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…
There is a popular saying that walls have ears. If that is true, perhaps they also have a soul. That is why every old house feels as though it is…
Can digital fabrication revive vernacular intelligence rather than replace it? Part 1: Rediscovering the Future Beneath Our Feet The Future Arrives Covered in Mud The idea of tomorrow in architecture…
Architecture does not fail only due to poor design; sometimes, even with the best design possible, architecture fails its users because it assumes everyone in a city experiences it the…
From the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt to the Kailasa Temple in Ellora, history has long borne testimony to the wonders of mankind’s potential, to the heights (both literal and…
I take the bus more than any other form of transport. Whether it’s a short trip or a long journey, I’m used to waiting on a platform as the city…
There’s a very common perception that slum inhabitants who have been shifted to high-rise buildings under policies and yojanas rent out their pucca houses and move back to the slum.…
On the Malabar Coast is the historic city of Kozhikode, where the urban image is being heavily influenced by modern and contemporary design. Amidst these practitioners stands Raving Dots Studio,…
On a weekday morning in Dharavi, one of South Asia’s largest informal settlements, a narrow lane barely three metres wide carries the weight of an entire economy. Handcart vendors, schoolchildren,…
Even if not directly, many people are aware of Le Corbusier’s works and their influence on society. If you have heard of–or better yet, walked through–the city of Chandigarh, then…
The decline of the courtyard is often attributed to the rise of modern technologies, but was it the technology itself that rendered the courtyard obsolete or the broader conditions that…