The Pacific coastline of San Francisco had remained a place of raw beauty and dramatic contrasts of landforms — from the rise of cliffs from the ocean and fog dropping…
Peshawar, a city that is historically, culturally and architecturally rich, has sat on the corridor connecting different regions across different eras and today hosts many concealed and unconcealed architectural gems…
Architecture, as a field, can be considered an ever-growing discipline due to various fluctuations around the world. Specifically, nuanced factors such as culture, travel, and cuisine have culminated in a…
Architecture is a story told by bricks; it is a problem solved, a feeling experienced in each corner of a space, it is a memory trapped, held tightly by the…
Sometimes when I look at an old building, I can’t help but imagine the countless lives that have passed through it. It feels like these structures quietly hold onto centuries…
An Analysis of the correlation between diseases, colonisation, and town planning, along with the effect of growing industrialisation. My research in this essay primarily focuses on how disease outbreaks in…
Who is Eileen Gray? You have likely seen the names of pioneering architects in the modernism movement in architectural design, such as Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier,…
Madurai is a city renowned as the religious capital of Tamil Nadu. This is the city known for its unshakable culture and hospitality. This is a city that carries its…
The Gwalior Fort is not just a fort. It is a storyteller in sandstone, perched high above the city like a watchful guardian. At dawn, the blue tiles of Man…
Artemisia Gentileschi was a renowned Italian Baroque painter, known for her naturalistic depictions of the female figure, which were influenced by Caravaggio. Born in Rome in 1593, as a daughter…
Sufism, the Islamic mysticism, has deeply influenced art, culture, and architecture in territories stretching from Persia and Central Asia to India, Turkey, and North Africa. Sufism is more than a…
It’s typical to witness cultural and architectural artefacts famed for their aesthetics and uniqueness being represented as marvels and given recognition by esteemed institutions. But what about expressions of might,…