Earth has been undergoing continuous changes through natural cycles of warming and cooling. Of the total annual carbon emissions, the building and construction industry is single-handedly responsible for about 37%…
The world’s earliest dwellings, found in India, China, the Mediterranean, Japan, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, all featured an open space at their center: the courtyard. It was…
Joy is not a grand feeling. It never uses trumpets to announce itself. The sound of footsteps in an old hallway, a glimpse of sunlight on the floor, or the…
A Small Crack and a Big Realisation To tell you the truth, the memory of the earth breaking at my grandmother’s house ranks among my earliest memories, even more than…
Reimagining Architectural Intervention Fred Scott’s pioneering work “On Altering Architecture” stands as a seminal contribution to the course of architectural theory that offers readers a comprehensive exploration of building modification…
“It took God 7 days to create the world; it won’t take him more than 1 year to build an ordinary structure…” Those were the words Bishop David Oyedepo, an…
By observing how people actually use space, Mumbai reveals that play is not an add-on; it is a spatial instinct. At first glance, Marine Drive at 6:40 AM is a…
“At TOA, Architecture is both discipline and dialogue-a balance between ambition and constraint, function and poetry.” Parish Kapse is co-founder of Team One Architects, which was founded in the year…
Architecture and design have long been the byproducts of lived human experiences, imagination and indicators of creativity for years to come. This process has always required more than just pure…
Speculative architecture sits at the crossroads of imagination and spatial inquiry. It looks beyond blueprints and construction schedules to ask deeper questions: What if buildings could adapt to climate shifts?…
Architecture can undeniably be stated as a field that is perpetually evolving with the latest trends and adapting harmoniously to them. Moreover, it endeavours to maximise the potential imposed by…
Ed Sheeran, in describing the beauty of a photograph, sang, “We keep this love in a photograph… where our eyes are never closing, hearts are never broken, times forever frozen…