The Silent Funeral of Architecture Architecture often appears immortal. Stone survives centuries, timber can be restored and monuments continue to stand long after their makers have disappeared. Yet beneath every…
In South India, architecture is less concerned with visual expression, but more connected to the response of heat, rainfall, people, and everyday life patterns. Factors like heat, humidity, heavy monsoon…
The Kanadukathan Chettinad Palace, constructed by Rajah Sir Annamalai Chettiar in 1912, subverts the very meaning of what constitutes a palace. Unlike Rajasthan’s forts or the durbars of Mysore, it…
Indian architecture weaves space into the very essence of a structure, where the built and unbuilt interact as dynamic polarities, each enhancing the presence of the other. This intersection gives…
The Chettinad region is located 90 km from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, with a semi-arid area of 1,550 sq km. It is occupied by the chettiars or chetti families, who belong…
Heritage is this gamut of inherited objects, ideas, culture, and traditions. Not to be confused with preserving or restoring old things, values and ideas; It is often the collective of…