Flora Borsi’s Suffocating Truth is a provocation wrapped in restraint: a figure consumed by a black latex hood, a solitary flame erupting at the jaw line, bare shoulders emerging from…
The Question of Authenticity “Heritage is not designed, it is lived, layered, and remembered. So what happens when we try to build it from scratch?” There is something inherently contradictory…
The interconnection between human emotions and architecture is a profound study of sensation. Upon entering any interior space, our brain instantly starts decoding visual information that determines our physical reactions.…
For centuries, the architectural brief for a public monument was simple permanence, heroism, and all about heights, something which was used as a symbolic representation or celebration of an individual…
Milan Design Week is regarded as one of the largest and most influential design festival in world. It was founded in 1961 as the salone del Mobile furniture fair, it…
For centuries, architecture as a profession was described as the creation of new, iconic structures on a vacant piece of land. However, during the 21st century, due to rapidly growing…
The completion of the Goethe-Institut (fig.1) in Dakar, Senegal, designed by Diébédo Francis Kéré and his practice Kéré Architecture, marks a significant shift in how cultural institutions are conceived, constructed, and experienced.…
Listening to the spaces around us Architecture has always been a conversation—yet most of us have never learned to listen. From the angle of morning light to the path between…
The literal meaning of a time capsule is a box that is preserved with items such as photographs, letters, artefacts, etc., from the present so that people way down in…
Sitting on their balcony, Gita finishes her call and turns to her husband, “Membership is 5000 rupees a month, including access to the pool, but coaching will cost extra.” All…
The book ‘Why Old Places Matter’ by Thompson M. Mayes is one of the few books that gives a voice to old places and tells its readers why they matter.…
With rapid urbanisation and increasing global warming, cities today face an unavoidable problem. They flood during storms and run dry between them. Contemporary construction methods and the approach to make…