“How to cultivate living, playing, engagement, and creation in the world of our children and young people is at the heart of this book” – Heidi Hayes Jacobs The fascinating…
The Production of Space was written by French philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre in 1974. In this book, Lefebvre seeks to bridge the gap between the realms of theory and…
‘The Concise Townscape’ by British architect Gordon Cullen is a groundbreaking work in the field of urban design. The book introduced the idea of ‘townscape’ and threw light on the…
Soak’s Setting The vibrant metropolis of Mumbai, India, is brimming with energy, aspiration, and ambitions. It is a metropolis that is oddly at odds with its surroundings, though. In their…
Earning his Doctor of Letters in 1927 from Sorbonne, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard studied the intersection of science and philosophy. He was born into a shoemaker family and worked his…
(Warning: Minor spoilers regarding structure and certain themes of the book) Jiat-Hwee Chang, an architectural historian, discusses the notion of tropicality in ‘Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature and…
William J. Mitchell’s City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn, originally published in 1995, resembles a relic of early cyberculture scholarship, oscillating between visionary insight and embarrassing naiveté. As…
The Dilution of Architecture, the first of two volumes, is an anthology of the great architectural theoretician, writer, and urban designer, Yona Friedman. The Hungarian-born Jewish architect was one of…
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…
“Art is necessary so that man should be able to recognize and change the world. But art is also necessary by virtue of the magic inherent in it.” These words…
Author Christopher Alexander was born in Vienna in 1936, where he was raised in the United Kingdom. He began his chemistry and physics studies before moving to Cambridge’s mathematics and…
First life, then spaces, then buildings. The other way around only works sometimes. -Jan Gehl The 80-year-old Danish architect focuses on the idea of people-centric urban design in his book…