening, and children are heading to school. Nothing appears unusual.…
Rem Koolhaas once said, ‘A building has at least two lives – the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward – and they are never the…
What do you understand by the word “space”? The term is associated with a lot of subjects, but what we are talking about here is the space you occupy as…
When streets become living spaces Streets don’t just transform into private property; they become a shared semi-domestic environment through increased utilisation and familiarity. Common elements such as verandas and porches…
For much of history, life has been organised into a simple sequence of spaces – home, work, and everything in between. It became routine: waking up in one place, travelling…