First life, then spaces, then buildings. The other way around only works sometimes. -Jan Gehl The 80-year-old Danish architect focuses on the idea of people-centric urban design in his book…
Environment and Sustainability – Do humans have any alternative to planet Earth? Can humans shift to a new land where life is possible? As far as we know, there is…
There is a limit to cure, but there is no limit to the care, when there is no cure, a hospices provides limitless care. Hospice is the care for severely…
Mass housing has become an essential solution in today’s life with a consecutive increase in population and a decrease in the livable space for these overpopulated humans. Big cities are…
Sustaining its journey as the Calicut Regional Engineering College (CREC) for 41 years, the CREC renewed its title to the National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NITC) in 2002. Recognized by…
The architectural experience is a daily part of everybody’s lives. We all are surrounded by four walls and a roof, to put it plainly. When you think about it, most…
In a movie, what is it that makes leaves the audience in awe. Is it actors’ enchanting performance? The stunning cinematic moments? But did you ever think it could be…
Perhaps no two rooms were more heavily reimagined and scrutinized in art history than the studios of Johannes Vermeer, the beloved Dutch artist, an enchanter with his carefully and meticulously…
“I joyfully await the exit, and I hope never to return,” wrote a 47-year-old weak and bedridden Frida Kahlo. In the early hours of the morning of July 13, 1954,…
From a portrait painter to an architect: the Path “I was always pretty good at drawing and painting, which I loved to do” – Hugh Newell Jacobsen for the Artist…
Pierre Auguste Renoir, a founding member of the Impressionist movement was born in 1841 in south-west France. He started out working in a porcelain factory painting designs on fine china…
Zaha Hadid, also known as Dame Zaha Hadid, was the first woman to have been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004. Having studied for a bachelor’s degree in mathematics…