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…
India is in an interesting space when it comes to property. NoBroker, a real estate platform without the middleman, reported that 53% of those aged 25-34 prefer renting long-term, compared…
From the prehistoric periods, colour has always been an important part of human evolution. Colour is one of the basic elements of visual perception. Humans perceive the colours of the…
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…
Shared spaces are often where the smallest moment of everyday life unfolds. A day in courtyards starts before the surrounding streets come alive. Neighbours share greetings as they pass through…
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…
Decades ago, the interaction of architecture and senses would have just been a philosophical idea. The architectural minds never truly deciphered the possibility where the intersection between the design and…
They say without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization. If the memory is demolished for greed, there is not soul left in neither culture…
Light is perhaps one of the more fickle parts of nature. It dabbles and drapes, sometimes a mellow wash of illumination and other times an intense affliction. More than our…
I picked up this book, My Friends by Fredrick Backman and it immediately drew my attention – not the story but the cover. Something about quiet belonging made me pause…
Before Terming Sustainability The words sustainable and animal aren’t 2 different entities; they are embedded. For animals, sustainability is not a moral framework, concept, or ideology that is an aftermath…
Throughout much of architectural history, the façade was more than just a layer of images painted onto a structure. The façade was an environmental screen carefully conceived by the architect.…