The Pencil Still Has Its Place Last month, whilst conducting fieldwork at a major architectural practice in Mumbai, I observed something telling. In a corner office overlooking the buildings, a…
A beige sofa, a muted olive accent wall, a bedroom with white-finished wardrobes, a gingham throw pillow and other such curated décor have quietly become the blueprint for the “ideal”…
A homeowner and their family sit in an air-conditioned interior designer’s office, with numerous paint swatches laid out. The task at hand- to pick the colours their children would grow…
To most of the spectators, architecture has been about the way it is seen and the presentation of the exterior until the new era. But in today’s world, the terms…
In 2026, we live in the age of social media, where influencers and content creators are thriving, each one trying to surpass the next to tap into the latest microtrend…
Why Storytelling? Stories have always been captivating, haven’t they? We grew up avidly waiting to be told one every night before we could float away in our own versions of…
Branding is not a term traditionally associated with architecture, and for a long time, it has felt almost uncomfortable within the discipline. Architecture is often understood as slow, deliberate, and…
Traditional media have always provided humans with a way to record society through its architecture and urban fabric. Buildings, streets, and settlements often provided hidden narratives and quiet physical records…
To confine graphic design to a discussion of aesthetics—of typefaces, posters, and logos—is to overlook its fundamental role as a primary human language. The urge, the instinct to draw, to…
Bombay (then) has always been an idea, a figure of myth and desire, more than it has ever been a physical construct. Home to Bollywood (Indian Hindi cinema based in…
Architectural criticism has long served as a mirror and a compass for the built environment, reflecting societal values while guiding future design directions. From the eloquent prose of 19th-century commentators to…
Alicia Imperiale’s New Flatness: Surface Tension in Digital Architecture presents an engaging study of how digital technologies have transformed the relationship between architectural representation and built structures. The core of…