The most common question one faces in the field of urban planning and design is, “Wait. What is urban planning?” To start with, there is no single answer to this…
A review and short summary of ideas proposed at the TEDx talk in Vienna by Ar. ChenthurRaaghav from AplusR Architects, Coimbatore.The original video is embedded in the end. Can buildings…
Andra Matin (born 1962) is widely regarded as the leading figure of contemporary Indonesian architecture. Since founding andramatin in Jakarta in 1998, he has refined a modern tropical language of…
Today’s modern world is substantially controlled by social media. Great buildings and great projects are incomplete without reaching out to the zealous audience ready to analyze and critique them. A…
“All buildings must be executed in such a way as to take account of durability, utility & beauty.”- Vitruvius. Vitruvius, the famous ancient Roman architect believed that an architect should…
“I create physical marvels.” Daniel Libeskind on the parallels between music and Architecture. Synonymous with deconstructivism, the Polish- American Architect Daniel Libeskind is famous for designing buildings that invoke cultural…
A scene from a park or an active street on an ordinary day before the Covid-19 pandemic would have featured an assortment of activities. Be it pedestrians exchanging pleasantries on…
Coco Chanel once said: “Fashion is architecture; it is a matter of proportions”. And she was right. Even though architecture can be misconceived as just designing buildings, architects are often…
Amsterdam, the capital of Netherlands is popular as a Golden Age city of canals with narrow colorful houses forming its backdrop. A deeper dive into the city’s landscape gives us…
Autobiography of Walt Disney: Journey from concept and composition to critic and commitment “[Gehry’s] buildings are shocking. They don’t please the eye the way Taj Mahal does, but they give…
Travel is a key element in an architect’s journey. For normal coursework, a student is provided with the necessary study materials in the form of textbooks or E-books, whereas in…
The city of Edmonton, the capital of Canada’s Alberta province, sits on the North Saskatchewan River. Edmonton’s landscape is found to be composed of many different architectural styles. Buildings were…