“I don’t want to undress architecture. I want to enrich it and add layers to it. Like in a Gothic cathedral, where the ornament and the structure ally.” Cecil Balmond,…
21st-century travel has become its own aesthetic, with hotels today a symbol of this romanticized escape. Yet, rather than wooing travelers with spacious luxury, marble surfaces, and free soaps, capsule…
Water is the one element on earth which has been always imperative for life and the genesis of settlement. Water being the most essential part of everyone’s life and throughout…
The debate unfolds a thousand perspectives: some controversial, some contradictory, and some logical and reasonable. The search for a better design to serve the people began a long time ago,…
Architectural Education in India has been in a very shoddy state for a very long time. Both, the way Architecture is taught and the content that is taught needs major…
History as a subject has been an integral part of the foundation of architectural education. Have you ever wondered why it is so important though? What does history teach us…
Architecture operated within society as a type of literal narrative. A story in architecture can carry wealth and profundity to a venture, and there are unexplored ways that account to…
Hospice architecture has gained attention in the past decade. A hospice provides shelter to terminally ill patients who are beyond the scope of treatment mostly that section who have exhausted…
Started as a private practice by William Hames in 1971 and later joined by David Sharley in 1972, Hames Sharley is an Australia based Architecture, Urban and Interior Design Organisation…
The urban fabric has different layers to it. Roads, pedestrian sidewalks, public spaces, landscape, buildings, and railways form some layers of this urban fabric. Yet in most countries, we can…
The evolution of the architecture of a certain region can vary greatly based on its historical influences. It has been observed through time that architecture can develop uniquely due to…
Architect Salary in India: Architecture, as a profession, has witnessed its highest pace in evolution in the past decade. The reason for this, was the increase in population, rapid flow…