Casablanca has been widely called the “Art Deco city”, since it has been an open air laboratory for architectural experimentations. But its history is more nuanced than this plain simplification.…
As architecture gradually descended into obsession with harmonised forms, unyielding permanence, rigid orders, Vitruvian symmetries, and the glass-curtained grids of modernism, an emerging mind from America’s suburbs rejected that discipline…
The Sacré-Cœur de Casablanca has been popularly called a cathedral, though it served as the principal Catholic church of a Protectorate-era city. Designed by Paul Tournon, it took more than…
The Oyo State Cultural Centre sits hidden, almost in isolation, among the thick vegetation atop the Mokola hill. The building isn’t seen until it is seen. As the road climbs…
To me furniture is not simply an object which takes up space; it is more like a participant in human life. It stands as a sign of presence, of memory…
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…
A pioneering Pakistani architect, urban historian, and educator, Prof. Dr Neelum Naz is widely recognised as the first woman in Pakistan to earn a PhD and complete a post-doctorate in…
The grey and white cities with steel cladded facades, long overbearing structures hovering above our head, connected through concrete finished walkways; the new definition of modern-developed city in India. The…
In 1972, a housing complex in St. Louis, Missouri was demolished with controlled explosives. Pruit-Igoe, designed by Minoru Yamasaki in the early 1950s and built with the full architectural confidence…
The 19th-century architecture was dominated by the traditional neoclassical style of architecture. The ornate designs were theatrical, in an ornamented classical style. The Beaux-Arts style dominated public buildings with design…
There is always an argumentative relationship between brightness and darkness that reflects the paradoxical nature of both. As daylight ebbs and flows through a structure, it creates its opposite: a…
From the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt to the Kailasa Temple in Ellora, history has long borne testimony to the wonders of mankind’s potential, to the heights (both literal and…