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…
Architectural design has always relied on translation. A client’s expectations become brief, then diagrams, geometry, drawings, visualizations, specifications, and construction documents. Although digital tools support this process, information is often…
Think about the places where you learned something without being asked to learn it. Perhaps it was a library where you picked up a book simply because its cover caught…
The Sacré-Cœur de Casablanca has been popularly called a cathedral, though it served as the principal Catholic church of a Protectorate-era city. Designed by Paul Tournon, it took more than…
Architecture and fashion may seem to exist as parallel design fields, each with its own rules and regulations, but on closer look, they intersect in more ways than one. Architecture…
Cradled by the steep mountainous landscape of the Karakoram Range in remote northern Pakistan, lies Hunza Valley, tracing its history back to the 10th century. Much of the ancient fabric…
India is experiencing climate change not as a distant environmental prediction, but as something increasingly visible in everyday life. Summers are becoming harder to endure, intense rainfall is disrupting cities,…
The Life “In-Between” The architecture of a city reinforces and represents its systems, often forming icons that remain imprinted in minds. Yet it is the spaces in between its buildings;…
Architecture is commonly perceived through its purpose and programme, specifically its first life. Traditionally, a building is conceived with a defined purpose for a set of users and is analyzed…
Its Late-October in Kolkata, and as Maa Durga leaves for her divine adobe in Kailasha leaving the Bongs with the promise of “Asche Bochhor Abar Hobe” (It will again happen…
Marco Polo in 1272, after a visit to Persia (City of Yazd) wrote “Yazd is a good and noble city and has a great amount of trade.” Here, obviously just…
Urban green infrastructure is often framed as a design and planning issue: cities need more parks, trees, wetlands, green corridors, and open spaces to address environmental issues related to global…