The Everyday Experience We Rarely Design For Waiting consumes more time from our lives than most people think, but it is not really regarded as an experience in architecture. Waiting…
Walking is probably the oldest and simplest form of movement. Almost everyone, regardless of age, profession, or income, becomes a pedestrian at some point during the day. Yet in many…
Regenerative urbanism is a planning approach that treats the city as a living ecosystem rather than a machine to be optimised. Though conventional sustainability strives to limit harm, regenerative urbanism…
India is in an interesting space when it comes to property. NoBroker, a real estate platform without the middleman, reported that 53% of those aged 25-34 prefer renting long-term, compared…
The grey and white cities with steel cladded facades, long overbearing structures hovering above our head, connected through concrete finished walkways; the new definition of modern-developed city in India. The…
The Matrix (1999) is a science fiction film that interestingly weaves together philosophy, technology, and action. Residing in a dystopian future, the protagonist Neo discovers that the reality he perceives…
The Global Growth of Informal Settlements and the Shift Toward Inclusive Urban Planning Urban populations are expanding at an alarming rate globally, with current estimates suggesting that more than half…
The Same City, Two Different Experiences Now imagine a woman who leaves her workplace at half past eight in the evening. First, before going out of her office building, she…
“How India’s Military Architecture Shaped Urban Planning” Behind the tree-lined avenues and orderly streets of many Indian cities lies an unexpected story, one that began with military camps. Long before…
In the 2019 Hindi movie “Gully Boy”, set in Mumbai, India, we see Ranveer Singh wandering in the streets of Dharavi. His neighbourhood is dimly lit, illuminated only by shop…
In India, every morning, cities wake up in buildings they haven’t built themselves. Before office doors are opened, before metro stations fill up, and before shutters come up, many construction…
Architecture does not fail only due to poor design; sometimes, even with the best design possible, architecture fails its users because it assumes everyone in a city experiences it the…