When Christopher Alexander, along with Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, published A Pattern Language in 1977, they proposed something that architecture had long forgotten: that the built environment must grow…
Community can be defined as a group of people coming together with specific characteristics they share as a commonality. Similarly, architecture amalgamates the science and the art of designing and…
While a birth certificate, address proof serves as a formal record of an individual’s existence, their identity, but it is the architecture that physically embodies the essence of a community.…
The moment of arrival in Bangkok is not about a skyline; it is about the sound. It is a dense, multi-layered acoustic environment that hits the ear before the humidity…
In the past, cities took the approach of adapting to nature by adopting techniques that use natural materials and structures (e.g., organic and vernacular architecture) in the formation of an…
When the elevator doors open and you step into the world of Silo, you are not visiting another dystopian set; you are entering a skyscraper. Instead of a building serving…
“I experience myself in the city, and the city exists through my embodied experience. The city and my body supplement and define each other. I dwell in the city and…
Architecture as Cinematic Language Movies employ architecture as a visual shorthand to communicate to viewers all they must know about the characters in a brief span of time. One second…
Every city has to tell a story, but Mumbai’s story is like a Symphony. It hums through its crowded trains and silent sea faces, through glass towers and old chawls,…
Origins: Port, River, and the Birth of Commerce The Tapti River’s mouth at the Arabian Sea is the point where Surat’s tale starts. The river during those times was an…
Kovalam, a coastal settlement in Kerala, is often looked at through the lens of tourism and scenic beauty. Yet beneath its beach town identity lies a layered architectural fabric shaped…
The Olympic question as an Architectural opportunity India’s aspiration to host the Olympics is more an Architectural and urban proposition than a sporting one. The sporting event requires a cluster…