In the history of architecture and urban planning, CIAM – International Congress of Modern Architecture – is one of the movements that had the most impact on the environment we…
‘Unbuilt’ architecture projects embody creativity and innovation for the times ahead. They are a reservoir for design inspiration and development conveying a strong sense of architecture that is not just…
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. – Margaret Mead Inevitably urban lifestyle is increasingly affecting the child’s physical and emotional health by living in a…
“Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.”— Jane Jacobs Most Indian cities are densely populated and characterized by noise, pollution, congestion, and lack of basic…
How many times when we walk in the city, we find the canals almost non-existent and treated as drains? Our monsoon comes with waterlogging and summer with water shortage. Our…
Anne Tyng was an architect, a professor, a theorist, and a pioneer of habitable space-frame architecture. She was the first female to attend the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She…
The COVID-19 pandemic has as of now altogether changed urban life. The number of individuals moving around has dropped to phenomenally low levels. Work from home is the new typical…
“Sustainable development is a development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” – Brundtland Commission Report, (World Commission…
“Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for everyone.”- Enrique Penalosa, Mayor of Bogotá Childhood…
In a post-modern contemporary age with an alarming increase in population, cities are running out of space and energy for substantial public places. As urbanization trends shoot up, urban designers…
“But cities aren’t like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.” – John Updike. A…
“What defines the character of a city is its public space, not its private space. What defines the value of the private assets of the space are not the assets…