Casablanca has been widely called the “Art Deco city”, since it has been an open air laboratory for architectural experimentations. But its history is more nuanced than this plain simplification.…
While architecture is often defined in terms of buildings, it also includes other important components that make up the city: interstitial spaces between buildings, including streets, ramps, walls, bridges, and…
Temporary structures have recently become an important part of the urban fabric as quick bottom-up approaches have proven successful in bringing people together. Despite being regarded by some as band-aid…
The shape of a building is not simply a form that appears in an architect’s mind. It is shaped by legal standards and frameworks that guide the first steps of…
As architecture gradually descended into obsession with harmonised forms, unyielding permanence, rigid orders, Vitruvian symmetries, and the glass-curtained grids of modernism, an emerging mind from America’s suburbs rejected that discipline…
Travancore House was one of several residences established in New Delhi for the rulers of princely states during British rule.Travancore House occupies Kasturba Gandhi Marg, within the wider historic area…
The commonly used phrase is ‘men see paths, women scan for danger’. This phrase says a lot about women and the urban experience, which is shaped by different perceptions of…
The exchange of goods between people is certainly not novel in today’s world, where it has been a form of social interaction from the primitive era to the present. Yet…
Tree of closeness: it’s the flat, corrugated iron roof welded onto the house to stop the water from leaking through in that one spot they knew about for years and…
Future Cities are often imagined through autonomous vehicles, intelligent buildings and glowing digital networks, but the most important transformation may be less visible. The cities of the coming decades could…
Architecture is often perceived, analysed, and commemorated for its scale. We explore and learn it as a singular output through plans, sections, elevations, materials, and details. Buildings, however, do not…
Imagine a city without gaps, every void is filled and buildings are almost touching each other. Doors, balconies, and windows open into nowhere. However, nothing appears to be missing, the…