For decades, a sustainable building was measured by what it avoided: fewer emissions of deadly gases, less water use and lower energy bills. As the climate crisis deepens, that standard…
Architecture is closely connected to the place where it is built. A building in a hot desert cannot respond to its surroundings in the same way as a house in…
It is midnight in a city that won’t cool off; the trapped heat sends out waves that reflect how the architecture is working against the climate and environment. It’s not…
“Integration of the old and new is not a design challenge for us… they both find a distinct place in our design process.” – Sonali Rastogi (Godrej GBCS, 2015) Sonali…
Why mountains demand a different kind of thinking, and what we lose when we ignore it The Ground That Doesn’t Stay Still I stood on a construction site in Himachal…
India is experiencing climate change not as a distant environmental prediction, but as something increasingly visible in everyday life. Summers are becoming harder to endure, intense rainfall is disrupting cities,…
Marco Polo in 1272, after a visit to Persia (City of Yazd) wrote “Yazd is a good and noble city and has a great amount of trade.” Here, obviously just…
Every year, summer arrives in India like a slow-burning fire. As the sun grows fierce and the air seems to stand still, stepping outside feels impossible. Yet, beneath this relentless…
Human actions have in the past caused damage to nature, and now see how nature in turn is destroying humans. We are constantly exposed to devastating news about disasters such…
Global warming and climate change are two of the serious problems plaguing the 21st century. The oxygen levels are dropping; the ocean levels are rising; the ozone layer is depleting,…
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…