House Form and Culture, by Amos Rapoport, is a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between human culture and the built environment. This influential book delves into the socio-cultural factors that…
‘Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.’ A sensible description of our planet by renowned watercolourist John Ruskin that would stick with us today had…
In the book “Bombay Imagined,” the cultural heritage of Mumbai, India’s former capital of Bombay, is examined. It has been written by architect and principal at RMA, Robert Stephens, and…
Ross King’s Brunelleschi’s Dome is a fascinating account of the creation of the famous dome that crowns the Florence Cathedral. The book is a well-researched and engaging narrative that captures…
Architecture has played a functional role since the inception of mankind. It is something we have known for centuries of living as a community. The construction and building methods were…
“It is my investigation into a design with nature: the place of nature in man’s world, my search for a way of looking and a way of doing- a simple…
It has been three months since my 3rd year of architecture school started, and even though pandemic has made my (online) lectures less hectic, I realized how much our seniors…
Applying to a college of architecture, just like any other course in India, is very different when compared to the process opted by other countries. All your years of hard…
“The architecture curriculum is a perplexing and unruly beast, involving long hours, dense texts, and frequently obtuse instruction. If the lessons of architecture are fascinating (and they are), they are…
Doing an architecture degree can be hugely rewarding. But it is also among the most challenging – archi-life with long hours, a huge workload, and focus on detail – so…
It has always been the case that anyone who happens to know of me being an Architect has always poked me with a series of questions like – “What you…
As children, we visit different monuments, palaces, and forts. Before reaching, my mother used to tell my sister and me the story of the place. We talked about the kings…
