Attested as a discipline that translates art and intellectual philosophies into tangible- inhabitable spaces assisted with technology, Architecture opens possibilities of vast fields of experiences from minuscule details to towers…
“For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home” – (Van Booy, 2011) We have all taken consolation in these words, in one form or…
“Architecture is a primary instrument in relating us with space and time and domesticate limitless space and endless time to be tolerated inhabited and understood by humankind” Juhani Pallasmaa In…
Architecture is defined as the ‘third skin’ of humans (after the skin and the clothes). The architectural environment, where the major life activities take place, has a dominant and permanent…
An exhaustive field to work in, the world of architecture is immense and incredibly diverse. Over the years, the profession has changed drastically. Advancements in technology may have changed the…
The changing narrative of open spaces – Architecture in today’s context is always looked at from the point of physical manifestation of enclosed and open spaces, aesthetics, circulation, good lighting,…
The immersive experience that changes our point of perspective in terms of understanding, makes a shift in the way we support our visions of the built environment and helps in…
Human experiences of the world are contrived of five bodily senses, and architecture indulges all sensory notions that prevail in our built environment in making us feel the way we…
Identity is the soul of a being. No art form, religion, culture, tradition, architecture, and language exist without its own identity. To communicate to the public, cities, countries, regions, create…
Bijoy Ramachandran, The Speaker Architect and urban designer Bijoy Ramachandran is the co-founding partner at HundredHands, a multi-disciplinary design studio based in Bangalore established in 2003. Having worked on a…
The obligation to conserve the architectural heritage of our local communities is as important as our duty to conserve the significant built heritage and its values or traditions of previous…
The cover of David Spurr’s Architecture and Modern Literature dramatizes some of the narrative opportunities and descriptive challenges involved in bringing together the two fields of cultural production in the title. The picture…