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…
To me furniture is not simply an object which takes up space; it is more like a participant in human life. It stands as a sign of presence, of memory…
A homeowner and their family sit in an air-conditioned interior designer’s office, with numerous paint swatches laid out. The task at hand- to pick the colours their children would grow…
A pioneering Pakistani architect, urban historian, and educator, Prof. Dr Neelum Naz is widely recognised as the first woman in Pakistan to earn a PhD and complete a post-doctorate in…
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…
The 19th-century architecture was dominated by the traditional neoclassical style of architecture. The ornate designs were theatrical, in an ornamented classical style. The Beaux-Arts style dominated public buildings with design…
There is always an argumentative relationship between brightness and darkness that reflects the paradoxical nature of both. As daylight ebbs and flows through a structure, it creates its opposite: a…
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…
Even if not directly, many people are aware of Le Corbusier’s works and their influence on society. If you have heard of–or better yet, walked through–the city of Chandigarh, then…
The decline of the courtyard is often attributed to the rise of modern technologies, but was it the technology itself that rendered the courtyard obsolete or the broader conditions that…
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…