What if the most important classroom in a person’s life was not inside a school, but outside a window? Most of us remember a street from our childhood. Not necessarily…
In the 2019 Hindi movie “Gully Boy”, set in Mumbai, India, we see Ranveer Singh wandering in the streets of Dharavi. His neighbourhood is dimly lit, illuminated only by shop…
Every day we walk by dozens of buildings and don’t really see them. A local school, a bus stop, a small terraced house or an old post office can often…
In India, every morning, cities wake up in buildings they haven’t built themselves. Before office doors are opened, before metro stations fill up, and before shutters come up, many construction…
The first roof was not made; it was grown. Before man discovered how to mine stones, bake bricks or pour concrete, nature had perfected the science of providing shelter. First,…
“When was the last time you admired a building because someone cared enough to fix it instead of replacing it?” Architecture has always celebrated creation. Magazines showcase a gleaming facade,…
Designing High-Rise Communities to Mitigate Urban Social Isolation As global urbanisation is accelerating, 68% of the world’s population is expected to live in cities by 2050. High-rise residential buildings have…
Not all locations have to be experienced. Sometimes locations are learned through stories first. A hill is considered sacred even before it’s climbed. A forest is seen as scary even…
Between the ticket counter and the boarding gate, between a diagnosis and a doctor’s call, between one bus and the next, lies a category of space that architecture rarely names:…
For centuries, architecture has been celebrated as the most human of all arts. It shelters, inspires, remembers and endures. Long after civilisations disappear, their buildings continue to narrate stories of…
Anyone who has visited Kerala, or even seen photographs of it, has surely noticed one thing. Most buildings there have roofs that slope sharply towards the ground. Similarly, those who…
“Buildings, like books, are filled with stories. When their original story comes to an end, architects are faced with a choice: to preserve its narrative, retell it or rewrite it…