Gardens are not just places where you plant trees and flowers. They are stories of culture, history and the people who made them. Each country has its own idea of…
Every harvest, Kolkata undergoes an architectural transformation. Streets that are usually buzzing with traffic become pedestrian promenades, neighbourhood parks turn into exhibition halls, and clubs around the city prepare for…
Reclaiming Human-Centred Learning in Architectural Education Human-Centered Architecture: Putting people at the heart of design_©Joana Sá Lima,2024The profession of architecture is facing major changes due to rapid technological progress, globalisation,…
How in-between spaces shape interaction, identity, and community in traditional Indian homes Architecture represents society and culture and is built for a specific location and population. These elements all combine…
Long before design intelligence became a term for strategic, data-led practice, communities were already building it into sacred geography. Across South Asia, Hindu temples, Sufi shrines and forest groves encode…
The grey and white cities with steel cladded facades, long overbearing structures hovering above our head, connected through concrete finished walkways; the new definition of modern-developed city in India. The…
In 1972, a housing complex in St. Louis, Missouri was demolished with controlled explosives. Pruit-Igoe, designed by Minoru Yamasaki in the early 1950s and built with the full architectural confidence…
Climate change is not only an environmental threat but also a humanitarian crisis that has had profound effects on the lives of people around the world. High sea levels, droughts,…
Status update… feed….stories…..the metrics…. Notifications…. filters…..group chats This makes a new definition of a social network. While we now look for the digital feeds to ‘stay connected ‘, the pols…
The Starchitect The birth of the ‘starchitect’ both within and beyond the built environment is often attributed to the modern architectural movement. With the rise of both digital and print…
What if the most important classroom in a person’s life was not inside a school, but outside a window? Most of us remember a street from our childhood. Not necessarily…
Not all locations have to be experienced. Sometimes locations are learned through stories first. A hill is considered sacred even before it’s climbed. A forest is seen as scary even…