Temporary emergency shelters now serve as a major component of disaster recovery, with numerous regions being repeatedly affected by natural disasters. These disasters force evacuees from their homes and displace…
Urban Theory often arrives in abstraction, diagrams of flows, arrows of capital, and density compressed in numbers. Cities are not systems; they are lived stories. Critical imagination is a practice…
Learning is a lifelong process. Formally educated in school, informal education transpires through life experiences and the surrounding environments. Learning begins the moment a baby takes their first breath- the…
In recent years, architecture and design have been undergoing quiet but significant changes. In 2026, these shifts are expected to become more visible, influencing how architects and designers think, work,…
The Lunuganga Estate located in Bentota, Sri Lanka, epitomises a sincere intersection between architecture as a physical discipline and its role as a custodian of hospitality memory. Architecture goes beyond…
I grew up in Delhi, surrounded largely by plain concrete buildings. Whenever I visited Rajasthan to see my grandparents, it felt as though I had stepped into another world altogether.…
The Shift in How Architects Design The field of architecture tends to keep changing continuously as much as its tools, yet there are tools that enhance efficiency, as well as…
In architecture, we define materials through their physical properties: the robustness of concrete, the tensile strength of steel, or the tangible weathering of wood. Our approach to the materials of…
India marks 78 years of complete Independence, where multiple architectural icons, along with multiple western inspired architecture-built structures, can be seen built in the country. But the main factor that…
Architecture creates spaces, walls, and a roof for inhabitation. The story does not end there. Once humans realised that they could construct streets, shelters, and settlements for habitation, their thoughts…
In many cities today, heat is no longer limited to summer afternoons. It lingers on pavements after sunset, radiates from building walls, and settles into streets that feel warmer than…
The Illusion of Publicness The most common understanding of the public space is the space that is open and accessible and shared by everyone. The spaces of the streets, plazas,…