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…
There is a popular saying that walls have ears. If that is true, perhaps they also have a soul. That is why every old house feels as though it is…
From the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt to the Kailasa Temple in Ellora, history has long borne testimony to the wonders of mankind’s potential, to the heights (both literal and…
The trillium flower is nature’s quiet masterpiece—three petals, three sepals, three leaves, all are balanced in perfect symmetry. It does not scream for attention; it waits, sometimes decades, teaching patience…
The Pan-African Biennale (PAB) is a platform for discussion and exchange on architecture, bringing together, for the first time, all countries in the African continent. To highlight African contributions to…